Scott H Young

The hardest things become the easiest once we've fully committed to them. Easy substitutes backfire when they fail to get you where you need to go.

Nearly a month ago, I decided to embark on a project to learn my wife’s native language, Macedonian. To do this, we’re not speaking English to each other at home. This is a brief update on how that project is going in the third week. Last week I had mentioned some hiccups. I found juggling […]

Success in most things boils down to a simple, but easily ignored distinction: do the real thing and stop doing fake alternatives instead.

Two weeks ago I began a new project to learn my wife’s native language, Macedonian. To do that, we’ve been avoiding speaking English at home, to mimic the approach I used previously with my language learning trip. So far the project has been going quite well. I’m already pretty comfortable with the functional day-to-day communication […]