An interesting learning process
September 14, 2007I speak and understand Dutch, English, and German (my German is not that good, by the way - I refuse to learn its conjugations). I can understand French if spoken slowly, and can read a bit of it too - I can barely speak it though. On top of that, I have a basic understanding of Latin and ancient Greek. I study English in university now, and it really shows; my English has made huge strides the past two years.
In addition to all this, I decided not too long ago that I wanted to learn an exotic language. Seeing my interest and love for the British isles, it only made sense to pick a language spoken there, and there is of course a variety of options to choose from.
Gaelic. More specifically, Scottish Gaelic - about 100 000 speakers, mostly in Scotland. Today, I made my first, very, very, small baby steps into the language.
It’s going to be an interesting learning process.
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Nice; the sorry thing though is that every language stops being exotic once you master it. :-) By the way, Welsh is definitely the most fascinating language of the Celtic language family. It’s syntax is actually non-Celtic, and that fact probably betrays the fact that the Welsh are originally not Celts but Semitic-speaking Mediterraneans that migrated to the North and ended up in Wales (I wasn’t there at the time, sadly, this happened quite a few centuries ago).
Comment by herman — September 15, 2007 @ 12:14 pm