General Discussion

hey a language thread! we should totally have one!!
i totally know what you mean by the mental exhaustion. for me studying my languages can be really addicting and so the drained feeling feels impeding, but i take it to mean that my time has been well spent.

i've been self-studying Japanese off and on for some years and i'm somewhere intermediate, and i more recently picked up Finnish after years of interest over it so i'm still very new to that. anyone else here know/are learning/interested in either of these languages?

I would totally be down for having a language thread too.. I am trying to pursue learning my first second language.. and it's exhausting. I just have no idea how people can do it! It really is amazing.. I think it would help my motivation if I had a small group to talk about it with though!

Share ideas and suggestions on how to do it.
@stormspecter

@PixelSpiral Mi estas ne studento la Esperanto... Mi lernon malgrande. Ne komprenon. I really hope I worded that right off memory.

I wanted to learn Maori when I was in New Zealand briefly; got signed up for the course and everything, but unfortunately fell through and had to go back to Australia. I do have a very, very choppy understanding of Japanese, but nowhere near enough to form a sentence. Pretty much just a straight up English speaker here, unless trying to dabble in making my own conglang as a teenager got me anywhere.

I finished my required years of french, thank god lol. My teachers were good, but one was kinda bad at teaching (but really fun) and the other was kinda scary. The latter turned out to be ok though, she brought her lizard to school lol

I kinda want to learn arabic, but i only know like 2 sentences. oops

I took German in high school and remember some of it. I still want to go visit Germany eventually.

I was otherwise teaching myself Serbian with Memrise, which worked pretty well, although the app is limited in ways it can teach me, and learning got harder since all I was doing was memorizing without really using what I was learning. If I practiced it verbally it might have been easier.

I've also been learning coding languages the last few months but that's a different ball of wax lmao

[quote name="BlackStatic" date="2018-06-18 12:15:57" ] @ PixelSpiral Mi estas ne studento la Esperanto... Mi lernon malgrande. Ne komprenon. I really hope I worded that right off memory. [/quote] ooh i know enough esperanto apparently to understand what you said. had to read slowly though

After having spent two semesters trying out French and Spanish on a college level, I can understand the burnout after a while. Though at the same time I really want to get back into the french book that's still laying around since language books cannot be returned for some reason.

I take Japanese as a class and it's so fun but it's a lot to take in sometimes! Independently I study German and a little Ukrainian and they're a lot of fun and hard work too! Languages are so cool.

I have an intermediate level of understanding of Russian because of my family, but I took 2 semesters of German which was neat but it drained me too lol. I'd like to pick it up again eventually though because I forgot most of it now