BIG, EXCITING (and maybe a little sad) NEWS — a NEW Norwegian blog!

Hei alle! You’ve probably been wondering why I’ve been absent from my blogging duties here. Ever since I selected Norwegian and went to Norway, I’ve been devoting my free time to studying the language, albeit quietly. In the time I’ve been away, I’ve also thought very carefully about how to advance my next goal: to […]

A Kentuckian’s adventure to Norway: Rolling, skål and a little thing called Eurovision

It’s been over a month when I revealed Norwegian to be the final choice for the language blog. Since that time, I’ve been a faithful and diligent student to it and I … well. I kinda, sorta went to Norway. As one would say in Norwegian, uh … hvad? Let’s do a quick rewind to […]

And the language is …

… NORWEGIAN!!!! This was NOT an easy decision to make! I was completely torn between all of the ones from Part Two, especially Turkish. However, I think I made the right decision and am very excited about learning the language. You can listen to me talk about this in my interview with Patrick Cox from […]

37 Languages: A brief look back

From the beginning, I never would have guessed that this project would take over a year. I had expected to be complete within five months time, choosing the language with little fan fare and studying it privately. After being prodded by my friend Dana, I decided to publish the blog. I chose a bunch of […]

Part Two: Albanian Recap

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to speak Albanian with anyone this time around, but that didn’t deter me from learning more about it in Part Two. I got a lot of help from Albanian World, which is an excellent guide to those learning about the language for the first time. My feelings about Albanian are sort […]

Part Two: Swedish Recap

Not really a whole lot to say about Swedish this time around. While I did enjoy speaking it (especially with a couple of friends), I wasn’t left with the same impression I had with Norwegian, the other Scandinavian language I picked for part two. If anything, it just reminded me of a stronger version of […]

Part Two: Turkish Recap

Wow, what a doozy Turkish was! I had a lot of mistakes with it the second time around, but it was such a blast learning more about it! I want to give a HUGE thank you to my friends Ertuğ, Gökçe and Umut for practicing Turkish with me and giving me lots of helpful feedback! […]

Part Two: Norwegian Recap

Heeeeeeeeere’s Norwegian! I had a lot of fun with Norwegian this time around. I think I even had actual thoughts in the language at some points! I reveal my English ones in the video below. 37 Languages – Norwegian Recap from Keith Brooks on Vimeo. To be honest, there weren’t really many difficulties with looking […]

Part Two: Portuguese Recap

New video, coming to you completely raw and unedited! Please excuse my messy apartment. 🙂 Overall, Portuguese is not easy to pronounce, but it’s fun to try! The biggest issues I had were with pronouncing particular consonants (d, t, s) and diphthongs. What also played a role were differences in Brazilian and European Portuguese pronunciation […]

Part Two: Croatian Recap

As promised, here is a video recap of the first language from part two, Croatian! Apologies for the delay, as I meant to post this yesterday. 37 Languages – Croatian Recap from Keith Brooks on Vimeo. Basically, I discussed the hard and easy things, with hard being noun declensions and the aspect for verbs and […]