14 Sept 2014

Fascinating world of foreign languages, Part2: What languages to study?



Studying foreign languages is very wise. With English you get along in many parts of the world. But to understand better or in its entirety what happens around you, you need for that cultural empathy and the language of the country. What language you should study depends on your personal motivation and needs, may be every day needs or the professional ones. But there must be a motivation. If not so, you will learn very little. 

The languages of my life are no doubt German and Spanish, and I do not say “no” to Russian and Japanese either. But up to German and Spanish of these languages, when speaking of Russian and Japanese, I manage to speak only so called “Word-Russian” and “ Word-Japanese”.  In German and Spanish I like the intonation of these 2 languages as Finnish has no intonation. The foreigners say it is “a tiki-taka –language”. This expression sympathetic too…no doubt. Russian is a very smooth language, “muy suave” and Japanese is a very expressive language and for Finns very easy to pronounce. I hope the Japanese people do not become angry if I say that for example when Japanese are angry I like to hear the sound of the Japanese words…Very convincing, the angriness of the Japanese people.

But anyway - what is interesting. If you compare the languages above to each other, these languages and cultures are very different. So my life is never boring, though some day may be more enjoyable than the other day… 

Thanks(ENG)-Danke(DE)-Gracias(ES)-Spasibo(RU)–Arigato(JP) to all of you!

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