The Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge is hosted by Long and Short Reviews. This week’s topic is: languages I’m learning or want to learn.
This is a great topic since I’m obsessed with languages. There are days when I feel like I can barely speak English but still want to learn all the languages.
In high school, I chose to study German since my grandfather had immigrated from Germany in the early 1900’s. It’s a tough language, but I honestly gained a greater understanding of English grammar and sentence structure by studying German.
Later, in college, I decided it might be smart to take up Spanish, considering I live in an area with a large community of native Spanish speakers.
When I first discovered Duolingo, I made an attempt to learn Irish. It did not last long. Hah. I do want to go back and try it again eventually, but not now. However, when Duolingo released their Romanian course, I jumped right on it. Despite having finished the course, I’m still so confused about the language in general. I did read somewhere that Romanian is the language closest to the original Latin it comes from. I want to go back and revisit this one day because I would love to visit Romania one day.
Right now, I’m back to studying Spanish since the majority of the guys I work with are native speakers. A good handful of them don’t have much English, so it’d make it easier to communicate with them if I could at least get some of the basics down. Never mind the co-worker who loves coming in and starting to talk Spanish to me out of nowhere. He’s just lucky I like him. Hahaha.
Although, I have to admit… I’m still trying to figure out who thought it was a good idea to give the gato a credit card…
Editing to add my Duolingo profile link since it seems so many of you are using the app. Friend me here if you like!
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There are so many funny sentences on Duolingo! I screenshot my favourite ones every so often.
Are you still practicing Romanian?
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Yes! I’ll sometimes just crack up reading them. There was basically a whole story revolving around that cat going to the grocery store to buy his food. 🤣
Here and there. I have a couple of TV shows and a movie I want to watch, and I also found a Romanian pop artist that I adore named Smiley.
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Irish and Romanian seem hard! But then again, many people thrive on the challenge.
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Romanian wasn’t too hard once I got the hang of how weird their words can be. Irish, on the other hand, flummoxed me!
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I’m the same with Irish… but I’m still determined (one day). Right now I’m staying with Spanish and enjoying being able to use a little. Will look for you on Duo… we need a list
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Right, eventually I’ll give it another shot, too. You found me – I got the notification!
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