Welcome to my language blog! 
Bienvenido a mi blog de idiomas! 
Herzlich willkommen auf meinem Sprachenblog! 
Bienvenu-Bienvenue à mon blog de langues! 
Benvenuto-Benvenuta nel mio blog de lingue!
My name is Juan Valentín (Juan is the first name and Valentín my middle name) and I'm a 28-year-old bloke from Madrid, Spain with a background in IT.
Last month I came up with the idea of writing this blog to share my true passion: languages. So here we are! Not only do I intend to share my knowledge in the languages I know so far to some extent (Spanish, English, German, French, Italian and Mandarin Chinese) and those I get to pick up some day -if any-, but also to engage the blog readers to express their insights and fill some knowledge gaps or curiosities that could be beneficial for everyone. The topics I will be focusing on might vary interchangeably from phonetics to grammar or vocabulary.
You might wonder why I chose this name for the blog... Originally I got this Little Britain's Marjorie Dawes's catchphrase, who acts as the Fat Fighters coach. She would constantly make fun of Meera, one Indian attendee, by making her repeat any time she intervened, as if the coach did not understand Indian English. I certainly do not want to mock anyone for their accents, but rather to highlight the differences between different accents such as Indian English, American English or Canadian French comparing to the standard dialects or even how a certain language is spoken by native speakers and by those using it as a second language. I think that these peculiarities do make languages look more thrilling and fascinating.
I will struggle to provide at least one new entry per week. The next entry is coming up thorughout the present week.
I would be extremely glad for your suggestions, as I am new at this. I really wish this blog can be of your interest and that you enjoy it at ease, just like I will for sure :) So let's get started!
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