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Hi! Kumusta?
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arashikat Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 4668 days ago 53 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Tagalog*, English Studies: Korean Personal Language Map	Message 1 of 4 09 February 2012 at 10:02pm \| IP Logged
	Hello Everyone! My name is Kat, and I'm a newbie here on HTLAL~ I'm an aspiring polyglot, and I joined HTLAL (after lurking for months now) to help me learn languages. I'm really very interested in Asian Languages and Latin! My native language is Filipino (Tagalog), and English is a close second. Though I do remember studying English a couple times a week in school ("change Y to I and add ES! Haha!), I don't remember having to memorize or do anything to master the language. Up to this day, I still don't know how I learned it. Haha! When I moved to America when I was 17, I had no difficulties communicating with anyone, and I entered college right away. Though I do find myself having no difficulties expressing myself in writing or speaking, and my reading comprehension is at least up to par with my peers, there's one thing in English that I can't do: make jokes. I understand jokes, slang, idioms, etc., but I can't make them myself. In Filipino, on the other hand, I'm a jokester. Oh well. Anyway... I'm very excited to finally start learning languages. I remember picking up Spanish and Japanese texts as a child, but was discouraged because I had no other resources and I had no one to share it with (Filipino suburbs are one homogenuous bunch). I'm starting with Esperanto, as I find it more accessible. While studying Esperanto, I'll be working on "Remembering the Kanji" in preparation for my Japanese studies. Looking forward to hearing from you guys, getting valuable feedback, and learning new languages along the way. Have a good one! ^^ Edited by arashikat on 09 February 2012 at 10:02pm 3 persons have voted this message useful
Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5684 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish	Message 2 of 4 10 February 2012 at 7:55pm \| IP Logged
	Welcome to the forum, Kat! I like your learning plan. :) 1 person has voted this message useful
Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish	Message 3 of 4 11 February 2012 at 12:14am \| IP Logged
	Hi and welcome! Kumusta is such a cool word:) 1 person has voted this message useful
arashikat Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 4668 days ago 53 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Tagalog*, English Studies: Korean Personal Language Map	Message 4 of 4 11 February 2012 at 3:15am \| IP Logged
	Thanks, Jinx! Thanks, Serpent! "Kumusta" is actually from the Spanish "Como esta." We just added some Filipino flair in it. Haha! 1 person has voted this message useful

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