On Monday we had a very interesting lesson called "Language and identity" with Karen Aarøe that was quite a big change for us, but in a good way:-) After the introduction of ourselves we were given an ampty shape of human body and our task was to create own language portraits, it means to express our feelings about various languages with lots of crayons:) 
First I was like..Å min Gud!..because I wasn't sure what to do exactly, but then I just started to think about all the languages I know or I have ever heard and how do I feel when I speak them or listen to them and used the colours that I like and don't like so much to express my attitude towards these languages. So this is the result:-) :
- Czech (green): my mother tongue that will always be the language I will know most of all, that is the reason why I used the green colour, because I imagine safeness connected with this colour and I feel very safe and sure with myself when I use my mother tongue.
- English (red): almost half of my picture is red, because I use English very often, especially now..:) And I put this colour also around my heart, because I love travelling and when I travel I speak English, so it is very close to my heart. And red is very live colour and wild, therefore I used it with English, because being abroad is always exciting!:-)
- German (black): I draw German almost into the bottom of me, because I used to learn it from kindergarten till my 18years and since that time I refuse to speak German, because I really don't like how it sounds and also the history has probably a lot to do with that. On the other hand I know very nice people from Germany and I have a friend from Hamburg and I am gonna visit her these months:) I only have some "block" with the language, not with the people from Germany:)
- Icelandic (yellow): I was working for two last summers in the north of Iceland, that is why I have yellow in my hands. Yellow is a very positive colour for me and Icelandic people are the same, I have never met so positive and so much open people before, they are just great and very nice people, nothing is problem in Iceland:-)
- Spanish (orange-yelow-red): I really like Spanish, I used to attended some courses so I can speak a little bit and I understand a little bit. Spanish language sounds so nice and easy-going like the people from the South so therefore the Sun above me and I also used this colour for my body, because for a longer time I have a very strong feeling that I need sun, lots of sun and I need to go to the south:-) (Maybe because of two summers spent near the Polar circle and now Denmark..:)
- Polish (purple): I draw dimples on my face with this colour, because when I hear Polish language it sounds very nice and somehow funny, but in a good way:) I also studied Polish for 1 term at uni and we had lots of fun there, because it is similar to Czech in a special way:) I can't explain well why this colour, I don't know exactly, I just grabbed purple crayon and that's it.
- Latin (violet): I used to learn Latin at grammar school and I liked it. It is above my legs, because it is a long time ago.
- Vietnamese (light blue): We have lots of Vietnamese people (selling their clothes in lots of shops) in my hometown and they are very close people and the language is somehow cut into syllables and separated, there is no bound for me when I hear it so it sounds cold for me->light blue is cold colour for me.
- Danish (dark blue): Dark blue is warmer than light blue, that is because I have met nice people here so far, but the language is very far away from my language and I have problems with pronounciation that is why I draw a spiral into my neck. When I see some Danish word, I can hardly estimate how it is pronounced..:) But except for pronounciation Danish doesn't seem to me as the 2nd most difficult language in the world..but I am not a specialist and I know only a little bit now, so I will see later:-)
Then we were supposed to write "Colour poem with the language portrait": Line 1- one word (a thou´ght, an object..) Line 2- two words (a person or an object that has the colour) Line 3- three words (where and how is the word from 1) Line 4- Four words( What do you think?) Line 5- one concluding word.
So here is my poem: yelloworange
the Sun
warmth is everywhere
I like the sunny places
South
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