Hello! My name is Matthew. I come from England and am a passionate language learner. My dream is to become a polyglot and to inspire others to learn foreign languages.
Before 2020 I was monolingual but now I have learnt Cantonese Chinese to C1 / Advanced, Mandarin Chinese currently B1 / Intermediate & Hakka (currently a beginner). Hoping to learn many more languages in the future such as French & Japanese.
As a job, I currently work part-time as an events host for my city’s language exchange event and am a Physics graduate. I am also passionate about health and fitness, reading, creative writing, Jesus and board games.
My first experience of learning foreign languages was at school with French. However it only really picked up over the lockdown of 2020 when I decided I would try to learn Cantonese so that I would be able to converse with my grandma.
Over the next two years, I would find myself studying Cantonese every day – being and staying consistent in my studies to reach fluency in my target language.
I have always been a hard-working and studious person and this shows in my language studies actively studying Cantonese becoming C1 / advanced level over a period of 18 months.
My life’s goal is to follow Jesus as I’m a Christian and believe in God. However, beyond this, my main hobby at the moment is language learning and I hope to learn more about the techniques and strategies of successful language learners so I can pass this on to other people.
Initially being monolingual I didn’t believe it was possible to learn a language with fluency but this was proved wrong now; it is perfectly possible and doable to become fluent in a language as an adult.
I created this blog in order to share my language-learning journey, hobbies and other aspects of my life. Thank you for reading my introduction.