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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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[–] Fawkes@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.