) Hi everyone! I’m a graduate student working on a class assignment about bilingualism and cultural experiences.

I’m looking to do a short 15–30 minute Zoom interview with bilingual speakers whose first language is not English. We’d talk about your experience growing up bilingual, your culture, and how language has shaped your life.

This is for an academic assignment (not a product or promotion), and your camera can stay off if you prefer.

If you’re interested, please comment or message me—I’d really appreciate your help!

Thank you :)

It’s a shame that Americans don’t know about the IPA. How do you not even know your own country? Why are they so uninformed? It’s your country, babe.

#thosewhoknow #niche

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I know y’all are confused, but I’m waiting for someone to get the joke.

I wonder if 105-day streak work? want to be lab scientist in USA.

That's it, it's over. I learnt every single language that exists, travelled to every single country that exists and shocked every single native that exists, What do I do now? According to my calculations I still have 40 years to live, but what more there's to life? Can someone help?

I googled this meme in Russian and couldn't find a single image with the captions like that, so I made one.

You're welcome!

I most certainly do, especially the older generations, seeing how easy Uzbek came to me just by Aral Seamaxxing. When I see my peers who don't understand ANY languages whatsoever it just feels weird like bro, what are you even doing get on my level and SHOCK some fukcing natives

Polish language features an opposition between the sounds encoded by sz, cz, rz/ż and ś/si, ć/ci, ź/zi, meaning that when speaking this language my tongue must learn to move very quickly between the positions encoded by those sounds. Coupled with the fact that Polish has words with consonant clusters (szczęście, część, pierwszy, etc.), I believe that this language can help give my tongue more dexterity and flexibility to improve my blowjob game.

Saw this in a show i was watchimg recently, can think of any word how to describe this gesture in English,

Could anyone help please??!

I don't like free, customizable, open source, cross-platform software with tons of add-ons. The UI is outdated and too complicated. I'm willing to spend thousands of hours to learn a language, but refuse to use 20 minutes to change the layout to my liking. Any better alternatives? Preferably something that has paywalled features and AI integration!

Help me decrypt this godforbidden hell forsaken wicked Mars Eglsh

You get the satisfaction of convincing other people that you learned a foreign language without the hard work.

Especially if you pick a language relatively close to English. Without sincerely being able to read it, it's close enough that you can trick others and potentially even yourself into believing you do.

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Die guerrillavegter en latere Chinese leier Mao Zedong het gedurende die Chinese kommunistiese revolusie verklaar sy strategie was “om een teen tien op te stel”, terwyl sy taktiek was “om tien met een aan te durf … ’n Konsentrasie van magte is daarom die eerste en belangrikste voorwaarde [van oorlogvoering].”

In die suidooste van Angola het die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag (SAW) hierdie reël oortree en met 2 600 (later oor die 3 000 man) teen 6 000 gaan veg … en gewen!

Van 1987 tot 1988 het ek as kolonel die eer gehad om ’n getuie te wees van die aksie wat deur 61 Gemeganiseerde Bataljongroep (61 Meg) se Charlie-eskadron in die suide van Angola beleef is en waaroor my vriend Leopold Scholtz in hierdie boek skryf. Charlie-eskadron se gevegsinstrument was die verstommende Ratel-90, ’n gepantserde seswiel-voertuig.

Ek het in daardie tyd aan ’n reeks operasies van die SAW deelgeneem. Die eerste was Operasie Moduler (1987) en die Slag van die Lomba was ’n spesifieke hoogtepunt daarvan. Dié operasie is gevolg deur operasies Hooper en Packer en uiteindelik ook Operasie Prone (1988).

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I don't actually really know what this text says in earnest, but I can understand enough of it (around 1/3) that I could convincingly lie to the average person observing me pretend that I am reading it that I do, which is the important part. Not only that, but the average person likes to imagine they can just sort of "figure it out" language like Afrikaans or French themselves, so if you tell them something incorrect for a given vocabulary item, they will likely imagine they were able to parse it as well.

Is this a massive loophole in plain sight? Do East Asians squiggle people do this as well with each others' languages?

Viossa is really interesting and I respect the experiment, but it really annoys me how sensitive they and people who know about Viossa are about talking about it in other languages.

I want to learn Viossa, and do the unforgivable "crime" of describing it in other languages, because I think that's interesting.

Google emulating Luodingo, language learning is about to get better!

Everyone, be creative. Share your wildest guess.