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| shiningstars Diglot Newbie United States lang-8.com/351461 Joined 4661 days ago 8 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese | Message 1 of 8 17 March 2012 at 6:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi, my name is Annie. I'm 15 years old and from the US. I've been lurking here for a
while and finally decided to introduce myself. I've been interested in languages for most of my life, and my goal is to be proficient in as many languages as possible! Learning languages is really my passion. I seem to be the most interested in Asian and Scandinavian languages, but I love too many to pinpoint which ones I love the most. I pick up languages rather quickly, and I have little to no trouble studying a number at a time (although I am careful not to overwhelm myself and not to dabble too much, haha) I'm taking both French and Spanish in my school (the only ones offered, sadly), and I love them. I started French when I was twelve and Spanish this school year. By the end of my high school career, I will have completed up to French 201 and Spanish level 4 (not sure what that equals in terms of college levels). I also do self study on both of them. I started taking Japanese classes outside of school in September 2010. I love these classes (although it's a difficult language for me) and will continue them until the end of my high school career. Next school year I'll be eligible to take language classes for college credit (this year they offered Greek and Italian) which I am very happy about. :) I also have several other language class options to choose from, including Irish (I am Irish, yay), German, and others. I can tell that I will be a very happy language lover during these next two years before college! I recently started to study Norwegian on my own, and I absolutely love it. I hope to pursue this and I also really want to study Icelandic in years to come. They are both gorgeous languages! There are many languages that I want to learn in my lifetime, and if I listed them all it would be too long. After all, that's what the hit list is for. I can’t see myself doing anything else with my life except study languages. :) Wow, I hope this wasn’t too long. Anyway, nice to meet everyone! 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, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 8 17 March 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Welcome!
This wasn't too long, no :P Shiny hit list. Why do you want to learn Finnish? ♥ 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| shiningstars Diglot Newbie United States lang-8.com/351461 Joined 4661 days ago 8 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese | Message 3 of 8 17 March 2012 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
Oh, good. :) I find it really interesting that Finnish is not like the languages that surround it geographically (save for Sami) and I have several native speakers as friends, so I'd love to learn it! I find it extremely pretty to listen to too. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| freebutterfly Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4679 days ago 16 posts - 16 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Korean | Message 4 of 8 25 March 2012 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Welcome,
you are young too :P So you are learning Japanese at this time?! What do you think about that language?! I've been thinking about learning it lately...! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| shiningstars Diglot Newbie United States lang-8.com/351461 Joined 4661 days ago 8 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese | Message 5 of 8 26 March 2012 at 2:23am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks. :) Yes I am! Umm well for me it's probably one of the most difficult languages; pronouncing it is very simple but the grammar is what is difficult for me... But I really do love it a lot, so it's worth it for me to take some extra time and put more effort into it :) I think it's also useful, if you want to choose your languages that way! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4630 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 6 of 8 26 March 2012 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi,
I am three times older than you :-( My interest in languages also started when I was your age. I wish you the best of luck with your studies. Impressed to see that you are studying my language, Norwegian, and that you love it. May I ask if there is a particular reason why you chose Norwegian rather than any of its close neighbours, Swedish and Danish? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| freebutterfly Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4679 days ago 16 posts - 16 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Korean | Message 7 of 8 26 March 2012 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks! I'll think about it... But, I think I'll start learning it later... Now I'm trying to put more effort in my Korean :P 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| shiningstars Diglot Newbie United States lang-8.com/351461 Joined 4661 days ago 8 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese | Message 8 of 8 27 March 2012 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thank you! There isn't any particular reason, I don't think. I think a big part of it is that I like how Norwegian sounds.
Good luck! Although I found that about as hard as Japanese, which is why I decided to learn it at a later date... (except for the writing which was 100 times easier) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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