What languages do you want to learn?

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Do you still understand it if you write it down and read it a year later?

Hmm...maybe. It depends on what it relates to, I guess. I make stuff up all the time and forget it later.

When I was young I invented my own phonetic alphabet with symbols I'd created. Then I wrote journal entries in code (in a notebook). I think I either lost or threw away most of it.

Each English sound had a specific symbol. It was right when I was really getting interested in languages and sound, and I wanted to see if I could hear all the individual sounds in English which are not represented in the alphabet or even acknowledged by anyone other than linguists. So I made my own limited phonetic alphabet.

At this point I doubt I'd remember any of it.

Actually it's funny but after talking to you, I was reading about it again myself. Yeah, I read the same stuff about learners not really being told about it. I definitely want to master pitch accent and learn to sound as native as possible. Right now, I'm embarrassed to say I've never really spoken the language yet. This stems from many factors. A lot of it is shyness, sadly. So far, I've just chatted to a few native speakers via email and Line. I'm too shy to talk on voice chat. Hopefully I manage to get over my anxiety eventually.

Also, despite what I said in my last post... I'm afraid that I might be bad at telling pitch,after all. I've thought about it some more and realised I never really know what people mean when they talk about pitch. For example, when people say men usually talk in a monotone and women talk more 'up-and-down' ... I can't really hear it. I definitely hear extreme pitches, and I can tell the difference between notes of music, but I think I may have trouble with subtle vocal pitches.

Also your invented alphabetic sounds like it was cool, Yigeren! I toyed around with ideas of doing something like that when I was younger, but never actually stuck with it and made up anything.

Spanish, Latin, and ASL.

I don't want to learn to SPEAK Latin; I just want to learn it, for prefixes, suffixes, and derivatives' sake.

As for now, I am taking an online course that covers most of the basics.
The online course is called Mango Languages.

You are American.
Eres estadounidense.

They aren't from Mexico and don't speak Spanish.
Ellos no son de Mexico y no hablan Espanol.

I am from the US.
Yo es de los Estados Unidos.

I speak a little bit of Spanish.
Hablo un poco de Espanol.

Where are they from?
De donde son ellas?

Yo soy de los Estados Unidos; better just Soy de los Estados Unidos unless you want to emphasize the subject.

Yes, I was taught that many pronouns are unnecessary in Spanish, unless used for emphasis. We didn't use subject pronouns when I took Spanish in middle school. The verb form indicates the subject of the sentence.

I speak English and French fluently and Spanish at a high-ish level. Currently learning Irish and Swedish. Want to learn German and Hebrew.

I want to learn swedish and german and maybe some more russian. . Anyone to help me? .

German which I already speak decently but not fluently.
Ukrainian which I've been learning for a year but I'm still terrible.
Russian, Polish, Welsh, Cornish, Cherokee, Latin...
For me the list is really endless but I have to start somewhere.

I'm currently learning German and trying to go back to Japanese. Next, I hope to learn Russian.

Хочите учить русский язык? Я вероятно могу помогать

Omg really??? . Срасибо!! . I understand most of russian but Idk how to talk or make conversation and my grammar is bad.

Here is a link for anyone who wants to learn foreign languages at your own pace:

https://www.mangolanguages.com/

i wish i could be fluent in italian. i kinda feel guilty that i'm technically italian but still have so much trouble actually speaking the language. it's like inviting trouble if i even mention that "i'm italian". dirty secret... on the other hand, that feels like a silly reason. so i end up not studying it

i'm learning spanish, and i do intend to become fluent, as it's obviously a very useful language, and i'm possibly moving to a spanish-speaking country in the near future (which is another reason to forget about italian at least for now. it gets confusing!). maybe i'll learn norwegian eventually, but probably not. other than that, latin would definitely be interesting, and icelandic too. but since both are just for fun and have little real-world use, they can always be "something for me to do when i retire". no rush

I'd love to learn French...not that I have any discernible reason for doing so, I've just always considered it to be a particularly lovely and engaging language.