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]