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Friday Five - on a Saturday
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1. After your first language, what language would you most like to learn? (Say first language too)
My first language is English. I would like to be close to flluent in Spanish. I got to a very good level of comprehension when I was in South America ten+ years ago and could rattle by quite happily. Although I retain a feel for the language, I found Spain almost entirely impossible to navigate when I was there last year - although the added complication of Catalonian didn't help - and I am sad to have lost so much.
2. Does your country have a second language? What is it?
Just English. Although Welsh is an official language of Wales so we'll call that one.
3. How many languages can you count to 5 in? To 10 in? List them.
English (ahar), Spanish, German, French. I used to be able to count to 50 in Danish, after spending just 10 days there. I find numbers reassuringly regular and easy to pick up.
4. What is the first overseas country you visited? And from where? (ie/ timbuctoo to mars)
I think it must have been France on a school trip when I was 12. I, and all my classmates, hated every minute. It wasn't a good introduction to France, rather confirmed all the typical negative stereotypes most British schoolchildren grow up with. Second trip there on another school trip in year 9/aged 14 which also included a lot of time in Belgium was considerably more positive.
5. What country do you most want to visit? And why?
I want to visit Russia but feel conflicted and unwelcome given their anti-LGBT laws so I think that's at the bottom of the list of pretty much every country I haven't been to yet - all of which I really want to visit. Each trip is just checking another one off rather than going "finally! I get to go to [x]" because there's nothing better than travel
thefridayfive 1. After your first language, what language would you most like to learn? (Say first language too)
My first language is English. I would like to be close to flluent in Spanish. I got to a very good level of comprehension when I was in South America ten+ years ago and could rattle by quite happily. Although I retain a feel for the language, I found Spain almost entirely impossible to navigate when I was there last year - although the added complication of Catalonian didn't help - and I am sad to have lost so much.
2. Does your country have a second language? What is it?
Just English. Although Welsh is an official language of Wales so we'll call that one.
3. How many languages can you count to 5 in? To 10 in? List them.
English (ahar), Spanish, German, French. I used to be able to count to 50 in Danish, after spending just 10 days there. I find numbers reassuringly regular and easy to pick up.
4. What is the first overseas country you visited? And from where? (ie/ timbuctoo to mars)
I think it must have been France on a school trip when I was 12. I, and all my classmates, hated every minute. It wasn't a good introduction to France, rather confirmed all the typical negative stereotypes most British schoolchildren grow up with. Second trip there on another school trip in year 9/aged 14 which also included a lot of time in Belgium was considerably more positive.
5. What country do you most want to visit? And why?
I want to visit Russia but feel conflicted and unwelcome given their anti-LGBT laws so I think that's at the bottom of the list of pretty much every country I haven't been to yet - all of which I really want to visit. Each trip is just checking another one off rather than going "finally! I get to go to [x]" because there's nothing better than travel