And it sounds like I'm getting crazy...

Hello dear languages' passionates !

   A promise is a promise, today, I write a small article ! Yay !! I just wanted to speak about languages. An other one will be published this weekend and is going to focus on the first days of my travel to Japan.

  Anyway, if you do are a language learner, you probably already know that there are two kinds of learners : the ones who just study one language, and are passionate only by that language, and the compulsive ones who are completly obsessed by languages and want to learn them all. The truth is that I became one of them.

   English and Spanish languages where "school" languages, I was forced to study it, in a way, I had no other solutions.

   However, one day, I discovered Japanese and that was like a revelation. I didn't really know that I had a passion for languages before that moment. I was studying it because I should and that I wouldn't have allowed myself to be bad in any thing.

   Japanese made me open my eyes and discover an other world. Two other worlds, more exactly. There was the "japanese one" but also the "languages" one. Indeed, when you come to be used to learn them, you progressively get steep in their way to work, their ABC (without making a play on words). And, you will soon come to a point from which you will think that learning a language is quite easy, if you already now, at least, one language belonging to the same group. For instance, French, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish are all languages that come from Latin, so they have a lot of common points. In an other hand, German and Japanese do not belong to the same group and it is almost impossible to compare them with each other.

   Furthermore, what is really, deeply, amazingly interesting about languages is that every single language is unique, has its own sonorities, variations. Each language has a special story, special history from which you can learn so much.

   This is, according to my point of view, what makes languages study so addictive.

   I started with Japanese, but I soon found that Korean's pronunciation was terribly enjoyable, that Finnish is the same, that I wanted to know German more to be able to give my opinion on it more objectively, that Italian won't be so hard, ...

   And yes, this can look like crazy, or stupid, or even impossible to learn every language you see because you are not going to have time anyway but, just remember that, whatever you do, whatever you will do, the time is going to pass, and maybe, one day, you will regret that you didn't spend enough time on what attracted you and closed yourself an amount of door which just asked for being opened.

   So, what is the idea that the title of my article conveys ? Well, it's simple : I'm getting crazy about languages and all the benefits it can provide.

Have a nice weekend !

A~