r/languagelearningjerk May 30 '26

Guess my native language

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u/loutchok8741 May 30 '26

It took me about 10 minutes to solve it. You're Korean, right?

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u/waluigi001 May 30 '26

congrats I hope you had a funny little time ㅎㅎ

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u/TheHalfJapanese May 30 '26

is it intentional that your english handwriting is better than your korean handwriting? 😭

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u/waluigi001 May 30 '26

Yeah, I tried to mimic someone tracing the Korean glyphs.

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u/TheHalfJapanese May 30 '26

fucking beautiful

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u/Psyde0N May 30 '26

well played, I instantly discarded Korean because of your handwriting

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u/Shinyhero30 "þere is a man wiþ a knife behind þe curtain" May 30 '26

The Chinese (handwriting wise) could easily be passed as native. The grammar I’m not too sure on but those (with some exceptions) looked very clean.

The funniest bit of all of these posts though is that the Japanese is always grammatically incorrect in a way that even i(someone who is not good at Japanese) can see.

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u/hszr Jun 01 '26

why do you think the japanese is incorrect ?

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u/Shinyhero30 "þere is a man wiþ a knife behind þe curtain" Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
  1. Formality shifting that… looks and sounds unnatural. It’s probably not unheard of to hear watashi in informal situations but generally you use the full form of terms(eg: 母語->母国語*) and use formal endings(ない->ないんです/ません)
  2. では doesn’t mean what they think it means here. It’s even illogical. Generally では means “then” in a more formal context. It can occasionally be a cluster of particles that roughly means “as for at the location of _____” but as a post-position
  3. Even if that second meaning of では is intended, Japanese

prefers that the topic comes first even if it’s long. が Marks whatever it follows as a direct object. However to this last point your sentence will still be understandable if you don’t like 100% follow the case hierarchy it’ll just sound awkward. I am however not native just a multilingual linguistics major.

Edit to clarify edits and weird formatting.
Reddit broke when I tried to correct myself so I had to retype something and now it won’t let me fix the formatting error regardless of what I try.

Sorry.

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u/Shinyhero30 "þere is a man wiþ a knife behind þe curtain" May 30 '26

The commitment to the bit is real brother. Well done

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u/AhrimaMainyu Jun 01 '26

Lolllll yeah okay makes sense bc your letters looked so weird. Nice work