hei hei alle sammen! ~ after a hiatus which has felt waaaay too long now that iβve been longing to come back on language tumblr, i have decided to come back and make a fresh start and therefore iβd like to introduce myself to the language community (hi!) :]
first things first, my name is sophie [she/they], i am twenty-two years old and currently studying scandinavian and english studies at the university of cologne in germany! (a lot of people say scandinavian studies is probably one of the queerest studies out there, so well, iβm not the exception here!) iβve decided to come back to language tumblr as iβm hoping to gather a lot of motivation, inspiration and resources from you all (iβve really missed it, holy moly) - so, as you may have already suspected from my studies, my main focus (right now) is on studying the scandinavian languages, including literature and culture. iβve passed my final icelandic exam one month ago (B1 level, unfortunately there is no higher level university course offered, otherwise iβd continue) and will now be focusing on improving my norwegian (currently at B1 level) because iβm aiming to go to to norway (hopefully to bergen!) with erasmus in august 2023 :]
before i have switched to scandinavian studies, i have also studied japanology for some time - why, you may ask, itβs quite a long story of (un)fortunate events - so iβm also quite fond of asian culture and languages. my japanese might admittedly be a little, letβs say ~ rusty ~, but hopefully iβll jump back on track as soon as possible so i can finally write the JLPT test (N3 level, i suppose).
to summarize it all, my main target languages at the moment are norwegian, icelandic, danish and japanese, but there are quite a few other languages on my wishlist, which iβm very interested in, such as mandarin, finnish, polish, turkish and korean.
apart from that, i spend a lot of time travelling around whenever itβs possible, i love going to concerts and festivals and jump around in moshpits, i love the colour sage green (as you might have suspected already) and the season of autumn (itβs approaching, yay!), i enjoy reading a lot and love me a huge cup of hot tea :]
iβm looking forward to exchanging with you all, have a pleasant evening/morning/night - whatever the time might be at the place youβre currently at :]
all the best, sophie x
