I love all the languages I see on fedi.
My German is starting to come back a little because I trip over German language posts and try to understand them before hitting translate.
It is one of the best things about fedi that hardly ever seems to get mentioned - the fact we get to rub shoulders with people from wildly different places and see new viewpoints
Oh I am nowhere near fluent. There was a time I could read books in German, but it has faded with time. It's why short toots are a godsend!
I've been reading about how language learning actually happens by immersing yourself in practicing (rather than these gamified apps that keep you spinning your wheels). I read that looking at the language and reading basic literature in the language -- even if you don't know it -- is the best way to learn if you can't immerse yourself or chat with someone who is fluent. So I've just downloaded a couple of very simple books in Dutch to try to get a sense of that language (because it fascinates me).
Petra
Ari "Two Foxes" Jackson