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January 01, 2022โ€ข2 min read

๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ. ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿ˜‚

I've been asked, many times quite frankly, how I became passionate about languages.

Well, it's because of an awful French teacher who made my life "a living hell" (just exaggerating here to add a bit more drama to the story๐Ÿ˜†)

The truth is, in year 4, I used to memorise texts (and their translations). The first teacher we had would make us stand up in front of the class, read and translate the texts. But I was so bad at French, I had to have my mum help me read, translate and memorise all the texts. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜œ

Then, in year 5, we had another teacher. And one day, I simply put my homework in the PE bag and completely forgot about it. This new teacher was soooo mean (people who lived in post-communist Romania in the 90s might know what I'm talking about) ๐Ÿ˜ญ

So she just gave me a 4 (out of 10).

My mum was furious. And that week, guys, I started. I started having private classes. For French. And the following year, for English.

Now, the big bad teacher found out and was quite upset I did not have classes with her. So, during every class, she would check my knowledge. I had to be one step ahead, all the time.

So I continuously had private classes until I was admitted to Uni. Yeah, my mum never got over it :))) Almost every week, even during holidays.

I was actually talking to my best friend the other day, and she told me how sorry she felt for me. She felt I did not have a proper childhood ๐Ÿ˜‚

I told her : when you don't know how it should be, your reality just seems the normal thing.

So, it was definitely not my choice. I didn't even know I "was good at languages". I just practiced so much, that it just became second nature ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Now, I love languages. I also speak a bit of Italian and Spanish, and would mostly like to learn Chinese. ๐Ÿคฉ

๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™„ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™๐™š๐™ก๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™š ๐™ก๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™ฃ. ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’ ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™ช๐™–๐™œ๐™š๐™จ. ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’ ๐’‰๐’๐’˜ ๐’•๐’ ๐’•๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’‰ ๐’๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’–๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†๐’”. ๐™Ž๐™š๐™š๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ข ๐™—๐™š๐™˜๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™›๐™ž๐™™๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ, ๐™›๐™ช๐™ก๐™›๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ž๐™ง ๐™™๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ข๐™จ, ๐’Š๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’๐’”๐’• ๐’“๐’†๐’˜๐’‚๐’“๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’Ž๐’†.

Funny how one thing leads to another.

Did you have enough patience to read so far?

๐Ÿ˜…

Then what about you? How did you get your passion?

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Valentina Popescu

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