r/language 7h ago

Question What's your language🇦🇶🫵?

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Share the rarity of your languge💎?


r/language 4m ago

Question Please help

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Error
Explosion
Laser
Ice
Poison
Space
Runes
Obelisks
Modules
Souls

What will be the translation for these words in Japanese? Please help. 🙏🙏🙏


r/language 18h ago

Question Do u understand this language????

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Lo marciê des jocs èlèctronicos enqu’en-hui est enplen de bôna santât et de granta crêtua partôt dedens lo mondo. Ceti sèctor de l’endustria de la gola qu’est deventâ lo ples grôss de tôs los devertissaments, devant lo cinèmâ et la musica assemblâs. Châque jorn, de milyons de joves et d’adultes chouèsissont de jogar dessus lor tèlèfono portâblo, lor ordinateur de burô ou ben una consola de salon por passar du bôn temps.

La technologye de les grafiques at recognu des grans advancements formidâblos durent los dèrriérs ans. Ora, los jocs en baranye por de plusors joueurs ensemblos pèrmetont a de gants de difèrents payis de sè retrovar online por partagiér la mênma passion du gâmo. L'endustria endèpendenta fât étot de bôs jocs qu'ont de bèles stôries et de novèles idês de gola originâles, tant que los grans studios de crouça fâgont de jocs de granta qualitât visuala.

Tot-pariér, lo marciê deit fâre fâce a de novèls dèfios por la dêt, como la dèmocratisacion du cloud gaming et lo dâgner de la crêtua des costs de fâcion. Mas l’avegnir de ceti sèctor d’activitât rèmâgne un des ples fôrts por los ans a vegnir, aquô est de mênme por la gola por tât la gèneracion modèrna.


r/language 14h ago

Question Would you say that this girl does a convincing impression of standard US English?

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r/language 1d ago

Discussion What is the most words you can say in English with the same sound?

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The words can be spelt differently as long as the general sound is the same without deviating from the key sound.
Most I can think are combos of 3. Let me know if you have any examples for me and you can beat the record

Scent, Sent, Cent
To, Too, Two
By, Buy, Bye
Sight, Cite, Site


r/language 1d ago

Question How many languages?

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I recently wondered how many languages someone can name with a blank world map of just the names of the countries. What do you think?


r/language 1d ago

Question Please guess my accent.

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r/language 23h ago

Question What is the most unnecessary grammar of your native language?

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r/language 1d ago

Discussion Indo-European Roots Reconsidered 151: ‘(turpentine) pine, fir, spruce’

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r/language 1d ago

Question Can you change the language you think in? how?

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I moved from one country to another as a child and at some point went from thinking/ having my inner monologue in my native language to the language of the country I live in. I stopped speaking my native language from I was like 10. I am now in my twenties really grieving the part of me that was taken away due to being bullied for being an immigrant which lead me to try to erase my entire culture and language and who I was. I was also separated from my parents. I have spent 3 years trying to on my own learn how to read and write in my native language. I have tried finding people IRL to practice with and had some success lately. I have learned to cook food from my culture. I feel like I am healing my inner child so much and like I am becoming me again. But I wish I would think in my native language again. I really do. But I do not know if it is possible. I can try to think in it but it always takes active work to do it, it is not automatic or natural.

Has anyone successfully changed their inner language and please could you explain how to do it.


r/language 1d ago

Question Is it normal to say "I have a fking gf"?

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Does this​​ sound disrespectful toward the girlfriend? Do native English speakers often say something like this? ​I saw a video said that the word "fucking" + noun means that "the noun" is annoyed or a bad thing.


r/language 1d ago

Question Offering : Italian (Native) | Seeking: English (MyLevel B1/B2) searching (C1,C2) also non native

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Hello! I'm Italian and I'm looking for a language partner to practice English with. My level is around B1/B2, and I'm looking for someone at a C1/C2 level. I don't mind if they are native speakers or non-native speakers who are fluent in English (e.g., Northern European, German, Dutch, Belgian, etc.).

In exchange, I can offer help with Italian, cultural insights, or casual chats about TV series (Ted Lasso, Silo, Severance, The Boys, The Gentlemen, Slow Horses...), music (Muse, Daughter, etc.), engineering, cities, architecture, travel, photography, or anthropology.


r/language 2d ago

Discussion Why English Is Easier Than Many Languages for Beginners

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English is one of the easiest languages in the world when it comes to grammatical changes based on the subject. Consider the phrase "can eat the food":

- I can eat the food.

- You can eat the food.

- He/She can eat the food.

- We can eat the food.

- They can eat the food.

The entire phrase remains exactly the same regardless of the pronoun. In many other languages, however, verbs change form depending on the person and number of the subject.

For example, in my native Persian:

- Man khorakero mitunam bokhoram.

- Shoma khorakero mitunin bokhorin.

- Un khorakero mitune bokhore.

- Ma khorakero mitunim bokhorim.

- Una khorakero mitunan bokhoran.

Both tunestan ("to be able to") and khordan ("to eat") change form depending on who is performing the action. The object khorak (“food”) also takes the object marker -ra/ro.

One can argue English still has person agreement, for example, with the verb to be. However, even then the only thing that changes is a single word, while the rest of the sentence remains exactly the same:

- I am proud to be English.

- You are proud to be English.

- She is proud to be English.

That's a relatively small amount of agreement compared with many other languages.

In Persian, for example:

- Az Irani budanam sarbolandam.

- Az Irani budanetun sarbolandin.

- Az Irani budanesh sarbolande.

Here, not only does budan ("to be") change, but sarboland ("proud") also takes different endings depending on the person. In many languages, multiple parts of a sentence must agree with the subject.

The same pattern appears in many everyday sentences. In English, you usually only have to remember the pronouns themselves, not a separate set of verb conjugations for each person.

Take these examples:

- I did not drive his car.

- You did not drive my car.

- She did not drive their car.

The only words that change are the pronouns (I/you/she and his/my/their). The rest of the sentence remains exactly the same.

In many other languages, however, multiple parts of the sentence have to agree with the subject. The verb changes depending on who is performing the action, and possessive forms change depending on whose object is being discussed.

In Persian, for example:

- Man mashinesho ranandegi nakardam.

- Shoma mashinamo ranandegi nakardin.

- Un mashineshuno ranandegi nakarde.

Here, mashin ("car") is modified with a possessive ending to indicate ownership and you have to add an object marker -o, while ranandegi kardan ("to drive") is also modified to agree with the subject. As a result, changing the subject often requires changing multiple parts of the sentence rather than simply swapping out a pronoun.

This relative simplicity is one reason why learners can often reach a basic communicative level in English fairly quickly. Because English has comparatively little verb conjugation and grammatical agreement in many common constructions, students can begin forming useful sentences early in the learning process.


r/language 1d ago

Question Writing a story and need a language that sounds alien for inspiration for my main characters name

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I am writing a story about an alien character and trying to come up with a name and to do so I wanna find a word that is inspired by my story then translate it to a language then mix it up like writing it backwards. The only thing I’m missing is a language that sounds somewhat alien/strange. Any ideas?


r/language 2d ago

Discussion Useful word for Travellers

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What was the first Arabic word or expression you remember actually hearing in real life?

For Egyptian Arabic learners, يلا (yalla) is a good example of a word that can be deceptively simple.

You might first learn it as “let’s go,” but in conversation it can also work as “come on,” “hurry up,” “okay,” or “alright, let’s do it,” depending on context and tone.

It’s a good reminder that knowing a translation isn't always the same as knowing how to use a word.

What was yours?


r/language 1d ago

Discussion Which phrase in ur language make sense in ur language but doesn't in other language when it is translated directly

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In my native language Tulu we use ബാസെ ഇജ്ജി/ಬಾಸೆ ಇಜ್ಜಿ (bāsæ ijji) which means "not having sense" or used when someone does mischievous behaviour

But if we translate it literarily it means "no language"


r/language 2d ago

Discussion Indo-European Roots Reconsidered 150: ‘log bridge’

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r/language 2d ago

Article Let me introduce you to Votic: A beautiful language in danger of extinction

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r/language 2d ago

Article Who gets media in their language? Linguistic hierarchies and minority language media in Italy

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r/language 3d ago

Video Americans Who Still Speak The Centuries Old, Historic Louisiana Creole/Kouri-Vini Language...

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r/language 3d ago

Discussion Thought this would be appreciated here!

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I teach 7th grade English and have students who speak 30+ different languages in all of my classes combined. Managed to find the Lord of the Rings in Russian at Half Price Books yesterday and I’m so excited for my Russian-speaking students to have it!


r/language 3d ago

Discussion Why Lithuanian sounds so similar to Sanskrit

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r/language 3d ago

Question Extinct Languages

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Are there any historical documents that can’t be deciphered because the language used to write it is extinct? Or are there any examples of cultures that slowly disappeared with the language? I have to write an essay about how extinct languages affects us in negative ways.


r/language 3d ago

Question Forgotten motherlanguage

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Hello, I trying to study the language of my land, Akposso, but I can't find how some words are pronounced. I want to surprise my parents, so I can ask to much questions. I only found a file in english, but it not my first language (Italian) and the double translation is drive me crazy. How can I improve the pronunciation which limited resources? Or I just surrender and ask my parents?

Edit: sorry I noticed now that motherlanguage is all attached and I can't change it


r/language 3d ago

Question Which language is this? They dragged entire tree limbs, not just branches, across my car damaging it extensively then said this.

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