Some of you might remember me from HTLAL (although I wasn't that active on the board after 2010). Anyways, now I'm here and planning to continue my language studies right from where I stopped a couple of years ago because of work and other studies that basically left me with no free time for languages other than the ones I've been using in my everyday life for the past decade - Finnish (my native language), English (my beloved L2), and Italian (my home language for several years when I lived in Italy). For the record, I work as a freelance translator and tour leader.
What I'm going to do with this log is not crystal clear at the moment but I'm sure it will help me polish my other languages - that means using English as little as possible. I guess I'll use it as a sort of diary to record my thoughts and practise writing in different languages. My main motivation is to improve my Northern Sami (davvisámegiella) and Estonian but I will surely post something in Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish, and Russian, as well. I see most of you have elaborate study plans to learn foreign languages, whereas I've actually never had any... I prefer not to set any goals (except for learning every possible language to a fairly high level). I just study whenever I have some free time, using "traditional" intuitive methods.
So, welcome, dear readers and fellow polyglots! Let me start by introducing myself in Northern Sami:
Buorre eahket!
Hupmago oktage dáppe davvisámegiela? Mu namma lea Mikko ja mun lean golbmalogi jagi boaris. Mun lean suopmilaš jorgaheaddji. Mun háliidan oahppat sámegiela danin go dat lea duohta miellagiddevaš ja maiddái áitatvuloš giella. Dihten, ahte dat ii lea áiki, muhto mun áiggun ollu hárjehallat!
Poi si vede un sorriso enorme stampato in faccia che continua e continua... Gli italiano mi stanno troppo simpatici, siete carini.