Reading have been my passion for a really long time. Years ago it shifted from reading books to blogs and eventually more and more websites coming from several RSS feeds. But sometimes I miss focusing on a topic for a longer span. Audiobooks are a really good alternative, but it is not the same as a “real” book. Furthermore, I only make process during periods with longer commutes and with the downside that I lack behind my dose of podcasts.
Continue readingI am not an avid language learner, but I am about to reach 2,5 years of learning languages with duolingo. My first focus was on Indonesian and since around one year I am getting familiar with Esperanto.
Both are very interesting in different ways:
The basics of 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia are very easy to learn. It mostly uses the order of subject-verb-object, makes intensive use of pre- and suffixes to change word meanings and has no genders, no inflections on verbs nor tenses by changing verb forms. Plural forms are mostly doubling the word and it uses the Latin alphabet.
Esperanto on the other side is clearly planned and when you have some knowledge in European languages, mainly Spanish/French, English and German, you will quickly realize that the vocabulary is more or less a mashup.
