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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.
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.
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.