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finsterbergmade
Diglot
Newbie
Germany
Joined 4316 days ago
1 posts - 1 votes
Speaks: German*, English
Studies: Arabic (Written), Persian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, French, Spanish, Russian

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19 February 2013 at 7:48pm | IP Logged

Hello everybody!
I've been lurking on this forum for a while and think it's time to introduce myself.
I am 20 years old and from Germany. I'm currently learning 11 languages (Arabic, Farsi,
French, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, Icelandic, Russian, Mandarin, Xhosa, Swahili) and
have some others in the pipeline (Turkish, Romanian, Croatian, Welsh, Irish).
I am learning them all more or less at the same time and I'm well aware that this is
ridiculous and stupid and what else not. But I can't help myself...For example, the
most recent language, Icelandic: I had a look at it written down, listened to it - and
fell in love. Something inside me doesn't allow me to postpone all the languages and do
the reasonable: learning one after another. But that is okay with me, since I am not
learning with the thought "I want to go to South Africa and speak Xhosa". It is more a
"I just love to see how all these wonderful languages work, what concepts they have and
get nearer to foreign cultures."

I am doing Linguistics and Islamic Studies. That means I take Arabic and Farsi courses
at university and at the end of this year also Turkish.

Sadly I don't have a talent for learning languages. Neither does it come easy to me nor
difficult. I think my biggest problem is the speaking. My passive knowledge in Spanish
and French is quite okay for example but I can hardly form any sentences. Maybe I'll
find some tipps on this forum to solve that problem. ;)

I'd also like to say that the forum is a very motivating place, it encourages me a lot.
And it is brilliant to see so many languages fanatics.

My member name, by the way, comes from one of my favourite books "Die 13 1/2 Leben des
Käpt'n Blaubär" by Walter Moers. (I recommend it to everybody who wants to read books
in German because it's just great languagewise)

And to end this, I wanted to share this link I just stumbled across
http://www.youtube.com/user/sagsmulti
On the channel are speeches of bilingual children in which the talk in German and their
mother tongue. I'm sure many people here could be interested in it but I don't know
where I should post this, so I just do it on this place - and maybe it was posted
already on this forum.

Glad I found this place! :)

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