Do you happen to wonder how your language feels like "from outside"? Like trying to detach yourself from it and try to feel like a foreigner, possibly even one that doesn't know it at all, feels about it?
I am so curious to know how Italian sounds so sometimes I try to concentrate on the sound and forget the meanings but it obviously doesn't work too well. Especially besides the usual things they say about Italian. Especially the famous statement that we speak "like singing". I'd like to hear that because it doesn't seem like that to me. Spanish sounds a bit like singing to me, but my friend (Italian) who lives in Spain said they say we "sing" and she kind of agrees that we "sing" more which I can't really picture.
Or I try to look at written text and again forget that I understand it and see how funny the words look, but even if it works a bit, it still doesn't work perfectly.
Also, sometimes I wonder how it feels not to be able to read at all. Which is stupid because if I look at a Japanese text, I could get that feeling so easily
But it's different somehow, other alphabets don't seem to matter, I want to know how it feels not to be able to read mine. Does anyone remember that, or we all forget the feeling once reading becomes usual? I learnt to read when I was 4 years old and I guess I always really wanted to as soon as I was conscious enough to want it, so that's why I learnt so early and quickly and I can't remember how it feels not to be able to, at least a little bit.
Or maybe it's a stupid thread so we can use it for things you randomly wonder about