About Me

 

Welcome to my language learning blog!

I hope that sharing my journey it may help other language learners whether they be beginner, intermediate or advanced learners of a foreign language. Perhaps someone may direction with finding their motivation to get started, suggesting resources, planning a study routines or even making meaning through vocabulary connecting with their mother tongue.

I would be very happy if I help even ONE person on their language learning journey. 

Who am I?

I live in Australia with my husband, our son and our standard poodle.  I love reading, languages and self care.  I try to eat well and keep fit so I can be a better wife and mum. Yes, I even wore white sneakers at our wedding :-) 

I was a languages teacher (Italian and French) until I became a mother. I have lived interstate and overseas including Italy, New Caledonia and USA. I learned a few different languages at different time across primary, secondary and tertiary education: French, Japanese, Italian and later Greek, Spanish and Indonesian.  I love Duolingo becauseI can dabble in 30 languages as I please.

I am interested in learning Welsh and Norwegian because of the heritage of my great great grandfather and now my mother in law. I prefer reading and writing skills that I can access readily when I am not working for looking after my family.  I like to continue my hobbies in stolen moments around family life and housework.  I like to journal my progress.  I study a mix of languages at a time trying to check in with each language every month or so.  Since, I started learning Romance languages and now Germanic languages they are the easiest languages families are me to progress.  I enjoy learning new languages even with another alphabet but it is certainly a lot slower progress lesson by lesson. 

Australia

Palo Alto, Ca, USA

Rome, Italy

Gambugliano, Veneto, Italy

Noumea, New Caledonia

Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy

I have taught Italian to children in both a Catholic primary school, a public primary school as well as adults through tutoring at University or the 3rd Age for pensioners and private tutoring for adults.

 What in in this blog?

Reviews

As a languages teacher, I like to write reviews to give my opinion of

• textbooks
• readers
• conversation practice books
• tourist guides
• software
• webpages
• and more.

When you are a beginner, it may be useful to help you decide what you are interested in and where you want to start in your language learning journey.

Language Learning Log

I document my language learning log along the way exploring my top 2 languages Italian and French, my foundation languages I am building at the moment, and my new languages as a beginner (especially languages that use another alphabet) 

Comment if you want to share your language learning journey :-)