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What languages are you currently learning? (sh.itjust.works)
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What languages are you currently learning?

What languages do you speak already?

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[–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Right now I'm focused mainly on Japanese. Have a decent understanding of Spanish, and I'm sure I'll add more someday. Right now trying to feel proficient with these.

It's funny how much of a contrast it is. Going from one that has most words based off the same roots as English, to another that shares so little etymology and uses totally different writing systems.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm struggling enough with German, and they're in the same language family. I honestly cannot imagine trying to learn a language that shared literally no roots or similarities.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    It can be really overwhelming!

    Even tho they don't share historic lineage, there are thankfully quite a few loan words. There's a whole set of characters (katakana) for foreign words, and most of those words are just the English word in a Japanese accent. So there's some reprieve.

    But yeah, reading or watching native materials, there are so many very specific words in Spanish that I get to understand just for free. It kinda spoils a person.

    German is another language I'm interested in (mainly because I perceive it to be pretty close to English), and even then I've heard the grammar can get tricky. And I know having gender the nouns will be confounding.

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