DoingBlakeThings

• 27 años • BA in Linguistics & Spanish • L1: English 🇺🇸 • L2: Spanish 🇨🇱🇦🇷 and Portuguese 🇧🇷 #langtwt

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

2024 #langtwt Intro:
- Blake, he/him, 25
- From Cincinnati, Ohio 🇺🇸
- BA in Linguistics and Spanish
- Speaks: English 🇺🇸 (Native), Spanish 🇦🇷🇨🇱 (B2/C1), and Portuguese 🇧🇷 (Celpe-Bras Avançado)
- Learning: Koine Greek and Norwegian 🇳🇴
- On pause: French 🇫🇷 and Italian 🇮🇹

[Autistic x ADHD.Co @autisticadhdco]

One of the hardest parts of ADHD is the constant anxiety.

Even when nothing’s wrong, my brain still acts like I’m in danger.

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

@LinguistJosh Once upon a time, I thought that I might like to use my Spanish for a bilingual job someday, but I saw too many job listings with that kind of hourly wage and was like “Nevermind…” 😅

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

I completed the September challenge faster than 96.7% of all learners on Duolingo!

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

A volte, le lingue che mi sembrano le più difficili da imparare sono quelle che io penso che dovrei avere già imparato. 😅 #langtwt

[Structured Success @StructuredSucc]

Some of the biggest ADHD struggles are often getting ourselves to do the things we desperately want to do.

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

Os sábados gosto de ir à uma cafeteria pra tomar café da manhã. Hoje eu trouxe um livro para aprender norueguês enquanto eu tomava café. #langtwt

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

@mellosemcor That can be part of my maintenance routine for Portuguese! (For Spanish and Portuguese in Q4 2025, I will put together a maintenance mode plan)

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

The past week or two, I’ve been overthinking my language plans for the rest of the year, but I think I finally have a tentative language plan for Q4 2025!

I’m looking at focusing on Italian and Norwegian, with German and/or French on the side (if time allows). #langtwt

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

I might also try to fit in dabbling in other languages that I’m interested in, such as Koine Greek, Japanese, or Swedish. The main goal will be to stick with the languages that I picked to focus on instead of impulsively changing my target languages every week 😅

[LanguageCrawler @LanguageCrawler]

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[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

Last year, I went on a summer trip to Northern Europe and got to dabble in French, German, Swedish, and Norwegian around that time.

I’m currently trying to decide on which languages to focus on learning out of those (plus a few others, like Italian) for the immediate future.

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

Update on 2024 Language Goals, a year and a half later:

It was great to take a step back from my hyperfixation on language learning to focus on other things. Although I didn’t get into Koine Greek as planned, I got started on Norwegian with passive learning.

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

✨2024 Language Plans and Goals✨
• Overview: This year, I am making language learning a lower priority in life and aiming to take a healthier approach to language learning. However, I have decided to start two new languages: Koine Greek and Norwegian.

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

@SantPolyglot It led me to get a worthless language degree and become a university-educated unskilled worker 🙃😶‍🌫️

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

I finally got to finishing the A2 level of the Busuu French course!

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

I just finished the A1 level of the Busuu French course! With how indecisive I tend to be with languages to focus on at the beginner level, this feels like quite an accomplishment. 😅

[🌷 eva | 雯雯 @evalanguages]

No quiero entrar en debate, pero por favor NO caigáis (especialmente si sois españoles) en criticar que “la pronunciación de los españoles hablando inglés es horrorosa”, “no sabemos pronunciar”, etc.

Voy a desarrollar un poco por si os interesa mi opinión al respecto 👇🏼

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

@mellosemcor One of the more extreme examples that I found of low wages for Spanish was this posting from a staffing agency to be a Spanish “interpreter” for $15 an hour. I’m wondering who is applying for that job, and how they can afford to work for such a low wage while living in the U.S…

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

@mellosemcor I think the career benefits of speaking other languages are largely overstated. Part of the reason I “quit” Spanish was because with the low wages for many bilingual jobs, trying to find an opportunity to use it professionally seemed like a poverty trap.

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

@talkingticket @LoveJoy_Lang Thanks for covering this topic! Just last month at a cafe in Puerto Rico, the lady taking my order, after I didn’t catch something that she said, was like “No hablas mucho español, solo un poquito? 🤏”

Nowadays, I find it very tempting to throw my own Spanish in the trash 😂

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

@KevinAbroadYT I learned about neoliberalism and cultural hegemony in a Spanish class at university. I wasn’t previously familiar with those terms before that class

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

@mellosemcor Obrigado! It’s good to know that I still look young, especially with recent discourse about Gen Z aging like milk 😅😂

[DoingBlakeThings @CosasDeBlake]

I finally updated my profile picture because it’s now been a solid 5 years since I took my old profile picture. 😮

My old profile picture is from when I was 20 and studied abroad in Chile. My new profile picture is from my trip to Puerto Rico last month