8 things that I'm enjoying about learning Dutch so far:
1. I looooove vowels. Dutch has words with unbelievable numbers of vowels in it.
2. It is sometimes near enough to English to look like a totally decipherable bad text message to me. Or an LOLcat. Example: "Wat zei u?" is an actual grammatically correct sentence meaning "What did you say?" Love.
3. The letters k, v, z. These letters are ignored far too often in English.
4. It sounds cool and foreign. I have come to realize that I could never learn Spanish because I had no interest in learning Spanish. Almost everyone here speaks it. It sounds same ol', same ol' to me. Dutch sounds different, which therefore makes it interesting and exciting.
5. Guttural "g". Very fun to say.
6. New phonemes that I haven't got nearly enough use out of in the past.
7. It is refreshing to be studying another Germanic language as opposed to Latin languages because my native language is in the same language group. You can definitely see how Dutch and English evolved from the same roots only to diverge due to time and separation.
8. Many Academic librarians are required to have another Master's degree to pair up with the MLS. If I were to go after another Master's I would get my degree in History. Students are usually required to be able to have at least a reading knowledge of a foreign language. If I do this, this whole Dutch venture would actually serve a purpose rather than just appeasing my childlike sense of curiosity and wonder :P
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