𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗲 😂

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 story😆)

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. 😂😜

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) 😭

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 😂

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 😎

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

𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣. 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨. 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔. 𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨, 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆.

Funny how one thing leads to another.

Did you have enough patience to read so far?

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