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 🇪🇸
Reporting for duty: Elsa, Timon, Pumbaa, Aladdin, Mulan and Co.
These guys and gals are the ones I turn to when I’ve just started a 🆕 language.
Disney has an abundance of songs available and what’s more important to you as language learner/lover/addict (delete as appropriate) they exist in a myriad of languages and often also in different versions of the same language (🇪🇸 and 🇲🇽, 🇧🇷 and 🇵🇹, 🇳🇱 and 🇧🇪).
My week with Catalan: nit i dia
Most people – if not almost all – who have Catalan as their native tongue are at least bilingual. I’d already be able to communicate with them in 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹. A language is so much more than a tool to get your message through to your conversation partner(s).
Six months into studying Danish
Smørrebrød. Hot summers. Freaking cold nights (in our tent) and Lego(land) of course (I was a tween at the time). That’s what immediately comes to mind when I think back to our Danish holidays in the early nighties.