#i'm starting both spanish and japanese in that order priority.
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fairymint · 2 years ago
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He is starting his language studies...! If he 'can't help' some people, maybe he can at least speak to some others...! Time to be stupid in more tongues than one-
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thatonebritishheadmate · 3 months ago
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do list them im curious
Apologies for the late response. Keep in mind once again, these are the languages I spoke back in source. Our body is only fluent in Portuguese and English.
Without further ado, here's every language I've learned, pretty much in chronological order as much as I could:
Every version of English that has ever existed since 1066. Naturally.
Several Celtic languages I picked up from my brothers.
French, which is likely the second language I use most on a daily basis after English. I might've also picked up some older versions simply due to how long I've known him.
Portuguese. I have more of an accent from Portugal when I speak it, since that's who I spent the most time with.
Latin. A lot of my magic has spells in this language, so eventually curiosity brought me to learn the whole thing. (Also because it's a cool sophisticated scholar language to know)
Spanish and Dutch, both from colonial years. Always a good investment to know what your rivals are saying.
Hindi, from when India was part of my territory.
German. I learned it before WWI, right after they'd started making a name for themselves and we became industrial rivals.
Japanese, I feel like it's pretty self-explanatory.
Italian. This one's on the weaker side, I basically just learned as much as needed during WWII, never bothered coming back to it.
Russian, you could say it was in high demand during the Cold War.
Most recently, Danish. The Scandinavian languages in general were always in high demand but low priority for me, and I kept putting it off. I finally came back as a way to sort of connect with my viking roots.
Bonus
Due to my interest in linguistics, I'm sure I must have made at least one conlang during my lifetime, though I couldn't tell you any specifics. Plus, there's several languages I only know a fraction of:
Romanian, I picked up some things from my time with him.
Norwegian and Swedish. Before committing to Danish, part of the reason it took so long was indeciveness; I couldn't pick between the three, so I absorbed only a bit from all of them at the time.
Greek, from my mythology phase. It was the first time I actively tried to learn a language rather than just passively absorbing it, I gave up soon after.
Some Arabic and Turkish from my interactions with the Middle East.
Mandarin and Cantonese, both around the time of the Opium Wars, as one might imagine.
Finally, bits of several languages from the many colonies in Africa and Asia.
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