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Language of the Week:

one you've never heard of

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the motivation to learn a language leaving a Redditor's body when they find out they can't just gain fluency by putting on a podcast while sleeping

6 Comments
2024/05/11
22:48 UTC

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Learning Armenian 🇦🇲

Hello I am already fluent in Uzbek (C8), Esperanto (C6), Fr*nch (C0.6), Tajik (C3.141592653589793238462643), Britain (C18), and Norwish 🇳🇴 (C63) and I think it is time to learn Armenian.

What do you think?

6 Comments
2024/05/11
20:42 UTC

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What does this text mean?

I don't know kazhak can someone translate please 🥺

6 Comments
2024/05/11
20:39 UTC

1

Help!

I’ve been performing Duolingus on Italians for weeks but I still can’t watch the Sopranos without subtitles. Any advice?

1 Comment
2024/05/11
19:10 UTC

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Today I learned a new verb in Spanish: Hacercarse

I mean, obviously it is a mixture of "Hacer" (make/do) and "acercarse" (approach), isn't it? Español ser muy fácil

4 Comments
2024/05/11
17:18 UTC

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Nah what did she say? 💀

13 Comments
2024/05/11
16:51 UTC

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I just wanted to know whether you can call the meal with "coffee and cake" just coffee in English and be idiomatic... The pictures in my head are my punishment

3 Comments
2024/05/11
15:34 UTC

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Not an Uzbek fan

31 Comments
2024/05/11
12:26 UTC

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Public service announcement: if you have a shitty personality, don’t expect it that it will change if you learn a language. It probably won’t happen.

14 Comments
2024/05/11
10:03 UTC

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I want to learn my heritage language, chicken Parm. Where do I start?

I can trace my heritage to chickens in the Eyetalian city of Parmaham. Is Duolingo enough or do I need full immersion?

3 Comments
2024/05/11
09:34 UTC

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Linguistic Takes

🗣️ when will people realize that Fernch is a simple dialect of Spanish from Latin America with speakers who decided to move back to Europe and expand the borders of Espagnola? It is just a mixture of Dutch and Latin American smh

/uj, I wish a simple ling 101 course was compulsory/the absolute bare basics could be covered in hs man 😭 is this what geologists feel?

6 Comments
2024/05/11
08:56 UTC

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True gigachads need only a few hours

7 Comments
2024/05/11
07:35 UTC

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Duolingo is so CRAZY FAST, I can't handle it! Does anyone know an app that really slows it down for the non-genius uber polyglot learners???

6 Comments
2024/05/11
02:18 UTC

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What better time to study tonal pronunciation than between fap sessions in your parents' basement

10 Comments
2024/05/11
01:57 UTC

3

Are the language classes at Mendocino Community College good?

Has anyone successfully learned German there? How long did it take you to be native level German?

1 Comment
2024/05/11
01:39 UTC

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Can you write whole sentences in Latin-based languages without any word spacing? (Japanese has word particles while Chinese does not have word spacing.)

I know for example Japanese & Chinese does not have word spacing the same way languages with the Latin alphabet do (including Semitic languages like Arabic & Hebrew), even Korean is a logographic language they still use word spacing, so I don't classify it the same as Japanese or Chinese.

!Forexample:Imean,inlanguagesotherthanenglish,canyoustillbeabletoreadthissentencealone? FromJapaneseitispossibletowriteoutanentiresentencewithoutwordspacingastheyinsteadhavewordparticlestobreakupwordsapart,whilechineseisnotinclinedtousewordspacingsincethatindicatesextraspaceforadditionalhanzi,inJapanesethatisanallocatedspotforkanaorwordparticles.(Toputit,thisishowbothJapaneseandchineseareread,theydonothavewordspacingthesamewayitworksinEnglishorinfactanyEuropeanlanguage.!<

10 Comments
2024/05/11
01:37 UTC

1

Help to translate

je lion tú. Je nemôže սպասիր wêze elrabolták and κυριάρχησε από εσάς engtik lai pawhin

(Please translate this in English)

1 Comment
2024/05/11
00:59 UTC

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I don’t want to learn the reading or writing aspect

4 Comments
2024/05/10
23:00 UTC

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one of you must have done this

5 Comments
2024/05/10
22:13 UTC

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thought i was on this sub when i read that

5 Comments
2024/05/10
22:12 UTC

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It’s literally the exact same kanji

47 Comments
2024/05/10
21:06 UTC

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Chinese characters 他/她 are misogynistic, and they need to be changed.

她 means she, and 他 means he. They are both pronounced the same way tā, the only difference is in writing.

Since they sound the same, the speech to text AI doesn't know which hanzi to pick. So it looks at the sentence and tries to guess the gender from context.

So when I say: tā shì gōngchéngshī it writes: 他是工程师(he is an engineer)

But when I say: tā shì xuéxiào lǎoshī it writes 她是学校老师(She is a school teacher). Also, when I say: tā hěn xìnggǎn it writes 她很性感(she is sexy)

Basically, AI follows sexist gender stereotypes when it tries to guess the gender during speech to text. We need to push for reform of Chinese so that they use 它 character instead of 她/他

32 Comments
2024/05/10
21:00 UTC

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They tell me to shock natives

6 Comments
2024/05/10
18:08 UTC

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looksmax discovers shocking the natives 😭😭😭

65 Comments
2024/05/10
16:34 UTC

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Reading this made me realize I'm fluent in Dutch

3 Comments
2024/05/10
13:51 UTC

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If I consume media in my TL as X2 speed will I become fluent twice as fast?

Need to become fluent very quickly, if I engage with all media at X2 speed (for reading just pure speed reading) would I be able to learn it twice as quickly as I could otherwise?

9 Comments
2024/05/10
11:24 UTC

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Does anyone have the Lord’s Prayer in ebonics?

2 Comments
2024/05/10
10:03 UTC

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Polyglot speaks Uzbek

1 Comment
2024/05/10
06:58 UTC

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Why no I translate from the Spanish to the English?? I want talk to native, no use words fillers

16 Comments
2024/05/10
06:14 UTC

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My three rules to learn a language.

-Use Anki and try to memorize 100 words a day. It’s a deep subject called “brute force”

-Watch as many YouTube polyglots as possible, even the ones who only have like one or two subscribers (Sometimes less is more). You never know if one of those is the “one”, the guru you need. Buy their ebooks so they don’t stop broadcasting.

-Learn an accent that is spoken by a minority in the country. For instance, if you learn English, learn English accent from rural Mississippi. Or Okinawa accent from Japan. Nobody from California or Tokyo will notice how bad you are faking that accent.

As I failed over and over imitating the Midwestern one, I am going to try to sound like those Hollywood actors in the 40s and 50s. How would I sound guys?

4 Comments
2024/05/10
05:56 UTC

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