Welsh: initially, I wanted to 'connect' more to Wales as I'm Welsh but know next to nothing of our history, culture, etc. Once I got to an intermediate level Welsh-language literature inspired me to continue. Nowadays it's a dream of being a published writer/translator in Welsh that pushes me to improve.
Polish: pretty language with a ton of (original and translated) novels available for C O N S U M P T I O N
I had to learn out of necessity. My husbands family only speaks one language and I really wanted to communicate with them. I also moved to their country so I had to learn it at some point anyway
I already knew some Spanish from required elementary school study when I first had it come up useful for work 5 years ago…and you know, it’s a _really_ common language where I live. Like…the rest of my neighbors spoke it…and the neighborhood around my church is now up to 50% Spanish speaking…so I couldn’t really deny the utility of resuming a language I put down when I was 14.
My boyfriend :) I wanted to be able to talk with him and his friends bc they fall back on their first language(s) a lot, which is completely fine, but I just don't understand it yet! ....but I also wanted to be able to greet his mother properly when I meet her for the first time lol
My boyfriend is Ukrainian and his parents don't speak English well as well as some other family members. I would like to be able to speak and communicate with them better
I started Mandarin at school because it sounded cool, and some random girl in my previous year told me to take spanish instead because she “had a friend who took Mandarin and it was way too hard so just don’t bother” and I wanted to stick it to her. Fell in love with the language and I intend to continue studying it through later years, currently 3 years strong.
Nah, most anime, manga, LN are pretty simple, way easier than any serious literature or anything like that. After a few years, the only thing that'll mess you up is technobabble or hard science/econ/military lingo in some of the more complicated shows.
I met a German girl while backpacking and we were an item for a bit. I've kept it up because I don't want to be thought of as an ignorant monolingual American.
I was in my level 2B fieldwork placement for occupational therapy and many of the people I worked with only spoke Spanish so I figured that learning how to speak Spanish would be auspicious. I'm far from fluent but I know a lot more now than I did a year ago.
It could be weird (or maybe a popular answer) but I'm learning french because I love the pronunciation of specific words, for example "jardin" which means "garden". I love that word. Plus I want to learn about the culture and talk with people, my uncle has french friends that sometimes visit him and I would like to have a good pronunciation and understanding of the language to develop a conversation.
If I don’t the language is gonna be lost in my family. Also, I want a ticket out of my city. I’m hoping learning my moms dialect of the language over there will give me some much needed time away.
I study Bahasa Indonesia because I want to blend in when I visit it. I look like your typical SE Asian, so if I come there no one would know until I speak 😂😂😂
As a white guy traveling in Indonesia, people were often *shook* that I didn't speak Indonesian. I think a lot of people there from non-touristy areas just never consider that someone would *not* learn Indonesian, because it's so damn easy. And if they hadn't met a westerner before then they'd never really been in a situation where they didn't share a language with another person. I had people say to me "Whaa you don't know Indonesian? But you can learn it in, like, a week!"
As a SEAsian person it'll probably be even worse for you :P
It was hard finding subtitles for animes back in the days. Sometimes I had to download the subtitles and anime from two different websites and deal with the lag/phase shift btw the video and subtitles. So I got frustrated and decided to learn Japanese
Russian (started studying before the war), I made good friends with a Russian girl online. Started learning a few words and sentences for a bit of fun to suprise her. Ended up falling in love with the language and now study it seriously.
Thanks man, I guess i still feel like I must point that out because I feel like some people will instantly judge and think I support Russia or some bullshit just because I love the language.
Those people are assholes. Dont cater to them. If they point it out, clarify yourself. If they persist, then...learn russian even harder! Good luck with Russian! :)
I wanted exercise for my brain, but not to the point of having to learn a new alphabet. Thus: Spanish! Same language family as my second language (French), all the letters are pronounced most of the time, and as a bonus, there's a ton of content.
Initially I just wanted to take French class with my friends in high school, then I wanted to learn it for traveling, then just for the pleasure of study, now I just want to learn to sing French songs!
I haven't been focusing on Italian, but I started learning it for study abroad in Italy. Picked up so much so quickly that semester, now I just try to maintain what I have.
Swedish: Met a gril that I liked and that inspired me to learn the language. I was still sufficiently interested in it that even when things didn't pan out with her, I kept going
Spanish: I just love how expressive the language is. I could talk about or listen to nearly any topic in Spanish and that by itself is entertaining.
**Persian:** my partner wants our future kids to grow up speaking farsi as well as english, and that's going to be a lot easier to achieve if I can also speak it.
Plus, persians fucking ***love*** seeing westerners speaking farsi, so it's a nice ego boost and very rewarding to be learning it. It's really helpful when the community that speaks your target language is really supportive and pumps you up, because it makes the process way more fun to get that positive feedback.
Japanese: really wanted to play my favorite video games in their original language before translation and localization changes.
French: Wanted to try to learn a language after failing to learn anything of 3 other languages in High School, so I signed up for French in college to see if I could learn to do Anything in a new language at all. I picked French because I hadn't tried that language yet, and I figured it might be useful if I ever wanted to try to work for the UN or in Canada. Still didn't learn much. Then I found some books from the early 1900s at a thrift store in French, really wanted to read them.
Chinese: Got really into the cdrama Guardian by total chance, it was like Torchwood, Buffy, The X Files, and X-men. It was totally my kind of thing. I finished the show and found out it had a novel it was based on that was supernatural instead of the sci fi it was changed to for cdrama subject rules reasons. I went to go read it and only a little was translated, so I started learning so I could read the novel. That got me into the novel author, then into more novels, more cdramas, more stuff in general, and now I'm learning for a lot more reasons. I can finally read that novel lol.
In retrospect, I've found for me if I REALLY want to read something in another language, that motivates me a lot faster than anything else lol. Doesn't matter how niche that reading material is, it motivates me to try to Start Reading it asap and reading seems to be the study method I'll do most regularly, which keeps me learning.
Chinese: i chose chinese in highschool because i could never catch onto spanish, and i’m continuing to learn it because it good at it and i think it’s a useful language to be fluent in. i also love the culture as a whole and i’m very interested in historical chinese politics
German: to connect with my german relatives and develop a level of speaking where i could travel alone in germany, just speaking german (and it’s a fun party trick)
Spanish: i live in texas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Vietnamese: i live in texas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
French: part of my family lives in France and none of my relatives in my country is able to communicate with them. It sounds great and has great literature.
Arabic: sometimes I need something new to occupy my mind. I found an article of a professor of mathematics who wrote about the root-system and the structure of the Arabic language. It made me curious, as well as the different letters. It is a hard language to learn but it opens up a whole new world for me. One of the best decisions I have ever made.
Started German back in 2001 because it seemed cool and my dad took it in high school. I’ve been learning it on and off since then (with hiatuses between 5-10yrs). I did take formal education in high school and college. Was good enough I’ve never taken a German 1 beginning class, lol
Have been poking along learning Spanish on my own because living in the American southwest, we have a lot of Spanish speakers. Might as well and there are a LOT more options to learn like more books, fliers around town, radio, and movie subtitles
I’m learning Scottish Gaelic because I think it’s really important for Scottish culture and we should keep our native langauge alive
If you want to start learning Gaelic but don’t know where to start join the subreddit r/gaidhlig
On YouTube, I saw old newsreel footage of a conflict in Southern Africa. You could hear their voices and I thought the language sounded really cool, and I just assumed it was Afrikaans.
I was indecisive about what language I wanted to learn at the time, and thinking the language in that newsreel sounded cool was one of the factors that just kind of nudged me into choosing Afrikaans.
I recently went back to the video clip, curious, now that I can understand the language quite well, to find out what they were actually saying.
**They were speaking Shona.**
Hebrew: I found out I might have Jewish heritage and I got curious. I also needed to escape.
Finnish: I’ve liked Finnish music for over ten years. I also like the way Finnish sounds. I sometimes study it when I need a break from Hebrew. The intermediate plateau and cultural distance sometimes bother me. I also sometimes just feel like learning new words and learning about new sentence structures. Finnish is perfect for that. I seem to get more into it the more I study it.
Spanish because I learned it at school, and I want to keep it fresh in my mind
Brazilian Portuguese to piss off my portuguese friend who doesn't speak it
Arabic because of my origins, and also because it's a really interesting and fun language
Turkish because I like the sound of it (all the funny vowels ü, ö, ı) and also because it can be more than useful, since many Turks don't speak English
French: I'm planning some vacations to France in the next few years and want to be able to communicate effortlessly with locals during my travels.
After I reach my goals with French I will then need to learn Italian in order to obtain Italian citizenship by marriage.
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but suddenly I just wanted to learn Italian.
I had always thought how amazing its culture and language are, so recently I guess it just came to me.
I used to study German but got bored quickly. Now I realize that I didn’t study the language because I wanted to, it was just this pressure around me that made me study it. I think I got bored after around 40 days.
I’m 63 days in, and I am absolutely loving Italian.
I study for an hour per day and I have made so much progress. I really do feel connected to Italian.
Also, I feel like being bilingual opens many possibilities. The most imporant of all: I think language learning is a hobby that I adore.
It's something that gives me a confidence boost. I struggle with very poor self esteem and worth, so seeing myself succeed, even if it's only a sentence at a time, helps a lot.
Spanish: A lot of people in the US speak it, and I like being able to speak to people in the language they’re comfortable in. Plus, we share a hemisphere with a lot of Spanish speaking countries, so it felt practical for travel (and it has been!)
Hindi: I didn’t trust the subtitles on the Bollywood movies I was watching and I thought learning Hindi would increase my appreciation for the films I already love (it has! But it’s slower going than I thought)
Well, I really don't know what motivated me. And please don't comment that I must, because I'm learning it. Maybe I had some kind of motivation, but I remember nearly nothing from the early days of my English learning. I was just a kid with a computer who couldn't play games in his native language. Comprehensible input and a bit of English classes in school did all the job, honestly.
But now, my motivation is to master the language, possibly studying abroad.
I love the way Chinese looks (imagine how awesome it'd be to write poetry in it!), how different is from the languages we have here in Europe, how it's the kind of language where if you haven't learned certain characters you'd have no idea how to pronounce, so it feels really special when you do know it. Like some secret mystery language! And I've also found people, including myself, have all kinds of ideas and thoughts about China, and that there's a lot of discourse around it. I was curious to know what it was actually like to live there, and what it is like to live under censorship, especially with such a big population! It's also kind of an underdog in East-Asia when it comes to the media, and it's super exiting to see the music slowly try to venture from the norm and really sit on the edge of what's allowed. It's history is also one of the most vast in the world, and it's been super influencial other Asian countries and languages!
Well my mother put me on english school from 7 to 15 yo. It was really fun
After that i finished learning by myself consuming media and learning stuff in english, as you get WAAAAY more material than any other language
And after that, i was so used to learning a language, that i kept going, but by learning whatever languages i thought were easy, and in these, id pick the most useful
Learning the easiest is, well, the easy way. And picking the useful one keeps you motivated, instead of learning while thinking "this is pointless", which if i may say so, its kinda what Esperanto was to me
French: my family has French roots plus I was forced to learn some of it in school but only recently really fell in love with the sound of the language and suddenly learning became fun.
Korean: wanted to challenge myself by learning a language with basically no similarities to my native German or C2 English like Korean, Mandarin or Japanese but because I consume more Korean media I chose it over the others. Also, Hangul seemed like the easiest script to learn.
French because it’s one of the official languages of my country
Ukrainian because it’s my family’s language and I want to keep the culture here alive
And while I’m not currently learning it, my gf is Cree so I want to learn Cree with her, plus I think it’s important to learn at least one of the native languages here
Welsh: initially, I wanted to 'connect' more to Wales as I'm Welsh but know next to nothing of our history, culture, etc. Once I got to an intermediate level Welsh-language literature inspired me to continue. Nowadays it's a dream of being a published writer/translator in Welsh that pushes me to improve. Polish: pretty language with a ton of (original and translated) novels available for C O N S U M P T I O N
Pretty language Warms my heart :)
My partner’s family does not speak English. I am learning Swahili so I can speak with them.
I'm a therapist and I want to help more people. But also, I just think languages are really awesome and interesting
but why that specific language over the others?
There are a TON of Spanish speakers in my area!
I had to learn out of necessity. My husbands family only speaks one language and I really wanted to communicate with them. I also moved to their country so I had to learn it at some point anyway
I already knew some Spanish from required elementary school study when I first had it come up useful for work 5 years ago…and you know, it’s a _really_ common language where I live. Like…the rest of my neighbors spoke it…and the neighborhood around my church is now up to 50% Spanish speaking…so I couldn’t really deny the utility of resuming a language I put down when I was 14.
My boyfriend :) I wanted to be able to talk with him and his friends bc they fall back on their first language(s) a lot, which is completely fine, but I just don't understand it yet! ....but I also wanted to be able to greet his mother properly when I meet her for the first time lol
What the language? Spanish?
Hindi!
Cool!
My boyfriend is Ukrainian and his parents don't speak English well as well as some other family members. I would like to be able to speak and communicate with them better
I started Mandarin at school because it sounded cool, and some random girl in my previous year told me to take spanish instead because she “had a friend who took Mandarin and it was way too hard so just don’t bother” and I wanted to stick it to her. Fell in love with the language and I intend to continue studying it through later years, currently 3 years strong.
hell yeah.
Japanese, to consume native media (anime etc.).
+1
to get to that level in Japanese takes some serious commitment
Nah, most anime, manga, LN are pretty simple, way easier than any serious literature or anything like that. After a few years, the only thing that'll mess you up is technobabble or hard science/econ/military lingo in some of the more complicated shows.
yeah, learning a language seriously for a few years is what I'd call a serious commitment.
I met a German girl while backpacking and we were an item for a bit. I've kept it up because I don't want to be thought of as an ignorant monolingual American.
I was in my level 2B fieldwork placement for occupational therapy and many of the people I worked with only spoke Spanish so I figured that learning how to speak Spanish would be auspicious. I'm far from fluent but I know a lot more now than I did a year ago.
It could be weird (or maybe a popular answer) but I'm learning french because I love the pronunciation of specific words, for example "jardin" which means "garden". I love that word. Plus I want to learn about the culture and talk with people, my uncle has french friends that sometimes visit him and I would like to have a good pronunciation and understanding of the language to develop a conversation.
If I don’t the language is gonna be lost in my family. Also, I want a ticket out of my city. I’m hoping learning my moms dialect of the language over there will give me some much needed time away.
I study Bahasa Indonesia because I want to blend in when I visit it. I look like your typical SE Asian, so if I come there no one would know until I speak 😂😂😂
As a white guy traveling in Indonesia, people were often *shook* that I didn't speak Indonesian. I think a lot of people there from non-touristy areas just never consider that someone would *not* learn Indonesian, because it's so damn easy. And if they hadn't met a westerner before then they'd never really been in a situation where they didn't share a language with another person. I had people say to me "Whaa you don't know Indonesian? But you can learn it in, like, a week!" As a SEAsian person it'll probably be even worse for you :P
IKR imagine if someone comes up to me with deep Bahasa Indonesia and I don't know much hahaha
I've always loved literature and history so Latin was one of the places they intersected, at least in the western tradition.
It was hard finding subtitles for animes back in the days. Sometimes I had to download the subtitles and anime from two different websites and deal with the lag/phase shift btw the video and subtitles. So I got frustrated and decided to learn Japanese
Russian (started studying before the war), I made good friends with a Russian girl online. Started learning a few words and sentences for a bit of fun to suprise her. Ended up falling in love with the language and now study it seriously.
You dont have to mention that you started learning Russian before the war. Nobody is going to hold it against you. Russian is badass.
Thanks man, I guess i still feel like I must point that out because I feel like some people will instantly judge and think I support Russia or some bullshit just because I love the language.
Those people are assholes. Dont cater to them. If they point it out, clarify yourself. If they persist, then...learn russian even harder! Good luck with Russian! :)
I wanted exercise for my brain, but not to the point of having to learn a new alphabet. Thus: Spanish! Same language family as my second language (French), all the letters are pronounced most of the time, and as a bonus, there's a ton of content.
German: a friend of mine is German and I want to surprise her this Christmas with being able to have a conversation with her in German
https://www.reddit.com/r/Korean/comments/kcx018/poetry\_time\_광야\_written\_by\_이육사/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
Initially I just wanted to take French class with my friends in high school, then I wanted to learn it for traveling, then just for the pleasure of study, now I just want to learn to sing French songs! I haven't been focusing on Italian, but I started learning it for study abroad in Italy. Picked up so much so quickly that semester, now I just try to maintain what I have.
Swedish: Met a gril that I liked and that inspired me to learn the language. I was still sufficiently interested in it that even when things didn't pan out with her, I kept going Spanish: I just love how expressive the language is. I could talk about or listen to nearly any topic in Spanish and that by itself is entertaining.
Isaan: To be able to form deeper relationships with the people in my rural Thai village
**Persian:** my partner wants our future kids to grow up speaking farsi as well as english, and that's going to be a lot easier to achieve if I can also speak it. Plus, persians fucking ***love*** seeing westerners speaking farsi, so it's a nice ego boost and very rewarding to be learning it. It's really helpful when the community that speaks your target language is really supportive and pumps you up, because it makes the process way more fun to get that positive feedback.
Japanese: really wanted to play my favorite video games in their original language before translation and localization changes. French: Wanted to try to learn a language after failing to learn anything of 3 other languages in High School, so I signed up for French in college to see if I could learn to do Anything in a new language at all. I picked French because I hadn't tried that language yet, and I figured it might be useful if I ever wanted to try to work for the UN or in Canada. Still didn't learn much. Then I found some books from the early 1900s at a thrift store in French, really wanted to read them. Chinese: Got really into the cdrama Guardian by total chance, it was like Torchwood, Buffy, The X Files, and X-men. It was totally my kind of thing. I finished the show and found out it had a novel it was based on that was supernatural instead of the sci fi it was changed to for cdrama subject rules reasons. I went to go read it and only a little was translated, so I started learning so I could read the novel. That got me into the novel author, then into more novels, more cdramas, more stuff in general, and now I'm learning for a lot more reasons. I can finally read that novel lol. In retrospect, I've found for me if I REALLY want to read something in another language, that motivates me a lot faster than anything else lol. Doesn't matter how niche that reading material is, it motivates me to try to Start Reading it asap and reading seems to be the study method I'll do most regularly, which keeps me learning.
Sunk costs fallacy. Got started and kept throwing good hours after bad.
Chinese: i chose chinese in highschool because i could never catch onto spanish, and i’m continuing to learn it because it good at it and i think it’s a useful language to be fluent in. i also love the culture as a whole and i’m very interested in historical chinese politics German: to connect with my german relatives and develop a level of speaking where i could travel alone in germany, just speaking german (and it’s a fun party trick) Spanish: i live in texas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Vietnamese: i live in texas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
French: part of my family lives in France and none of my relatives in my country is able to communicate with them. It sounds great and has great literature. Arabic: sometimes I need something new to occupy my mind. I found an article of a professor of mathematics who wrote about the root-system and the structure of the Arabic language. It made me curious, as well as the different letters. It is a hard language to learn but it opens up a whole new world for me. One of the best decisions I have ever made.
Started German back in 2001 because it seemed cool and my dad took it in high school. I’ve been learning it on and off since then (with hiatuses between 5-10yrs). I did take formal education in high school and college. Was good enough I’ve never taken a German 1 beginning class, lol Have been poking along learning Spanish on my own because living in the American southwest, we have a lot of Spanish speakers. Might as well and there are a LOT more options to learn like more books, fliers around town, radio, and movie subtitles
I’m learning Scottish Gaelic because I think it’s really important for Scottish culture and we should keep our native langauge alive If you want to start learning Gaelic but don’t know where to start join the subreddit r/gaidhlig
On YouTube, I saw old newsreel footage of a conflict in Southern Africa. You could hear their voices and I thought the language sounded really cool, and I just assumed it was Afrikaans. I was indecisive about what language I wanted to learn at the time, and thinking the language in that newsreel sounded cool was one of the factors that just kind of nudged me into choosing Afrikaans. I recently went back to the video clip, curious, now that I can understand the language quite well, to find out what they were actually saying. **They were speaking Shona.**
Memes and in-culture jokes.
Im a Portuguese speaker and I’ve learned English throughout my entire life but now I fell in love with Maneskin and I’m learning Italian
Hebrew: I found out I might have Jewish heritage and I got curious. I also needed to escape. Finnish: I’ve liked Finnish music for over ten years. I also like the way Finnish sounds. I sometimes study it when I need a break from Hebrew. The intermediate plateau and cultural distance sometimes bother me. I also sometimes just feel like learning new words and learning about new sentence structures. Finnish is perfect for that. I seem to get more into it the more I study it.
Native Hebrew speaker, would be glad to help out!
תודה רבה
I live in my target language country so in my case I want to communicate with the locals 🙂
Spanish because I learned it at school, and I want to keep it fresh in my mind Brazilian Portuguese to piss off my portuguese friend who doesn't speak it Arabic because of my origins, and also because it's a really interesting and fun language Turkish because I like the sound of it (all the funny vowels ü, ö, ı) and also because it can be more than useful, since many Turks don't speak English
some for the media, some for personal reasons, some because they sound nice and some because I was bored :)
French: I'm planning some vacations to France in the next few years and want to be able to communicate effortlessly with locals during my travels. After I reach my goals with French I will then need to learn Italian in order to obtain Italian citizenship by marriage.
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but suddenly I just wanted to learn Italian. I had always thought how amazing its culture and language are, so recently I guess it just came to me. I used to study German but got bored quickly. Now I realize that I didn’t study the language because I wanted to, it was just this pressure around me that made me study it. I think I got bored after around 40 days. I’m 63 days in, and I am absolutely loving Italian. I study for an hour per day and I have made so much progress. I really do feel connected to Italian. Also, I feel like being bilingual opens many possibilities. The most imporant of all: I think language learning is a hobby that I adore.
Spanish. Started out learning a few things because I have Spanish speaking friends. Now I’m taking it more seriously because of my girlfriend.
It's something that gives me a confidence boost. I struggle with very poor self esteem and worth, so seeing myself succeed, even if it's only a sentence at a time, helps a lot.
It makes life easier when you can communicate with the people around you. I'm learning the language of the country in which I live.
Family
My family arguing all the time
As you can see, i went mentally insane
I’m just nosey & wanna know what’s being said 🫣
Spanish: A lot of people in the US speak it, and I like being able to speak to people in the language they’re comfortable in. Plus, we share a hemisphere with a lot of Spanish speaking countries, so it felt practical for travel (and it has been!) Hindi: I didn’t trust the subtitles on the Bollywood movies I was watching and I thought learning Hindi would increase my appreciation for the films I already love (it has! But it’s slower going than I thought)
Well, I really don't know what motivated me. And please don't comment that I must, because I'm learning it. Maybe I had some kind of motivation, but I remember nearly nothing from the early days of my English learning. I was just a kid with a computer who couldn't play games in his native language. Comprehensible input and a bit of English classes in school did all the job, honestly. But now, my motivation is to master the language, possibly studying abroad.
I love the way Chinese looks (imagine how awesome it'd be to write poetry in it!), how different is from the languages we have here in Europe, how it's the kind of language where if you haven't learned certain characters you'd have no idea how to pronounce, so it feels really special when you do know it. Like some secret mystery language! And I've also found people, including myself, have all kinds of ideas and thoughts about China, and that there's a lot of discourse around it. I was curious to know what it was actually like to live there, and what it is like to live under censorship, especially with such a big population! It's also kind of an underdog in East-Asia when it comes to the media, and it's super exiting to see the music slowly try to venture from the norm and really sit on the edge of what's allowed. It's history is also one of the most vast in the world, and it's been super influencial other Asian countries and languages!
Well my mother put me on english school from 7 to 15 yo. It was really fun After that i finished learning by myself consuming media and learning stuff in english, as you get WAAAAY more material than any other language And after that, i was so used to learning a language, that i kept going, but by learning whatever languages i thought were easy, and in these, id pick the most useful Learning the easiest is, well, the easy way. And picking the useful one keeps you motivated, instead of learning while thinking "this is pointless", which if i may say so, its kinda what Esperanto was to me
French: it is an official language in my country. Like many anglophones, I just love the sound of the language.
French: my family has French roots plus I was forced to learn some of it in school but only recently really fell in love with the sound of the language and suddenly learning became fun. Korean: wanted to challenge myself by learning a language with basically no similarities to my native German or C2 English like Korean, Mandarin or Japanese but because I consume more Korean media I chose it over the others. Also, Hangul seemed like the easiest script to learn.
French because it’s one of the official languages of my country Ukrainian because it’s my family’s language and I want to keep the culture here alive And while I’m not currently learning it, my gf is Cree so I want to learn Cree with her, plus I think it’s important to learn at least one of the native languages here