What was the first language you got interested in and why?
For me it was Hebrew and it's cool writing system, then ithkuil and how alien it seems. It lead me down a deep rabbithole to where i now make writing systems.
Spanish because in high school it was either that or French. Although there were some French speaking towns in the area, I figured Spanish would be more useful to me since I planned on moving away to go to college. I got so into it I got a PhD in it.
Yeah same, learned french for 4 years but couldn't pick up a word. Spanish personally was just a more fun language and i have more investment in actually learning it.
Spanish, when I was very young, basically because it was the only other language (besides English) that I knew existed. I grew up in an extremely white/homogenous place, so Sesame Street was pretty much the only reason I even knew Spanish existed.
Exposure to a language is always very important, and i think Spanish is pretty common as a second language in Britain and the USA since Spain and Mexico are quite close
French, because it was the only language offered at my school as a second additional language (English is my native language, and Afrikaans was my first additional language).
This year, though, Ukrainian was my main focus. I finished the Duolingo course and I've been listening to Ukrainian podcasts and reading articles.
Nah i tried learning it when i was like 14 and made a pretty poor attempt of it. Rn i can only remember some of the alephbet and pretty much no words. Great that you can find people online who are willing to speak such an amazing language though!