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Also, target languages revision (kinda wanted to keep the original up for nostalgic purposes):
Native: English
Nearly fluent: French
Focusing on primarily: Swedish and Spanish
Next main goal after my Swedish and Spanish get better: German
Sorta picking back up for travel purposes: Italian
Quite proficient in but taking a break: Norwegian
Would like to visit/revisit in the future: Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, and Portuguese
Can I just say something⊠I feel like there are so many languages like Dutch or Norwegian or Portuguese for example where Iâm like âI already know languages similar to those and they seem easy so maybe if I just dabble in it a bit I can pick up on a lot of it and then speak the languageâ and then I end up falling into this hole of taking on a giant task and pushing away all the current tasks.
Guess whoâs back ;)
Ok this is really weird. Havenât been on here in a hot minute. I feel like Iâm at this strange crossroads with language learning right now. Kinda been all over the place trying to learn all these different languages at once. Maybe Iâll make a little update right now.
I want to improve my French because it still needs a LOT of work. I can speak French very comfortably and it feels like this best friend of mine that I just know so well, but at the same time thereâs so much I donât know about it. When it comes to slang, or weird phrases, and just advanced speech in general, my French is really lacking. I signed up for Damon Dominiqueâs French course a while back but never got around to starting it. Iâm definitely gonna do that soon though so I can start improving more. Also Iâm supposed to be going to Montreal in a couple months so I want to get better by then.
Iâve been focusing on Spanish a lot this past year or so. I traveled to Mexico (twice), Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico within the past 8 months so Iâve really gotten some good Spanish practice. Iâd say maybe itâs getting close to my French? Not quite though. I was watching Elite which I really got into and it really inspired me to want to learn Spanish even more. Itâs realistically probably the most useful language for me living in Southern California, and also the most accessible. I have friends that Iâm able to practice the language with so thatâs very helpful.
Back in July of 2020 I started watching Skam which instantly inspired me to learn Norwegian. So basically from then until maybe spring or summer of 2021 I was studying Norwegian like almost every day. I discovered tons of Norwegian artists and watched different Norwegian shows and had a Norwegian study partner. I got pretty good at the language. Itâs definitely one I want to revisit in the future but right now I feel like other languages are calling my name.
Swedish is what Iâve been focusing a lot on as of late. Iâve told myself for a while that I want to get better at Swedish so I can communicate with my relatives in Sweden. I figured I better start sooner than later cause Iâm not getting any time back. My Norwegian actually got better than my Swedish but now I feel like my Swedish might be getting better than my Norwegian? Idk but all I have to say is now I just get words mixed up from the two languages all the time. It doesnât help that theyâre so similar. But anyway, I started using flashcards and just cramming TONS of swedish words into my head. Iâve been like obsessively jotting down words whenever I think of one that might be useful.
Japanese⊠well⊠this one was my lover back in 2014. I went through a weird Japanese phase recently but then it kinda died out again⊠I definitely want to revisit this one soon given that I love Japan and the culture and I really want to go back in the future.
German :â) this one will forever be the one that got away. I really donât know why I never really continued studying it seriously. It was the language that really got me into language learning (aside from Spanish maybe) and it was maybe my best language until I started studying French. I think the problem is just that it is quite a difficult language to learn with all the weird versions of words and also there just hasnât been a lot of material wether thatâs music or movies/tv to inspire me to want to learn it. But I HAVE to one day be fluent in German cause if Iâm not it will be a failed mission. So yeah, one day Iâm gonna get really good at it. Iâm kinda just focusing on more useful languages right now though.
Italian is a language that I used to be really good at. I took online classes for it and at one point it was probably my best language. That is until French swooped in again. But yeah, I forgot most of my Italian but if I read the language I can understand a lot. I just canât think of all the words on my own. I just did a few Italian lessons on duolingo not long ago cause I think Iâm going to Italy soon randomly⊠thatâs another story⊠but yeah Iâm gonna try to cram a bunch of Italian into my brain before I go so I guess weâll see how that goes. I just feel conflicted cause I donât want it to get in the way of me improving my Swedish and Spanish (or French) lol.
The other like Portuguese (which I oddly understand a lot of despite never studying it?), Chinese (mandarin), and Russian, are definitely languages I would like to learn in the future but now is just not the time. And I also have to learn German before I really touch any of those.
Français
Salut tout le monde. Il est moi premiÚre fois étudier français. S'il vous plaßt réviser moi français! C'est pas trÚs bien XD
Wow... euuhhh... mon français Ă©tait mauvais mddrrrr. MĂȘme aujourdâhui ce nâest pas parfait mais jâai tellement amĂ©liorĂ© depuis. Je ne peux pas croire que câĂ©tait moi peut ĂȘtre trois ans plus tĂŽt ? Je ne sais pas mais je vais Ă©tudier plus français et devenir trĂšs trĂšs trĂšs bon Ă parler :)
I almost forgot that this blog exists! Just randomly thought of it somehow in my late night ponderings. I thought Iâd write about my language learning experiences. So for the past few years Iâve studied different languages on and off but mainly Iâve focused on French. Over the summer I took intensive French courses in Paris and Iâm so happy cause Iâd finally ACTUALLY consider myself fluent in a foreign language. I mean, thereâs still so much I still need to learn but I can really understand almost everything and communicate with people. Iâm not too quick on my feet with the language and my grammar really needs work but Iâve finally broken down that wall I was at.
So, now that Iâm pretty much fluent in French I decided I will keep practicing French to perfect it (and Iâll also be studying at university), but Iâll devote most of my time to learning other languages. Since I havenât seriously focused on another language besides French in a really long time.
I feel like I have a burst of language learning inspiration since Iâve seen so much progress with French and Iâve realize that fluency in other languages is so tangible.
Iâm planning on focusing on German the most because it was the language I was so devoted to before French. Though I was young and didnât really know how to really learn a language. But now I feel that I know my method. Iâm not in any sort of German phase at the moment which I can tell Iâm not super inspired to learn it, but I really want to speak it. Iâm gonna watch German movies and listen to German music so hopefully thatâll get me in the mood.
I also want to learn Spanish, and Italian (cause itâll be so easy now that I know how Romance languages work). And also Chinese (cause itâs a very useful language and China has intrigued me lately) and Swedish (not only do I love Sweden but I think the language sounds SO cool and I want to get back to my roots)
ah yes, my favourite foreign language feel, âI know what all of those words mean individually but not together like thatâ
me: *constantly complains that there are no native speakers to talk to where I live*
native speaker: hey what's up
me, sweating nervously: sorry I have to go to my *looks at smudged vocabulary notes* yoghurt class
japanese people: yeah sure wear a kimono even though you are white, just know what it means and stands for! and just understand that by wearing this, you are paying respect to our culture! so please do so with careful thought!
white people on tumblr: IF U ARE WHITE nEVER WEAR A KIMONO DONT EVEN FUCKING LOOK AT ITÂ !!!! CULTURAL APPROPRIATION 101 IF I CATCH U SMEELING A KIMONO I WILL KILL YOU UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD!!!!!!!! DONT EVEN GO TO JAPAN OR THINK ABOUT JAPAN JUST DIE
This is so true. That Japanese Man Yuta made a video called Can Foreigners Wear Kimono? If you havenât seen it yet, you should go watch it. Japanese people are flattered when foreigners wear kimonos, yet other foreigners get offended for no reason.Â
I wish that the American education system enforced better foreign language classes. With what we have now, students will take four years of Spanish in high school and leave being able to say âI like to swim.â While in other countries, students start language classes at a younger age and become fluent just by learning in school. America really needs to fix that.
Polyglot problems
When youâre speaking a newer language and come to a word that you donât know how to translate yet so the word automatically comes out in one of the other languages that you do know the word in.Â
this happens to me so much itâs not even funny... french will turn into fretalian, spanish will become spanerman, etc
nature in french đż
le paysage landscape
la plaine plane
le désert desert
le bois woods
la forĂȘt forest/woods
la forĂȘt tropicale rainforest
le pré meadow
le marais swamp
la prairie grassland
le ruiseau stream
le lac lake
la cascade waterfall
le geyser geyser
la falaise cliff
la cĂŽte coast
le récif de corail coral reef
lâesturaire estuary
la montagne mountain
la riviĂšre river
la colline hill
la gorge gorge
le plateau plateau
la caverne cave
la vallée valley
la terre the world/land
le monde the world
lâarbre tree
la feuille leaf
lâocĂ©an ocean
la mer sea
le fleuve  river
le glacier the glacier
lâĂ©tang pond
la plage beach
la marée tide
la jungle jungle
la baie bay
un arbuste a bush
la nature nature
l'envrionnement the environment
le climat climate
fondre to melt
geler to freeze
réduire to reduce
réutiliser to reuse
recycler to recycle
le recyclage recycling
une ressource a resource
naturel/naturelle natural
renouvelable renewable
l'atmosphĂšre (m.) the atmosphere
la pollution pollution
polluer to pollute
la couche d'ozone the ozone layer
l'eau (f.) water
le sol soil
semer to plant
un nuage a cloud
une tempĂȘte a storm
gaspiller to waste
l'oxygĂšne (f.) oxygen
that awkward moment when you realize the Marais district of Paris is literally called âthe swampâ
having any other language than your native one set in your mobile phone is such controversial practise to some people like I donât have to explain anything mind your own phone jessica
I love how I am able to develop myself, gain new knowledge about the world and expand my horisons through learning languages. I love watching documentary movies in foreign languages, I love reading in foreign languages, I love talking to foreigners. Languages are the best thing that happened to me in my life.
Me: *Speaks a foreign language with proper pronounciations, adds slang to augment my delivery and comfortably switches topics in conversation*
Native Speaker: *begins to speak to me*
Me: *Forgets the entire language*
Why did you start learning that?
Well, sometimes you cannot quite put it to words or find logical reasons. Heart wants, what it wants, right?
EUROVISION VOCAB : FRENCH VERSION
Inspired by @malteseboy âs Eurovision vocab , theGerman version by @languageoclock , the Finnish version by @blackteaandlanguages and the Dutch version by @wordscollector
(I liked so much this idea that I wanted to do the same⊠Hope itâs fine !)
(Le) Concours musical de l'Eurovision â Eurovision Song Contest (lâ)Eurovision â Eurovision (la) compĂ©titionâ competition (le) concours - contest (une) demi-finale â semi final (une) finale â final (une) musique â music (une) chanson â song (une) entrĂ©e (musicale) â entry (prefer to use the previous words because we donât use this one at all) Une musique entraĂźnante - catchy song/song stuck in oneâs head (une) participation â participation (un) show â show (un) programme - programme
(un) artiste â artist (un) chanteur (m); (une) chanteuse (f) â singer (un) danseur (m); (une) danseuse (f) â dancer (un) jury (group); (un(e)) jurĂ©(e) (a single person) â jury (un) presentateur (m); (une) presentatrice (f) â presenter; host (un) commentateur â commentator (une) audiance â audience (un) spectateur â viewer (un) voteur (m); une voteuse (f) â voter (un) gagnant (m); (une) gagnante (f) â winner (un) parolier â songwriter (un) compositeur â composer (un) participant â participant (un(e)) chorĂ©graphe - choreographer
(lâ)Europe â Europe (un) pays â country (un) pays d'accueil â host country (une) ville â city (un) pays voisin - neighbouring country Le Grand Quintet â The Big Five (we never say it, keep the big 5) (un) langage â language (une) vidĂ©o â video (une) carte postale â postcard (la) scĂšne â stage (une) performance â performance (un) vote â vote (un) point â point (un) sondage â the polls (un) tĂ©lĂ©vote â televoting (du) nĂ©potisme â nepotism (un) thĂšme â theme (un) slogan â slogan (la) diversitĂ© â diversity (une) Ă©dition - edition
ReprĂ©senter un pays - to represent a country Participer - to participate Agiter un drapeau - to wave a flag CĂ©lĂ©brer - to celebrate Regarder la tĂ©lĂ©vision- to watch television Voter pour un pays - to vote for a country Gagner - to win Chanter en mĂȘme temps - to sing along Donner des points - to give points Chanter - to sing Danser - to dance Perdre - to lose Voter - to vote Concourir â to compete Se qualifier â to qualify Diffuser â to broadcast
