Obviously this is a pretty international forum, and a comrade asked before which languages we speak, but which languages are you working on? Which ones do you aspire to learn someday even if you aren’t learning it now? I’m a Yank so I know English and took about 5 years of Spanish in HS, I was in the advanced classes, but it was years ago so I can understand Spanish, but I can’t speak it really. I’m learning Russian now because I’ve sorta been learning it informally my whole life, my grandma being born in early 30s rural Belarus meant she always wanted to pass that on to me, she spoke an Eastern dialect of Polish but knew Belarussian and spoke fluent Russian. I just knew basic basic Russian as a kid like Принесите Пожалуйста and Спасибо mixed with other phrases that were very local to her. In the past 2-3 years I decided to officially learn Russian bc the rest of my family is very American (I don’t blame them, that’s where we live and consume the vast vast majority of our entertainment/content from) the Irish side of my family doesn’t give a shit about the history of Ireland nor do any of them speak any word of Gaelic Irish, so at least by learning Russian I can communicate to a few cousins from the old country and my grandma. Realistically speaking Spanish would be most useful to me, being in the US, but if I finish learning Russian I wanna learn Arabic. I want to learn Chinese but goddamn thats one of the toughest ones to learn. I feel like Arabic would be cool to learn. What are yall thinking?

  • alunyanneгs 🏳️‍⚧️♀️
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    nihongo, hanyu (simplified)

    interested in learning russian and a bit of arabic too i guess

    and wondering if i should learn espanol or portuguez (probably espanol, since way more people seem to use it dare i say it’s the next english in terms of european languages over portuguez)

    although sometimes i wonder if i really should even bother trying to learn (multiple) languages if they won’t be of any/much use for me and google translate/deepl is right around the corner… but then again, being able to speak/write in that language and understanding it by yourself sounds more fun than having to rely on translators all the time

    • ButtigiegMineralMapOP
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      DM me if you wanna correspond in Russian a bit, Id love to learn apart from Duolingo and Mango languages with a real person if you are interested

      • alunyanneгs 🏳️‍⚧️♀️
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        Thanks! Though right now I’m extremely basic at Russian. As in, I can only read Cyrillic Letters (most of it anyway), and only know how to greet and say goodbye in it; so I don’t really know how helpful I’ll be haha.

        • ButtigiegMineralMapOP
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          If you keep at it I’m sure you’ll get there eventually comrade! Congrats on your endeavor, much love