Christina's Language Journey Christina has been learning many languages such as  Latin Spanish 🇪🇸 Finnish 🇫🇮 Russian 🇷🇺 Turkish 🇹🇷 Catalan Ancient Greek 🏛️ French 🇫🇷 Italian 🇮🇹 Albanian 🇦🇱 Sign language 🤟 Swahili 🇰🇪 In this interview, you'll learn about how Christina learn these languages. We also talk about - dialects, twitter for language learning, Toki Pona (constructed language) and more.  Some quotes: "all my English teachers for all my school years were German. So that's why I say learning from native speakers is overrated because I learned my English completely from German people."  "Nothing improves your language skills faster than a captivating story." "you don't need to learn a dictionary by heart. You just read a book. Let the story grip you. And  you'll have to look up a word now and then, of course, but it doesn't feel like studying." Table of Contents: Intro by Daniel Goodson  (0:00) Start Interview (01:40) Glossika challenge - snippet from episode 120 (5:21) Grammar is important (6:35) Horror of Learning Spanish (Blog) (12:33 Have the courage to abandon a book (15:16) Dialects are beautiful (18:26) Toki Pona, a language with 120 words (27:53) Using Twitter to learning languages (42:17)  Favorite idioms/expressions (45:54) To Lose One's Marbels Vocabulary: "That's one nifty thing". = Stylish or smart.  More to come... Links and Resources: The Pluriglot: Christina's Twitter account.🐦For language enthusiasts. The Horror of Learning Spanish:  Nothing improves your language skills faster than a captivating story. Christina's Blog on Substack for Spanish leaners.  Contact Daniel: MyFluentPodcast@Gmail.com 

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