Curious what other languages are represented here. Are you learning a new language? Is anyone here learning any endangered languages?
I know a little bit of German, I studied it for like 6 straight years but never really got to a conversational point with it. I study Anglo-Saxon, though. It’s a fascinating language.
Is Anglo-Saxon just Old English?
more or less, it’s the root of what became English. There are a lot of words with direct overlaps, like house, wife, or hound, but have different spellings and pronunciations. But then there are a lot of words that are completely foreign to English speakers, like Beornwiga (a warrior hero), Fefitehwearf (to my understanding, a group of people on foot), or Eaxlgestealla (like “comrade”).
smdh am I the only toki pona speaker here?
Also English, good amount of Spanish, and baby-level mandarin.
mi ike, taso mi toki lili toki pona
mi ken sona e toki sina, sina pona.
why speak this toki pono which is just umpa this umpa that when the language of the gods, Esperanto, is just right there and can be downloaded straight into your brain
Aside from that same lol
Esperanto isn’t as universal as it seems in comparison with toki pona; which should be embraced as the new lingua franca of the world, in my opinion.
toki pono or whatever it is show me the bibliography (also ew esperantist)
Lol im quoting a copypasta I speak toki pona
Portuguese and english(obviously), learning mandarin and russian. Hope to begin learning spanish at some point.
Portuguese, English, basic Spanish and French. Learning Russian rn. I must admit I’d love to learn Welsh.
(Mandarin) Chinese, decently enough, and English. Having to relearn chinese was a fun (sarcasm) experience, but we’re pretty much there
I’m bilingual in German and French since I have family on both sides of the border and I’m mostly okay at English. I’d love to learn Mandarin one day but I feel like I’m too much of an idiot to get anywhere with that, really
Honestly I’ve just started on Mandarin a couple months ago and the basics really aren’t that bad. The tones are kinda difficult to grasp for me but I dunno reading-wise I’m finding it easier than German was to learn as a second language from English, which should have been a cakewalk. I’ll probably never be completely fluent or have a huge vocabulary but it turns out the majority of communication only uses a relatively small subset of characters anyway. I’d highly recommend giving it a shot, you may be surprised.
That’s really interesting! Thank you for the encouragement!
Well, “relatively small” being about 2k for causal speech and texting, and 3~5k for texts, depending on the type of literature. Luckily most Chinese characters are phono-semantic, meaning one side gives a pronunciation hint whilst the other gives a meaning hint.
Yeah it’s not nothing, but it’s way more manageable than a lot of people might think coming into it, myself included
I hope to learn Native Hawaiian someday
Hell yes
Native French, fluent in English aaaand that’s all folks French people are generally so trash at foreign languages that just one of them (and the most spoken in the west) makes me look incredibly proficient
Trying to self-learn mandarin also but I’m still really far from basic understanding
I’m fluent in the universal language… love ♥♥♥
Just English unfortunately. I can understand a little bit of spanish and a few words of Russian, but I’m a stupid American.
Stupid Brit who only speaks English here too.
I’m wanting to learn Arabic for personal reasons but my God each time I’ve tried self teaching my brain just fucking stops working.
I’m learning Korean in the hopes that my fascist government (I live in Amerikkka) will one day let me visit the DPRK.
you can visit the DPRK, the US government just advises US citizens against going and claims the only way to go is to do a guided tour. But you can do unguided stuff too. With Covid restrictions it’s a lot harder to get in, but before the restrictions nothing really restricted a tourist from just showing up.
That’s a good choice. I would love to be able to read official documents in Korean to better understand the DPRK and Juche.
Russian (native), English. Knew some Spanish but forgot most of it due to anglo dominance in media, it just wasn’t that useful for me unfortunately. Going to try and learn Mandarin too, at least enough to read and understand some basic stuff.
Also a little fun fact, my Spanish teacher in the university used to be a soviet diplomat on Cuba back in the day, he was old as fuck but on point with the knowledge. Later I had a native cuban teacher too, and to this day I think they pronounce shit much more clearly than people from Spain, at least I can understand them much easier.
That’s really damn cool. Cuban Spanish is so beautiful IMO.
English, Russian, and Swahili. I’m trying to learn Spanish right now. I guess I can say I know quite a large amount of American Sign Language too if that counts.
It definitely counts!
