Lingotopia

My main motivation for learning languages is to learn about other cultures. Today I met a very nice family from Ethiopia. Actually, I almost knew nothing about this country. I only knew that their language is Amharic and I asked them to teach me how to say "good-bye" in Amharic and when I came home, I decided to do an Amharic challenge. This is kind of game of mine, that I invented a month ago. I choose a language, that I haven't learned yet and try to write a simple text and upload it on italki (a language teaching and exchange platform) to get corrections. That doesn't necessarily lead to me actually learning the language, but I get a glimpse of the language and the culture. I did that with Italian, Romanian, Polish and Odia (= Oriya) already. Italian was very easy because I know Latin and also a bit of French and Spanish, but Odia was challenging because it has its own script (initially I also couldn't figure out, how to use the Odia keyboard) and there ar...