I can say that Terry Pratchett's Discworld is the ?sole? reason I actually started to learn or at least enjoy english back in school. Later I met the wonderfull people that speak it, enjoyed their good humor even more and then the hijinks with puns and other ambiguities of the language made for great fun. Todays it's a benefit for work in natural sciences but that's just a sidenote.
With dutch, I actually was interested in the country and it's politics first. The stand that society took on many issues among that on education and research was quite different to our practice here. So I went for a year to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, prepared a lot of dutch to dive into society and ... : Suprisingly you had to beat people over the head repeatedly so they would speak dutch to you. I disgress. Spreek Nederlands als uw blieft! I stil enjoy everytime that I actually get to speak it in Berlin.
Spanish is the top of my wishlist solely for the maybe-one-day-when-the stars-are-right trip to Buenos Aires and Tango.
Ulrich commented 4 months ago