 Hello there, so today I thought I'd do something a bit different and I'd record something while I'm walking I'm walking through a new part of town today, so hopefully it goes well. It's recently been raining, so I Need to be careful where I walk. Anyway Hopefully it's not too jumpy and you can hear me, but today I want to talk about Something a bit different. I wanted to talk about Language learning and it's just been in my mind because well because we're planning out our trip this summer We're gonna be my wife and I are going to be going to Taiwan And it looks like we might spend a week or so in Korea like kind of stop over on the way to Taiwan and And so I've been looking over, you know If I should Try to brush up on my Korean or not for those of you who don't know I saw my languages the ones I translate in Or Italian and English and that's it, but I love languages. I love learning new languages growing up in Switzerland We learned French and German later. I learned Spanish in college. I took these classes in Japanese at the USDA I went to school in DC and so these government agencies offered classes and Then what else I lived in Korea for a bit That's and had a private tutor there and then Chinese obviously my wife is from Taiwan there They speak they speak Taiwanese as well, but they also speak Chinese Mandarin Chinese and so that's what I was learning and Anyway, I'm I speak. I'm very backlit. I Guess that's better except I'm trying to walk that way. Maybe I'll walk backwards for a bit So I or maybe I'll just stop I Where was I? Oh, well, yeah, and that's the thing So I'm juggling all these languages and looking for the camera, which is there I'm juggling all these languages and I I'm very bad at switching from language to language to language I know some people can do it from French to Chinese to English to whatever I can't do that at all I if I'm thinking in a language, I mean Italian English is fine But any other language? I'm you know, it's very hard for me to switch to them You know or from them or stuff like that. I'm getting a bit better with Chinese I think just because I hear it more often, but the other language is I'll be okay But if you ask me to switch to like Korean right now Like there's no way my mind will just be all frazzled and and I won't be able to come up with anything And it's happened before we're like we'll walk into a Korean restaurant or Japanese or something And yeah, I have no idea what say even with French like and you know I started using Chinese words when I was trying to speak French like it makes no sense. Anyway So How do I go about this? Basically, I have a regiment when I know so recently like my wife and I went to Germany I mean recently about a year ago and you know before going to Germany I basically had this regiment for like a month or a couple weeks beforehand. I started listening to podcasts I started, you know brushing up like a German TV shows and stuff like that just trying to get some German back you know that I'd learned before and obviously it had gotten really really rusty and So yeah, I try to do that before I take a trip. I try to do something like that and so yeah If we're taking this trip say to Korea We haven't finalized anything yet, but once we know it's finalized I'll probably be doing something similar. I try to you know, create a schedule and you know stick to it And then I'll concentrate so you know this trip to Korea will probably just be traveling around of it Visiting some I mean going to restaurants visiting some stuff I'm hoping if I can take her on a road trip to the east coast of Korea if we have time That would be nice. And anyway, it'll just be asking for directions ordering stuff talking about stuff You can kind of see a bit of the skyline behind me But anyway of Charlotte by the way, if you're wondering but anyway, yeah, I that's sort of my regimen and I Usually divide language learning into four different things. There's speaking listening reading and writing and So for this trip obviously reading and writing will be minimal Most of it will be speaking and listening and so that's what I'm gonna concentrate on and Yeah, yeah, so I'll probably maybe I'll do another video where I talk more in detail if we decide We're going to Korea and I set up this regimen and all that and I can delve a bit more into it of How I yeah, how I go about this because I find You know if I'm like say with German, you know If I'm just constantly trying to teach myself a word a day or brush up on German But I have no intention. I'm going to Germany anytime soon I know I'm gonna forget that stuff before I go and I find it a lot more useful to Before I use the language so before I travel there or something along those lines to come up with a regimen of a month a couple weeks whatever it might be and Try to get it back and then you know slowly But surely I can get what I learned back and hopefully even advance a bit. So by the time I get there I can you know hit the ground running and And not just jumping into it cold turkey So yeah, anyway, hopefully this video wasn't too jumpy. Hopefully I wasn't too backlit and Hopefully you can hear me because I didn't even check about that. But anyway and yeah, but definitely let me know if what you do to keep up your languages and How you how you do that if you have to juggle? Well, you know two languages or more and you know how you do that because I find it quite hard And I can't switch just like that from language to language. And so yeah, let me know I'll try wait. Let's see if I'm less backlit. Nope. Nothing helps here. So anyway I'll uh, yeah, and I'll talk to you in the next video and but yeah I'm definitely interested in hearing because I like to improve on my methods, too I just do you know, this is how it came up for me But anyway, I'm be happy to hear what you guys do and I'll talk to you later because I can't figure this out And I'm way too backlit now