The Creative Outlet

I'm bilingual in Mandarin and English. As a hobby, I took French and Korean in high school and I'm still trying to keep them up in 2021. Through friends and travel, I also dabbled in learning Cantonese and Polish.

Bonjour je m'appelle Fionna, je suis bilingue anglais et chinois et j'apprends le français et le coréen.

여러분 안녕하세요. 저는 피오나입니다. 네, 저는 블랙잭, VIP, ELF, 카시오페아 입니다. 케이팝은 저를 '한류'에 빠지게 했고 춤도 배웠지만, 저는 우정 때문에 계속 배우기로 결심했어요.

In this series, I will unwind the "love letters" between me and these languages - what serendipitous encounters that started it all, the ups and downs, and where we are now.

Thanks for reading Part 1 and Part 2.
Today, let's talk about the most Mirotic of all - 한국어  🇰🇷

Thank you for listening to the creative outlet, you can find this podcast and the transcript on fionna.substack.com. If you have a question please leave me a comment, or tell me on twitter at @fionnagan.

I have been using the "每日法语听力 (Daily French Listening)" app for the last 2 months. Every day it suggests a few episodes and I was delighted to discover the series "InnerFrench" by Hugo Cotton, a French teacher in Poland. After watching his videos, it dawned on me that why after years of learning French in school, it didn't enable me (or give me the courage) to have a meaningful conversation with native speakers.

That's because schools or languages classes got the best order for learning reversed.