It always fascinates me listening to a new language that I don't know, and most of the time it makes me want to learn a few words, just in case a tourist visiting my city needs me or if I travel to that particular country.
It seems weird to hear it, or in this case to read it, but I have to say that the German language somehow fascinates me every time I hear it spoken.
Yes yes, I know, it may not sound like Italian or Spanish, but since I used to study foreign languages in the University of Trieste, I never really had any prejudice towards languages and their sound (or any prejudice about the population speaking those languages, of course!)
After all, languages are nothing but codes that we speak to communicate, and there are just more than 7000 languages all over the world.
7000 different codes, to express our-self, our ideas, our images, different objects, everything!
I already speak Italian, English and French, and I used to study Russian and Greek for work, but it is only now, thanks to this course for hotel receptions, that I finally have the chance to make my first steps into this harsh but practical language.
My first thought after the first lesson? Yeah, it's a bit difficult to make all those fricative sounds all the time, but nothing impossible to surmount with some exercise... OK, maybe a lot of exercise, still, it can be done!
It's also nice to see that some words are taken from other languages, especially other European one, of course. That just makes me smile, because it makes me think at all the types of influences that arouse when two or more People meet for commercial or cultural reason.
Anyway, I can't really say or write anything in German now, but let's just say that wishing a nice weekend in German is as nice to hear it as in any other language, trust me!!! ;-)
Bis Bald!
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