Languages

i love languages.

i spent an hour in the language lab today, practicing french. the language lab relaxes me. it’s so quiet and isolated — everyone gets their own little carrel — and since you’ve got headphones on, you really get immersed in the language, with no distractions.

when i walked out, i started singing along to a song stuck in my head, which happened to be in portuguese. i think it was virgínia rodrígues’s adeus batucada, but i don’t remember now. then two people walked by me, talking to each other, and i caught their conversation — which was in spanish. i smiled and kept on walking.

then i passed two people seated on a bench, talking with one another. i realized that their conversation was in shanghainese!

languages! they’re so fun.

and no, i am not quite confused yet.

[note, 4/10/14: Imported from my old blog at satsumabug.livejournal.com.]