Languages
Own
Inspired by studying languages and by Saturnina, I started developing languages of my own. So far there are six of them, all quite unique and different from each other: Soailau, DSR, Marium, Carlÿca, Gordon and Skritskopouvas. I've even spawned a cunning plan to do a Tolkien by building a fantasy universe around them. The world (and the novel) is called Marium, after the culture that was the first to develop cartography.
Natural
Although I have serious doubt that I could stand a chance of being called modest in any area, this is the last one where I could achieve that. Long time ago I've accepted the fact that everyone has to be good in some area and this is mine. Like I've said on many occasions, if it was possible to get a profession simply by studying languages, I'd be the first in line. I've never been much into culture and such, I just want to learn the languages. So far I've studied the following ones, in some kind of order of fluency:
| Language | Comment |
|---|---|
| Finnish | My mother's tongue |
| English | The third domestic |
| Italian | My favourite, also used to be my main work language |
| Swedish | The easiest language in the world |
| French | Old reliable |
| Spanish | The thing I keep recommending to everyone |
| German | Love-and-hate |
| Korean | My first extra-European language, recent passion |
| Portuguese | The most challenging one of the Romance family |
| Dutch | So much better than German |
| Estonian | Fun fair |
| Russian | Should be on its way towards the top of this chart... should... |
| Danish | Beautiful! |
| Chinese | Something totally different |
| Basque | The most difficult language in the world |
| Latin | The mother of all |
| Romanian | The latest link in the Romance chain |
| Maltese | No way to pretend practical use for this... |