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or – new doors to old worlds? hi, friends, i'm back, perhaps. with updates? i've been trying to motivate myself to re-learn/get back into learning french (perhaps for future-citizenship-reasons?) and i am once again reminded that i don't respond well to “classroom” learning. i don't attend a classroom-class, but i have explored various online courses, and this type of language acquisition is very artificial and non-intuitive.

what has been great though is following up on my interests in the target language. mostly i've been focusing on tarot – watching instructional videos, trying to decipher a tarot book in french. some things are easy to get from context and it feels very rewarding, to be able to use my tarot knowledge to expand my french knowledge. but the best thing about it is learning a different culture's tradition around the cards. it's made tarot new-to-me again and i'm excited.

it is a brain-intensive activity, “trying to figure things out” at all times, but tying it to another hobby means adding less intensive activities to choose from. like the very 90s act of copy pasting reference materials from a website and formatting them into a handy document for personal use. or just trying to read that or anything else out loud, not even to understand but to practice pronunciation. next, i'll use my new marseille deck to do a traditional french spread and read it entirely by consulting this guide. i think i have a question... (to be revealed in a later post!)