Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve | Am I a Foreign Language Freak? #shorts @Thelinguist | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
🤪 I just spoke to a dental assistant that spent 5 years studying dentistry in Poland but never learned any Polish. And that was true of the other North Americans in his program, too. I've only spent 6 days in Poland, but thanks to lots of Polish listening and reading right here in Canada, I have acquired a decent amount of the language. I am frequently astounded by how little interest most people seem to have in learning languages, despite living abroad for many years. Perhaps I am just a language freak...