by Olga Brajnović | Oct 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
When I arrived to New York for the first time with almost no idea of English, I was like walking on a dream. The people rushing everywhere, street performers. Skyscrapers, Little and colourful flower shops. Executives, homeless. Claustrophobia on the subway at rush...
by Olga Brajnović | Apr 16, 2015 | daily prompt
If you could wake up tomorrow and be fluent in any language you don’t currently speak, which would it be? Why? What’s the first thing you do with your new linguistic skills? A year ago I answered to this prompt. I would like to be fluent in the languages I already can...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 11, 2014 | daily prompt
Time to confess: tell us about a time when you used a word whose meaning you didn’t actually know (or were very wrong about, in retrospect). English is not my first language. I’m learning, so I often use the dictionary or the help of others to find the right...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 14, 2014 | daily prompt
Quickly list five things you’d like to change in your life. Now, write a post about a day in your life once all five have been crossed off your to-do list. there is a difference between the things you’d change in your life and things you’d just do in your...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 11, 2014 | daily prompt
Your blog is about to be recorded into an audiobook. If you could choose anyone — from your grandma to Samuel L. Jackson — to narrate your posts, who would it be? My blog recorded? My posts read aloud? what an embarrassment! I’ll never allow it. Anyway, If I had...