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    My Journey with Languages, in 2019

    November 10, 2020 /

    This post was written before: published & then deleted… Let’s try again! I started learning languages while I was in an English-speaking Welsh secondary school (USA: high school). There are two types of schools in Wales, one that teaches in Welsh, or in English. They are both very well established but it depends on the student & parent whether they want their child to speak Welsh well/fluently at home. My mother decided to choose an English speaking school as neither I nor my family can speak any Welsh. This worked out well for me, as I never liked the language anyway. FRENCH: My real journey with languages started when we…

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About Me

I’m 30 something years old, from South Wales, (near Cardiff) UK.

I volunteered at the library 2017-2020, then re-joined as a volunteer in 2022, after Covid & Lockdown ended.

I started this blog in May 2017.

Full-time Creative, who loves pasta & eating freshly cooked food while drinking lots of coffee & alcohol…
*Favourites include Costa, Nescafe | Gordons (pink), Smirnoff & Carling*

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