{"id":1910,"date":"2013-10-11T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2013-10-10T20:06:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T03:06:15","slug":"what-am-i-good-at-how-did-i-forget-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1910","title":{"rendered":"What am I good at, part deux"},"content":{"rendered":"

C’est comme \u00e7a
\nAh, la la la la<\/p>\n

–Rita Mitsouko\/C’est Comme \u00c7a<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I was driving to work the other day, singing along to a French pop song and then an Italian pop song, and then a Turkish pop song and something occurred to me that was related to something I wrote recently about what I’m good at<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It occurred to me that I am quite good at learning new languages.
\nIt’s probably my biggest talent and it did not even occur to me to mention it when I was writing about things I am good at.<\/p>\n

What does it say about me that I can just forget one of the things I am best at?\u00a0 I would like\u00a0 to think that it means that I’m modest. Except that would be\u00a0 false. I’m not particularly modest.<\/p>\n

I am so good at languages that I can even sing along to a Turkish pop song when I don’t speak Turkish except to say “I love you.”**<\/p>\n

It didn’t occur to me that I had an aptitude for languages until college, although I went through 4 years of Spanish in my last year of High School which should probably have been a\u00a0 pretty big clue. I didn’t think it\u00a0 was unusual, in spite of the fact that no one else was doing it. I just thought Spanish was easy for me because I already spoke French.<\/p>\n

Maybe I am<\/em> a little modest.<\/p>\n

In college I added in Italian, and started to figure out that not everyone else was doing as well as I was. However, I also thought I was extra motivated because the instructor was very…Northern Italian. I like that in a man. No, that’s not why I got good grades.\u00a0 Not entirely<\/em> why.<\/p>\n

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My point?<\/p>\n

Oh, I don’t have one. I just wanted to let you know that I remembered that I forgot something.<\/p>\n

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I’ll try to have some sort of point in my next post.<\/p>\n

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**Why I know how to say “I love you” in Turkish is\u00a0 a kind of\u00a0 long story involving my Columbian roommate having a massive crush on a guy from Izmir, a party thrown by a bunch of guys from Venezuela and a really gorgeous guy from Ankara who I fell for hard<\/em> at said party. I think it’s the only time I’ve ever worn a jumpsuit and actually looked good. It’s completely irrelevant to this post. Both the jumpsuit and the story about the Turks and Venezuelans are. Irrelevant. Oh. Well. It’s here now. I guess it can stay.<\/p>\n

The jumpsuit was shimmery copper-colored silk, and my beautiful Columbian friend made me borrow it from her because it would drive the men loco.\u00a0 It kind of did.<\/p>\n

What?<\/p>\n

Right. Still irrelevant.<\/p>\n

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Stopping now!<\/p>\n

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His name was \u00d6mer.<\/p>\n

He seemed pretty relevant at the time.<\/p>\n

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