{"id":790,"date":"2011-03-21T12:04:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2012-05-01T12:20:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:20:37","slug":"the-nail-polish-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/the-nail-polish-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nail Polish Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SpanishInstituteSmall2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-792\" title=\"SpanishInstituteSmall\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SpanishInstituteSmall2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a>The \u00a0classic \u201cd\u00e9butant\u201d mistake I made when I started studying my first second language was thinking: the more I study, the faster I\u2019ll learn. It\u2019s true, you do have to study. But as I learned, none of the memorizing sticks unless the words come out of your mouth at some point. In other words, the only way to get a new language inside your head is to use it.<\/p>\n<p>When I did my first Spanish immersion in Puebla, I knew the danger of studying too hard.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some of my fellow students were earnest, disciplined and hardworking types who spent every spare minute of their in their books.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of studying, I went to the beauty parlor. I got my nails done over and over. Which is funny for me since I\u2019m really not the manicure type. But nails were not the point.<\/p>\n<p>What I was looking for was a small, controlled environment with a captive audience to practice my Spanish. And what better fits that description than a beauty salon? Almost every one there is killing time anyway. A decent manicure takes an hour. And you can stretch it if you&rsquo;re feeling chatty. \u00a0So I chatted away in my limited Spanish until I ran out of words, then came back a week \u00a0later when I had learned some more!<\/p>\n<p>My fellow students didn\u2019t believe me when I told them about my Nail Polish Technique for studying. But I think by the end of the immersion course, they could see I was getting results&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a0classic \u201cd\u00e9butant\u201d mistake I made when I started studying my first second language was thinking: the more I study, the faster I\u2019ll learn. It\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}