Language Learning

French is a beautifully musical language that shares thousands of words with English, making its vocabulary feel instantly familiar. However, you will need to practice silent letters, nasal vowels, and matching your adjectives to the gender of your nouns.

Spanish is a highly phonetic language with straightforward pronunciation rules. However, you will need to get comfortable with a flexible word order, matching the gender of nouns and adjectives, and a larger variety of verb conjugation endings than in French.

Tagalog is a rhythmic language with predictable phonetic spelling, and it borrows thousands of words from Spanish and English. However, its verb system is complex: you will often put the verb first and use a complex system of verb prefixes, suffixes, and even infixes!

Toki Pona is an experiment in minimalism with a vibrant community. With only around 137 words and 14 basic sounds, you can learn the entire vocabulary and grammar rules in days. However, because it is so simple, the challenge lies in combining basic words to express complex thoughts, which requires you to think in new ways.

Ukrainian is written in Cyrillic, but the alphabet takes only a few sessions to learn, and spelling follows sound closely once you can read it. However, stress can fall on any syllable without being written, and nouns change their endings across seven cases depending on their role in the sentence.