Not actively learning a language, but I have a degree in Spanish, though it’s been years since I used it professionally and I no longer regard myself as proficient. Before that I took Latin throughout high school (a rare treat in a US public school AFAIK), and attempted to learn Mandarin via Duolingo in 2019.

As it happens I also construct artificial languages as a hobby after the manner of Tolkien.

I’ve started learning Catalan, it’s going slower than I hoped because the class I’m taking is filled with people who already speak the language and spend the entire class discussing about technicalities instead of letting the teacher teach.

I decided to teach myself Russian and Japanese when I turned 40. It’s been over a year and making good progress in both. Am still at a beginner lever but pretty happy with progress.

what sucks is when i tell people this they think i am weird or mentally ill. nobody i know or have met in the past year has seen it as a cool or fun thing.

I need to learn German, it’s literally life or death situation for me, if I don’t learn it very soon, I will not be able to remain where I am, and if I go back to the country I’m from they will kill me either slowly or quickly, but not pleasantly for sure.
The learning process is going not great. Not great at all.

English, being born in non english speaking country significantly boosts your chances of being proficient in two languages. I understand everything I read on the internet pretty well, but my writing skills are not perfect, and speaking is the hardest part.

Does Python count? If so, it’s going okay.

I keep bouncing around on the sources for where I’m studying from. I started with w3schools, but didn’t like it. I went to https://programming-24.mooc.fi/ and I like it. I’m currently also watching these videos being used for prep on a certification, but they’re not great - the slides sometimes will have errors (print statement without closing parantheses for example) and sometimes the instructor will read one thing but the slide says something else (instructor says “max” but slide says “min” - luckily this time it was just the names of variables rather than actual functions or something). They also don’t go in depth on a lot of methods, and there’s no good exercises or anything. But at least it’ll get me a cert if I pass the tests, which is paid for by my work.

Español, Deutsch, Français, a me ka ʻŌlelo.

I’m speedrunning French, trying to focus on Québécois you kinda end up learning traditional French too along the way. This is my third language.

• Duo for daily practice and grammar, but it makes a lot of mistakes
• Work group to practice speaking
• I switched various daily apps to French
• Grabbed a few comic books in French, happy to say I’m now past those :)
• Québécois friends for slang and informal reference
• Recently been playing Pokemon ZA in French (extra fun since it’s in Poke-Paris), quite pleased with it!

I’m about a year in, and I’m low-level conversational. Solidly A2. Basically just taking any resources I can find, I plan to look for a proper class soon.

Le chemin est très agréable, je le trouve bien!

Spanish and it’s slowww. I dont have a lot of time and I’m stressed out so it’s hard to consistently get listening exposure in.

I like language transfer and assimil and will be trying out dreaming Spanish for more listening but when I finally have free time I usually don’t want to do more learning lol

So yeah…it’s rough, I really need more discipline

German. I’m not that motivated nowadays but my level improved a lot from the intense work I did between February and June this year

Japanese! I originally thought I might make quick progress, but there were surprising number of characters I’ve never seen before. So I just decided to learn everything from complete scratch so that I don’t ever have to backtrack. Everything is written in hiragana at the current stage, and that’s throwing me off a lot too. But I have to learn how they’re read anyway so, oh well.

私は日本語を勉強します (I’ve been studying Japanese) I’ve been doing it just because it sounds cool and I want to go to Japan one day for a visit. I haven’t studied for a bit due to life getting in the way but I can form simple sentences but I’m far from being able to hold a conversation

Also check out !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz for this kind of discussion on the regular!

Esperanto, very slowly, using Duolingo. Why? Just because.

I’m also learning French right now. I took Spanish in high school, which helped a lot with understanding Romance languages and the basics of learning another language. I’ve found that learning vocabulary French is fairly similar, but listening and understanding is so much more difficult because it’s so much less phonetic than other languages.