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RE: Learning German -- I want it to be my forth language.
still, impressive ... i was corresponding with a lady from indonesia years ago and tried to learn a little bahasa indonesian (or whatever it's called), extremely hard when nothing in the language relates to your language, no cognates, nothing
I understand what you meant! but truth be told, the speakers of Bahasa Indonesia / Malaysia will find alot of cognates to other languages, i've know of a few words in Indonesia/Malaysia that comes directly from Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian, German, English, Italian, Indian (Sanskrit), Arabic, and so many others.
I think it's hard to learn the language because one is basically learning a miscellany of all the language in the word.
I did have the honor to speak with @mammasitta during steemfest though, a Vienna-born, her Indonesian is immpecable! so it's definitely possible to learn any language given enough time, even the hard ones.
language salad! (-: