Languages

...or talen in other tongues.

The Language Corner

• I speak Canadian English 🇨🇦 and 普通话 🇨🇳.
• Ik ben Nederlands 🇳🇱 leren en op een dag vloeiend Nederlands te kunnen spreken. Correcties welkom!
• I started learning Swedish 🇸🇪 one morning and it’s a shame to stop now.
• Je peux écouter et épeler des phrases déformées en Français 🇫🇷.
• In the future I’d like to learn 🇪🇸 and 🇪🇬.
• There should also be an Esperanto flag here, but unfortunately it’s not in the official Unicode Emoji list and isn’t yet a candidate, so it’ll be a while before any green flags adorn any webpages.

So what’s this deal with talen?

Dutch was the first foreign language I really fell in love with, so it is only fitting to name this page after it. Besides, don’t you love the way the word rolls off your tongue? Talen. Talen.

But your talen are useless!

I’ve always maintained the position that the desire to learn a language is justificaction enough to learn it, because having another language in your arsenal is (with some minor exceptions only ever a positive.