Bismillahirrahmannirrahim, Assalamualaikum
It's almost the end of June oh how time flies so fast. I dont really want to write a lot but I just feel the needed to write something. So here it is, i just came across an ig story of one of my following about languages and how she wish to learn more languages in the future. Reading her reply reminds me of how much I wanted to learn foreign languages. How i wish i can speak 4 languages at least :/
In my perspective, languages are important. If you can't communicate, it'll be hard for the other parties to understand. Some may not but some may and that's why we should be prepare. As for my native language, it's Bahasa Melayu which is also a national language used here in Malaysia while my second language is English. Oh, I just remembered something I read few days ago on twitter (credit goes to the owner, thank you for the free lesson! hee~) - the reason why most of Malaysia's ads, promos, posters, etc. are written in English is because English is our second language. If we compare to Indonesia, they will use Indonesian fully and that is because in their country, English is a foreign language so I guess they aren't encourage to use English fully? Please enlighten me if I'm wrong.
Back to myself. I've been interested in learning language ever since I was little. I went to an Indian kindergarten - where they use English as a base/main language. Growing up, my parents provide me a real good source aka dictionary (yay!) for me to learn English more as they see the potential in me. Once, my sister said I'm a crazy nerd because I laughed while reading dictionary when the real side is I was looking for a translation words and never thought it was gonna be a funny translation LOL I was then exposed to the bigger world - internet. That is when I found out about Korean, Japanese, Spanish, German, etc. I swear it is so fun to listen to people talking in a different languages.
When I was around 13-14 years old, I started to learn Korean (only the alphabets) because my friend had influenced me to jump on the kpop & kdrama stuffs and I'm not blaming her. Then, I stopped. When I was 17, I decided to learn German after watching Netflix series - Dark (I SWEAR THIS IS ONE OF MY FAV SERIES GO WATCH IT!) looks like I can be influenced easily lol and stopped when I was 18 because ya gurl is going to college and she is an idiet who can't balance her study life. Skipping to 19 years old, I'm currently continue learning Korean because I'm on a break before entering the university life. So let us all pray that I can finish my Korean for at least 40% and I can pursue in my chosen course, Amin Ya Robbal Alamin.
Just wanted to let you know that I'm learning these languages all by my own. I'm depending 100% fully on Youtube and study/language apps like Quizlet, Mesmerize & Duolingo! :) (am not sponsored lol)
see then cherries x
+ malaysia uses biritsh english and not american english but sigh, we never taught of the accent :/