Hey everyone. I’m new here, so I thought I’d just pop a note in. You can all call me Luke.
I’m a serious language maniac in that language is basically the most crazy awesome thing I can think of to devote my time to, so many of you probably have a lot in common with me Japanese is my first “love” you could say (though I really don’t know much of it, and what I did know I’ve gotten way rusty on), and from there there’s Spanish, and whatever else I can conjure up to learn.
So, actually, I suppose I’m a bit curious: What were your first languages? What languages do you know/are you currently learning? What languages do you suggest? Not like I plan on packing loads of different languages into my brain at once, but I’m just wondering.
Anyway, I hope to be active here in the future, and I hope you’ll all find my company good
I studied Japanese in highschool, but, as high school language classes go, today I retain almost none of it. Otherwise, my first langauge is Latin. I enjoy reading (or trying to read) Latin, Italian, and Spanish, and these days I’m fighting to bring Greek and Persian up to snuff… someday.
So, actually, I suppose I’m a bit curious: What were your first languages?
I had to content myself with what high school offered — German — until I moved to a city with a large library, at which point Old English and Gothic cemented my language addiction. In college I majored in Classical Chinese (with dabblings in Japanese and Sanskrit), a year of Latin and Greek each, before freaking out and getting out of Texas. When I picked up my college career again I ended up getting a degree in psychology (focus on brain chemistry and rat dispatching). Through convolutions too extended to go into, I ended up working in computing. After working for a few years I picked up a textbook of Homeric Greek and haven’t stopped since.
Japanese is my first “love” you could say (though I really don’t know much of it, and what I did know I’ve gotten way rusty on), and from there there’s Spanish, and whatever else I can conjure up to learn.
