{"id":1250,"date":"2021-09-04T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T09:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2021-09-04T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T09:50:46","slug":"do-you-remember-the-moment-you-fell-in-love-with-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/2021\/09\/04\/do-you-remember-the-moment-you-fell-in-love-with-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you remember the moment you fell in love with languages?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do you remember the moment you fell in love with languages?<\/h2>
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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.<\/p>\n

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 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9. Immersion really helps to pick up a language.<\/p>\n

More importantly, it led to me starting Italian lessons after university and me moving to the country when I lost my job during the 2008 economic crisis. Suddenly I had loads of German colleagues and started with \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea while living in Italy.<\/p>\n

6 months later a Portuguese colleague and one who had lived in Brazil helped me to study \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7. I think that was probably the moment where it hit me that I would be studying languages for a very long time.<\/p>\n

After a pitstop in Rome teaching English and some French and some four years living and working in my home country \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea (nothing language related) we moved to Spain and I had the opportunity to learn yet another language. Once I kinda mastered \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 I started teaching again; an experience that ended some weeks before \ud83d\ude37 hit the world.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Corona, I came to the realisation that I want to breathe languages whenever and whereever I can. I have been using ITALKI as a student for over 6 months now; first for Catalan but later also for Danish and Afrikaans. Greek, my new baby, will soon follow. But I went a step further and 3 months and 600 lessons ago\u00a0I started my adventure as a teacher of Flemish\/Dutch, English, French and Italian.<\/p>\n

As one of my Catalan teachers told me the other day:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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“You are living the polyglot dream.”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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And he was right.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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\u203c\ufe0f If you are not yet using ITALKI you can get $10 ITALKI credits after your first purchase by clicking on this link: https:\/\/go.italki.com\/somethingpolyglot<\/a><\/p>\n

You will receive it 48 hours after you’ve bought your first lesson.<\/p>\n

\u2139\ufe0f Do reach out \ud83d\ude4b if you have any questions related to lessons or teaching on ITALKI. I’ll be happy to help.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>

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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.<\/p>\n

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 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9. Immersion really helps to pick up a language.<\/p>\n

More importantly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3,41,4,28],"tags":[13,11,14,15,18,24],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italki","category-language-exchange","category-language-learning","category-language-methods","category-personal","tag-catala","tag-catalan","tag-danish","tag-langtwt","tag-language-learning","tag-polyglot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingpolyglot.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}