“I started learning different languages because I heard people talking, but I couldn’t understand them, and I wanted to be able to. Apart from Spanish, I speak French, Italian, modern Greek, Hindi, and Portugese. I do travel quite a bit, but not to these countries. I just talked to people online. There are a lot of language-learning platforms where you can be like, ‘I want to learn this language. Somebody come teach me.’ Sometimes I watch TV or read in a new language. I think each language has a different personality. For example, German is very analytical, very to-the-point, very crisp. Italian is very melodic just because all the words end with vowels, which is why you always hear Italian people, when they’re speaking English, end their sentences with a’s and e’s. And, they talk-uh like-a this-uh. I think you can best connect with people when you’re talking with them in their native language. I’m taking Japanese [at Vanderbilt]. I want to [travel abroad]; I don’t know where though. That’d be chill.”
