{"id":113,"date":"2006-07-25T17:46:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T16:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/25\/lure-of-the-unknown\/"},"modified":"2006-07-25T17:46:46","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T16:46:46","slug":"lure-of-the-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"The lure of the unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning a language related to your mother tongue is generally less difficult than learning one that&#8217;s distantly related or completely unrelated. However, getting to grips with a language that&#8217;s very different to the ones you already know can be very interesting and exciting. Such languages can seem strange and exotic, and other people may be suprised, amazed and\/or find it hard to believe that you&#8217;re studying them. Once you become more familiar with a language, the strangeness tends to diminish. Perhaps that&#8217;s when it&#8217;s time to have a go at a different, even stranger language.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the most unusual language you&#8217;ve studied?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Addition<\/strong>: by &#8216;most unusual language&#8217; I mean the language that&#8217;s most different from the ones you&#8217;re familiar with. For me it&#8217;s Chinese and Japanese &#8211; everything about them is different: the grammar, the pronunciation and especially the writing systems. This is one reason why I chose to study them at university rather than French or German, which don&#8217;t seem very exotic to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning a language related to your mother tongue is generally less difficult than learning one that&#8217;s distantly related or completely unrelated. However, getting to grips with a language that&#8217;s very different to the ones you already know can be very interesting and exciting. Such languages can seem strange and exotic, and other people may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}