Steemit posts and learning languages

What kind of community and blogging and sharing and earning platform is now Steemit? Honestly, I don't know what happened with all that story about takeovers, splits, corporate stuffs and whatelse.

The first thing I noticed after I came back was the TRON account thing, but the second one is this: tons of posts in Korean.

Unfortunately, I don't know Korean nor Chinese. I'd like to learn all the languages of the world, but unfortunately, beyond my mother tongue I can barely speak one another language, that is English — I am born in that side of the world where economic and cultural dominion is kept unchallenged (apparently…) by the yankees.

When I was very much younger I was so naive that I thought that pocket dictionaries with few pages summarizing the basic grammar of a language were all I needed to know enough to read and write simple sentences.

I have pocket dictionaries of Japanese, Chinese, Kiswahili, Finnish, French, German, Arabic, Hebrew, Swedish, Danish, Russian … But along my journey I picked few languages that made me more curious and bought bigger dictionaries and more grammars: Japanese, Icelandic, Finnish, Russian…

in one case, that is, Japanese, I have two grammar books, a Random House English-Japanese small dictionary, and two big and complete dictionaries of Kanjis. I have also a course with MC — you know, CD wasn't commercial yet. Another MC course I own is Norwegian.

I had to pick a language for exams at the university and I chose German — followed the basic university course, but then I did the Spanish, because, well, it was easier for an Italian…

A part of my family live in French speaking countries, and I should really learn French — I have a basic grammar, a dictionary Italian-French-Italian, bought some books to read… which I am able to read and understand with just the help of the dictionary, even if I have no solid grammar background…

In recent years I got a little bit fixated with the idea of learning Finnish, Icelandic, and Russian. But there's always a part of me that thinks about Japanese, another part would also like to learn Arabic, and biblical Hebrew, and I also would love to get in touch with Latin again, and study ancient Greek…

About Chinese: with the experience of Japanese, I know that it's really hard to start reading a bit. Japanese has kana, so I had the chance to get child books with very few kanjis — but anyway, a japanese child knows more kanjis than me! And also I had something with furigana. But even so, you don't feel the immediate connection with the word and its sound most of the time in real world written stuffs. With Chinese it would be worse. I am just too old to get a grasp of those very interesting languages and their writing systems.

Now, I see Korean script is Hangul, which is a very interesting script! And maybe approachable even for a tardy like me. Maybe I can learn how to read it, but this would be just the first small step. And I've so many languages in the list I haven't finished yet to learn how to understand the basic stuffs if I were to be left in a country where people speak only those languages. I don't feel like I can add Korean just to feel steem feed a little bit more understandable: unfortunately, I have to fly over those posts to dig one post I can understand.

Languages I will know if I live 100 lifes

For some, I even have already something to get started, and sometimes I did it!

• Ancient Greek
• Arabic
  • and other languages using Arabic script or script derived from it; e.g., Farsi
• at least
• Chinese
  • from Mandarin to… any dialects…
• Danish
• English (done, more or less)
• Finnish (have materials)
• French (started…)
• German (started…)
• Hebrew
• Hindi
  • I have a pocket Sanskrit dictionary, maybe it could help with devanagari
• Icelandic (started…)
• Italian (done!)
• Japanese (started… plenty of materials)
• Kiswahili
  • other Bantu languages?
  • also, I'd like to know at least one language with clicks
• Korean
• Latin (have materials)
• Norwegian (have materials)
• Portuguese
• Russian (started, have materials)
• Spanish (started…)
• Swedish
• Turkish
• …

The list is long, and should be even longer, but if I have to live 100 lifes, I think I can make it…

Otherwise, it is just a dream…

Do you want to add your language to the list, or did I already included it?