Elephant King

we’re gonna play a game “am I going to get in trouble for my essay” cause am I on to something here??? yes. does it fulfil the requirements?? technically but the line is right there and if it gets rejected I WILL be sad

for someone learning multiple languages I sure am scared of talking to native speakers of those languages 

Okay so I read In Cold Blood and my teacher was like “why does it have a quote from ballade des pendus at the beginning” and now I’m out here like “oh so you WANT me to do an entire essay about this instead of the actual book?? ok” and I love that for me

could I do my missing work? yes, OR I could translate a song and provide an analysis if it absolutely NOBODY asked for,,,,, one of these is much more fun and what I’m probably gonna do

un bonbon? pour vous? non.

nothing compares to the unbridled rage of asking your teacher how to conjugate apprendre for past tense only for her to say to pick another word because you haven’t learned it yet,,, please,,,, tell me how to conjugate it I just want to use the word. How am I supposed to say I learned something if you won’t tell me how to conjugate it  :,(

it’s all fun and games with language learning until you have a crisis in the middle of a mall because despite being in a fucking Macy’s at two pm on a Saturday you think they are playing a song in French because instead of “come home” (or something I don’t remember) you heard “chez vous” which admittedly isn’t that far off but then it went right back to you hearing English lyrics so you’re left confused while your family is around you like “dude wtf”

I’m Silk, I’m starting this account after my old blog was inactive for a couple of years to keep myself honest and actually learn the languages I want to! I’m learning French, Japanese, Esperanto, and Korean as an English native speaker, if you have any tips feel free to let me know!