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cazort

I’m Alex Zorach. I run a variety of websites, including bplant.org, RateTea.com, and 31et.com, among others. I am a native English speaker.

I tend to dabble in languages a lot, but I do like to get to where I can actually communicate. After English, I’d say my best languages are German and Spanish, followed by Russian and Portuguese which I’m a bit clumsier in.

I also know little bits of Chinese, Japanese, and Turkish. I hope to some day get better at these languages, and I also have other languages I would like to learn, including Hindi, Malay and Indonesian, and perhaps Vietnamese, Korean, or French.

I’m kind of opportunistic. If I’m around a lot of people who speak a language or start seeing a lot of it online in the course of doing the things I would otherwise be doing, I’ll pour more effort into learning it, and I will kind of scale it back if the language becomes less important in my daily life. I ended up learning German, Spanish, Russian, and Portuguese because these languages kind of presented themselves to me in a way that made it seem natural and easier to learn them.

Chinese is like this too but it’s a bit tougher to learn so I haven’t gotten as far with it.