Just laid down dramatically on the couch and began singing at the top of my voice (which isn't very loud rn lol thanks allergies I love you -_-) and I want to thank my parents for letting me do this
It feels ñliberating and so fun!

Then again I learned piano when I was like 5-6 years old and I didn't even finish a year of study.
I zoomed through my theory books tho xD
So like most of my learning has been uhhh from actual experience Ig? I'm not self-taught tho, as my teacher laid down the basics for me.
Now she's teaching my brother and I,,, wow, like, he's a genius! he's really learning quickly.

Also the realization that I never learned/was taught how to use the pedal so Idk I probably abuse it xD

Got a review of my English pronunciation and I am proud of the compliments :D
Apparently I can't pronounce the "of" very well and instead say "off" xD. But yes I've noticed I tend to say certain consonants too strongly.

I've been kinda thinking perhaps I should post more on my homethread now
I've only got like two assignments left this week to finish my 3rd quarter :3 so I can kinda waste time a bit now.

Also I know I've been sharing some videos lately but sadly my YouTube is mostly music and not much actual content
So, I'll resort to random memes/funny images.

I'm a native english speaker who learned Spanish in school (spanish immersion) so lemme tell you that while I've never thought of english as "soft" or spanish as "crisp", imagining it in my head makes a lot of sense lmao

idk if I'll ever be able to picture english as anything other than my default, but going through the motions of sounding out the words and mouthing the consonants of spanish definitely feels more "crisp" than it does in english. it's like... I'm more aware of when my tongue makes contact with my mouth to create sounds, and the movement is more precise and deliberate

I'd put this as my phone ringtone just to annoy people tbh xD


:333
Also that weird sound when you listen to it with headphones?? I love it when songs do that xD it's marvelously disorienting uwu xD I'm weird ik.

Puedo conversar en español pero no con fluidez. Espero que pueda viajar en un lugar hispanohablante para mejorar mi español,,, pero cuesta mucho

aww, thanks

but I still won't achieve fluency if I don't speak it daily with native spanish speakers,, I've had dreams in spanish before, but I can still feel the disconnect--fishing for words in my brain and using roundabout ways to express my meaning. I always feel uncertain about what I'm saying in a way I don't feel with english. At this point I'm just a couple of classes away from not being able to learn any more in school, so I'd really like to get there with a language I'm already fairly decent at! After I conquer spanish, mandarin chinese is next ;D

if I may ask, where are you from? I'm from rural minnesota (of the united states), so not many spanish speakers up here lol

mmm yeah I've been trying to read some books in spanish but my usual method is via public libraries, and due to the shut down I can't go out although to be fair, I haven't read much lately since I discovered the internet. Do you have any good advice for spanish tv shows?

Last year my school was supposed to have some of the upper-level spanish class students go on a trip to Peru, but it got canceled because of covid I love potatoes and I hear peru has a bazillion species,,, and i want your potatoes (my school mascot is a potato lmao) Peru also has The Andes and the Quechua people! so cool. [I have now exposited all of my peruvian knowledge. thats it.]

I actually have a (second) cousin* who lives in China, so he's 100% supportive of me learning chinese :D rn I'm just going through the rudimentary stuff for mandarin. I also think it would also be hella rad to learn arabic! the script is gorgeous and I am super gay for their architecture. but one thing at a time, heh

God, I sound so privileged, but anyways I was able to travel to france!! where they speak french! I lived there for a whole month in an apartment with my family (my mom was doing research for her college and we got to come with), in addition to travelling around europe and meeting relatives. anyways, i was much younger and hadn't figured out that I love travel/culture/languages yet, so I foolishly didn't take the opportunity to get better at french (the trip was actually what helped spark that love for me!) atm I only know enough french to ask "parlez-vous anglais?", oops

oh god I wrote too much. I'm too easily riled up about stuff I'm passionate about,, sorry

*my cousin is also white af, being blonde and 6'5" (approx. 170 cm), and he's fluent in mandarin, so you can imagine the shock of all the chinese people when this AMERICAN(tm) took the time to learn their language well

Also @Moonflight your cousin isn't 170 cm he's ALMOST TWO METERS TALL FDSKJKFDSJFDSKJ THAT'S HECKING TALL HOW--

cowboys say yee haw and ninjas say hee yaw

coincedence? I think not