I skimmed over the first 3 pages and didn't see a thread about this or anything similar so if I missed it my bad.
Anyway, as implied by the title, the purpose of this thread is for people to talk about languages and linguistics. Similarly to the LGBTQ thread, there isn't any particular primary aim in this thread, and instead it is just open for people to either talk about their own language and other languages or to get advice regarding aspects of learning a particular language, be it just general learning tips or help with a specific aspect of a language that you may be finding difficult (e.g. particles in Japanese, commas and clauses in English, tenses in Spanish etc.). Alternatively, just go ahead and talk about your history with linguistics. I want to leave this thread reasonably open to ensure it is accessible to as many people as possible, so go nuts with it.
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I guess I'll start. I speak English as my first language, and in primary school I learned a small amount of French (although the school didn't try very hard; we were meant to have a lesson every week but across the three years I spent learning it we ended up having around 30 lessons in total--most of which were in the first year) and I spent my first three years of secondary school learning Spanish, which I never really engaged with and as a result came out of the three years with the only things I remember being how to count to 20, the alphabet and "voy, vas, va, vamos, vais, van" due to my teacher hammering it into our class. Back in January I started learning 日本語 and am starting to notice that I am slipping into the bad habits of not going over it much outside of the lessons which I slipped into with Spanish (although I'm showing a lot more interest in the language this time around, with me often muttering phrases in Japanese when walking home, writing random snippits of kana and kanji in lessons at school etc.). The lessons are suspended until September, so I'm going to use the summer to work through the textbook again up to the point were we left off and maybe a little further so that I can hopefully come back after the summer feeling like I have an understanding of what I have learned over the past six months.
Anyway, as implied by the title, the purpose of this thread is for people to talk about languages and linguistics. Similarly to the LGBTQ thread, there isn't any particular primary aim in this thread, and instead it is just open for people to either talk about their own language and other languages or to get advice regarding aspects of learning a particular language, be it just general learning tips or help with a specific aspect of a language that you may be finding difficult (e.g. particles in Japanese, commas and clauses in English, tenses in Spanish etc.). Alternatively, just go ahead and talk about your history with linguistics. I want to leave this thread reasonably open to ensure it is accessible to as many people as possible, so go nuts with it.
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I guess I'll start. I speak English as my first language, and in primary school I learned a small amount of French (although the school didn't try very hard; we were meant to have a lesson every week but across the three years I spent learning it we ended up having around 30 lessons in total--most of which were in the first year) and I spent my first three years of secondary school learning Spanish, which I never really engaged with and as a result came out of the three years with the only things I remember being how to count to 20, the alphabet and "voy, vas, va, vamos, vais, van" due to my teacher hammering it into our class. Back in January I started learning 日本語 and am starting to notice that I am slipping into the bad habits of not going over it much outside of the lessons which I slipped into with Spanish (although I'm showing a lot more interest in the language this time around, with me often muttering phrases in Japanese when walking home, writing random snippits of kana and kanji in lessons at school etc.). The lessons are suspended until September, so I'm going to use the summer to work through the textbook again up to the point were we left off and maybe a little further so that I can hopefully come back after the summer feeling like I have an understanding of what I have learned over the past six months.
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