Bao's winter in Paris

[Bao]

I ... I ... want to learn Mongolian.

[guiguixx1]

Haha the hardest thing about learning a language is not learning the language, but rather not giving in to learning another one XD

[Voxel]

The problem is that learning several languages at a low level is easy but learning one language at a high level is difficult.

[sjintje]

I ... I ... want to learn Mongolian.

Request approved.

[Bao]

Haha the hardest thing about learning a language is not learning the language, but rather not giving in to learning another one XD

... I know.

The problem is that learning several languages at a low level is easy but learning one language at a high level is difficult.

... I know.

I ... I ... want to learn Mongolian.

Request approved.

Yay!

No, seriously, my currently listed intermediate languages are in the B-range, and the plan was (is) to bring them up to C1 before allowing myself to return to the ones I've had fun with before, and only when I actually have some proficiency in those, I'm allowed to pick up a new one. I've been a good girl, all in all, but ... Mongolian is so cool.

[LanguageSponge]

I ... I ... want to learn Mongolian.

Hello Bao

I've just spent the last ten minutes or so reading up on your log from the beginning, it sounds like you're doing great. I agree completely with others on here who have said that the hardest thing about learning another language to a higher level is not the actual learning itself, but resisting the temptation to succumb to wanderlust and start learning another language on top of the half a dozen many of us have already begun. What is it that draws you to Mongolian? You've had a certain draw towards it for a number of years now if I remember right.

On top of that, I empathise with your struggle to avoid la bise as even though I still live in England (sadly), one of my best friends is French and another lived in France for nearly ten years, so I still struggle to stop them from doing that with me.

Good luck and keep at it!

LanguageSponge

[Bao]

잭이 왔어요!
I'm fine, just procrastinating on studying for the exams. I do half an hour of studying, and then half a day of dawdling around. \:D/

Mongolian just sounds cool. The palatalization is crazy.
Now, it seems at some point I understood that I won't be able to become any good in a language without having native speaking friends who use that language with me. More than that, I actually block my developing active skills when I lack a social model to copy. So for the time being Mongolian is just a pipe dream for me, same as Cantonese.
But it sounds so cool.

[sjintje]

Mongolian just sounds cool. The palatalization is crazy.

Can you hear the Steppes calling? Resistance is futile.

[Bao]

Can you hear the Steppes calling? Resistance is futile.

I do, I do!
You know what? Let's see if I can make friends with some Mongolian speakers. If so ... I will give in to the temptation.

[Bao]

Here a TAC and there a TAC and hey, hey ♪ hey ♫

Tempted to join, but a) I know I actually won't keep on posting, and I will feel envious of all those people who manage to keep moving towards their goals and b) I should be reviewing maths and physics for the upcoming exams ...

In lwt, the not-yet-entered word count for new texts has dropped to 20-25%.
I also started adding Japanese texts, just because it's there.

On the other hand, I feel like I completely forgot all of my little active French in the two weeks I spent in Germany. Ugh.