by Viviana Spicer | Oct 12, 2015 | Entrepreneurship, Interviews, Language
I met Adam in our first year of college at the University of Illinois. Our love for languages and anything entrepreneurial has helped us stay in touch. He recently started a website called Language Base Camp and I’ve had the privilege of contributing on it...
by Viviana Spicer | Sep 7, 2015 | Language
I’ve been diving back into language learning over the last couple of months. I studied Arabic for three years while I was in university, but I never reached a true level of proficiency. So, I decided to jump pack in and continue trying to tackle that challenge. You...
by Viviana Spicer | Aug 31, 2015 | Culture, Travel
Have you ever traveled somewhere expecting to be hit by culture shock? Have you been surprised when you didn’t end up feeling shocked at all? I had that experience when I spent a semester in Morocco. It was a new culture for me; I had never been to North Africa and I...
by Viviana Spicer | Aug 17, 2015 | Travel
Two years ago when I spent a semester in Morocco, I started looking for ways to stay fit that didn’t require me joining a team or going for runs by myself. I began searching YouTube videos hoping to find something that would be fun and challenging, yet accommodating,...
by Viviana Spicer | Aug 10, 2015 | Language
I hear it all the time. People are so impressed that I’m bilingual. They just seem pretty amazed. “Wait, so you speak Spanish and English fluently?” Yup. “You don’t have an accent in either language?” Nope. But I’ll tell you a secret: I had nothing to do with it. It’s...