When a 🇧🇪
whose mother tongue is 🇳🇱
and who speaks to his dogs in 🇮🇹
writes about languages in 🇬🇧
while living with his 🇻🇪 partner in 🇪🇸
When a 🇧🇪
whose mother tongue is 🇳🇱
and who speaks to his dogs in 🇮🇹
writes about languages in 🇬🇧
while living with his 🇻🇪 partner in 🇪🇸
My language learning journey in 2024
The past few years I’ve used the month of December to decide what to do in the new year. So what about 2024?
I’ve had a few languages that I invested a lot of time in but then along the way life happened and I couldn’t or I didn’t want to continue with them on a regular basis. Last December I decided to try to reactivate these languages together with 3 priority languages.
But now at the end of the first month of 2024 I find myself with four extra languages that suddenly one way or another are wandering around me every day.
November challenge: 200 words in Danish
This November I am going to write 200 words in Danish E.V.E.R.Y. day.
I just realised after having written my first text that 200 words is actually a lot. I don’t know if I have enough interesting things in my head to write every single day 200 words but I am going to try.
Do you remember the moment you fell in love with languages?
I think it is very difficult to pinpoint the exact moment when I fell in love with languages as it is something that has grown very slowly.
A very important moment was for sure when my secondary school organised an exchange with a school from Tricarico, Italy. After two weeks in Tricarico, I was already able to speak some basic 🇮🇹. Immersion really helps to pick up a language.
More importantly…