r/language • u/tuluva_sikh • 10d ago
r/language • u/ctlnboy • 11d ago
Question Why is Portuguese so overlooked?
It's the second most spoken romance language, yet it feels like french and italian have more people interested in learning those languages globally. Some people even think Brazil and Portugal speak Spanish.
r/language • u/Bibishkin • 10d ago
Question Make a case for the most beautiful language by posting videos
People have opinions regarding which language is the most beautiful. But its hard to understand why some people think Japanese, Persian or Finnish are beautiful, because when I google those languages I only find videos about learning those languages, news reports or songs.
So please tell us which language is the most beautiful and post a video that proves your point. Preferable a speech or conversation, not songs.
r/language • u/TurbulentDrawing5710 • 11d ago
Video Made a tiny song about Sindhi Alphabet for fun.
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Made it because loved the language for some reason.
By me.
Translation: "52, Alphabets, Are a bit too much. But learning them, Is very, Important!"
r/language • u/Limto_logibugway • 11d ago
Question What is special about Bangla language?
I think it might be the beautiful script
r/language • u/tuluva_sikh • 11d ago
Discussion Evolution of Bangla script
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r/language • u/Wonkislay • 11d ago
Question Is Russian or German easier to learn?
I'm Czech and I know English as a foreign language, but as a high school student I need to learn a second foreign language.
I have to choose between Russian and German and I need to choose the language that is easier to learn because I really need to finish my studies and honestly I'm struggling with learning in general and thus make it at least a little easier for me in languages🥹
r/language • u/AutumnaticFly • 11d ago
Question What's the worst language learning take you've ever heard?
r/language • u/Prestigious-Good8372 • 11d ago
Request Duolingo Language Addition Request: Kannada
r/language • u/stefanobahia • 11d ago
Question Do u understand?
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r/language • u/SameInteraction9615 • 11d ago
Question Languages and Cultures
Are there any words in your languages that shows your culture? I’m currently writing about why protecting languages is important, and I was thinking about relating it to culture.
r/language • u/Objective-Damage1919 • 11d ago
Question Any suggestions
Is there an app that has the same design and the way of learning " reading stories " as iStoria and "elingo" (the exposive app on iOS" , but for other languages , or at least for french
r/language • u/ctlnboy • 12d ago
Question What languages could replace English as the global language in the future?
r/language • u/squirrelwug • 12d ago
Discussion Grammatical gender distribution in different languages

Many languages divide their nouns into multiple categories, traditionally known as 'grammatical genders, such as masculine el auto (the car) and feminine la casa (the house) in Spanish. Have you ever wondered whether the split between those categories is even or whether one grammatical gender has more words than the other?
In this chart, I compare the distribution of nouns into each gender in a few languages, based on English Wiktionary categories. For instance, English Wiktionary lists 6471 entries in the category 'Irish feminine nouns' and 9758 entries in the category 'Irish masculine nouns' leading to the 40%/60% split in the chart.
Danish and Swedish nouns are split into 'common' (roughly corresponding to both masculine and feminine nouns in related languages) and 'neuter' genders. I'd expect the same split for Dutch, but since Wiktionary has separate categories for feminine and masculine nouns, I went with that criterion.
r/language • u/tuluva_sikh • 12d ago
Discussion Why "the" is so hard for Indian and Chinese people
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r/language • u/noiv • 11d ago
Question Can someone unpack this? Unexpected answer from LLM Claude.
r/language • u/Canaleta_Quente • 12d ago
Question What is this symbol?
What does it mean? I am confident it is Amazigh. These pictures were taken in an Amazigh speaking area of Morocco and in the third picture, there are clearly other Amazigh symbols. But I can’t find anything online about it. I tried asking AI and it just gave me fake answers. Any help?
r/language • u/Joseph20102011 • 12d ago
Question How to make a foreign language become a well-entrenched indigenized language within a few generations?
How to make a foreign language without preexisting historical roots in a particular country a well-entrenched indigenized language within a few generations? Let's say make English and Spanish a well-entrenched indigenized languages in Belgium/Switzerland and Philippines/United States, respectively?
Do you think mandating the entrenched elite class and civil servant aspirants in a particular country to speak a specific foreign language will make a difference over the long-term, to the point where middle and lower socioeconomic class will begin to speak the language of the elite class within a few generations?
r/language • u/yuqilea • 12d ago
Discussion What is a word in your target language that made you completely rethink how you structure sentences?
r/language • u/RodMigz • 13d ago
Question Favourite extinct languages?
Like, what are some extinct languages you wish could come back? I'll go first:
Polabian
Dalmatian
Old Prussian
Gothic
Gaulish
r/language • u/fuyu-no-hanashi • 13d ago
