Re:你最喜欢学习的语言？
Re: Languages you’ve enjoyed the most and/or were intuitive to learn?
转自duome论坛，我发的原帖是英语的。
I started to learn English at the age of 7 like other Chinese kids, but my "learning road" seemed like a bit "short" cuz I blazed through the courses easily and passed the exam of PETS-2 when I was 12. (this level equals Chinese high school graduates' English level.) so I started to realize that I have a good 相性 on English or maybe Germanic languages in general. then I spent my time strengthen my English level and learnt Japanese casually until I studied Japanese "officially" at university. many Japanese learners in China complain about how difficult Japanese was, but I never have that feeling and I passed NSS-4 exam easily when I was a sophomore (which means I could graduate already as some of my teachers told me).
1- I feel like home learning Norwegian Bokmål and Danish at the same time. that's not just because I've been a metalhead for two decades and I enjoy listening to extreme metal bands from Norway and Denmark. why I didn't choose to learn those two languages when I was in high school? because I love animes! well, also because I don't have that chance to learn those languages at university, unless I got higher grades in the College Entrance Examination. my grades of politics and Chinese history are kinda bad and dragged me into the mud of "level 2 universities"... sigh why I have to learn the subjects I won't use in the future or not interested...
2- as a fan of Nordic countries as you can expect, Swedish is my next choice and I love it too. some of my favorite bands who play melodic black metal are also Swedish. they have Swedish lyrics too. and some words and grammar rules are very similar to Norwegian and Danish, so not a problem.
3- Finnish was my next target, no surprise. I have a friend who's also a Finnish learner and he had a hard time learning the "infamous" "case system". I had a little trouble at first, but it makes sense. at least, remembering Finnish words are enjoyable for me.
4- I have no clear idea why I started to learn Dutch when I just graduated from the university. but I wanna know more about the world of "grammatical gender" and get some information about it, in case I could learn a Romance language easier. and some youtubers of retrogaming I love speak Dutch. it's not that hard to learn as I've already learnt English for a decade or so at that point.
5- Indonesia is a good country if talking about brutal death metal music, so I also started to learn Indonesian when I was an English and Japanese teacher. I know many metal bands who love to write lyrics in English, but not the same case of Indonesian brutal death metal bands. they tend to write in bahasa indonesia a lot. I was into Starcraft matches at that time too, and there are tons of matches hosted in bahasa indonesia, so I decided to learn Indonesian. I love this language without tense marker on the verb and the "easiness" is almost at the "Esperanto-level".
6- I heard that Esperanto can be a bridge of learning many languages, so why not? I have to say it surely is easy to blast, sometimes even Toki Pona couldn't compare. Learning Esperanto is like having a rest in the world of language learning.
7- I had a hard time learning Czech. my initial purpose of learning Czech is just playing some video games. these games only released in Czech or Slovak. as I only have Czech version, so I have to learn a bit. I'm not that person who complains and requires other people to translate but rather learn the language. it seems like I have a "lower sense" of Czech language, but I still enjoy it anyway.
8- Haitian Creole, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian are very interesting. nothing beats lexical comparison of language learning for me, but learning these languages are just my 気まぐれ... I'm also curious about French, since Haitian Creole is based on French, I'd better have some knowledge of it. but French grammar is super weird lol.
as for Modern Latin, Turkish, Vietnamese, Yiddish, these are just in my curiosity. I learn them really casually. Korean is no exception, but I watch Korean animes. some of them have no subtitles, so, yeah.
I don't like learning only one or two languages that deeply. I prefer having knowledge of various languages. even though I won't have a chance to get to the level above B1 perhaps. that's why I often complain that I haven't enough time in my limited life.
thanks to Duolingo, I could learn these language easily and have fun.
and maybe thanks to Esperanto so that I could learn many languages without problems by only reading grammar books and looking up dictionaries.
