Tag: linguaphile

sans queue ni tête

Post author By Nikki
Post date June 14, 2018
Categories In Blog Thing, learning, listening / reading / watching, Polyglot and Linguaphile, Writing
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C’est assez naturel que j’ai finalement choisi de m’immerger dans la langue française. Depuis aussi longtemps que je me souvienne, j’adore les films français, la culture, l’art, et bien sûr la cuisine… mais principalement, j’aime la culture française de la philosophie, la sexualité… Toujours, je suis obsédée par les films d’art spécialisés et les films […]

je practique le français

Post author By Nikki
Post date January 15, 2018
Categories In Blog, Polyglot and Linguaphile
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I am going to *try* to get into the habit of writing some posts in French before each test, using the vocab and grammar from the unit. I write a lot by hand, of course, but sometimes having to maneuver with a keyboard in different languages helps things stick. Plus, I just enjoy writing in […]

الموسيقى العربية

Post author By Nikki
Post date December 5, 2016
Categories In Blog, Blog Thing, learning, Polyglot and Linguaphile
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These past couple weeks I’m consciously realizing that I need to begin to immerse in the Arabic language. As I’ve had to choose classes for the Winter quarter, I’ve decided that this class (Arabic) is the most important one and the one I need to invest the most in. (Since I’m hoping these two years of […]

right left right left

Post author By Nikki
Post date October 3, 2016
Categories In Blog, Blog Thing, Polyglot and Linguaphile
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marHaba! The quarter began mid last week and this Monday marks the beginning of the first full week of classes. My classes are all interesting and fun and OH MY GOD, I mentioned that I’m learning Arabic, right? On one hand, it’s no big thing – this is what I do! I learn languages! I […]

right to left

Post author By Nikki
Post date August 19, 2016
Categories In Blog Thing, Polyglot and Linguaphile
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Hey, guess what! I’m not just learning German now, I’m learning Arabic, too! I am not entirely sure how that came about other than that Arabic is another language that’s been at the top of my list to learn for many, many years. And I expect Arabic to be quite useful if what I want […]

important words in Deutsch / coffee talk

Post author By Nikki
Post date May 12, 2016
Categories In Blog, Blog Thing, Polyglot and Linguaphile
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To learn German, I spent the first month using Pimsleur (my old fallback) language cds, the “Step by Step German” book (the step-by-step series is GREAT), duoLingo, and Memrise. Being the obsessive linguaphile that I am, I’ve probably tried at least 50 different language apps for specific languages over the years and at least that many […]