#islenska

One of my special interests has always been learning foreign languages, so this is the main reason I made this side-blog. My native languages are Catalan and Spanish, and I can speak English and French fluently and Japanese (intermediate).

I’m currently studying Arabic (2nd year), Icelandic (2nd year) and Japanese at different language schools.

I studied a Translation and Interpretation degree at uni and passed JLPT N3 7 years ago, so during this past year I’ve been trying to refresh kanji and grammar to be able to prepare for N2 at some point.

Here’s what you will find in this side-blog:

Me trying to journal in Icelandic during this summer

Vocabulary and grammar notes (Icelandic, Arabic, Japanese)

My language learning journey

Stuff to motivate myself to keep learning and studying

I’d love to connect with other people who are learning the same languages or just fellow language learning lovers! I’d also be up to help anyone who’s learning Catalan or Spanish and needs a native friend.

Besides languages I also like:

cosplay

videogames (honkai star rail, genshin impact, project sekai, sims 2…)

reading

penguins

perfumes

manga

makeup

fashion

monster high

If you’d also like to read the sagas in Danish (or Norwegian, or Swedish, or Icelandic, or Faroese), you can!

This link will take you to the main page for the Danish texts, but if you look at the top of the sidebar on the left of the page, you’ll see the option to view the texts in another language! Woohoo!

I’ve just recently finished the first volume of the Oldtidssagaerne, and can personally recommend specifically the Vølsungernes saga! Also featured in the book I read is Ragnar Lodbrog’s saga, which was also a delightful read! To find these quickly, just search for them in the search bar at the top of the page!

hei hei alle sammen! ~ after a hiatus which has felt waaaay too long now that i’ve been longing to come back on language tumblr, i have decided to come back and make a fresh start and therefore i’d 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, i’m not the exception here!) i’ve decided to come back to language tumblr as i’m hoping to gather a lot of motivation, inspiration and resources from you all (i’ve 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. i’ve passed my final icelandic exam one month ago (B1 level, unfortunately there is no higher level university course offered, otherwise i’d continue) and will now be focusing on improving my norwegian (currently at B1 level) because i’m 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, it’s quite a long story of (un)fortunate events - so i’m also quite fond of asian culture and languages. my japanese might admittedly be a little, let’s say ~ rusty ~, but hopefully i’ll 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 i’m very interested in, such as mandarin, finnish, polish, turkish and korean.

apart from that, i spend a lot of time travelling around whenever it’s 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 (it’s approaching, yay!), i enjoy reading a lot and love me a huge cup of hot tea :]

i’m looking forward to exchanging with you all, have a pleasant evening/morning/night - whatever the time might be at the place you’re currently at :]

my brain: ethcalator :)