hei hei alle sammen! ~ after a hiatus which has felt waaaay too long now that iโve been longing to come back on language tumblr, i have decided to come back and make a fresh start and therefore iโd like to introduce myself to the language community (hi!) :]
first things first, my name is sophie [she/they], i am twenty-two years old and currently studying scandinavian and english studies at the university of cologne in germany! (a lot of people say scandinavian studies is probably one of the queerest studies out there, so well, iโm not the exception here!) iโve decided to come back to language tumblr as iโm hoping to gather a lot of motivation, inspiration and resources from you all (iโve really missed it, holy moly) - so, as you may have already suspected from my studies, my main focus (right now) is on studying the scandinavian languages, including literature and culture. iโve passed my final icelandic exam one month ago (B1 level, unfortunately there is no higher level university course offered, otherwise iโd continue) and will now be focusing on improving my norwegian (currently at B1 level) because iโm aiming to go to to norway (hopefully to bergen!) with erasmus in august 2023 :]
before i have switched to scandinavian studies, i have also studied japanology for some time - why, you may ask, itโs quite a long story of (un)fortunate events - so iโm also quite fond of asian culture and languages. my japanese might admittedly be a little, letโs say ~ rusty ~, but hopefully iโll jump back on track as soon as possible so i can finally write the JLPT test (N3 level, i suppose).
to summarize it all, my main target languages at the moment are norwegian, icelandic, danish and japanese, but there are quite a few other languages on my wishlist, which iโm very interested in, such as mandarin, finnish, polish, turkish and korean.
apart from that, i spend a lot of time travelling around whenever itโs possible, i love going to concerts and festivals and jump around in moshpits, i love the colour sage green (as you might have suspected already) and the season of autumn (itโs approaching, yay!), i enjoy reading a lot and love me a huge cup of hot tea :]
iโm looking forward to exchanging with you all, have a pleasant evening/morning/night - whatever the time might be at the place youโre currently at :]
all the best, sophie x
