Thread:Zeldakasumi/@comment-118.172.180.23-20160415171812/@comment-7888499-20160521210550

Glad you like the name (^-^ ) Let me know if you encounter an Okabe in one of those holes, BlackholeSpelunker. ~_^  -Do you want the “merry” in there?-

Yup, just going to be working on here when I can handle it and when it is fun for me. \(^_^)/  Thanks for the words of encouragement. :)

I know English and Dutch. I’m learning Japanese and (mostly classic) Latin. Once I’m done with my current Latin course, I’m planning on learning Spanish, but I might take some time to learn the International Phonetic Alphabet(IPA) first. I’ve had some language science in uni, but I never really got comfortable with reading the IPA. Some people say that a good familiarity with it really helps you with pronunciation and listening skills when learning new languages, though, because your ears and your mouth are already familiar with the sounds from the IPA.

I tend to have trouble losing my accent in vowels. -Y’know, how English is a consonant-based language. We technically have about 20 vowel sounds, but when speaking, compared to the written word, we tend to swallow a lot of our vowels or even add extra ones into a word without paying much attention to them. As long as the consonants are all there you can still understand the word much of the time…- A language like Dutch has distinctive vowel combinations(diphthongs) that aren’t (common) in English, e.g. “ui”, “au”, “ou”, “eeu”, and more. It also has long vowels, “a” and “aa”, etc., a little similar to Japanese. Those things tend to trip me up the most, but there are also plenty of consonant sounds around the world that I’d like to master. :)

I’ve been wanting to learn Japanese ever since I was little and learned in a game that the world’s first novel was arguably written in Japan, so though I want to speak it too, most of my motivation for learning Japanese is to enjoy their media -even though I’m not so keen on reading The Tale of Genji now that I’m older and know what it’s about-. I’ve moved to an area where Spanish is helpful in business, though, so I want to be able to speak that well. Other than that, I’ve actually got a long list of languages I want to learn. I’ve come to really love language learning, since I learned a lot of what learning practices work for me while learning Dutch -That sentence has the word "learning" in it way too many times, lol-. I think I’ll probably keep learning new ones for the rest of my life. I want to learn the major European, Afroasiatic, and Asian ones, but I also want to learn some smaller ones, like a Native American language.

How about you?