a childhood regret

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onto today’s topic: a childhood regret 🪀 

as a kid, i did a little bit of everything. from sports to art to robotics, i loved exploring and learning anything i could possibly get my hands on.

one area i never delved into was learning new languages. yes, i learned some french in school but i’ve already wrote about how school does not teach languages well. sometimes i stumble on those stories of kids that know 6 different languages by the age of 10, and i’m always left envious. 😞 

i wish i learned more languages as a kid. of course, i can still learn now, but we can’t deny the ease of picking up new languages while we’re young. it’s comes more naturally and the vocabulary’s retention is much quicker.

i used to binge a lot of those youtube videos titled “win $100 if you can speak a language that i can’t,” and i’m always left in awe. language is the easiest way to connect with other cultures, and i wish i was thrown into all sorts of classes while i was a kid.

from spanish to arabic to japanese, so many different languages pique my interest but my self-learning now makes very little progress compared to how rapidly i would have learned as a child.

kids soak up languages like a sponge. 🧽 i wish i could have capitalized on that.

would love any resources/recs for gaining basic fluency in new languages! what languages do you want to learn?

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