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About me and my language musings

My name is Brian, and I’m 13 years old. I live in the United States. I love languages. I really do. Here’s a bit about me.

Over the past two years or so I have become very much interested in languages from all around the world. And I really mean that. I’m not your average language learner just interested in French, Italian, Spanish and things like that. I’m more of an Esperanto, Chinese, Volapük, Turkish and Papiamento person. Yes, I know. (P.S. I <3 you, PageF30.com).

Now, they always ask — “how many languages do you know?”. And I can’t really say that I “know” any just yet as I’m still young and studying. But I must say that I started with Esperanto and love it dearly, and thankfully so that I started this way according to a friendly post at one of my favorite language blogs here at IKindaLikeLanguages.com.

So, yes, I am an Esperantist. But I do love linguistic diversity as you can see in my short list above (with many others there). I don’t want to go on forever about myself, but I will say that I love languages of all types and always appreciate unique features in a language.

I do study Chinese and Latin in classes, as well. Oh, Latin. Hoping to one day study Turkic languages at college as well as Germanic languages (I heart Dutch, Yiddish and Norwegian. That’s why I want to study at IUB for Eurasian and Germanic languages).

I am also interested in conlangs and language-creation, hence the Esperanto and Volapük and then Glosa and some others. Want to create my own language one day.

Post a response with what you think and I’d love to hear from any other language learners with their studies.

Love you, and email me,

Brian

P.S. - I also do other things, lol. I am a passionate vegetarian and have my own blog and podcast (and on iTunes) about that. There’s more about me there. Check out my Kyrgyz-themed blog here too. Love Kyrgyzstan. Tweet me too!