#learning another language

German is cute!

It's like that really big scary looking guy lifting weights in the gym, who when you get to know him is actually a sweetheart who works as a dog groomer and collects teddy bears.

They have compound words that should be whole sentences, but the little words don't want to be alone.

The German for dumplings is maultaschen - that literally means mouth pockets (or feedbags)!

X-rays are Röntgenbild - Röntgen picture (because he discovered the radiation which he called X)

(Ellie is from Spain and her English isn’t very good)

Right finds out Ellie spoke Spanish when he ran into her ranting to herself while training, with Right surprising her with the comment that her accent was hot.

Ellie completely goes flustered and embarrassed, with Right asking if Spanish was her native language. Ellie found herself sheepishly admitting it was, that while she was decent at English, she had a long ways to go.

So Right offered to give private English lessons to Ellie, knowing what it was like since he only spoke Russian for the longest time.

I am taking a Russian course this semester so it would be pretty nice to chat with someone whose mother language is Russian or you know, just fluent in Russian

1 in 7 people on Earth speak English (~1 billion people).

Slightly over 66% of them (743.5 million) are not native speakers, making English the most spoken second language in the world but the world’s third biggest first language.