HELLO!
My name is Sienna, I’m a film student who loves to learn languages. Currently I am studying Chinese, French, and Russian. I am most fluent in French, as I am highly committed to immersing myself in the music, news, films, etc. My Chinese is very rusty from a year of no use (although my family is ethnically Taiwanese) and I just started Russian.
I self study at the moment, but I have participated in language learning schools like Alliance Française, and CEA CAPA Education Abroad. However I am trying to stray away from these programs as they are quite expensive. 💸😭
I just started this blog in order to meet other people who enjoy learning languages, and to maybe update my progress/any major breakthroughs I have.
As of now, Fall 2025, I am planning to take a semester of Introductory Russian and also I am hoping to take the DELF every Spring, aiming to climb to a B1 level in French.
Other interests:
- I love French animation and Russian film. (I love Iranian New Wave as well, if I had time to learn Persian I would)! If you also love Andrei Tarkovsky or Mohsen Makhmalbaf, I love you!!
- I also love watching professional tennis 🎾 (Andrei Rublev and Carlos Alcaraz are my favorites)
- And professional chess ♟️(especially videos about historical games, thank you GothamChess).
- I love music, especially Aphex Twin, Kino, Joy Division, Frank Ocean, Weyes Blood and pinkpantheress :) Got really into Bossa Nova and Jazz at one point, and I am trying to expand my taste into house and minimalist techno right now, as well as producing my own music. I also am a fan of classical, Mozart and Rachmaninoff especially.
- Books! I’m reading Tolstoy’s childhood memoir « Childhood, Boyhood, Youth » at the moment. I also love Nabokov and Dostoevsky, they inspired me in part to learn Russian. I hope to one day also read Sartre in French but fiction is quite hard in another language, so i may start with his theory instead!















