A Miña Murciana (My little darling from Murcia in Galician) is what I called my cat the first year I began to learn Galician.

I found my my inability to speak this new language I was learning was both embarrassing and frustrating. I’m hardly…

After LLX and Niliko came Chinwags. I’d tried to take what I’d learnt by organising and advertising LLX and applying what I’d learn about website design for Niliko.

In all the projects and challenges I’ve set myself in the past 20 years has been a single…

LLX is a success, but then last year I decided to build on its success by becoming self-employed and seeing if I could create a language consultancy Niliko.

It was a failure. It was so hard for me to do everything: To create a hypothetical language…

I touched upon the revelation of failing in public when I wrote about shyness. but knowing something, or trusting in an idea is only the beginning. It’s the visible tip of the iceberg of being. you still have to DO SOMETHING to risk failure.