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Elementary; Lost in V3

The Octagon is done. I had my final assessment tonight. I got ranked as a solid Elementary. I’m okay with that.
About V3… can anybody tell me what happens to lessons that you mark as “Studied?” Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

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…the bad and the ugly.

Hiya, kids!
If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time, you’ve heard me talk about the 8-week course that I’ve been taking through ChinesePod. I code-named that thing The Octagon early on, and it’s no secret that I think it’s a great program. It’s helped me tremendously over the last two months and […]

Almost done!

Wow. Here we are. Coming to the end of the line. My Octagon training is almost complete.
How was it? Honestly, folks, it rocked. It was hard, there’s no denying that. And let me tell you, there was more than a few nights when it would have been nice to take that extra hour for myself […]

Thanks to all!

Nimen hao!
Okay, let me get this out of the way first… WOW! What a great response to my last post! Thank you all so much! I’ll be putting together a new podcast on Saturday afternoon with hopes that it’ll air the following week. (No guarantees there, though. Aric is most certainly throwing me a bone […]