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[kindkit]

I seem to have signed up to Duolingo.

To learn German.

Which is just about the least practical language I could learn*, apart from the second language I already have, which is French. Well, okay, least practical would be something like learning to read Akkadian cuneiform. Practical would be Spanish, since I live in an area with lots of Spanish speakers and many jobs give preference to bilingual candidates. However, I am not the least fucking bit interested in learning Spanish, apart from those practical considerations, and I doubt the practical considerations would make me stick with it long enough to gain any real speaking ability.

German, on the other hand, interests me.** And also I don't care if I ever learn to speak it, I'd just like to be able to understand and read it, and those skills are easier to acquire.



*No offense meant to Germans. If I lived in Europe, German would be practical! But alas, I don't.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

Yes, but if you're not going to get to full fluency in Spanish, it's not worth investing the time when there's a lot of better qualified people all around you. Go with your strengths!

[kindkit]

*nods* There are a lot of natively bilingual speakers around here, so it's not as though any Spanish I could manage to acquire, being well past the optimum age for learning a new language, would ever bring me to that level.