#also do dialects count because i understand sicilian jshsjs

[cosmojjong]

Hi didi! You mentioned German being a hard language, and we all know for a fact you speak English and Korean. How many languages do you speak?? And which one is your favorite?

hi! this is both an interesting and tricky question because growing up i learned different languages but i don't know what my level in each one is atm. i can only speak for english (c1) and korean (topik II). last time i had an exam in french my level was a b2, don't think it changed much but who knows!

it may actually sound impossible but i can fluently speak italian, korean, english and french. as in, i can hold conversations and i can go beyond a textbook-like kind of approach, if it makes sense?

i also studied german for 7 years (still studying it, the literature though)... do i understand german? yeah. do i speak it? eh. i don't know. 😭 i'm probably underestimating myself here, because a university teacher and i practiced a few days ago and he said i am not as rusty as i say, but i still wish i could be better at it, since i'm back into linguistics and need it to pass/graduate. german, in general, technically shouldn't be as easy if you don't speak a language of the same language family. funnily enough i speak english (not my mother tongue) and i still sound pretty insecure in german 😭 i always have had a love-hate relationship with it because it doesn't sound so pretty, but i admire those who speak it well. it is not boring, just hard and not the most approachable 😅

i think i can also hold conversations in spanish but i'm shy and it's probably not as fluent? i used to speak it a lot when i was a child, whenever my aunt and cousins from mexico visited. some time ago someone asked me to take pics of them in spanish and they said thank you, i froze for a moment before replying it was no worries lmao

bonus is that when i was in high school, there was this friend i had that taught me some portuguese, but it has been many years so now i only remember like... oi, boa noite, obrigado/obrigada (you know, the super common words)!

my favorite language has to be korean! i think there are different reasons why i'm choosing it. growing up my parents always directed me to languages and it felt pretty strict and challenging (also because tbh that was never my forte, i learned them because i had to) but learning korean was a personal choice. i started learning it on my own and seeing the progress has always been so satisfying. i don't know what it is but there are some things i just get, maybe it's all the past studying of grammar! i find that it is beautiful and that there are many layers and interesting things to find out and learn about it ;-;

i am so sorry for making this so long and i may even be forgetting something! 😭 when my family talk to me about languages i feel so meh because that's what they always expected from me when music was always my only interest, but at the end of the day i can't deny that languages are a great source and they've enabled me to widen the horizons of my mind and discover the world around me more. i hope this wasn't too boring to read and feel free to ask me anything anytime <3