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Old Mar 06, 2018, 01:53 PM
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English is a weird language because it just seems to have no close relatives, I read that it is considered a Germanic language, yet we also have Latin based words, so I think we steal from other languages, my Dad says English is one of the hardest languages to learn, I don't really believe that maybe because it is my native language, but I feel there are other much harder languages to out there learn. Not saying English is easy for anyone to learn, but it can't be one of the hardest. I chose a hard language to learn, Spanish would probably be an easier language, but I'm hyperfocused on German at the moment, it'll be a challenge though. In my area you can hear music in other languages at some restaurants, like Greek, Mexican, and Middle Eastern music. In high school when I took Spanish my first year taking it the classes (all thd classes, Spanish 1,2,3,4), were offered to go to a concert put on by a guy that goes around to schools singing in Spanish, that was cool, didn't understand really any of it but it was fun. Here in my area you can hear many different languages spoken, but mainly Spanish and Arabic, some Asian languages, and I don't really know what else. But people here in the US are kind of hostile toward people who don't speak English, even though it isn't our "official" language, but it depends on where you are too if you're going to run into hostile people.

Dutch I don't really know anything about, I do follow a cat page on Facebook that is based in The Netherlands, but there is probably vdry little in the way of resources for learning Dutch.

I do have someone in my group therapy who is teaching himself Russian, for me I don't think I could learn a language like Russian due to the alphabet being different and I'm legally blind so seeing the letters may be harder for me, Asian languages and probably Arabic are out of the question for me just due to limited vision and all the symbols (characters, script etc), Greek would be hard for me too because of the alphabet. I can barely distinguish words that have an "r" and an "n" next to each other like say the "burn" from an "m" because to me "rn" looks like an "m", so some languages are almost totally out of the question for me, which is sad.

I don't know, I'm doubting myself on learning a language, I just have to try and make it fun maybe that will help.
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