Me: "I want to learn German."
Them: "Why would you do that? Don't bother!"
Me: "Because I spend half my time on the Fediverse clicking on the 'Translate' button."
I can't help it if so many of the awesome accounts I follow are in German. And I want to be able to understand their messages without clicking on 'Translate' 50+ times a day. Plus this way I would understand / could attend ALL the talks at Berlin #FediDay.
I'm putting this here so that people hold me accountable 😅🤗
@_elena@mastodon.social I don't speak it, but I understand some basic Te Reo, because of all the awesome New Zealanders one of my alts follows - they have a habit of using a lot of names from the indigenous people of those islands, as well as other words.
I also speak Doric, a variant of Scottish, which oddly pronounces "wh" as "f", something it shares with Te Reo.