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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?
I don't know kazhak can someone translate please 🥺
I’ve been performing Duolingus on Italians for weeks but I still can’t watch the Sopranos without subtitles. Any advice?
I mean, obviously it is a mixture of "Hacer" (make/do) and "acercarse" (approach), isn't it? Español ser muy fácil
I can trace my heritage to chickens in the Eyetalian city of Parmaham. Is Duolingo enough or do I need full immersion?
🗣️ 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?
Has anyone successfully learned German there? How long did it take you to be native level German?
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.!<
je lion tú. Je nemôže սպասիր wêze elrabolták and κυριάρχησε από εσάς engtik lai pawhin
(Please translate this in English)
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
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?
-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?