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Hello everyone! I looked at my blog the other day and realised that all my basic info is well out-of-date, seeing as I was last active in the langblr in 2014-2018. Anyways...
about me
- Maria, 32, all pronouns welcome
- I've lived/studied or worked in: 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇷🇧🇾🇮🇪
- my background is in Germanistik & Creative Writing; CELTA-certified; & I work as an independent foreign language consultant/teacher in English and German
- right now I'm working towards getting into literary translation & audio recording (literary reading/performance)
languages
Mains/Everyday English (native), German, French, Irish, Greek (passive bilingual->active since 2018/19)
Others/Select Usage Italian, Old English, Middle English, Dutch, Norwegian, Russian, some Latin (esp. Medieval)
Conlang Ätchgö
There are other others but let's just leave it at that for now.
blog goals
- share my polyglot journal notes and studies from the last 5 years, both to review/follow-up on them and because I think it could be interesting to other learners
- interact with people on the language learning process itself & share study tips
- meet people to discuss shared interests in our shared languages (art, music, philosophy, literature, theatre, culture—kind of dark/light academia-coded, I know, and I live for it)
- treat posting as a hobby, not an obligation (i.e. I tend to take hobbies and mentally turn them into chores)
things I may post about here
language and linguistics stuff, esp. mutual intelligibility/historical linguistics/poetics, literature, my translation studies et. al., IWTV meta/memes/aesthetic and my blorbos (because I can't not), writing tips/memes, Chaucer, Byron and the rest
apart from language/cultures/literature I like
good coffee/espresso, cooking, stargazing, travelling, journal writing & fanfiction