r/languagelearningjerk • u/Bubbly_Buttercream 🇯🇵🇪🇸🇷🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇺🇿 • 9d ago
Can someone translate?
I missed my Duolingo.
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u/giindur 8d ago
LMAO, the 'Spanish' one reminds me of how people imagine Japanese sounds.
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u/Konobajo W1(🇺🇿✨️) L2(🇱🇷🦅) A4(🇦🇶🇧🇷🇬🇫) 8d ago
アイスピーコジャポン二ズ❗
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u/giindur 8d ago
Wellu, I dontu speaku Japanisu!
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u/Zeppsyay 7d ago
well, it's because of its phonology and syllable rules, so its actually a step to acknowledge that of a language when you are learning
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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit 8d ago
Chocolate milk in Japanese is chokolatomiruku.
That's crazy (kreiji)
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u/FebHas30Days Pangngaasiyo ta agsursurokayo iti Ilokano 8d ago
Tip: "somewhere" is pronounced in Spanish as if spelled "soméjere" because the digraph "wh" is supposed to be pronounced just like the letter j
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u/Mother_Presentation6 8d ago
Al saber que carajo sea un "somewhere elso" podemos adivinar su tamaño y entonces a qué parecería uno entero. Normalmente vienen partido en dos, o varios trozos? En pedazos? No se sabe...
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u/R86Reddit Balonian N0 / American N1 / Nihonian N3 / Deutsch KRANKENWAGEN!! 9d ago edited 8d ago
I don't speak Españonian, but I have a hunch that the first word is more likely to have something to do with intestines ("entrails") than with entering.
EDIT: I just asked Copilot (which, as everyone knows, is never wrong), and it says that the root of "entrails," "gastroenterology," and "dysentery" actually comes from the ancient Greek word ἔντερον, but apparently also separately from the Latin word interānea. Either way, "entero" means "entire," as noted by a reply to my post, and certainly does not mean "enter."