Wow, that is great! I recommend continuing, and same with the Swtich games! Do you think that it helped you at all to play it in German? I definitely want it to be my third language so I could start playing the game in that language too! Is there any other language that calls your attention more?
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NacklesK
It did make me learn new words at the time buy since it's been almost a year already, I kinda forgot all that. Especially since I did only once.
As for the language that grabs my attention a bit, I'm also trying to learn Fusha Arabic which is the "true" Arabic dialect, basically of you didn't know Arabic has a lot of different dialects that varies through countries on sometimes even cities and I only know the Algerian Darija dialect. I know how to read, write and understand about 25% of Fusha Arabic if I'm being generous.
I'd also want to learn languages in the future, I'm thinking Spanish or Italian, heck I may even go with Japnese or Chinese. Though, Italian and Spanish will probably be much easier since French is my first language. Spanish would definitely be an interesting one since it's not only Latin based but has a lot of Arabic words in it too, it's not even subtle about it, a lot of words are nearly identical.
As for the language that grabs my attention a bit, I'm also trying to learn Fusha Arabic which is the "true" Arabic dialect, basically of you didn't know Arabic has a lot of different dialects that varies through countries on sometimes even cities and I only know the Algerian Darija dialect. I know how to read, write and understand about 25% of Fusha Arabic if I'm being generous.
I'd also want to learn languages in the future, I'm thinking Spanish or Italian, heck I may even go with Japnese or Chinese. Though, Italian and Spanish will probably be much easier since French is my first language. Spanish would definitely be an interesting one since it's not only Latin based but has a lot of Arabic words in it too, it's not even subtle about it, a lot of words are nearly identical.
GreenToxic
Wow, I am super into languages and I had no idea you are too! I do not know a whole lot about the different Arabic dialects but I do know that they can be not mutually intelligible depending on which ones you compare, if I were to learn Arabic it would be Modern Standard Arabic but of course it's not like people grow up speaking that. You have family who are Arabic speaking?
I only speak English and Spanish and I of course recommend Spanish greatly, more than anything else, because of the Latin and Arabic roots and because so many places speak it and opens doors to such an incredible world of culture and being able to understand other Romance languages!
I only speak English and Spanish and I of course recommend Spanish greatly, more than anything else, because of the Latin and Arabic roots and because so many places speak it and opens doors to such an incredible world of culture and being able to understand other Romance languages!
NacklesK
I'm really into languages too, it's always interesting to see the roots of languages and how they compare to each other. Almost my whole family speaks Arabic due to us being Algerians (I literally came back from a vacation in Algeria today lol), that's why I know the Algerian dialect. Also to clarify, when I was talking about "Fusha" Arabic, that's a synonym for Modern Standard Arabic, I just wasn't sure how they call it in English. And yes, not all dialects are 100% mutually intelligible but people in Arab countries are supposed to all know Modern Standard Arabic, but they don't use it on a day-to-day basis as you said, it's mostly used in official, religious or more international contexts. If you happen to one day learn Arabic, I definitely recommend going with the Modern Standard dialect as you said.
Spanish definitely peaks my interest, especially since I go to summer vacation to Spain quite often, and the language itself does sound pretty great.
Spanish definitely peaks my interest, especially since I go to summer vacation to Spain quite often, and the language itself does sound pretty great.
GreenToxic
Ah, I had no idea that it is called Fusha, I had known previously that the standard Mandarin Chinese is also called Putonghua but it makes sense that MSA has of course its actual name like that. I would obviously learn Hochdeutsch if I started learning German, and Putonghua if I learned Mandarin, but it is even cooler to learn about the different varieties of different languages! I just have a more generic American accent in English, and a more generic Latin American one in Spanish. You have Arabic speaking friends from other places?
NacklesK
I totally agree with the variety or dialects thing! I also really like learning about different dialects and accents. I learnt English by watching videos on YouTube about the topic I liked, said videos could be made by people with a lot different accents and vocabulary, meaning my accent sounds pretty mixed. Is it a good thing? I don't know but it's neat I guess...
There's a generic Latin American Spanish ? Do all countries have a different accent and then they have a "Global accent" or is it just Spanish Spain accent and Latin American accent ? Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you said...
I do have friends that come from other Arabic speaking (specifically Morocco and Tunisia) countries but they mostly talk French since I live in France. Though, I was sometimes exposed such as cousins that come from other cities in Algeria because its such a big country (the biggest in Africa), even cities have completely different accents. I also have been exposed to the Egyptian dialect since they kinda are the reference when it comes to Arabic shows. Some dialects are mutually understandable, other aren't but usually someone native to an Arab country could still understand most dialects even if they are not alike.
... yeah, I'm really passionate about the Arabic language lol.
There's a generic Latin American Spanish ? Do all countries have a different accent and then they have a "Global accent" or is it just Spanish Spain accent and Latin American accent ? Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you said...
I do have friends that come from other Arabic speaking (specifically Morocco and Tunisia) countries but they mostly talk French since I live in France. Though, I was sometimes exposed such as cousins that come from other cities in Algeria because its such a big country (the biggest in Africa), even cities have completely different accents. I also have been exposed to the Egyptian dialect since they kinda are the reference when it comes to Arabic shows. Some dialects are mutually understandable, other aren't but usually someone native to an Arab country could still understand most dialects even if they are not alike.
... yeah, I'm really passionate about the Arabic language lol.
I should consider giving it an other shot because the German teacher they gave us this year doesn't teach very well unfortunately, I genuinely feel worse at the language than I was last year and I'm scared of losing the progress I made in middle school. At this point I just wanna get German overwith so that I can start learning a language that's more interesting to me (no disrespect towards German of course, I do like the language to some exten)