Sunday 2 October 2016

My language background

  • Most people learn their mother tongue once. I learned two mother tongues twice (long story)
  • I failed at school with Latin and French
  • I succeeded with German at University
  • I thought about learning Italian in order to cycle around Europe
  • I couldn't decide beyween Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu when I taught in North India
  • I dipped my toe in Kiribati (Gilbertese)
  • I've had an ongoing love-and-hate affair with Japanese
  • I'm currently starting out in Spanish
  • I intend to start one language per month for the next two years.



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