Woahh… I see. Weird, can’t see how it would be advantageous to have few multilingual people anywhere… Haha, I can tell that’s not you though!
Thanks a lot! Yes, I love to reach that point in language learning where we can learn vocabulary by consuming native content instead of sticking to memorizing flashcards, etc. Oh Southern definitely. Idk what North Korean sounds like and I bet it wouldn’t be so easy to even have access to study materials.
Jumping into this convo lol, I don’t have too much experience in Korean but as far as I know, there’s only some differences in dialect/accent. I saw a video from a North Korean defector who said that the drama Crash Landing On You had pretty realistic way of speaking, if you want to compare.
but, at least every country should have bilingual education instead of extreme propaganda of native language. we have to admit English is very global.
as for myself, learning languages is more than a habit. I don’t really learn the language in order to use, I just wanna learn, it’s my strange hobby haha. it’ll strike the thinking method of iron as I consider, to avoid blind nationalism or something “boring” as I mentioned above a key to the internationalism indeed.
oh, I see. there’s actually Korean ethnic group in China and it exactly locates in northeastern China which is the place I live now. their language is nearly the same as northern Korean and basically intelligible with southern Korean. there are even many primary schools whose main language is northern Korean in Changchun. and Han, the main ethnic group in China, children are even able to learn it if they want, as I was told by one of my cousin’s husband. he’s a member of the Korean ethnic group.
btw, I’ve never used a flashcard to memorize the words before. I just review by writing the words and pronounce them loud at most three times. then I use softwares or websites like typespeed, 10fastfingers to “use” and train my typing speed at the same time since they all support the languages I learn. when you reach the specific amount of vocabulary, e.g. 1000, try to play some games like Hangman, Word Scramble, Crossword, etc.
I also DIYed this board game by writing letters of different languages on blank flashcards and usually play it by myself. also a great way to review.
German and English. Could have learned French and Arabic from my father, but younger me was stupid and too lazy to practice those with my dad. Now I really regret it, my adult brain just really isn’t made for learning new languages, meh.
Finnish, English and some Japanese ( I can have basic conversations and understand what is said to me, I can read some of it but I still sometimes struggle mainly with kanji ). Also just a tiny bit of Swedish. I studied basic German years ago but have already forgotten everything…
I speak German fluently and my English is pretty good too. I have to learn French in school but now after four years I still can only count to twelve xD
I’m really interested in learning Japanese though
I speak English and French mainly, and have been learning Korean for a while because I thought it looked and sounded awesome
I remember trying to learn Swedish once but yeah that didn’t go anywhere. I also learnt the Cyrillic alphabet then quickly forgot it because I never used it whoops.
Maybe I’ll give Japanese a try in future.
If you are interested in some mutual learning sessions, I am currently trying to learn Russian since it is a shame that I don’t already speak it with both of my parents speaking it :’)
My native language is German, I learned English and slept through French classes in school
My native langage is Bulgarian and I speak English well.
I learned some German from one of my friends, but I suck at the grammar. I have two cousins who are born and live in Czech, but I felt bad when I was younger becouse we only spoke Bulgarian, so I learned some Czech but I’m struggling with grammar, so I have to work on It
Native Hungarian speaker here, fluent in English, mediocre-to-bad in Spanish (I did an intermediate language exam ages ago but never rly spoke/practiced after that), and can understand a little bit of German and Japanese. Also learnt Irish for two semesters but that was more for fun than serious language learning, forgot all of it by now.