dont you feel like you appropriate your target languages and cultures just learning them for aesthetic reasons?

areistotle:

deutschdream:

ihoeforlangs:

polysprachig:

languageoclock:

literally everyone uses english for aesthetic reasons but go off i guess

also … . . like some people are obsessed with writing and scripts, so when we so much as see an intriguing script we might want to learn the language for the #aesthetic. aaaaaaand the same goes for sounds you may think are cool but aren’t found in your native language, so you might even be encouraged by the muses – or whatever you think it is that gives someone’s brain the idea to be interested in something – to start learning a language you wouldn’t otherwise have any connections to simply because the sounds of it speak to you.

there are a trillion different reasons why someone may choose, learn, and dedicate their time to a foreign language. 

reblog with your own ““““dumb”“““ reasons for learning a language

i started studying german, my first target lang, because a 13 year-old me wanted to marry Roger Federer

I started learning German because I have a crush on a rapper called Rin… I got to be backstage at one of his concerts because my sister worked at the club he played at… sister’s fluent and I learned for the rapper… lool

i started learning spanish mostly because of the fact that the word in maltese for spanish “spanjol” sounded nice to me when mentioned on a show (maltese people will laugh if i mention which one), and so, easily amused me started learning it at about age 9 (my mum got me some sort of a spanish for kids book and i used to go to my aunt’s house to play the CD…they were simpler times)

i started learning japanese so i could read the extra chapters in manga. also so i could understand what my sensei was saying in karate class.