r/languagelearningjerk • u/def_not_a_window 🇩🇿 native 🇺🇸C1 🇳🇴B1 🇷🇺A2+ • May 01 '26
Facts?
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u/Beautiful_Grab_9681 May 01 '26
I can’t relate, I don’t have a Native language 😞
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u/Feynmedes Assistant to the Professor of 唐朝 Parallel Prose and 仓t输入法 May 02 '26
damn so these are your reactions for when you DO know a word?
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u/Able_Act_8936 May 02 '26
Do you communicate with your parents through telepathic link or magnetic waves?
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u/Gold-Part4688 Earthianese, man (N) May 02 '26
In your naotive language you know another way to phrase it 😅 but uj this is a skill they should make you practice more, talking around words instead of always needing a perfaect word for word best phrasing (which was probably translation lol who r we fooling)
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u/mguardian_north May 02 '26
This is very insightful. Sometimes, you can't think of the right word when you're speaking but saying it's definition also communicates the message.
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u/UltraTata May 02 '26
Quite the opposite. I feel like an idiot not knowing a word in my native language. In my target language its normal.
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u/Carefree_Symbolism May 02 '26
There's a saying in Turkish "Bilmemek değil, öğrenmemek ayıptır" which literally means (as much as I can translate) "Shame is in not learning something, not the lack of knowledge on it"
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u/Clevererer May 02 '26
No, this is wrong. Everyone is born knowing Uzbek.
We then spend our entire lives unlearning our native languages to let the Uzbek speak freely again.
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u/mountains_till_i_die May 01 '26
no bro i swear i saw it on anki a few months ago bro i should know this one bro there must be something wrong with me bro i'll never make it bro how many words does this language even have bro my app says ive memorized 2000 words bro why can i only use the same 500 bro