New Year's Resolutions - 2018
/明けましておめでとうございます! (Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu!) Happy New Year!
Did you make any New Year's Resolutions this year?
January is a really good time to think about goals for the year ahead. Apart from anything else, it's cold! And it's nice to be inside making plans.
Here are my New Year's Resolutions for 2018…
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Like many people in the UK, I studied French in school. I liked French. I thought it was really fun to speak another language, to talk with people, and to try and listen to what was going on in a new country. (Still do!)
When I was 14 we went on a school exchange to the city of Reims, in northeastern France. I was paired with a boy, which I’m sure some 14-year-olds would find very exciting but which I found unbearably awkward. He was very sweet and we completely ignored each other.
That was nearly 20 years ago, and I didn’t learn or use any more French until, at some point in lockdown, I decided on a whim to take some one-to-one lessons with online teachers. Here are some things I learned about French, about language learning, and about myself.