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Ennui wrote (edited )

I guess I speak influent German now. Used to be, I didn’t want to learn a foreign language because it was so difficult. Now I want to learn them all so that I can read philosophical literature at its best.

Order of operations for the future is German, then French and/or Spanish, then probably non-Western languages depending on what philosophy I’m interested in. I’m honestly scared of Romance languages after seeing how easy German is for an English speaker to learn.

Edit: A word.

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masque wrote

What do you mean by "love languages"?

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Ennui wrote

I confused the terms love language and Romance language—whoops. In case you still don’t know, Romance languages are those derived from a Latin base, Spanish, French, and Italian among them.

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masque wrote (edited )

I'm well aware of the Romance languages, having studied Latin.

EDIT: Also, don't be scared of them. French, in particular, is arguably easier than German for an English speaker to learn, due to English having a very large amount of borrowed French vocabulary (plus the grammar is more similar in many ways; no weird declension, weird V2 word order, etc. like in German).

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Ennui wrote

I like fucked up word order...

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masque wrote (edited )

If you want really fun word order, you should pick a non-indo-european language like, say, Hawaiian (which is VSO), or maybe a highly inflected language like Latin where word order is kinda optional.

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