1. 🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹 This morning I started watching the news again from my newsroom.
2. 🇨🇳 Then I started a Coursera Chinese course for HSK from Beijing University. I followed two lessons:

1	你好	nǐ hǎo	hello
2	叫	jiào	to call
3	什么	shénme	what
4	名字	mínɡzi	name
5	我	wǒ	I, me
6	很	hěn	very
7	高兴	ɡāoxìnɡ	happy
8	认识	rènshi	to know

A: Nǐ hǎo！

你 好！Hello!

B: Nǐ hǎo！

你 好！Hello!

A: Nǐ jiào shénme mínɡzi？

你 叫 什 么 名 字？What is your name?

A: Wǒ jiào Xùdōnɡ. Hěn ɡāoxìnɡ rènshi nǐ.

我 叫 旭 东。很 高 兴 认 识 你! I am Xudong. Nice to meet you!

B: Hěn ɡāoxìnɡ rènshi nǐ.

很 高 兴 认 识 你。Nice to meet you!

After, completing those lessons, I did the 测验 Cèyàn Quiz that I passed with 90%!

☺ 我是很高兴！Wǒ shì hěn gāoxìng! I’m very happy!

3. 🇯🇵 And I used the chatbot on Mondly again to practice those very first basic Japanese sentences:

1. I started this morning with German news from my newsroom.
2. Then I was listening to Italian podcasts.
3. I’m about half way this 30 Day Record Yourself Challenge with a friend. We both missed out on a few days, but I can tell you that overall we do have some continuity on that language because of that challenge, not least because I know that someone is expecting my recording. So before continuing this site, I’m actually not going to procrastinate and do the one minute for today. ☺

OK, that was a challenge. I think Polish is the most difficult language I had to learn since a long time. I’m now at Day 19, so I tried to read a paragraph of a news article that I found on the multilingual page I made on here the other day with a news feed in multiple languages, that I thought was useful for myself and other wannabe polyglots. But I just can’t read it! So I made this sentence and read the Polish translation.

NIE MOGĘ JESZCZE CZYTAĆ POLSKICH GAZET, KSIĄŻEK ANI WIADOMOŚCI WHATSAPP. PISZĘ TO ZDANIE TERAZ W TŁUMACZU GOOGLE, JAK KAŻDEGO DNIA. NASTĘPNIE CZYTAM ZDANIA, ABY ĆWICZYĆ.

I can’t read Polish newspapers, books or Whatsapp messages yet. So I am writing this sentence on Google Translate myself now, like every day. Then I am reading the sentences to practice.

4. Now while writing more pages on here, I have my news room open, now listening to France24 for the news in French.

5. Later, I’ll put on Swedish radio to hear some news, studio talks and music.

As I’m in the process of learning multiple languages, I want to record it on this website as of today. I had a whole language journey planned and then Corona came. So now I will continue everything online. And maybe one day, just maybe, I can get close to calling myself a polyglot, while still being able to look myself in the mirror.

So mostly to push myself and not waste your time either, let’s get started:

1. Today I took some Hebrew lessons on Mondly. I compared it to other language learning apps such as Duolingo and Babbel in this review. I decided to repeat the same conversation again, as Hebrew is incredibly difficult for me. It was helpful, but I’ll need to go through this chat again several more times before I can actually have the conversation in real life, master the pronunciation and letters.

2. I liked the Mondly chat bot so much that I decided to use it for Japanese too. I recognized the word 時々from the new Dutch TV show with the same name Tokidoki about Japanese from language writer Paulien Cornelisse. The word sometimes translates to sometimes as in below tennis example.