Learning a new language as an adult
After I graduated, over15 years ago, I’ve followed countless courses both on- and offline. Even as achild I liked learning new things in my spare time. As an adult it’s different.When your a grown-up, you’re more serious and sometimes you choose with a goalin mind. In the past few years I followed offline courses in sewing,silversmithing, photography, meditating and more. This past Summer I waslooking for something new to learn. I have so many things on my list and Icouldn’t choose. I suddenly found myself looking at language courses. I havealways loved languages. In high school half of my subjects where languages. Notstrange if your goal is to do something with languages and tourism. Now writingis my job. I can speak pretty decent English. I can take care of myself in bothGerman and Spanish. Italian has always appealed to me, but I’m afraid it’s tosimilar to Spanish and I’ll get them confused. Portuguese might be toocomplicated? I’ve studied Japanese for half a year and I know from experience youneed lots of hours to have a chance of learning this complicated (for usWesterners) language. Maybe I should give Danish a try, or have I watched toomany Scandinavian thrillers? I decided to go for Danish. It’s a complete freshstart and if I listen to the characters in the TV series it seems doable andlogical. Good choice?
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