Sunday, 4 July 2010

Other languages

My new laptop charger, only 4 days old, has broken. This means that I can't access the 700 word anki in Portuguese and 300 sentence anki that I had built up over the last few days. So I'm back onto my old computer. For some reason, being on this computer makes learning another language more appealing. It may be because I have a lot of Portuguese things on my laptop which distract me from other languages. Last time I was on this computer, I had a hankering to learn Korean, a language which I long gave up on 2 months or so after I had started it back in 2007 and even dutch. Now, I would really like to learn a Scandinavian language due to their close proximity to Scotland, the fact that they are Germanic languages like English and because I really like the countries. Not only that, but I like the idea of 'buy one language' get two half price in regards to their supposed mutual intelligibilty. The only problem is that materials for these languages are probably more scarce than those for Portuguese.

So instead, I might finally get opening some of the Spanish books in my collection I've been saving up in case I end up studying Spanish at university [something I'll find out a month today]. I've only studied a little Spanish in the past and it's been well over a year since that happened but Portuguese and Spanish are very similar so I might find I know a bit more than I think. Besides, I have Hugo's Spanish in three months which I borrowed from the library [which contains approximately 4 language books] gathering dust under my bed and if the Spanish one is as great as the Portuguese one than I should make good use of it before it has to go back.

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