Added you all in :<
Well, to introduce myself, my name is Megan! I am fluent in both English and Spanish. I was born in Mexico, but English became my first native language. My parents both speak mostly Spanish, so it got hard for me to communicate in the same language, especially with my mother. When I got a little older, I began to learn Spanish, and was able to communicate (and hold a convo) with my mother.
With the job market nowadays, employers will be asking for peeps who know a second language. I'm proud to have both languages in order, as well as a third, Italian, on the way!
Being bilingual+ has great connotations around here too. Residents who speak English and Welsh end up with a much better chance of getting many jobs in government and teaching due to the huge lean to preserved 'Welsh Culture'. It's both good and bad, I guess... I hear that the difference in jobs is even more extreme up north, where there are more Welsh speakers.
How are you learning Italian? :) How are you finding it so far - do you think you're picking it up faster/slower than when you learnt Spanish?
I love languages; they tell so much about a country's history and the speaker's personality. There's a polyglot who said that whenever he speaks a new language, he feels like a different person, and that's just how I feel sometimes when conversing in a different language.
I can understand four languages: English, Spanish, Tagalog, and Dutch, although my Dutch is really rusty. I'm learning basic Italian, since it's about as easy to learn as Dutch and Spanish. After, I'm planning to learn either Catalan or Welsh.
I'm touring Europe this December, so I'm sure these languages will come in really handy to me. French, Portuguese, and German are off the list for now because they're insanely difficult tbh.
Out of curiousity, where are you from? To have Welsh on your list of languages-to-learn implies UK/Western Europe? That's quite a good bunch of languages you've got going there!
I'm surprised that you find German hard though, considering you have knowledge of Dutch. I was told there was quite a lot of overlap and similarities (not to mention the parallels between English and German).
Two Italian learners! : < It's like a little study group.
Hello. I would also like to contribute.
I can currently speak very broken Spanish and am in the process of TRYING to learn German (too hard for me to start two at one time).
So hopefully I can progress and become... trilingual ;)
In my honest opinion, I have tried German AFTER learning some spanish and it makes it much easier. German isn't that hard IMHO ^
Congrats so far! :) I guess people have affinities for different language styles, depending on how they process vocabulary and language skills. I know my boyf finds Japanese quite hard, as he often gets caught up on differences in the writing, whereas I feel my struggle is simply remembering nouns :P.
Do you have any intended uses for your Spanish/German (family... work... holidaying... whatever)?