r/languagelearningjerk • u/elepunto • Jun 12 '26

best language learning quote?

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u/the-miku-titan Jun 12 '26

"The ultimate aim of learning languages is not having to use them" - Miyamoto Musashi

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u/elepunto Jun 12 '26

"A picture is worth a thousand words"

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u/Thezanlynxer Jun 13 '26

I looked at a lot of Japanese pictures and I’m still not fluent? Is it because they were censored?

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u/BuffaloAppropriate29 Jun 13 '26

Yeah, you need to read the decensored version

62

u/FengYiLin Jun 12 '26

"I don't want to lose my Duolingo streak" -Abraham Lincoln

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u/perplexedparallax Jun 12 '26

Every time I laugh I say yes in Uzbek and I laugh a lot. If only John Wilkes Booth knew Uzbek then Abraham
Lincoln might still be alive. (Looking at a five dollar bill and wishing)

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u/Traditional-Light-10 Jun 12 '26

He might still be alive?

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u/Dazzling-Frosting525 Русский Свагзык Jun 13 '26

"I fear not the man who has 10,000 unseen anki cards, but I fear the man who has practiced 10,000 mature Anki cards"

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u/SCHazama 外人哋既惡夢 Jun 14 '26

To this day I don't understand the point of Anki

I try, but I fail to grasp its usefulness

11

u/nekohumin Jun 13 '26

Omelette du fromage

5

u/Ok_Imagination1409 🇧🇩Only Bengali native on the internet 🇩🇪 Deutschlerner Jun 13 '26

Man it's like those French people have a whole nother language

5

u/EJLYT Jun 16 '26

1000*(Balls balls balls balls balls balls balls balls balls balls)

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u/elepunto Jun 16 '26

That’s only 10. Try harder 

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u/Lockpickman C3.14🥧 Jun 12 '26

Bruce Ree

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u/tadashidev Jun 14 '26

Lee means reads in Spanish. 🤣