Learn English – “Curious to learn” vs. “curious to learning”

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I know that in case of "looking forward to" I have to use the gerund form. So e.g.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Now I am not sure about this sentence:

I am always curious to learning new languages.

Is this correct? Or should I use:

I am always curious to learn new languages.

Best Answer

The adjective curious doesn't really match the idea of learning languages. Curious has the implications of asking questions. You could be curious about languages, but probably not about learning languages. (Unless you're curious about the study of language acquisition, but even then your sentence is odd because it has the quantified always.) I would say one of these instead:

I am always eager to learn new languages.

I am always excited to learn new languages.

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