In short: Just a person who loves languages :)

Currently learning Mandarin the most.

GERMAN

I was born and raised in Lower Saxony, Germany. SoGerman native speaker, specifically Hannoveran Dialect aka "no dialect", "perfect" Standard German.

ENGLISH

I can speakEnglish rather fluently since third grade. English always was my favouriete language and thus I am going to graduate in Anglistics in approximately three years! I listen to many English songs, watch YouTube in English etc., you know the deal. I actually learned most of my English through video games!

GREEK

Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by writing systems, but not that much by languages yet. I had a teacher who would give me books to learn theGreek alphabet and language, she still had some from her time in uni because of her Graecum, and was always there for all of my questions about Greek.

LATIN

I have been studyingLatin since 6th grade and will continue to study it in uni.

DUTCHI have a brother currently living in The Netherlands, so I am often talking to him inDutch whenever I can. In return he practises English with me, it's a win-win!

JAPANESE, KANA AND KANJI

Later, about 9th grade, I had my obligatory weeb-phase, so I started to learnJapanese. Ah, Japanese. There is no language yet I hate and love more haha. I am startled by its three (four if you count roumaji) writing systems, with each one having its place in written language.

MANDARIN CHINESE, SIMPLIFIED CHINESE

Because I stopped learning Japanese, but did not want to waste my hardly acquired knowledge ofkanji，I switched over toMandarin Chinese. I learn mostly Simplified to read and write, but am also studying to at least recognise Traditional characters. I need it for all the band and song name in Taiwanese Mandarin!

FRENCH

I went on a trip to France one and for that I wanted to study someFrench in my free time. I reached conversational fluency rather quick, thanks to all the Fench loanwords in German and English.

SPANISH

In the German equivalent of high school I had a friend with whom I studied in aSpanish class I was not assigned for. She was, soshe asked the teacher if I could join. She said yes. Since then, with varying frequency, I study Spanish, and in addition to that, because of its similarity to Latin and Spanish,Italian.

RUSSIAN, CYRILLIC, KOREAN, HANGEUL

I once tried to learnRussian, but I gave up because I was not as interested as I thought I'd be. But I still can readCyrillic somewhat fluently, so there's that. Same withKorean andHangeul.

HEBREW AND ARAB WRITING

If given some time I can figure out biblicalHebrew writing. I used to be able to readArabic fluently, but that is no more. Still know a decent amount of letters and phonemes though.

• to add a currently red article whenever I see one and can
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• to improve the German Wiktionary, sometimes it is lackluster

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