- Most people learn their mother tongue once. I learned two mother tongues twice (long story)
- I failed at school with Latin and French
- I succeeded with German at University
- I thought about learning Italian in order to cycle around Europe
- I couldn't decide beyween Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu when I taught in North India
- I dipped my toe in Kiribati (Gilbertese)
- I've had an ongoing love-and-hate affair with Japanese
- I'm currently starting out in Spanish
- I intend to start one language per month for the next two years.
Sunday, 2 October 2016
My language background
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