What is a heritage language? What is a heritage language you may ask? This is a specific phenomenon where a language is learnt by a child or a person who isn’t the region’s dominant language, for example, at home with their parents or family. Heritage language as a definition can vary widely. It’s the case;…
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Year 2024 Plans – Language Learning and otherwise:
2024 is a fresh new year. It is currently January. This therefore begs the question: what is new for me this year? This blog post will be split up into two main sections. My language learning goals and then everything else. Language Learning goals: This year I want to continue learning Mandarin and Cantonese. This…
My health and fitness journey:
I have had a journey with my relationship with food. As a teenager, I initially struggled with Eczema, which led me to a guide that said it could “beat” eczema. This was through a raw vegan diet that allowed my body to heal itself. However, this led to an impaired relationship with food and eating,…
Reading books vs Watching television:
In general, there are many books that are converted or made into films or TV series. In this article I will be exploring whether watching TV series of reading books is better and which one is more enjoyable. Personal thoughts: In my opinion watching TV is a very passive activity that doesn’t require much concentration…
Fiction writing – my experiences so far:
I think that creative writing is great and my experience so far of the genre fiction also has been awesome. In this blog post I will be comparing my experiences with this drama compared to other free dramas such as creative non-fiction, drama, and poetry. So far fiction has been good but also challenging because…
Language Learning Myths
I feel that there are many language learning myths that really aren’t true especially as it pertains to adult language learning and what can be possible in this area. In this blog post I will break down a few language learning myths and reasons why they are simply not true. Hope you guys enjoy! Myth…
What is my most favourite hobby?
I have many hobbies more some of which I enjoy more than others. My hobbies are: I enjoyed doing all these hobbies for different reasons. In this blog post I will go through the hobbies I have and why in particular I enjoy doing them. Cooking: This is one of my longest standing hobbies. I…