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airenyah · 4 years ago

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HYE WHAT ON EARTH?? HOW MANY LANGUAGES??? DO YOU KNOW??????? IM SO ENVIOUS!!! but GOOD FOR YOU, IM VV HAPPY FOR YOU. BUT WTF

ahahahahahahhahaha thanks anon! :D

tell you what, i actually only feel 100% comfortable speaking in only two (2) out of all them, the two being my native language as well as english, obviously

all in all i would probably say that i know 4 languages in total because with italian, while i can’t have any deep discussions (yet), i do know it on a casual everyday basis and can easily get around in italy without any major problems.

and being fluent in german and english makes learning and understanding norwegian very easy, my only problem with it is that i haven’t really had the chance to practice talking so far... (i think i’d get the hang of it quickly if i’ll get the chance to do so some day, which is why i’m counting with the ones i know)

korean and thai may be on that list but make no mistake - i definitely don’t know them (yet). whenever i hear any of those two languages i may be able to catch a few random words and phrases but it’s definitely not enough to make any sense of what is being said. with these two languages i mainly learned how to read them and took a look at basic grammar such as sentence structure, forming questions or negative sentences,and maybe one or the other tense... (which really doesn’t help when you don’t understand any of the words that are being used 😅)

whoops, this got longer than planned haha

#anyway as you can tell i love languages #i mean i study transcultural communication so there's that lmao #and from the top of my head i can easily list 10+ languages that i'd love to learn some day #anyway english is required at school here so pretty much every (younger) austrian knows at least two languages (somewhat)#and italian.. well....#part of my family is italian #so while i never did grow up bilingual the language has still been around me since i was a baby #the connection to my family is the reason why i'm actively learning it now and am trying to improve #and norwegian was a hobby when i got obsessed with skam #since i know german and english it took only about 2 months of duolingo to be able to understand casual everyday language #especially written norwegian is soooo easy bc so many words look so similar to the german ones #so yeah #languages are fun #anon #ask #Anonymous #also: norwegian bokmål is basically written danish with slight changes which is why i can easily read danish #and spoken swedish sounds very similar to spoken norwegian #so trying to understand swedish takes about the same effort as trying to understand a very obscure german dialect #or in the case of english a very strong accent like idk scottish or something

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