Why do you study Persian?!?! This is what people ask when you say you are learning Persian. I don't know why there's no other reactions, it's not like all my other language choices are motivated by reason. In school I studied what was available. Now there's more choice, but I've wanted to concentrate on languages … Continue reading فارسی – Persian, my shiny new language
Category: Language resources
Reviews and discussions on different language learning resources.
Conversations: First look
Background: why I was looking for new resources In participating in the Language Jam I finally gave up on many language learning resources. I realized that I like very specific kind of resources that are sort of similar to how Finnish school books used to be when I was in school (well, I assume they … Continue reading Conversations: First look
Language Jam 2018: Afrikaans
During this weekend (27.-29.7.) Linguadedron organized a Language Jam. For once I was available, so I thought I would participate. I signed up for 24h challenge, because I didn't want to stress too much about it. Here is my experience of learning Afrikaans for 24 hours. So what is this Language Jam thing? The Language … Continue reading Language Jam 2018: Afrikaans
Ich will Deutsch lernen!
Since I live in Germany, my current plan is to improve my German. I'm taking kind of intensive approach to this. I first thought of taking actual lessons from a professional teacher in italki, but I realized these are not super useful for me and I just end up paying more. I'm not against paying … Continue reading Ich will Deutsch lernen!
