About the blog:
Welcome to For the Love of Languages, a blog that discusses language, language learning, and culture. It also follows the language learning progress of the author, Aaron Posehn. It is his hope to also bring in outside sources and articles on the subject of language learning in order to provide a better understanding of the process for himself and for readers. As he is currently focusing on Mandarin and French, many of the posts here will include topics surrounding these specific languages.
About Aaron Posehn:
Greetings!
I have had an interest in foreign languages and cultures since I was young, first approaching Mandarin Chinese through self-study when in elementary school and continuing formally afterwards in extra-curricular classes in high school and then at university (as well as taking the regular French curriculum in high school).
I strayed away from concentrated language study for several years after that (though I always kept it in my peripheral vision), but have dove back into the deep within the last several months. I have missed it dearly. Perhaps it was a lack of motivation. Perhaps it was a feeling like I wasn’t improving. Whatever it was, I have found that I still have a very good foundation (and still a passion!) and that it’s all coming back very quickly. Therefore, this blog is partly for the purpose of keeping me on track with my language learning and to document interesting things I learn and see.
Besides languages, I am very interested in projects involving intercultural communication, development, technology, and travel (I am currently planning a bike trip around Taiwan for 2013). I also have a wide variety of interests spanning areas such as physics, philosophy, business, government, psychology, and history (I like to consider myself a philomath). I am additionally a graduate of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, having majored in Asian Area Studies and concentrating primarily on economic, political, historical, linguistic, and philosophical approaches to China and India.
I also have a personal website here, and if you’d really like, you can email me at aaronposehn[at]gmail.com.
