A language learners’ forum

I've signed up for this... I'm hoping it will be a language on the wish list that will send me on my way even faster. I selected "all scripts are fine" so I'll probably get a language with a difficult script!

Sometimes I tell myself that if I've learned Chinese it's a piece of cake learning another script... but it's still hard and frustrating. I'll smile more the next time I learn a script and see if that helps.

atcprunner wrote:I've signed up for this... I'm hoping it will be a language on the wish list that will send me on my way even faster. I selected "all scripts are fine" so I'll probably get a language with a difficult script!

Sometimes I tell myself that if I've learned Chinese it's a piece of cake learning another script... but it's still hard and frustrating. I'll smile more the next time I learn a script and see if that helps.

It took me 3 years to learn to read Korean without "sounding out" awkwardly and 4 years to get used to Chinese characters enough that I could actually begin learning them... learning a new alphabet/writing system as an adult is just hard for some people. If I can find a good romanized course for my language (if it's in a different script) I'll probably do that vs. learning the alphabet. Using romanization for three days isn't going to hurt anything imo. Unpopular opinion I know lol.

Languages are available now! I got Tamil and I’m wildly excited!

Mine has a Latin script, so I have to wait until the 15th to find out.

I got a latin script language, so need to wait.

I got Ukrainian! I am curious about it, as it is one of the slavic languages I have crossed off the list for serious learning but still one I feel a bit connected to (my best friend in high school was half Ukrainian and it was fun to understand quite a lot of her conversations with her mother and grandmother. We are not friends anymore but still. And it could be useful to see how hard it actually is for all the ukrainian immigrants to learn Czech by observing their language for a weekend)

I got Burmese! I know literally nothing about this language at the moment, so this should be fun

Finally latin script languages are available too! I got Serbian - which honestly surprised me a bit, I thought Serbian was written with cyrillic script, but apparently they use both

Oh my goodness guys. Tamil script and phonology EDIT I think I mean orthography? is so hard! I’m so glad I have Mango access and can just work on that all weekend (comes with full recordings) or else I’d be totally lost. Bless my friend who loaned me her library card number.

I got Dutch, but I clicked on the white card thing and got Hungarian. What's that mean? Can I do either?