I have this one coworker who only speaks Spanish

@Nadie oh true 🤔 I didn't even notice how it's actually good practice. I've actually been feeling more confident about my Spanish so that's cool

@JustGoneNow Lol I used to use that instead of P in old school emoticons
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@ChiefJustWalks @Starcrossed

This is mostly my opinion about learning a language but anyways -

Being able to hear and read it is more important (at least at first) than being able to speak and write it. Reason is because we learn more about things when we read and hear than in speaking and writing.
The GOOD news about the skills of reading and hearing is that they are easier than speaking and writing. Speaking and writing forces us to construct somewhat coherent statements and if we are not good at it yet, we screw up a lot. In reading and hearing, especially reading, we can process it easier, assuming something is well written or clearly spoken.

I am learning French, I do alright with "instruction" but still understand next to nothing when hearing it. So I been focusing on "hearing"

@Starcrossed yeah it’s called Þorn. And it makes the “th” sound.

So you’d call the letter phonetically “thorn.”

@ChiefJustWalks it’s unlikely that you would. It’s one of the least known living languages (meaning it’s still actively spoken,) in the world. And the vast majority of the people that speak it… live on the tiny island. My Da was just born there and lived there until my grandparents and him immigrated when he was a teenager. Even other Nordic people can’t speak it because it’s way different than Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish (they all share a lot of common word but Icelandic does not.)

@JustGoneNow damn well that's bragging rights for sure then 👌 makes it very cool that you can speak it

@ChiefJustWalks do you want to hear it spoken? I’m too shy, but I’ve got a YouTube clip of a girl from the island.