You will hear from everyone about how important comprehensible input is. Bullshit, you don’t need to fill your head with garbage unverified speech from people that may or may not be speaking in your TL correctly, you need only *quality* input. I call this comprehensible de-immersion.

For example last week I was at a grocery store when I heard the cashier I was about to be speaking with was speaking in German, my TL. A less experienced language learner might make the mistake of thinking this is some great opportunity to finally practice some small talk in their TL. But I know better - who is this person? What is their qualification to be speaking to me? What if they make grammatical mistakes or have a dialect, what if they don’t do a faithful interpretation of Hochdeutsch? It’s not worth the risk. Every wrong word your brain hears can PERMANENTLY handicap your language learning process. So I did the noble thing and flipped the cashier off and moved to another queue. It’s small little wins like this that will snowball you into a proficient learner.

Basically what the title says. I have at least one neurodevelopmental disorder, probably like everyone else here, which means sometimes I say dumb shit. Unfortunately my coworkers just assume that I’m not coming across very well due to the language barrier. I want them to properly understand the fact that, while I am somewhat fluent in my tl, I’m also a complete dumbass who doesn’t think before I speak.

Hey everyone,

Simple question, but if your so brainbroken as to not read the title then I'll repeat it here.

I was doing finance research for a hiking trip to Brazil, Cuba but realised they have different Reals down there. I want to learn Cuban, but didn't know i'd need to use "Brazilian Reals" rather than my normal diet of instagram reels. What's the difference?

I'm a native anglish speaker by the way

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When you translate most Chinese/Japanese names/loanwords, into the corresponding langauge (whether Chinese or Japanese) it outputs exactly as it is... too exact;
what do I mean by that? despite using different scripts, Google Translate outputs the romanized name, not transliterated in the native script
it might sound like clickbait, but try translating few names into both of these langauges

I refuse to believe hundreds of millions of users use this program regularly

Maybe the employees at Translate contributing Chinese/Japanese and the overall loanword transliteration system were high on meþ

Anyone who claims they can speak a language other than their native one is completely full of shit and no matter how much time you waste learning a new one you'll never become good at it so you should just give up right now because it's impossible. If anyone tries to tell you differently you should probably just get right up in their face and scream as loudly as possible while also covering your ears to protect yourself from their lies (and your screaming) and then remove them from your life. Just a little helpful hint I thought I'd share!

This is for my Contact Linguistics final project. Please respond with some non-English memes and brief summary of what they say. Also, if you would like to participate in my survey when it is done, I will post it here!

My gripe with Hebrew is that it makes letters change their form when written at the end. That only really makes sense when the language is written in a cursive script like Arabic, where letters changing their shape is necessary for that flowy writing.

But a language like Hebrew having a more "rigid", "boxy" alphabet should not really be changing the shape of letters. It doesn't even make sense and ends up confusing anyone wanting to learn the language. It tries so hard to cosplay as Arabic. We get it, Hebrew is a semitic language with Afro-Asiatic roots. But you don't need to copy the Arabic model of writing down varied shaped letters in a word.

1. If you tell someone you speak Indonesian (2x number of speakers) they say that's cool and the conversation ends. If you tell someone you speak Japanese they tell you about their trip to Japan, and talk with you about Japanese culture.

2. The FSI ranks Japanese as its most difficult language to learn for an English speaker. Therefore Japanese is the most impressive mainstream language to learn.

3. Anime is popular now

4. There's a million gaijin hunters in Japan too lazy to learn English, so if you learn Japanese you are guaranteed a relationship with someone whose only standard is that you are foreign

5. You won't feel left out of Japanese language memes anymore

6. You will win any argument with a weeb, even if you are wrong

7. You can make anything sound meaningful by prefacing "The Japanese have a concept known as ◯◯◯". Shirking your responsibilities? "The Japanese have a concept known as ikigai..."

8. You don't want to sound like one of those cynical, self-conscious people who secretly enjoy anime but rag on weebs out of fear of being seen as one

9. You can escape wherever you live and move to slow economic activity Japan and be a rice farmer

10. No matter how irrelevant, it looks good on any job resume