Thank you!
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Thank you for sharing all that, I love learning about languages! So in your case, did you study one of them (Kyrgyz, I would assume?) and then pick up the others as you went along?
I hear you on tonal languages, they are beautiful but SO difficult to learn for a native Indo-Germanic speaker! When I was learning Mandarin, I cannot remember how many times I embarrassed myself by getting the sound right but the tone wrong 
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Aaah, I like that! My mom is Frysian, so that makes me a half one 
My second name is Vroukje, named after my grandmom. I love that language but I can’t speak it though. But because my grandparents spoke it I do understand it.
The Frysk even have their own flag 
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I first learned Thai while living there for a few years. Then I moved to Turkey where I studied Turkish for sometime. Since then I’ve been in Kyrgyzstan. I learned Kyrgyz first (which was made easier after learning Turkish) and then began to learn the languages of the surrounding countries. The most difficult to learn was Tajik because it is Persian instead of Turkic but I lived there for sometime and then visit so frequently that I was able to learn it well. I’m really glad I learned Tajik and that it is such a similar language to Dari and Farsi when spoken. When I travel to the Middle East it is easy to get by but I would love to focus on learning Pashto. Last trip to Iraq I ran into more Pashto speakers than Dari or Farsi so it became more difficult to get by comfortably.
Oh man I could tell some really embarrassing stories about all my terrible language mistakes and also some really funny ones! Especially with tonal languages 
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English: native
Irish/Gaeilge: fluent
French: unit 2 on Duolingo
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English and Italian (Sicilian dialect)
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I have no idea where my Mom got this or from whom but at least I know what it says. And I learned a few things. Thanks!
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