It is interesting to learn how linguists ‘discover’ linguistics. My older brother was learning French at school. Me (10yrs old): ‘OMG it’s another language, how do they do it”. So I started to read his textbooks and found the differences fascinating.
So cute! Yes, I think it often begins with fascination with other languages, way before we know there is a field that studies how languages work. I also learned Devanagari from my mom's books when I was around 10 because I found it so fascinating that there are very different-looking scripts (from what I knew) out there.
It is interesting to learn how linguists ‘discover’ linguistics. My older brother was learning French at school. Me (10yrs old): ‘OMG it’s another language, how do they do it”. So I started to read his textbooks and found the differences fascinating.
So cute! Yes, I think it often begins with fascination with other languages, way before we know there is a field that studies how languages work. I also learned Devanagari from my mom's books when I was around 10 because I found it so fascinating that there are very different-looking scripts (from what I knew) out there.