Jun 11, 2023
Christina's Language Journey
Christina has been learning many languages such as
- Latin
- Spanish 🇪🇸
- Finnish 🇫🇮
- Russian 🇷🇺
- Turkish 🇹🇷
- Catalan
- Ancient Greek 🏛️
- French 🇫🇷
- Italian 🇮🇹
- Albanian 🇦🇱
- Sign language 🤟
- Swahili 🇰🇪
In this interview, you'll learn about how Christina learn these languages. We also talk about
- dialects, twitter for language learning, Toki Pona (constructed language) and more.
Some quotes:
- "all my English teachers for all my school years were German. So that's why I say learning from native speakers is overrated because I learned my English completely from German people."
- "Nothing improves your language skills faster than a captivating story."
- "you don't need to learn a dictionary by heart. You just read a book. Let the story grip you. And you'll have to look up a word now and then, of course, but it doesn't feel like studying."
Table of Contents:
- Intro by Daniel Goodson (0:00)
- Start Interview (01:40)
- Glossika challenge - snippet from episode 120 (5:21)
- Grammar is important (6:35)
- Horror of Learning Spanish (Blog) (12:33
- Have the courage to abandon a book (15:16)
- Dialects are beautiful (18:26)
- Toki Pona, a language with 120 words (27:53)
- Using Twitter to learning languages (42:17)
- Favorite idioms/expressions (45:54)
- To Lose One's Marbels
Vocabulary:
- "That's one nifty thing". = Stylish or smart.
More to come...
Links and Resources:
-
The Pluriglot: Christina's Twitter account.🐦For language enthusiasts.
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The Horror of Learning Spanish: Nothing improves your language skills faster than a captivating story. Christina's Blog on Substack for Spanish leaners.
Contact Daniel: MyFluentPodcast@Gmail.com