Realization that I am studying so many languages. ^__^ Languages are probably my favorite subjects in school. I also feel that being multi-lingual is a very important skill to have, one that a lot of people in the United States just don't seem to have.. D: Languages are like keys. When you first learn to communicate with your mother as a baby, it opens up a sort of door that allows you to communicate with the rest of the family. As you go through the stages of picking up your first language, it opens a door to a room filled with even more people that it's now possible to communicate with. Each new language you pick up is like that: another open door to another whole new group people to meet. And that fascinates me. Perhaps I should look into linguistics and foreign language more in college? But Psychology is really fun also. haha Who knows where I ultimately end up at.. It will be fun to find out. Curious? Here's a list of the languages I'm studying:
-Filipino/Tagalog (First Language)
-English/Engrish (Second Language xD)
-漢語 (Mandarin)
-한국어 (Korean)
-福建話 (Common Chinese Dialect spoken in the Philippines, mutually intelligible with Taiwanese)
-廣東話 (Cantonese)
-日本語 (Japanese, still in the basics)
-French (Still only know a few words but I've started)
These are the languages I will start eventually:
-Italian (always been fascinated by this one)
-German (sounds easy)
-Spanish (only coz a lot of people in the US speak it)
-Vietnamese (the next difficult one after Korean and Japanese)
-Thai, Cambodian, Lao (don't even know where to begin with these.. but it's a dream I'll go for)
-Malay (the roots of the Filipino language)
I wish i could just instantly speak them all..
It's not that I don't _want_ to be multi-lingual... it just seems to be a new idea that English doesn't rule the world (blah). :P If I had a superpower, it would be to instantly be able to speak languages. :)
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