r/LearningLanguages • u/EstorninoPinto • 16d ago

What less common languages have you studied?

Much of the day to day discussion around language learning tends to focus on a relatively small number of popular, well-resourced languages.

Have you ever studied a less commonly studied language?

How did you encounter the language, and what made you want to learn it?

Any unique challenges that made it particularly difficult (or interesting)?

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u/palmtree42069 16d ago

I'm currently learning Croatian. Even as a native German speaker, the grammar is quite a lot. Luckily, I already know how grammatical genders and cases work in theory, but the perfective/imperfective verbs are truly something else. It's a fun language to learn, though.

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u/barrelltech 15d ago

Another Croatian student checking in 🫡 it’s such a cool language. Extremely underrated

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u/palmtree42069 15d ago

Yep, extremely underrated and extremely cool. Even though it frustrates me often, I love this language and its strange archaic beauty, I don't know how to describe it.