{"id":11803,"date":"2015-10-28T18:06:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11803"},"modified":"2015-10-28T18:06:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:06:45","slug":"new-languages-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11803","title":{"rendered":"New languages to learn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have acquired quite a few new language courses: as a sponsor of the Polyglot Conference in New York I received 10 new Colloquial language courses in Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Russian. I also bought a Glossika Russian course with the special offer given to conference participants, and bought a Basque course from Assimil with affiliate commission from Amazon France.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/languagecourses.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\" alt=\"My new language courses\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I learnt a little Hungarian many years ago, and am currently working on Czech and Russian, but haven&#8217;t studied any of the other languages before. I&#8217;d love to know at least the basics of all of them, though have no particular need or desire to learn them at the moment. Also, I already have courses in a number of languages that I have only glanced at so far &#8211; Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots and Cornish.<\/p>\n<p>Do you sometimes get carried away with acquiring language courses and other materials? <\/p>\n<p>Do you think you will get round to learn all those languages one day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have acquired quite a few new language courses: as a sponsor of the Polyglot Conference in New York I received 10 new Colloquial language courses in Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Russian. I also bought a Glossika Russian course with the special offer given to conference participants, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,99,106,123,10,13,39,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basque","category-czech","category-estonian","category-hungarian","category-language","category-language-learning","category-polish","category-russian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803","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=11803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}