"Everybody wants to speak other languages. Rare are the ones who want to learn them."
-- what a great line. I love thinking about learning a language in terms of a relationship, of spending time with it.
After years of studying Spanish, I’ve freed myself from the idea that fluency is a binary 0 or 1—we are always stewing and learning and meeting new versions of ourselves until we decide the journey is complete.
Interesting points in here. I'm currently learning Spanish, and I'm the type of person who likes to learn everything all at once. But I like your idea of focusing on the most useful part of the language that you need immediately.
How long did it take you to learn Japanese? Are you fluent?
Food and art are important to me as a foodie and artist.Wanting to recover the languages of my childhood made me want to relearn Spanish and Russian beyond my kiddie level. My local sources of instruction dried up, so I’m forced to immerse in culture . Eating in restaurants on the Hill, church services, recovery meetings. It has helped me put to use what I have learned and hit the books to fill in gaps. It’s just a personal goal for me. Not to prove anything to anyone else. Just to recover a part of my fragmented self.
"Everybody wants to speak other languages. Rare are the ones who want to learn them."
-- what a great line. I love thinking about learning a language in terms of a relationship, of spending time with it.
After years of studying Spanish, I’ve freed myself from the idea that fluency is a binary 0 or 1—we are always stewing and learning and meeting new versions of ourselves until we decide the journey is complete.
Interesting points in here. I'm currently learning Spanish, and I'm the type of person who likes to learn everything all at once. But I like your idea of focusing on the most useful part of the language that you need immediately.
How long did it take you to learn Japanese? Are you fluent?
Food and art are important to me as a foodie and artist.Wanting to recover the languages of my childhood made me want to relearn Spanish and Russian beyond my kiddie level. My local sources of instruction dried up, so I’m forced to immerse in culture . Eating in restaurants on the Hill, church services, recovery meetings. It has helped me put to use what I have learned and hit the books to fill in gaps. It’s just a personal goal for me. Not to prove anything to anyone else. Just to recover a part of my fragmented self.