#Polyglott

[lesemausbuchblog]

Mit Alexander Oetker durch Paris. Der etwas andere Reiseführer… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wenn man das Buch ‚Nice to meet you, Paris!: Auf Entdeckungstour ins Herz der Stadt‘ von Alexander Oetker liest, ist es, als ob man mit ihm direkt durch die Stadt der Liebe flaniert. Das Buch ist wunderbar geschrieben, und man bekommt sofort Lust in die nächste Bahn oder Flugzeug zu steigen um mit ihm Paris zu entdecken. Was Alexander Oetker geschrieben hat bezüglich der Freundlichkeit der Pariser gegenüber Touristen kann ich nur bestätigen. Man fühlt sich sofort wohl und willkommen. Für meinen nächsten Besuch bin ich jedenfalls gut gewappnet und vorbereitet.

Ich hatte ganz große Freude an ‚Nice to meet you, Paris!: Auf Entdeckungstour ins Herz der Stadt‘ von Alexander Oetker und kann das Buch jedem Reisenden sehr ans Herz legen.

[aibhilin-atibeka]

I just saw an ask game :D and I do have a question that I think would be fun for you.

What actually interested you in learning multiple languages in the first place and what draws you to a language that makes you want to learn it?

Oohhhh, now that's a fun one! :D

Well. I learned my first "real true" (no, seriously, honest) foreign language at the age of 9 and I felt absolutely neutral towards it.

Meh, 'twas another subject at school, so what? XD younger!me was not specifically very interested in languages at all. I had the world to explore, after all! What's languages compared to manga? Compared to anime? Compared to books?

Compared to the real world? Darn, no, I sure am not throwing time at something I might never use again at a later date in life, see me go "nope" at languages and "yes" to life experiences.

And then my sister went and learned to fluently speak five languages somehow. It seemed very much like "all of a sudden she can speak five languages" to me. Dammit all, I had to learn at least as many, didn't I?

That - along with my school offering languages as their educational focus - helped. Still wasn't ideal, but I'd gotten that certain nudge into this direction then. And at that point my love for Japan was noticeably not fading, so I got gifted a Japanese language class. And... sort of haven't stopped learning Japanese since. Whoops?

At the same time my school offered French and in a choice between Italian and French? Sure, I'll choose French (the language sounded nicer at that time and the teacher kinder). I can learn Italian later on, once the school offers another language choice two years into the first one, right?

Right?

Wrong. Had to choose between Spanish and computer science, so no Italian for me back then. But Spanish is basically Italian on crack, isn't it? (pls don't dunk on teenage!me, teenage!me was a bit of a teenager back then) They're 1:1 understandable to one another, right? Right?

Also wrong.

But that didn't stop me from starting Italian on my own at university.

And a friend offered to teach a class of Turkish right in-between school and university, so there we went~

And university itself offers language classes too, how could I not check them out and study Hindi for a bit?

... somehow, without even consciously being aware of it, I'd accumulated a starting vocab for about twenty languages before I was twenty (how do I know that exact number at that exact age? I had to do a language autobiography collecting, chronologically listing and presenting all my language studies and some of the knowledge I'd obtained in detail for a class shortly after turning twenty).

By now it's probably stayed *roughly* the same in number (... maybe I added five to ten-ish languages since then? no clue), though I couldn't say whether or not that's simply because of where I live or what opportunities I had or what little time I've had to spend on accumulating more languages since. Life's a busy bee, sometimes, and the life of an author/linguist/leisure-social-media-scroller (tumblr I'm looking at you) feels even busier. Never mind any other engagements I have ended up in so far.

I have an ongoing interest in languages cause I find it fun to be able to communicate with the world in whatever language I can. They're a means to reading, listening and interacting with people and there's wordplay to consider. ;) In short, I find it fun.

To answer your questions:

What actually interested you in learning multiple languages in the first place

I stumbled into them like Winnie the Pooh might stumble into a pot of honey XD there was no definitive moment of "Oh, I'm interested in becoming a polyglot now" - at the point in time that I had that realisation I already was one.

and what draws you to a language that makes you want to learn it?

Depending on the language, I have different motivations for learning them:

Japanese: "stopping now makes just as much sense as a prisoner breaking out might stop in front of the 9th out of 10 walls they'd have to climb", also "I've got manga to read in Japanese just to get all the jokes in them" and "I bought and imported books from Japan that I still have to read"

French: "I still haven't read all of the Arsène Lupin series" and "from time to time the Frenchspeakers release funny movies that I wanna watch in the original language"

Italian: "darn, originally I was in this for the bit but I'm committed to learning it now with whatever means necessary"

Spanish: is "just sort of there" and "Sometimes I find articles and news pages and books I want to read that just so happen to be in Spanish, so why not read them in Spanish, I don't even need a translation"

Korean: "I want to be able to read you at one point, darn it all to hell"

etc. ad infinitum. I didn't even mention all the ones I'm fluent in here, never mind all the ones I started to learn at one point in my life, so yeah.

I love the challenge? I love the way learning languages open up a whole new world view to you as you go along? I adore being able to read yet more books by just learning a language? I love word games?

All of these and more count towards my interest in languages. :D Gotta say, languages rock. Polyglottism ftw.

@stereden cause I can

@a-knight-owls-curse thanks for the interesting ask!

[ivory--raven]

i think I now know a debatably useful remark in four languages

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Tu peux m'aider

[deriangrayve]

To become un Polyglott, eu trebuie sa meistern die art of Trilingualitate zuerst.

[multlingvulo]

English

Day 1 of talking to my parents about being overprotective:

I was telling them about how they wanna follow me to every new thing like I'm a child. I know they mean well, but I told them they actually make me feel underestimated.

They went to a nudist resort with me, and the were visibly not into that; the owners didn't even charge their visit.

The two times I've been to a furcon, they went with me.

They don't let me drive when there's too much traffic.

They don't want me to go to a furry camp without them coming along, yet again.

I think I managed to show them they're like a helicopter over my head 24/7, and I don't feel like an adult. I have my limitations from being autistic, but not only I'm aware of them, I don't put myself in risky situations in the first place: I don't go skinny-dipping alone, I don't drink too much without eating a good meal first, and I don't let strangers approach me when I'm alone.

Besides that, I also worry for my parents: their health and their safety. I want them to worry for me the same amount I worry for them. There needs to be a balance.

I think I made that clear, but time will tell if I got the message through them. Good night.

Français

1ère journée parlant avec mes parents sur être hyper-protecteurs: Je le parlais sur le fait qu'ils vont me suivre à n'importe quel nouveau lieu comme si j'étais un enfant. Je sais bien qu'ils veulent me protéger, mais je leurs ai dit que je me sens sous-estimé.

Ils étaient allés à un club naturiste avec moi, et ils étaient visiblement embarrassés ; les propriétaires ont dit qu'il faudrait pas de payer pour sa visite.

Les deux fois que j'étais allé à une convention furry, ils étaient allés avec moi.

Ils ne me laissent pas conduire lorsqu'il y a de l'embouteillage.

Ils ne veulent pas me laisser aller à une camping furry sans eux venant avec moi encore.

Je crois que j'ai réussi leurs montrer qu'ils sont comme un hélicoptère sus mon cap 24/7, et je me sens pas comme un adulte j'ai des difficultés parce que je suis autiste, but je suis conscient d'elles et je ne me mets pas dans les situations dangereuses premièrement : je ne nage pas nu seul, je ne bois beaucoup sans aver mangé un bon repas, et je ne laisse pas que des gens inconnues m'approche (est-ce que c'est la conjugaison correcte?) lorsque je suis seul.

D'ailleurs, je m'occupe pour mes parents aussi: leur santé et sécurité. Je veux qu'ils s'occupent pour moi la même quantité que je m'occupe pour eux. Il faut avoir un équilibre.

Je crois que j'ai rendu mon message clair. Le temps dira s'ils l'ont entendu. Bonne nuit.

[yoannblogging]

05/04/24 14:38

yoann fait des trucs cursed comme d’habitude

[selfiesforalgernon]

Oh yeah bridge graffiti update, main place got wiped down completely, possibly officials lol so I put up a new Kawaii cyclops and demon hand... then my spot that usually no one goes to got completely done-over.... mixed feelings cause the art is damn good.. I just... really man? It perfectly covers just the area where all my stuff was drawn. Actually met the dude who did it weirdly enough, he rolled up on his bike and was like "like it? I got bored and did it" I said it was badass, deciding to drop the fact that it was over my shit.. he probably pieced together that I was the other motherfucker anyway, no one comes to that section of the bridge and I mean no one.. lol ffs I jerked it and came a couple times there, that's how private it is.. or was I guess now... huaaahh oh well.. good art at least (writing is bad Português por "Hey, it's tired/ I meant to say tiring. I'm tired" in the hand is bad Italian for "fuck off o/ go fuck yourself")

[lesemausbuchblog]

Informative Einblicke in Kunst und Kultur von Florenz ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

'Nice to meet you, Florenz!' von Sandra Maria Gronewald ist ein etwas anderer Reiseführer. Er ist persönlich, denn die Autorin Sandra Gronewald lebte einige Zeit in dieser wunderschönen Stadt. Natürlich ist Florenz bekannt für die herausragende Kunst- und Kulturszene. Dies findet sich in dem Reiseführer wieder. Ebenfalls gibt es tolle Empfehlungen für Restaurants etc.

Zur Vorbereitung der nächsten Florenz-Reise ist 'Nice to meet you, Florenz!' wirklich hilfreich. Ich kann es jedem empfehlen, vor allem, wenn man, wenn man sich für Kunst interessiert.

[avidex]

Dordogne, 3 juillet 2022

Hypolaïs polyglotte à Pombonne

[waldschimmel]

That was quite the list of languages 😄

The way Paul watches Till speak different languages to thank 🤣 Park de Nieuwe Koers, Ostend, 27-06-2024 @ bp_spotting

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Combien de langues parles tu

[restonscalmes]

Nullipare 8e langue

[mybuddyjimmy]

Polyglottal

[myanxietydemonaretootired]

Emily: Do you think you would have notice me if we had gone to the same high school?

JJ: Emily, you were a weird closeted goth polyglotte with a strange addiction to poker and cigarettes. I would have noticed you and not in a good way.