Hello,
My real name is Gergely, I'm 21 years old and a Hungarian college student currently studying on a BA course of Buddhism with Japanese Language and Culture minor.
I became interested in languages when I found out I'm actually interested in them and also got the potential to be able to learn more of them. My native language is Hungarian and I've been studying foreign languages since I was 16 years old. That was the age when I could say I could fairly speak English. A year later I moved to Malaysia with my family for a year and a half. I learned Malay (the standard language plus a dialect, also education was only available in that language) and Indonesian there, I could speak those languages almost fluently, but since I don't use them daily anymore, I'm getting quite rusty on that field. Also, I improved my English significantly while living abroad. And although Dutch has always been favorite language since the age of 14, I didn't take any steps towards studying it until I was about 18. I can fairly speak Dutch, having no problems with understanding written Dutch, but I have problems with spoken Dutch and the syntax when I have to create complex sentences on my own. I began college when I turned 19 years old. I originally wanted to take the Tibetan minor course, but it didn't start, so I switched it to Japanese. The reason for this is that I wanted to become a linguist of East Asian languages. I studied both Tibetan and Japanese on my own before selecting the course, and I found Tibetan to be easier than Japanese, so I thought I'm going to build my 'carrier' starting with easier languages then go towards harder ones. So yeah... I currently study Japanese at college and Norwegian on my own. I wish to study languages as long as my mind is capable of doing so. And on the side, I can read and write Arabic and can speak the language to some extent. I had Arabic language in Malaysia in school.
As far as linguistic goes, I've been interested in language history for about a year now. I'm interested in knowing how a language evolved from its earliest form to the one that is spoken today - what features it has lost and what others it has gained. I'm also in love with sentence structure, noun declension and verb conjugation. I like seeing how these things are built up in different languages. However, I mostly study these subjects regarding Indo-European languages and Hungarian. Also, since unfortunately I'm not doing too well with Japanese at college, and I can't really decide if I still really want to be a linguist of East Asian languages, I might fully switch to Indo-European languages. I haven't really made up my mind regarding that, but it's for sure that I want to work in the field of linguistics. Also, I'm interested in applied linguistics.
Well, that's about me in a nutshell.
