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 German is very high on my languages to learn list because I keep encountering so many german-speakers online. Sure it's usually written by folks who are bilingual but how much cooler is it to learn another language than to translate or make more work for others?
But first I need to get up to a better level of Italian comprehension before I start on another language