Hello!
My name is
Shaziane.
I am a 27 year old Antiguan and Barbudan writer. I am madly in love with words, written words, literary works. A room of books, to me, is a room of friends.
I feel as though I have been surrounded by languages for my entire life...because I have been. In Antigua and Barbuda we speak English, and our local dialect which is a combination of a few language. But it's base and most of the vocabulary is borrowed from English. I consider it to be a language. Spanish was my acquaintance during childhood. My mother had learned a little Spanish, and she never order me to "Come", "Sit", or "Be quite" in any other language but Spanish. As she learned more she would use them. By the time I was 10 I felt comfortable learning it when we began in high school. I was not as comfortable with French however, which we began studying in school at the same time. After 2 years I dropped French, but continued with Spanish.
And then I was introduced to Ancient Greek at 12 years old in Religious Studies. It didn't get very far, but it was fun to learn the alphabet. I encountered and learned a bit of German, Japanese, and Greek between 16 and 18. At 21, I met Korean and indulged in the sound of it and the culture of Korea before deciding to begin learning it 23, and began a blog to help myself and others in the same endeavour. And finally at 25, I was introduced to the Russian Language.
I am a native English-speaker, and will be writing about English, but I will be drawing examples from the languages listed above (which I remember and form a better idea of concepts to be discussed). However, since this blogs main intended audience are Russians I will be heavily influenced by that language.
This blog, unlike this introduction, will be simple.
Are you ready to learn English with the procrastinating poet?
Welcome!
My name is
Shaziane.
I am a 27 year old Antiguan and Barbudan writer. I am madly in love with words, written words, literary works. A room of books, to me, is a room of friends.
I feel as though I have been surrounded by languages for my entire life...because I have been. In Antigua and Barbuda we speak English, and our local dialect which is a combination of a few language. But it's base and most of the vocabulary is borrowed from English. I consider it to be a language. Spanish was my acquaintance during childhood. My mother had learned a little Spanish, and she never order me to "Come", "Sit", or "Be quite" in any other language but Spanish. As she learned more she would use them. By the time I was 10 I felt comfortable learning it when we began in high school. I was not as comfortable with French however, which we began studying in school at the same time. After 2 years I dropped French, but continued with Spanish.
And then I was introduced to Ancient Greek at 12 years old in Religious Studies. It didn't get very far, but it was fun to learn the alphabet. I encountered and learned a bit of German, Japanese, and Greek between 16 and 18. At 21, I met Korean and indulged in the sound of it and the culture of Korea before deciding to begin learning it 23, and began a blog to help myself and others in the same endeavour. And finally at 25, I was introduced to the Russian Language.
I am a native English-speaker, and will be writing about English, but I will be drawing examples from the languages listed above (which I remember and form a better idea of concepts to be discussed). However, since this blogs main intended audience are Russians I will be heavily influenced by that language.
This blog, unlike this introduction, will be simple.
Are you ready to learn English with the procrastinating poet?
Welcome!
