I Haven't Left My Basement in a Year. Levantine Arabic
Intermediate (B1) · Stories · 13 min · Premium
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I am embarrassed. I went to Toronto on a mission, and I failed it.
Here is the part nobody sees. Since I started Arabic All The Time, I have not left Montreal. Some months I barely left this basement, which is where I film, where I teach, where I do crosstalk, and where I have worked long days for most of a year. I stopped seeing friends. I stopped seeing people at all, except online. And I got genuinely burned out.
The irony is that I started this project so I could travel. That was the whole personal motivation. Then I became too afraid to try, because I work long hours and I was scared that if I left, everything would fall apart.
So I decided to run a test. Toronto: seven hours away, a city I lived in for years, full of friends, close enough to run home if it went wrong. Three reasons to go. Change of scenery, see my friends, and find out whether I can actually work from anywhere.
This is the story of why I went. What happened there is the next video.
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