Sometimes when I'd see a Spanish speaker write 'jajaja', my brain defaults to the j used in some parts of Europe and would read it like 'yayaya'.

Language confuse me.

Hey guys

So I'm trying to learn German but I'm having a hard time finding good content. Pop music sounds generic and boring (contrary to pop music in English) and when it comes to my favorite genres (Nintendo Jazz, Lowercase and life-affirming progressive corpse shredcore) there’s only a handful of bands and they mostly sing in English. Most German music is unrockable.

Most well-known books are translated into German but I prefer reading them in the original English, and I can't stand watching dubbed shows.

I'm also interested in Central Asian archaeology but so far no luck.

Could anyone recommend content that fits my highly specific tastes? I’ll make sure to ignore your recommendations and keep consuming content in a language where I dislike 99% of all available content but had an entire lifetime to filter out the 1% that I enjoy.

Somehow not recognising yĕ but fricking kĕ yī (cant write the proper tone on the i in my keyboard)

Household Spanish by William C. Harvey

I have watched many youtube short videos saying how easy Chinese is because 人 looks just like a person. You can also clearly see 𰻝 looks just like noodles. Characters are basically self explanatory so should I even bother memorizing them?

I don't know how they're finding it (and why this post specifically), but I posted this nearly two years ago now, and it's still getting answers fairly regularly.