For me, I really enjoy learning language with others. In this way, all of us could encourage one another in learning languages. Also, I really love the atmosphere in classes as my classmates would draw examples from different languages when answering questions related to grammar, phonology, and sentence structure. It is very insightful and interesting to know the differences between languages. Also, from the classes, I remembered the video that was about a tribe in Africa and their different perspective in reading colors. I really love to see this kind of experiences as it relates to how human brains and the surrounding could shape and change your behavior and perception to the world.
As for my target language, I especially fond of learning about the culture by watching movies ("Parasite"). In this way, it's good for me to cultivate a good language sense and also learn phrases and slangs that I may not be able to learn in formal language study. However, after a semester of learning, I still have some difficulties. These difficulties mainly relate to different grammatical rules. For example, the counting system, the age system, and the combination of the counting system and the age system. I really couldn't understand and take them in at first. However, after rounds and rounds of practices and examples, I finally managed to understand them and get used to their existence since they are super different from Chinese and English that I know.
In the future, I would continue learning different languages. Because I find it very intriguing to compare different languages with respect to their grammars and other elements of languages. After all, there is no ending in this path of language learning and that each learning experience is very meaningful and valuable.
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Hi Raymond, I also thought that video about color perception and language was really interesting! It makes me think about the plethora of things out there that we have yet to grasp and our cultural and linguistic limitations. I think the beginning of learning a language is always most difficult so I hope after the first couple of months you still keep it up! Good luck in your studies!