What language(s) are you learning?

Focused on Mandarin, with some occasional effort into other languages to mix things up, cause I’m past the initial excitement early phase of the language, so I want to make sure I don’t get bored or burned out on my efforts.

What inspired you to begin learning the language(s) you chose?

Probably a number of reasons, but for one, I want to be able to understand the culture more directly, instead of through western stuff. It’s also just spoken by a lot of people and by well, a very influential anti-imperialist and socialist state, so there’s that too.

Do you have a favorite word or phrase in the language you’re learning?

No favorite word/phrase comes to mind, but I can say, I like the repeating a verb thing in Chinese to make it less formal, like 周末我们一起去公园走走吧！(zhōu mò wǒ men yī qǐ qù gōng yuán zǒu zǒu ba!) (Let’s go for a walk in the park this weekend!). (I lifted this example from a language site, I am not yet confident enough to draw one up on the fly from my knowledge of Mandarin.)

Eu sou aprendendo português. Just wanted to be unique instead of learning spanish as a second language like everyone. No favorite phrase yet, just got started:)

汉语/中文。

我太喜欢中国菜（特别四川菜）和我想汉子是很酷。

我没有一个最喜欢的单词。我喜欢很多的汉子/单词！

（Hànyǔ/zhōngwén.

Wǒ tài xǐhuān zhōngguó cài (tèbié sìchuān cài) hé wǒ xiǎng hànzi shì hěn kù.

Wǒ méiyǒu yīgè zuì xǐhuān de dāncí. Wǒ xǐhuān hěnduō de hànzi/dāncí!）

I will go first! I just started learning Esperanto today while Toki Pona has basically taken the backseat for me. I was inspired to pick up Esperanto after learning about the socialist and internationalist history of the language, and also about the Pasporta Servo service where Esperantists around the world invite you to stay at their home to speak Esperanto and see the place they live! So far I am finding the Esperanto language to be a little silly while also having a place for some truly epic and beautiful music and poetry! My favorite phrase is “mi fartas bone” because it sounds like a frenchman saying fart ass boner, forgive me for having the humor of a child!