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127 Native Speakers are Overrated - Reading has Helped Christina Learn 10 Foreign Languages so Far


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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.

  • 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: [email protected] 

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