PolyNotYet Diglot Newbie Japan Joined 3988 days ago 10 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, Irish Studies: French, German, Persian
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Hello everyone, I'm a long-time lurker, first-time poster.
I'm 26, Irish, and currently teaching in Japan. I grew up bi-lingual in Ireland,
English at home and I went to a Gaelscoil, an all Irish language medium primary school.
My Irish level is sadly not where it once was, especially my writing skills, hopefully
it is just dormant!
I sat in French classes in secondary school. I did not enjoy the grammar heavy focus
and poor explanations in that system.After five years I could produce verb charts and
chat about how to get to the train station.
Over the years I have dabbled in a few languages, fixed my French, learned some
Persian, Russian, and German. My main weakness is my lack of consistency. I tend to
flit from one language project to the next. I am hoping that by getting involved on the
forum that I will become a more disciplined language learner.
My pet peeves are: People that say 'Learn language X instead of Y because *gives
spurious reason*', 'X is an easy language to learn/has no grammar', 'Irish is useless,
we should teach Chinese instead'.
My loves: Arsenal football club, reading, and watching terrible movies like 'Sharknado'
My language goals for 2014 are:
Improve my limited Japanese (I am only here for a few months so I will be happy with a
comfortable basic level)
I also want to focus on improving my Russian and finally starting Spanish (I wanted to
learn it at school but my school only offered French)
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