I am an avid linguistics learner. I am at low-intermediate level now, but I already know a lot more about linguistics than most people. In Spring 2016 I read The Hobbit and The Lord Of the Rings for the first time. During the summer, research on Wikipedia concerning the series led to research on linguistics from Professor Tolkien's constructed languages. On of the first aricles I found was on agglutination. (Such technical terms as this are explained on the grammar page of this site, so I won't explain them here.) By summer's end, I had learned so much, and a great passion had arisen. In the autumn I read linguist David Peterson's The Art of Language Invention a great book for learning how to make a language. From these two sources I learned most of what I know, along with bits and pieces from various places. I wish to educate more people on the macrofield and hope that they at least have an element'ry understanding.

I am multilingual in part. I am fluent in English, have studied to a low intermediate level in Spanish, and am a beginner in German and Standard Mand'rin. I am also set on studying Japanese and Finnish in due time. Even though it helps, one needn't be multilingual to understand linguistics or how language works.

Standard Mand'rin is a particularly special language for me because it's so diff'rent from English, Spanish, and German. First, it is not in the Indo-European family, but rather, the Sino-Tibetan one. It is my fourth language (with apologies to the Chinese), which is lucky for me. My first three are all fusional languages, but Standard Mand'rin is analytical/isolating, and the structure is very diff'rent. Not only is it written with a diff'rent writing system than the first three, thr Chinese script is also completely unrelated to the Latin script. (The Russian script, Cyrillic, is diff'rent from the Latin one, but is a sister script. The Chinese one is in an entirely other script family.) The Chinese script is not an alphabet either, but a logography. Standard Mand'rin also doesn't have all those tedious complex grammar things the first three have, like verb conjugation, grammatical case, adjective inflection, articles, etc. The list continues, but I'll stop here.

German is very special in a diff'rent way, more so than Standard Mand'rin. I am half German because my great-great-grandparents came from Germany in the 1800s and settled in New York. I feel a particular connection to them and want to learn the language they spoke (though I know I'm ignoring my other ancestral nationalities).