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if your local music store lets you try before you buy, i'd try everything they let you. different instruments are more or less intuitive to different people, and it's hard to know unless you try. in your case, digging languages, i would for sure also learn basic music theory so you know "what* you're saying instead of just how. it's not neccisary to know theory to play but it's fun for it's own sake and hey! you might be inspired to write something! back when i was in school, the free exercises on tonesavvy (used to be called emusictheory) were the recommended way to get started
for habit building, you just gotta carve out the time and do it. once the novelty wears off, there are gonna be days when you don't want to practice, and a habit forms when you push through that. you don't need to practice for a long time every day, ten minutes is plenty as long as you're doing it consistently. a weird thing about playing music also is that it works kind of like muscle where you exercise to get stronger but you get actually get stronger when you're resting. if you find yourself getting frustrated, you can just put it down, and you might be suprised to find whatever you were stuck on today is easy tomorrow. but that only happens if you play today and tomorrow. it's also always better to practice slow and then speed things up once it's under your fingers. that ensures you have good form and you'll ironically get things up to speed faster than if you just tried to go fast from the start. the metronome is your friend
good luck and have fun!