German and Spanish. It’s ok, though every time I think I have an alright though basic understanding, someone starts speaking way too quickly and it all just falls apart. Also, speaking is difficult, and reaching for the correct words in the correct language is even harder. Many times I want to answer in German if someone asks me something in Spanish, and vice versa
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What's the vibe like at these meetups you're going to? What kinds of things do you talk about, what are the people who go like? Sounds fun, though I think I'd be too self-conscious to attend.
For my part, I've been learning Japanese. It's been good, but very slow. Focused on mostly Kanji, Anki, and listening/reading this year (rather than staying with my textbook). Feel like my foundation is way more solid now, and characters I don't recognize are the exception (by a slight margin), rather than everywhere always.
It just feels like any regular Meetup tbh. The Japanese one I've been going to obviously has a much higher proportion of ppl who are into, say, anime and manga (since it's a group of ppl who willingly chose to learn Japanese without external motives), but other than that they feel like standard Meetup events
Japanese is not an easy language: good luck!
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As strange as it may sound, sometimes I try to learn Akkadian and Sumerian. Even though little is known about the grammar, the "Sumerian Lexicon" from John Halloran has quite a extensive list of transliterated Sumerian words and their meanings. I try to focus on learning the transliterated words rather than cuneiforms, although I do know/recognize some cuneiforms.
Why do I do this? Well, it's mostly for spiritual purposes: my current, syncretic belief involves the Mesopotamian pandeam (feminine pantheon), with goddesses such as Inanna, Ereshkigal, Tiamat and, mainly, Lilitu/Lilith (nínna-mushen / nínna-mušen, the terrifying Mistress-Owl, with nín being "Queen, Mistress, Lady", here duplicated to signal a terrifying Mistress, alongside the term for predator bird "mushen"). To me, they're manifestations (think of Qlipphots) of the same underlying principle, the Great Goddess.
I managed to both memorize a few terms, and I also tried to build some Sumerian phrases/epithets using the transliterated words as building blocks. Again, little is known about Sumerian grammar, but the current knowledge about it feels enough for me to try and babble something.
And why Sumerian/Mesopotamian pandeam? It's the first belief system ever written. It's the "chronologically closest" we have to the Venus figurines from Upper Paleolithic (seemingly an Goddess worshiping). The Goddess was forgotten, demonized, concealed from us, but things can't stay concealed for long. The Primordial Goddess must be revealed to the world again, and must be worshiped for the Great Goddess She is. And the Sumerian records seem to be the closest written records we have to Her.