I know there are plenty of reasons to dislike artificial intelligence. Its environmental impact, the way it affects jobs, the growing concentration of power in the hands of a few companies, and so on. But if there's one thing it's genuinely outstanding at, it's language learning.

I'm currently learning French (TL), and even with English, which I've been studying for over sixteen years, there are still phrasal verbs, idioms, and even certain meanings of common verbs that are only clicking for me now. I know this information has always been available online. That's obvious. But I often had to search through five or six dictionaries written in the target language before finding the definition I was looking for. Sometimes there simply wasn't a single article or forum post in Portuguese, my native language, explaining it. Even when I was studying Italian, which is relatively close to Portuguese, I genuinely couldn't find the meaning of certain slang words or idiomatic expressions.

Now, with French, whenever I struggle with an articl, whether it's about economics or politics, the AI doesn't just translate it accurately. It explains the meaning, the nuances, and even the FUCKING sentence structure. And even if it occasionally gets something wrong, I can immediately ask follow-up questions and then double-check that specific construction in more reliable sources online. On top of that, it explains the context behind the news story itself.

Of course, learning a language isn't just about getting accurate translations or browsing lists of synonyms. But it helps tremendously when an AI can give you all the different meanings of the same verb, provide multiple example sentences, and even show you the conjugations,nall in response to a single question. What used to take me anywhere from five to fifteen minutes now takes seconds, and it makes the entire learning process so much smoother.

Obviously, it doesn't replace a real teacher. It doesn't develop your speaking skills, and it certainly can't capture every cultural nuance that is inseparable from a language. But today I can watch TV shows with French subtitles, read simple books, and even understand newspaper articles despite having studied the language for less than a year. It has genuinely made French far more accessible to me.

I feel motivated to keep learning because I can ask virtually any question whenever it comes up, instead of writing it down and waiting a week to ask my teacher, or searching random internet forums and hoping that whatever strangers are saying is actually correct or even applicable.

And yes, AI hallucinates. I know that. But it very rarely does so with the kind of basic vocabulary questions I usually ask. And even when its answers are incomplete or occasionally inaccurate, they're still far more useful than not being able to find the information anywhere at all.

This is an opinion I've had my entire life. In general, I think that some people swear too much in their respective language. But when non-natives do it, it sounds extremely idiotic under any circumstance. I don't know why. I've seen foreigners doing it in Spanish and I wince.

I'm sorry if this is a trivial post, but I thought it might be an interesting matter of discussion here. What are your thoughts?

People constantly say that Duolingo is horrible for learning a language and is a waste of time. It could just be me (I have an abnormally good memory), but after only 9 days of learning German on Duolingo, I've memorized dozens of words and can now put together small sentences. (I've never studied German before 8 days ago, for context.)

There are two complaints, which are understandable. It obviously does just build vocabulary without going in depth on grammar. For me, I have a German learning book as well, so I can just learn the grammar once my vocabulary is sufficient. The other, that I see all the time on the sub, is people saying you'll get nowhere using Duolingo for 10-15 minutes a day. I use it for closer to an hour every day, which I assume is way more effective than 15 minutes. I don't pay attention to the game part of Duolingo either, I'm only interested in learning the language.

So yeah, what are your thoughts on Duolingo? Is it really that bad?

I see the term "Comprehensible Input" (CI) thrown around here constantly, and I think a lot of people, and even major platforms, are misrepresenting or misunderstanding what it fundamentally means. It's time for a serious clarification, because using the term incorrectly is leading learners down an inefficient path.

The Core Principle: i+1

The theory, popularized by Stephen Krashen, is based on the formula i+1.

• "i" represents your current level of competence. It's the vocabulary and grammar you already know.

• "+1" is the small piece of new information you're ready to acquire.

The entire system only works when the input is truly comprehensible. This means you must understand the vast majority of the message to have the necessary context to acquire the new piece.

For input to be effective, you should be understanding around 90% or more of the material. When you understand that much, your brain can use the surrounding context to naturally and almost effortlessly figure out the meaning of that missing 10% (the "+1"). That is the moment of true language acquisition.

This brings me to my critique: Dreaming Spanish.

They've built their platform on the claim of using comprehensible input, but their core methodology has a flaw that contradicts the i+1 principle.

Their system classifies videos by broad levels: Superbeginner, Beginner, Intermediate, etc.

The problem is that vocabulary is incredibly vast and deeply personal.

An "Intermediate" learner is not a standard unit. One person at that level might have a 1,000-word vocabulary focused on history and politics. Another might have a completely different 1,000-word vocabulary centered on cooking and daily life.

When the history buff watches an "Intermediate" video about cooking, the input is not i+1 for them. It might be i+50. They lack the foundational vocabulary ("i") on that specific topic to make the input comprehensible. The video is labeled for their "level," but it's not tailored to their actual knowledge.

A true i+1 system would need to track the specific words a user knows and serve content that strategically introduces new ones. Simply sorting by a generic "level" is a blunt instrument. It's a decent system for getting massive amounts of exposure, but it is not a precise application of the comprehensible input hypothesis.

TL;DR: True Comprehensible Input requires understanding ~90% of the material, not the other way around. Systems based on broad "levels" can't guarantee this because they don't account for an individual's unique vocabulary, which is the "i" in i+1.

⚠️For real users ⚠️ Bots/Astroturfers are already hijacking the thread with the usual "LLMs are MaRveLouS/DeepL is better now", downvoting genuine posts, etc. (TL)
Keep ignoring them and let's help each other.

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Disclaimer
I am aware that AI induces a negative reaction on this board, but please try to keep an open mind and offer constructive feedback that can benefit other language learners. I am not proposing that AI would be a suitable substitute for a language teacher or tutor. The intention is that this could help those that don't have consistent access to a tutor, limited free time, or don't have the financial means to pay for a tutor.

Additional disclaimer, this post is not trying to sell you anything. I do not have any financial affiliation with any of the tools mentioned here. The objective of this post is to help language learners.

Background
For the past few months, I have been pairing comprehensible input videos from YouTube with an AI agent that forces me to actively recall details of the video, reviews my answers, grades my level of comprehension, and provides me with advice on what I need to work on.

I approach has benefitted me in two ways: 1) my brain subconsciously pays more attention when I'm watching the video because I know I'll be quizzed on it and 2) I must provide the answers in my own words.

How to Setup

1. I recommend using Google Gemini over ChatGPT and others because Gemini has the ability to watch YouTube videos so that it has the visual context. ChatGPT does not have this capability (at the time of my post) and must rely on the auto-generated subtitles. You could use ChatGPT but the quality of your experience will be degraded.

2. Create a new Gem in Gemini named Spanish Language Tutor (or whatever you want to name it).

3. For the Default Tool setting, select "Guided Learning".

4. Copy and paste the system prompt below into the Instructions field then save the Gem. Be sure to customize the bolded text of the prompt so that your level and language to align with your requirements.

I am a native English speaker that is learning Spanish*. My current level is* Intermediate (B1). I will be following a comprehensible input based approach to acquire Spanish vocabulary, sub-consciously learn grammar patterns through immersion, and build listening comprehension. This is an approach popularized by Stephen Krashen and Steve Kaufman. I would like to naturally acquire listening and reading comprehension of the Spanish language primarily by consuming comprehensible input from channels on YouTube such as Dreaming Spanish*.*

You are my personal Spanish tutor that supports me during my Spanish learning journey. You are certified in teaching the Spanish language to foreigners and you are a native of Madrid, Spain*. You understand* English so you will be able to understand any questions I ask you in English*. However, I would like for you to only respond in* Spanish (similar to a crosstalk exercise) and only respond in English if I ask you to do so. This will force my brain to think in Spanish and avoid the temptation of communicating in English*.*  

On a daily basis, I will share with you a comprehensible input video from either dreamingspanish.com, YouTube, or another source and watched multiple times. I will ask you to watch the video and ask me 10 questions in Spanish about this video to test my comprehension. You will do it question-by-question. You ask a question, and I answer. You ask another question, and I answer. Please check that I understood the dialogue in the video, that my answers were grammatically correct and coherent to a native speaker, and provide feedback that will help me improve my language acquisition. Again, I may ask you specific questions about grammar or clarifications on some of the items. I would expect you to provide all answers in Spanish that is suitable for a language student at my current level.  

I will also ask you to identify 10 important vocabulary words and ten important phrases appropriate for my current level. You will provide me with a table that includes these fields: the word, and the sentences that they were used in. Please do not include additional data in any of the fields so that I can correctly generate audio using the HyperTTS add-on in Anki. Please save these as a .csv. Do not include any English translations. The only English permitted in the .csv is the header row. I will import this into an Anki deck so that I can practice active recall and remember the words.

How to Use
To use, you simply copy the URL of the YouTube video and paste it into the Gem you just created. Gemini will watch the video then commence the quiz with the first question. Once you have answered all 10 questions, Gemini will provide feedback, recommendations for improvement, and a list of words and sentences that you can download in a .csv and import into Anki.

My recommendation is to start with videos that are at least one level below your current level of comprehension. The reason is that this approach can be mentally taxing when you first start. Once you are comfortable with videos at an easy level then move on to harder ones.

As a Bonus Tip, I would recommend installing the Gemini Auto-Listen Chrome extension. This will automatically trigger the read aloud function in Gemini so that you don't have to click the speaker icon to hear the audio. Again, this is optional but recommended.

Results
The solution that I am proposing here can be implemented by anyone using free tools. For me, the return on investment has been huge and my comprehension has skyrocketed. As mentioned, this doesn't replace a live tutor, but it can be a valuable tool to reinforce what the brain has learned through comprehensible input. Any feedback to improve the prompt or the approach is welcomed.

Pretty much what the title says. Every day, I see posts on here talking about how bad AI is for learning languages.

Of course, this applies if you are doing moronic stuff like trying to use it exclusively.

But I'll be damned if it isn't useful to have someone you can ask "hey, can you tell me the difference between how word x and word y are used?"

I also just had it produce an entire set of exercises to review and solidify some concepts I am learning, this is amazing.

And before any of you hit me with the old "yeah but it lies very confidently so it's useless". Yes you are right. But this happens perhaps in 1% of the cases and only if you are researching something very obscure or complex, which you should be cross referencing anyway. For 99% of use cases, it makes language learning so much easier and the gains easily outweigh any drawback.

I love ChatGPT as as long as you are smart about how you use it, it's like having a tutor on speed dial and it's probably helped my marriage too (I am learning my wife's language and would otherwise drive her crazy with all my questions lol)

For example, we have to write and say "Beijing" in English, while in pretty much every other language it is still "Peking", the old name.

Same goes for Turkey, we are now expected to write and even say "Turkiye", as ordered by the Turkish government, but only in English. In pretty much every other language they still use their old name.

It often seems to me that English speakers are more pressured to comply with the whims and current sensibilities of other countries than speakers of other languages, who just carry on with their traditions.

I’m American and I’m learning Spanish, and I try to learn the proper pronunciation for everything. I know some things are difficult. I can’t even roll my rs. But I swear some people are not even trying. Guys “o” doesn’t sound like “owe” and “e” doesn’t sound like “ay”. It’s not that hard! The sound exists in English but some people either don’t try or make no effort to learn the proper pronunciation.

I even had a Spanish teacher that had the worst pronunciation ever, like “oh-la class-ay bwe-nose dee-ass” and it ground my gears so hard.

Does anyone else feel this way? If your native language isn’t English do you ever feel this way about other people that speak your language?

Comprehensible Input has been taking over like crazy. But there are also a group that don't find it overrated, and that studying help more than you think, or even more than Comprehensible input.

I did use only Comprehensible Input to learn all my languages, and I do speak then. But Maybe my progress is faster if I did a bit more studying on time. Or maybe not.

I'd always been low motivation, but during the blackout my motivation went down even further. Before that at least I could come here and imagine I was engaging in language learning in some way. Actual learning doesn't take place here, but even theoretical discussion about language learning is better than no discussion. But then the blackout happened and I had this feeling I was not related to language learning at all. I tried self studying but it was harder since I felt all alone. The sense of community turned out to be quite important. Glad I can read posts again, and hopefully I can regain some motivation.

Anyone had a motivation drop as well?

I've logged 300 hours as of today, so I thought I'd share my thoughts on what it's like to learn a 2nd language from scratch.

To be clear, my journey started at the very start of the year, where I downloaded Duolingo. I knew that they only had Brazilian and not pt-pt but I stuck with it for 6 months. Then uni summer holidays came, and I decided language learning was gonna be my thing. And boy did I language learn :D

From June 4th to 18th October, I averaged 2.21 hours per day, which doesn't seem like much, but for 4 months straight, I think most would find that a proper attempt. Some days, like last weekend, I did 7 hours in one day, and some other days it would only be 40 mins, but most were 2-3hrs.

Initially comprehensible input felt quite slow, especially since I wanted to watch things at A2 level (Bluey), and in the beginning it was a lot of noise and occasionally a word I'd know. Now stuff like Bluey, especially with subtitles, is like 95% comprehensible, but back then it felt like it wouldn't really change, but I didn't care, I was just enjoying what I was watching, which I've found to be the most important thing. I found myself switching between books until I settled on one, and I realised that's a GOOD thing, not a bad one.

I also used a simple flashcard app with the most common words, and a picture on the back, with the English translation. (in hindsight, not the most efficient, but it was so low friction it worked wonders)

My advice to someone trying to learn a language, especially a romantic language like Portuguese, would be to find a kids tv show like Bluey or whatever works, and rewatch it a lot, especially if it has accurate subtitles. Once you've done that, read the hardest book you can manage, for me that was a Roald Dahl book I loved as a kid. BY FAR, the most progress I found was when I began reading this book. I used LanguageCrush and would copy the text from my google play books, and paste it into this app, and would brute force my way through the chapters. I saw week on week improvements, most efficient improvement I've felt thus far.

For those who are a bit skeptical of my level, I reckon I'm around low B1 level, so obv I'm no expert but I found this worked for me in quite a short space of time. I'm currently reading Harry Potter 1, and for the most part can comfortable read without having to look up words to understand the message, probably 75-85% comprehension, ignoring magical language lol.

These days I do more passive listening whilst washing dishes or walking, and I watch youtube videos with languageReactor, and sometimes import the words in anki, I have a python script that allows it to be formatted for ankidriod.

If you guys have any questions on what I did or have suggestions of things I'm doing wrong I'm definitely curious, I'm aware I'm still only now entering into Intermediate territory now. Also forgive the clickbait, I'm not actually B1 fully, that would suggest I'm starting B2, I'm only like 50-70 hours into B1 probably

I'm fluent in English, but I don't have anyone to practice it with so I decided to try HelloTalk... and well, some people are cool, but I'm amazed at how many of them text me pretending they're native speakers and/or demanding that I teach them Italian (my native language) for nothing in return. Has this happened to any of you guys? I know I should just stop replying but it just makes me so mad. And for context, my bio is very clear about the fact that I'm only interested in connecting with native English speakers.

Also since this sub is about learning languages: it's completely normal to make mistakes when you're learning, and you absolutely shouldn't feel ashamed to speak because of it! I'm just mad because these people misrepresent themselves as "native speakers" who should teach me English.

EDIT: Native speakers make a lot of mistakes too, but most of these are not the kinds of mistakes a native would make! Most aren't even mistakes, they just sound unnatural. Also, the first screenshot is the least bad of them all.

EDIT: I admit most of these corrections are very nitpicky, and some of them can be stylistic choices. But overall, these messages do not sound like what a native speaker would say, not even a poorly educated native speaker.

Hello Fellow Redditors,

I'm planning a trip to China after the virus dies down and I'm thinking of visiting the Northern rural regions (around Shaanxi). I'm fluent in Esperanto and I'm wondering how many speakers live in those parts of China?

Would you recommend me learning some basic Chinese or should I rely on Esperanto? (My guess is it will be popular but I'm honestly not sure). I will be going off the beaten track a bit, so communication will be important.

Thanks in advance and have a good day. Adiaŭ!

Why is it that, when people read something in a grammar or a dictionary, they come to Reddit and ask, “But do people really say it that way?” Why do people think language textbooks are constantly lying to them?

Hey guys, so look I'm not the best at French but I'm also not the worst. I try speak French cause I'm on vacation to help me learn but they don't seem too fond of helping.

Yesterday at dinner the waiter was kinda mean and was NOT tryna help me and told me my French is horrible. Fine, we will speak in English.

Anyways, I start speaking gibberish and add an English word every 7th word. He kept saying what and that he couldn't understand me so back to French we went and I left a nice 5 cent tip to top it all of.

Another win for Bubbly.

This is going to be an unpopular opinion but I really don’t care about the number of down votes because I believe it to be true. Recently I would say within the last 15 to 20 years becoming a polyglot has become the really popular thing in language learning. I myself decided I wanted to try to be a polyglot for a while and started studying multiple languages.

Being a polyglyce a waste of time. If we look at the typical definition of a polyglot that’s outside of a dictionary, we would say it’s somebody who speaks I would say around 5+ languages. This is an enormous waste of time for the majority of the population. There’s a small number of people in the world you can actively train themselves to acquire up to five languages fluently and maintain them. If not maybe more but that number is debatable. The majority of people have a hard time with one language, let alone 3 to 4 or more. For myself personally I speak English as a native, Spanish because of my location and I learn because it makes sense to speak Spanish in the area that I live, and I’m learning Russian because I want to be one of the few Westerners who can acquire this language and use it in foreign relations. Other than that there’s no reason for me to learn anything else other than if I visit a country and I want to say thank you or excuse me.

There is an old Zen proverb that says something along the lines of, if you want to acquire mastery then stop chasing so many things. I feel it is better to acquire mastery over a language outside of your native tongue, and in my case be trained in compatibility to a basic level in another so that you can communicate with people or read things if needed. For me that would be Spanish, mastery would be the lifelong learning of Russian. The Internet has a way of inducing teenage to adult severe ADD where it’s hard to focus on one thing because you’re so stimulated by multiple things at once. Take the time to master a language and once it’s mastered, let’s say at 1000+ hours for most if not more for some, move on to something else. To me it’s not impressive that you can say 10 to 20 sentences in three languages whereas you can communicate effectively in one that’s outside your native tongue close to a native speaker. Good luck to all the language learners

Okay, so I’m not fully fluent yet, I just passed my B2 exam in Spanish. But everyone seemed extremely surprised that I only started learning it this January and it got me thinking that I don’t even remember much of the process and it wasn’t a grind at all. In fact, it feels like I barely put in any work at all. And thinking about this, I don’t quite understand how I’ve managed to pass B2 so quickly. And please, this isn’t meant to be a humble brag! I a mantruly trying to understand so I can replicate it in the future.

Basically, what I did:

• grammar 1-2 hours a day using grammar and grammar exercise book. I never learned it by heart, I just did notes and exercises,

• I have watched a lot of TV and movies. I could spend 1-3 hours everyday just watching native content with no subtitles from day one. I didn’t understand anything apart from a few words for the first week or so but it’s gotten a lot better very quickly. Now, I can just watch native content like content in my own language or English. I would check words that were repeated often but would learn them. I wrote basic words down but again, never learned them by memorising them.

• whenever I would listen to music, I only listened to it in Spanish. I didn’t translate the lyrics, it was like a discovery, the more vocabulary I acquired, the more lyrics I understood.

• I would occasionally read news articles or stories in my grammar books (for reading excercises) but I didn’t put much effort into reading.

• I started speaking in July and it was surpassingly easy but I had a head start with Polish vowels and R making it easier to pronounce words in Spanish.

Here’s the catch. I have no idea how on Earth I acquired my vocabulary. I never did learn it by cards, memorisation or any other method. I simply watched native content and would check some some vocab and somehow it would stick. Other words, I just got from the context and they would stick as well, I never checked the translation.

Here’s the catch, my native language is Polish. And clearly, I can somewhat communicate in English which I think made it easier to understand what I wasn’t watching because of how much crossover there is between English and Spanish and Polish and Spanish. Once I was able to hear Spanish dialogue clearly, there were a lot of words I could understand because they were similar in one of the languages.

But I still don’t quite understand how it’s possible to improve so quickly without putting in much work. What did I do that accelerated the learning so much?

I'm (15M) forced to live in Spain (I'm Filipno living in the Philippines) for a year or two straight until like I'm 17 or so. (Maybe even permanently because my mom forces me to do things without my will) I'm uninterested in going to spain and I don't even want to, because I'm more interested in living somewhere else like in the USA or Canada. I don't even want to go to school there, but I'm forced to soooooooooooo here I am posting this. I don't know what to do but I guess I'm forced to learn Spanish. So I'm guessing I'll have to learn Spanish until C1 level. I don't know what to do because I genuinely have other things to do since I have a shit school schedule with a shit sleep schedule. And it doesn't feel easier even if I'm Filipino, so how do I force myself to learn a language (Which is my first time learning other than English which I'm good at I guess) such as Spanish?

I ran a small experiment: 200 new words in 14 days, roughly 15 per day. The hard part wasn’t learning them - it was making sure they stayed.

What helped:

• I turned every word into sentences. Not just one example, but several. Using the same word across different sentences stopped it from feeling like “something to memorise” and made it feel usable.

• I repeated words across multiple days. A word didn’t feel solid until I’d run into it again and again over time.

• I changed the context. I used the same word in questions, opinions, and even silly scenarios. Same word, different angles — much stronger recall.

I used multiple memory channels. I made sure to:

- say it out loud

- see it written

- type it

- read it in real context

The more ways my brain interacted with a word, the more reliable it became.

Takeaway: 15 words a day is very doable - but words really stick when you use them repeatedly, across days, in varied contexts, and through different modalities.

Curious if you’ve noticed the same - or if you have your own “stickiness” tricks.

I’m getting good at Spanish from watching dreaming Spanish and using Duolingo. I think within 1 year or 2 I can become C2 in Spanish. The thing is I’m very interested in learning Japanese and Korean too. If I devote my time in Japanese and Korean, I don’t think I’ll get good at either of them but be A1 or A2 at best. Would you rather be near fluent in one or average in other 2?

I’m learning German, it’s starting to feel like a mandatory chore. I keep on getting snappy at everything because it’s just not helping. I don’t like how long the ads are or how they make stupid fucking characters at the end always try to sell you super Duolingo.

I’ve had genuine breakdowns over this app, because it pisses me off that much. The only reason I use it is because the rest of my family does and it’s the only fucking app where I can do multiple languages which I do.

Not to mention how it seemingly never sends me a notification when I lose my streak, which causes me to fucking break down. I’m having a breakdown over it as I’m writing this. I lost my streak before hand when I was at 98 and I’m about to again. I just now checked it. It could’ve sent me a notification days ago, but it didn’t.

I genuinely wish whoever runs this app goes brain dead or something because who ever made these stupid decisions already acts like their brain dead.

I can’t stress it enough ever that I can’t find a good app. I’ve tried multiple and getting a teacher to teach you German or literally any other language is so fucking expensive. .

THE BEST ACTION MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN! More people need to watch Bollywood. So nonsensical, over-the-top physics defying scenes, fun songs. But at the same time the industry also makes many genuinely good movies (like those made by/starring Aamir Khan and SRK). I think movies alone make Hindi worth learning. More people from outside South Asia should get into Bollywood.

It seems like a lot of people pick up Japanese and Korean because they are very invested in TV shows / cartoons / pop music from those countries. But both of those languages have a really bad FSI rating, plus a lot of people in those countries stopped having kids. Economic stagnation / drastic population decline anticipated or already happening.

India on the other hand is an emerging economy with the world’s largest population and their GDP continues to boom. Right now it is the world’s #4 or #5 in GDP (depending on who you ask) and is set to become #3 in a decade or two. 

The main downside is that younger Indians (and those who do speak Hindi) have decided to turn their modern spoken language into an ugly mix of Hindi and English (they also didn’t bother to invent Hindi words for most modern things so inevitably you have to slip in English when talking.) 

The Devnagari written script is beautiful. It has over 40 letters, pronunciation is consistent and it has almost one letter for every sound that humans can make it has separate letters for many sounds and vowels - great phonology range. Sadly, most Indians don’t know how to install an IME on their computers and end up writing Hindi in Latin script online. It also seems like a relic from colonial times where everything written is automatically in English. Bollywood trailers/webpages, celebrity gossip, news articles, even r/Bollywood is entirely in English. 

Despite it being the “3rd most spoken language” in the world / 500+ million people (more if you count Urdu) speaking it, I don’t see it much online and that distresses me. What is also more saddening is - there isn’t a huge repository of courses/textbooks or online resources. I remember trying to find Hindi-learning videos on YouTube and I would always get more learn-English-from-Hindi videos than learn-Hindi-from-English.

We need to keep Hindi alive and get more people from outside of India/Pakistan learning it and speaking it.

Watch movies like 3 Idiots (2009) or Taare Zameen Par (2007) or PK (2014) and follow me down this rabbit hole. 

(TL)

I started learning language so many years ago, since I am 14. I am originally from Peru, and I make a living off the stock market. I have free time 24/7 and the only two things I do are my 2 interests: language learning and French music (listening or writing). Man, life is inherently meaningless so why not just enjoy what you love to do? I currently speak 6 languages fluently: Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Russian, and Vietnamese. Currently I am learning Quechua because I love the Inca history and… I want to become president of my country once I reach 35. I am also doing a Bachelor’s on Computer science just for fun and honestly coding is ridiculously easy compared to human languages.