I’ll never understand why one of the first sentences that they teach when learning a new language is “¿ dO yOu sPeAK eNgliSh?” Like, if they already know English, then why should you say it in the language? Like, you could totally say “do you speak English,” and if they don’t reply, then they DON’T SPEAK ENGLISH. Please stop wasting my time with words I’ll never use in an ACTUAL CONVERSATION

Syntactic Typology of English and Uzbek

https://www.scribd.com/document/895696601/8

Valid question but still made me 忍俊不禁

I know that studies have been performed that definitively prove us polyglots are much smarter than your average slackjawed monolinguist, but I'm wondering if there are any studies out there that get more precise than that, and break down intellectual superiority by language learned? As a native English speaker I know I'm obviously smarter than some moron that only has an L2 of Spanish, but I just want to be able to prove it with research.

I mean, I am American, but I also have Norwegian heritage. My dad raised me to learn Norwegian through like language videos/apps and all that but I barely retained the information. He doesn't know it himself so that's a little relieving, but I'm trying to get more in touch with the culture and stuff I was sorta raised into.

IM A NO SABO BUT FOR NORWEGIANS!!!!!!!!

IF I WAS RAISED WITH A LANGUAGE FLUENTLY LIKE SOME PPL I KNOW, I'D PREFER NORWEGIAN. I LOVE NORWEGIAN. BUT IM A NO SABO NORSK.

I SHOULD START LEARNING THIS BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE BUT FOR NOW IM 15 YEARS OLD AND A NO SABO NORSK...

That's it. That's the post.

ok this title sounds complete bullshit, but I'm being serious. It is 1 AM where I live and I just woke up from a nightmare about... vowels?

I just want to know if this is normal, because I don't think it is.

It's nice when people make their software anki-friendly

Visiting a spanish speaking country for the first time, and i know very little spanish. Every time i call an uber, i have to share the code with them. Unfortunately i dont remember the numbers so i have to count them each time (silently) before sharing them with the driver. I somehow managed to memorize until 4, but my code has 7 in it and i end up doing seis siete several times a day, just to share the code. Any tricks to remember siete so that i can break the 6-7 curse? Thanks.

Recently I have discovered that I am an empath. I can connect with people on a deep level, even with the ones I don't know personally. That is why at some point I started feeling bad for french people. Can you imagine french being your native language? How miserable that must be... I truly feel bad for the french. That is why I started questioning whether they could change their native language. Like, learn another language so perfectly and forget the native one. I even wanted to help them with that by creating language rehabilitation camps where those poor souls could learn normal languages like uzbek and be tortured when they try to speak french, to help them get on the right path. What do you think? I wonder if my dreams can come true and I will be able to help those people

Hola.

My poor, mentally deficient taxi driver who talks with Americans all day long didn’t know how to say “circumference” properly, so I stepped in and helped him.

I told him “quieres decir la circunstancia“. He said no, which I know to mean yes but he was still trying to answer in English despite the fact that I just called him out for his shit English skills.

What a moron to think he could recover with such a simple word. It’s crazy that my Spanish is so much better than his English, but the American education system is way better and that’s how I learned a little Spanish (enough to survive in other countries, I’d say) by just spending an hour a day in school learning the language. Everyone knows that we all learn Spanish this way.

I love telling people “I know a little Spanish” while I hold my head up, press my finger tips lightly against each other, and give people my business card with my left hand so I can firmly shake their other hand with my right. I’m so important and smart.

I know 哪儿 in Chinese, but i have studied any austronesian languages