Here we go! The year is already 1/6 through, and my language learning goals are already going by the wayside! I seem to say this every month, but you know what… I don’t get too concerned about it. I feel it is important to keep making goals, but the world
Last weekend I got my first opportunity to learn Macedonian during the #LangJam Challenge. Cyrillic Script The Macedonian alphabet is quite different to English. For a start, the Macedonian language uses a Cyrillic script, so I had a week before the challenge to learn that. This image shows the vowels
Time to play with a new language over a weekend with #LanguageJam! This time I drew Macedonian – which has a Cyrillic script, a messy political situation, and not many resources “because it’s really just a dialect of Bulgarian”. Well, so the Bulgarians say! Recognition of the Macedonian Language I
Hallo Allemaal! Hoe gaat het in dit nieuwe jaar with your language learning goals? It’s 2019… wow! I am absolutely not sure where 2018 went to, and if it wasn’t for the fact that I actually understand a bit of French now, I would be sure I had slept through
I am not a big watcher of television. In fact, for the past ten years I haven’t even had a television connected to an antenna in the house. However, I do watch media entertainment. My main source has been through YouTube, and I have fairly narrow interest areas. Mostly I
#ClearTheList is a community goal setting activity, run by Lindsay over at Lindsay Does Languages, and Shannon of Eurolinguiste , where they review their past month’s work, and set new goals for the new month, and invite us all to join them. It is your chance to set monthly language learning goals
I am a member of many online groups for language learners, and I kid you not, every day I would see this type of post come up several times. “I am a speaker of X language wanting to learn Y language. I can speak a little bit but understand a
“Hello. My name is Cate, and I’m a language nerd.” Have you ever been asked what languages you speak, and been overcome with an overwhelming desire to run really fast in the opposite direction? Or found yourself standing there speechless with the thoughts “Define ‘speak’… do you mean like a
#ClearTheList is a community goal setting activity, run by Lindsay over at Lindsay Does Languages, and Shannon of Eurolinguiste , where they review their past month’s work, and set new goals for the new month, and invite us all to join them. It is your chance to set monthly language learning goals
Hey y’all 🙂 (Putting on my Southern twang there 🙂 )… just thought I had better let you know how the 21 Day Vocab Challenge went, and bring you all up to date with it. So the commitment was only five minutes a day – Did I manage to stick to
