Anyone else who likes learning languages just for fun?

[MartinF]

I don´t know where I´m going with this, but do any of you suddenly get the idea that you want to learn a new language, go all in for a month and then it fades away? Only me?

I speak Swedish (of course) and English plus some German and Spanish from my school years (so I forgot a whole lot). Then of course I understand Danish and Norwegian since they are somewhat similar to Swedish.

But quite often I get the urge to learn more languages, for various reasons. My daughter wants to learn Korean - maybe I should join her? Japanese sounds so cool, maybe I could learn it? Arabic would be useful but seems so hard, etc.

Most recently I started learning Chinese (Mandarin) simply because I love the way it sounds. Kept going a bit for about a year, just easy listening practice on Youtube and simple apps, no courses or such. And then slowly I lost interest. So now I only know and understand basic sentences and phrases plus a bunch of words.

Anyone else?

[pakarinen]

I took two years of German in college, but I'm pretty rusty now. I speak a little Finnish courtesy of my grandparents, a few phrases of Japanese, a little Mexican Spanish (mainly comments about people's mothers ), and a little Mandarin.

I have an Italian language textbook, but I haven't done much with it. And I took two years of Latin in high school, but that's long gone.

[Ylem]

A friend of mine started learning Korean at age 65, mostly by watching media and movies with subtitles.

I know some Spanish, French, and Italian and can read some Russian, I took one year of it in high school.

My wife grew up in an Italian family in the Italian section of Montreal West, so I'm slowly picking that up

[Graeme1858]

Well I found myself with some spare time last year and learnt HTML, CSS, a bit of Java script and Arduino C++!

Graeme

[Gordon]

I took some Latin back in high school, but it's so long ago I don't remember any of it.
Heck, I have a hard enough time with English!!

[StarBru]

Whataya, nuts?! Just kidding! I learned a little Japanese as a teenager in Japan. I took Spanish in college but all it did was bring my GPA down! By no means am I fluent in either one.

[Lady Fraktor]

Being Slovak there is constant exposure to Czech so learn it through the media, Russian was taught 1 hour a day in school and with the neighbors I grew up learning Hungarian as well.
I studied English in university and worked in Canada so a lot of practice.
The wife and relations are German so that has improved my skills over the years.
Being close to border area over the years I have learned Polish and Ukrainian to the point I can have a respectable conversation in either language.
Over the last 4 years I have been working on Italian (a very expressive language when annoyed)

[JSBach1801]

I have been studying French everyday for almost four years now using the free site Duolingo. It's still hard for me to catch everything a native speaker says when talking at full speed, but I can read it well enough.

[pakarinen]

My son recommended Duolingo when he first started vacationing in Mexico.

[MartinF]

Being Slovak there is constant exposure to Czech so learn it through the media, Russian was taught 1 hour a day in school and with the neighbors I grew up learning Hungarian as well.
I studied English in university and worked in Canada so a lot of practice.
The wife and relations are German so that has improved my skills over the years.
Being close to border area over the years I have learned Polish and Ukrainian to the point I can have a respectable conversation in either language.
Over the last 4 years I have been working on Italian (a very expressive language when annoyed)

Wow, that´s a proper bunch of languages!

[AstroBee]

I'm always impressed by folks that can speak multiple languages. It's always fascinated me. I grew up in Louisiana and I took French in middle school and one year of high school but I remember virtually none of it. If you don't use it, you lose it, as the saying goes. My grandmother at the time spoke Cajun French which is a strange dialect of real French I guess. I tried speaking to her as a kid and it didn't go well.
Looking back on it, now I wish I had taken Spanish, living out west it would have come in much more handy than French.
I'm a big fan of this guy on YouTube. His ability to learn just about any language in a short period is incredible! https://www.youtube.com/@xiaomanyc