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I am refreshing this thread because I love it and do not want to start a new one and, also, because I cannot find the one in which Matata and I discuss our language studies. I like that one as well as this one because in that one she describes studying a language every time she and her husband travel, which I find amazing.
For a while I used to spend some time every day on a site called Duolingo studying four languages to which i had already been introduced: French, Spanish, Italian, and German. After a while I just stopped studying at all. Recently, out of a feeling of lack of purpose I decided just to study French, my best language. I got up to a fairly high level just by putting in time. (Duolingo requires that one put in time; it doesn't simply measure one's proficiency.)
After a while I got bored and noticed that someone who had taken my interest (one can "follow" others) was at Level 9 of Czech. I read about Czech and decided to study it since Slovak, my mother's family's language, was not available. At first it had me in gales of laughter. I absolutely could not relate to it at all. Its being a Slavic language made it totally unlike the Romance languages with which I was familiar and was not at all like any German I remembered, either. (And I do not have the benefit of having studied Greek or Latin.) I couldn't tell any of the words from each other and just stumbled, making an error every time I answered any question. I actually thought I would never learn it. Then I noticed that "Goodnight" in Czech was like "Goodnight" in Slovak which I had said to my great grandmother as a child. And I started to see variations of "good" everywhere although it changed slightly depending on the gender. I have really been enjoying it.
Language study has been a big part of my day for several weeks now, so i though I'd ask people here to tell me if they are currently studying or using any of their non-native languages. I know, for example, that kipari is living in France. I may be wrong, but I do not believe that French is her native tongue. I'd also just welcome more information on who speaks different languages. This topic fascinates me and I know how many talented linguists (actually polyglots) we have on Pricescope.
Does anyone feel like refreshing his or her information?
Deb/AGBF
For a while I used to spend some time every day on a site called Duolingo studying four languages to which i had already been introduced: French, Spanish, Italian, and German. After a while I just stopped studying at all. Recently, out of a feeling of lack of purpose I decided just to study French, my best language. I got up to a fairly high level just by putting in time. (Duolingo requires that one put in time; it doesn't simply measure one's proficiency.)
After a while I got bored and noticed that someone who had taken my interest (one can "follow" others) was at Level 9 of Czech. I read about Czech and decided to study it since Slovak, my mother's family's language, was not available. At first it had me in gales of laughter. I absolutely could not relate to it at all. Its being a Slavic language made it totally unlike the Romance languages with which I was familiar and was not at all like any German I remembered, either. (And I do not have the benefit of having studied Greek or Latin.) I couldn't tell any of the words from each other and just stumbled, making an error every time I answered any question. I actually thought I would never learn it. Then I noticed that "Goodnight" in Czech was like "Goodnight" in Slovak which I had said to my great grandmother as a child. And I started to see variations of "good" everywhere although it changed slightly depending on the gender. I have really been enjoying it.
Language study has been a big part of my day for several weeks now, so i though I'd ask people here to tell me if they are currently studying or using any of their non-native languages. I know, for example, that kipari is living in France. I may be wrong, but I do not believe that French is her native tongue. I'd also just welcome more information on who speaks different languages. This topic fascinates me and I know how many talented linguists (actually polyglots) we have on Pricescope.
Does anyone feel like refreshing his or her information?
Deb/AGBF
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