Day 19 - September 5
Today I started learning French for the first time in my life. I decided to do it for a combination of reasons (from it being free for students to the specifics of my research and the communities I'm working with), but what's done is done - I've signed up, survived the first lesson and now am successfully postponing a lovely date I have with my homework.
Honestly - I'm not that good at learning languages (I will explain why later). But I'm way to curious ( and talkative) for not learning the languages if I have an opportunity. During my EVS time I got face to face with Italian and had to conquer it to survive in Palermo (I'm not exaggerating - it's extremely hard to live here without speaking Italian). This experience not only gave me a new language skills (even thought in my opinion I'm still very far away from being fluent), but also brought a few insights about how I learn best and what I need to do to be able to speak a new language at least a bit.
