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

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

Update: 2023-06-11
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Christina's Language Journey

Christina has been learning many languages such asย 

  • Latin
  • Spanish ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • Finnish ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ
  • Russian ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ
  • Turkish ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Catalan
  • Ancient Greek ๐Ÿ›๏ธ
  • French ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Italian ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
  • Albanian ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
  • Sign language ๐ŸคŸ
  • Swahili ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช

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.ย 


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."ย 
  • "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 ย 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 Goodsonย  (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 )ย 
  • Favorite idioms/expressions (45:54 )
    • To Lose One's Marbels

Vocabulary:

  • "That's one nifty thing". = Stylish or smart.ย 

More to come...


Links and Resources:

  • The Pluriglot: Christina's Twitter account.๐ŸฆFor language enthusiasts.

  • The Horror of Learning Spanish: ย Nothing improves your language skills faster than a captivating story. Christina's Blog on Substack for Spanish leaners.ย 

Contact Daniel:ย MyFluentPodcast@Gmail.comย 

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

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

Daniel Goodson