Languages Meme

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Fun meme about language learning stolen from tinny

1st foreign language learned

German. It wasn't official learning but we lived over there when I was a kid so my parents used to buy us picture books and stuff

1st language you self studied

God, this is going to sound really pretentious but it was Latin. I just really wanted to learn it so I bought myself a book when I was about 16. Can't remember any of it now.

Language you wished was your native language

I'm fine with English. It's a stupid language full of stolen shit and I don't envy anyone who had to learn it as a second language



Language you wish you studied more

In the current climate is it bad to say Russian? I took a few after school classes when I was a teen but I found it too difficult and soon gave up. Wish I'd stuck with it

Language you wish wasn't so hard

I'm getting there, slowly, with Chinese but I would probably benefit from a tutor who could explain all the whys of how the language works instead of just learning 'this is how you say X word or phrase'

Language you have officially quit

The only one I'm still actively studying is Chinese, so all the others (apart from English)

Language you wish you could speak every day

I'd love for my Chinese to be good enough that I could have every day conversations. I'm still years away from being at that level

Language that everyone speaks but you never want to try

I don't know there's nothing I NEVER want to try. I love learning languages.

Language everyone speaks and you want to try

Of the languages I've never learned I quite fancy trying Korean. Despite all the k-dramas and k-pop stuff I watch I can count on one hand the number of words I actually know, and I can't read it at all.

Language that makes you nervous

I don't think there are any? I mean the nature of my anxiety means I get nervous if I have to speak in another language to a foreign speaker so that makes me nervous. That's the reason I never took German beyond GCSE level. The spoken exams just made me too anxious.

Language that feels soothing

French. I love the sound of French.

Language that feels like a businessman in a suit

Italian. I don't know why.

Language that feels like grandma's home cooking

Swedish.

Language that feels like a mad scientist’s experiment

I mean...English?

Language you think is overrated

English, but that's because it's everywhere

Language you think is underrated

Welsh. One day I will make an earnest effort to learn it.

Language with the hardest pronunciation

Chinese. Tonal languages are perversely hard.

Language with the easiest pronunciation

German, or possibly Swedish

Language with the easiest grammar

I actually find Chinese pretty logical in terms of grammar, but that may change the deeper into it I get

Language with the hardest grammar

I struggled with German grammar a lot

Language with the best writing system

I'm not sure how you define 'best' really. English is the easiest for me to write because it's my native language

Language with the worst writing system

Chinese *cries*

Your language learning guilty pleasure?

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. You either like something or you don't. There's nothing to feel guilty about.