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Aug. 2nd, 2014 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitI 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.
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.
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Date: 2014-08-04 09:59 pm (UTC)