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I know it’s Arabic but I can‘t get it to scan on a translator. Found on a nearly broken down car under a tree in the parking lot of a Little Caesars.

If I said that I filled up my car with 10 dollars worth of gas, could that definitively mean to someone else that my car was full of gas? Besides saying "I put 10 dollars worth of gas in my car", would there be a better way to say the statement?

Hey guys i'd love your advice please I've been learning Japanese for over 3 years and this years decided to focus on outputting. I've tried hellotalk and tandem but even if i talk to some people, i cannot have long-term exchange. So i came up with the idea of creating a small server discord focusing only on practicing (through topic discussions, games that required you to write like taboo games). The server will be limited to only 15 members and people that have a level hight enough to hold simple conversations.

What do you think about my idea ? Do you see any flaws or things that wouldn't work ? How would you structure a small, focused group like this to make sure everyone benefits from it?

Hi, i'm learning Korean by myself with the 1A Sogang Korean books. This is from the Workbook.

Based on what i learned until now, the sentences i could arrange are the following: 2. 렌핑 씨는 여덟 시에 친구 집에 가요. 3. 미나 씨는 보통 여덟 시에 공부해요. 4 and 5 i haven't even tried cause i couldn't even understand or complete the previous ones.

On the second one i added 저녁 in between 친구 집에 and 가요 but i don't know if it means to go to have dinner or not, i know 저녁 식사해요 means having/eating dinner.

And on the third one i can't fit 아침 anywhere.

I believe i have to use every word cause it does so in the example.

*SOLVED* I remember seeing something somewhere about a language in Indonesia maybe around Sulawesi/Maluku that is near extinct and uses Cyrillic to preserve itself? It'd be nice if anyone here knows what I'm talking about and could tell me what its called, thanks.

Hi everybody, i want to know what language is this and what does it mean? Any help would’ve appreciated

In Romanian it is the most frequent situation: I sit on the chair=stau pe scaun (”I sit on chair”) See this question and my answer here.

With some prepositions and expressions like ”in the house”, Romanian ”în casă” has equivalents in Italian ”in casa”, Portuguese ”em casa” and even Greek ”sto spíti” (στο σπίτι) (In Romanian casă is the noun without article, casa is the one with the definite post-fixed article). But in Italian at least this seems exceptional, while in Romanian is the most frequent situation, and the definite article is used only when the noun gets supplementary qualifiers (în casa mea) or with a specific preposition (cu trenul=”by train”).

So in Romanian we say: on the table=pe masă (”on table”) - through the wall=prin perete (”through wall”) etc.

What other European languages have this feature where things like ”I sit on the chair” are said with the noun ”chair” lacking an article?

Well, what is it in fact?

I have always been under the impression that it's a Dutch dialect and differs fraom main Dutch about as much as the dialect we have here in southern Sweden, Skåne, which definitely sounds unique and has its own words, but is still 98% like "rikssvenska", or mainline Swedish. So basically like any other dialect. Or at least at most like the Stavanger dialect in Norwegian which can be quite hard to grasp if you're not used to it. I also worked in a translations office up until last months, and how we would separate Flemish and Dutch was with the language codes nl-nl and nl-be, so at least on our side it was considered the same language.

Some people are really insistant that it's not just a dialect, though, and that it's actually a different language.

So, which is it in your opinion? A dialect or a language?

I can't find it anywhere, I've heard it's a forgotten language and not in the books but maybe there is somewhere I don't know about, please suggestions 🙏🙏

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I'm reading a book where a Moor named Kanil-El-Norkel is mentioned. Does anyone know if that's a valid Arabic name and if it means anything?

Such as "The bird is warbling, he is a very good singer." I've always and still do refer to animals as "he", and at first I thought I was wrong. But I've seen so many people do the exact same thing. Is it incorrect to say "he" rather than "it"?

Hello everyone! I have a song that I’m trying to translate, and I need some help with identifying the language, and I also need help with the translation itself. The language of the song is definitely a variant of some old Scandinavian language.

Here is a link to the lyrics:

https://genius.com/Arckanum-hvila-pa-tronan-min-lyrics

Thanks in advance!

Back in 1972, an apparently schizophrenic man attacked Michaelangelo's Pieta in the Vatican and brok it into pieces. Shortly afterward, the comedian Don Novello (best known as Saturday Night Live's Father Guido Sarducci) started writing letters to famous figures as an eccentric also named Laszlo Toth. He collected the answers and published them in a book called "The Laszlo Letters."

Wikipedia has entries for three Hungarian athletes also named Laszlo Toth. Now Adrian Brody stars as yet another Laszlo Toth in the movie The Brutalist.

Is Laszlo Toth the John Smith of Hungarian personal names?

For context I am Asian

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My friend in Brazil asked me if Portuguese, or Spanish was older. So I looked it up in spanish, and at the same time they looked it up in Portuguese. I confidently replied that Spanish was older and sent a screenshot, but they replied that Portuguese was older and sent a screenshot. Google actually generated different responses for each language. I know that AI has trouble propagating information between its languages, I just thought this was super interesting

Hi I'm Stanley and I'm 14. I have to take French and Spanish in school and it's my biggest dream to study/live in Japan. Since i have the opportunity, I want to learn these three languages fluently by the time im 18. Is that feasible? How much should i practice per day. Any tips to learn fast

Trying to figure out if this is a real language

My native language is Greek, and we use a verb to express being hungry (πεινάω) or thirsty (διψάω) instead of a phrase like “I am hungry” or “tengo hambre”.

I was just curious if there are other languages that do the same, or if Greek was an outlier in that regard?