Twelve years ago today, Äiti temporarily abandoned her Brticats and flew to Oulu. A week later, they joined her, and their life here in Finland began. Aila is the last remaining member of the elite Gang of Five. It was a huge adventure but everyone agrees that this early Felexit was of great benefit.
Now one thing that has not been great is Äiti's knowledge of Finnish. Recently Duolingo finally published their Finnish course, and Äiti has been typing away on it. She -and we- were greatly amused by this appearing.
How all the wonderful Finnish people learned such good English is beyond Äiti, especially6 given her own awful progress with Finnish, supported by so many good resources1
I tried 2 years of Spanish in High School and could translate it it "OK". Then in college, I took conversational Spanish an it was just unending sounds I could make no sense of. So I tried Latin (which I had also taken 2 years of in High School. And as taught in College, it also made no sense to me.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a "2nd spoken language gene".
Words work; speech doesn't.
It took a lot of courage to move to another country, and now look at you...12 years later!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
Congratulations on your move to Finland 12 years ago.
ReplyDeleteI thought she always lived in Finland :)
ReplyDeleteWow that was a big move and with 5 furs amazing. I would not want to learn anything with that course except how to say Cat
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