Are You Learning Any Languages?

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Are you learning any languages? If so, what are they?

Here are mine!

Japanese

I’m learning Japanese mainly at the moment, which I love! It’s so much fun and the pronunciation is super easy. The only struggle is Kanji. But one day I will complete my JLPT N1 and I can’t wait!

I mainly use WaniKani for help with kanji:

I love Japanese and being an intermediate has helped me to get jobs in the past, which is great!

French

I’m always learning French. All of the French people I met (excluding @SenchaStories) correct me so much when I try that I kinda get shy and don’t speak to any actual French people. That is, until you get a few drinks into me. Then I’m suddenly fluent.

Slovak

My flatmate is from Slovakia and so she teaches me odd words here and there. It’s a fun language, but it’s so hard to learn for so many different reasons! For one, the grammar :sob: But I could get over that if I just had actual learning resources! They’re really hard to find. I can’t even get this tongue twister with no vowels right. Apparently, I keep saying something like “finger…neck…through”, which doesn’t sound right to me!

Plus my accent makes me sound really cute, apparently. But I’ve met a lot of Slovak people and they say my accent is perfect when I sing this song. And I know all the words. Would you know? Music turns me Slovak :joy:

Other

I tried to learn Korean but I can’t hear the differences between some of the sounds and that really annoys me.

I’m determined to pick up a little Mandarin one day. It seems super useful.

I sometimes play around with Czech on Duolingo, but there’s this weird Czech sound that sounds like a mix between an R nd a J and I can’t do it. Slovak doesn’t have that, so Slovak pronunciation is easier for me.

My step mum is from Hungary, but I only know “czia” and “nem”.

I think, one day, I’d also like to learn Russian. But at the moment, I know too many different writing systems and it’s already confusing me. Hiragana. Katakana. Kanji. English/Romaji. Gujarati. Hindi.

What about you? Are you learning any languages? What’s it like?

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I learned Sanskrit. Not just what’s taught in school but even other than that. But then its been years so i forgot most of it. I can’t speak or write it now but I can still make sense of it.

I also want to learn French and i even almost joined the classes but then i had a mind change and went with swimming classes instead.

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French is a fun language! I still struggle with it even though I’ve been learning for 12 years now :sob: but it’s so rewarding! I’m a pretentious ass and learning French allowed me to watch old French films from when France was the centre of the film world without subtitles.

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That’s why I wanna learn it! :sob: But I was focusing on improving my English first. And I think I know English enough to learn a new language now but it seems like the universe is conspiring against me!

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Sanskrit seems so hard! They tried to teach me in Gujarati class, but it seems like hell. What made you wanna learn?

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We had it in school for two years and I found it interesting. And it was one of the subjects i was really good at in school.

And i find that I love doing things i am good at. :joy:

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I don’t blame you tbh. It’s not really used much now, though! Did you mostly do religious stuff?

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Yes! I mean, I don’t believe in any religion but I still love reading religious texts and my grandmother had a lot of them when I was young. I don’t know where all of those are now though.

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Japanese.
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3 different types ack.

At least I can understand some parts of my anime.

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I’m learning French, too because I just moved to France and need it. Feel you on being shy until a few drinks in. Luckily wine is much cheaper her than the US and it’s more socially acceptable to start drinking at lunch!

Might start a French thread because I need all the help I can get and it’s less intimidating to speak to other learners too :slight_smile:

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That’s probably one of the best things about France, in my opinion! That and the amazing food!

That sounds like a good idea to me! I’d love to join in!

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I had to reopen this because:

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I’ve added a languages tag

Also I have a French GCSE :joy:

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I’m supposed to be learning Spanish and Korean, I just started learning French too.

But I haven’t gone on Duolingo in a while.

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Bump

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I’m learning French and English :eyes::sparkles:
I want to learn Italian in the future, so I can finally understand what the Italians are saying when I’m in Italy :eyes::sparkles::smiley_cat:

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Chinese.

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Italian sounds like such a cool language! I used to be great at French, but I haven’t spoken it really since I was 16, which was centuries ago! But @Kimballet speaks French! She has a thread where you can speak French!

@SenchaStories is never online (the turd) but she’s half French, too!

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