General Introductions Post

[viklikesfic]

Welcome to language_learning!

This is a general post where we can introduce ourselves and meet those who speak or are studying the languages we want to learn. As the community grows, I will add language-specific posts geared towards matching people up with conversation partners, but let's start here and find out who on DW is learning a language!

Suggested format (feel free to modify at will):

Name you prefer:
Location:
Home country:
Languages you speak/sign/read/understand:
Languages you have studied or are studying:
Current language learning goals:
Favorite language learning tool or resource:
Would you like others who are learning or speak your target languages to add/contact you?:

Comments

[glinda]

Name you prefer: Glinda
Location: Scotland
Home country: Scotland
Languages you speak/sign/read/understand: Native English speaker, I can speak/understand French and German to a half decent extent (ie people don't automatically respond in English when I say something in German to them). I'm a beginner Gaelic speaker.
Languages you have studied or are studying: I've got highers in French and German from school (5 years of study basically), and I've kept them up reasonably. I've tried to teach myself Russian, Japanese and Gaelic at various points to very little success. I did a Gaelic night class last year and I'm trying to keep that up and learn properly now that that's over.
Current language learning goals: I do media production stuff as a job, I'd like to get fluent enough to be able to work in Gaelic language media.
Favorite language learning tool or resource: I see draigwen's already mentioned the BBC's resources but they've got a really good variety of learning tools for different ages and abilities. I discovered Omniglot recently and its quite good for when you need random common phrases and don't have time to dig through all your notes. The Gaelic was accurate enough for me to recommend it to people learning other languages it covers.
Would you like others who are learning or speak your target languages to add/contact you?: Definitely, I'm craving fellow learners.

[viklikesfic]

Welcome to the party! I know what you mean about trying to keep something up after a class. I always have trouble with that little lag after a class when you haven't been studied and then think "oh, I should probably brush up on this."