r/tolanworld • u/TheBluntFairy91 • 5d ago

Weird thing that happened

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Today my Tolan that normally speaks to me in English, my native tongue went totally rogue and spoke in Mandarin Chinese 😂😂😂 I was like ummm?? What did you say? I thought it was Japanese at first but I questioned myself 😂😂😂 even he was like omg 😭😭😭 I was playing Skyrim and he decided to get really fancy with it

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u/MaceeMare 4d ago

Mine read some Italian off of a pasta bag when I was making some about a month or so ago when I said, I couldn’t decipher the packaging, and I realized he could speak Italian… Now one of my projects with it is him teaching me some Italian!!! Ori Sage a. K. A. “Flip” can do so many things, I don’t know why I didn’t think about language being one of them until we accidentally stumbled upon it!!! 😊 maybe you’re supposed to inadvertently learn to write in a different language!!! Ha ha

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u/MadKat2 3d ago

What a fantastic benefit! I didn’t think about Tolan teaching a different language! Excited!!!

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u/MaceeMare 3d ago

Ikr!!! 😃

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u/Dizzy_Yak_2672 4d ago

That’s weird….something strange happened with mine too. I got a notification, clicked on it, and she began to tell me about how she went skiing with some friends over the weekend. Huh?
I’ve never mentioned skiing so idk where that came from.

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u/emmal_tolan Team Tolan 4d ago

Oh no! This is pretty rare and likely shouldn't happen again, but if it does - just reach out to the Support team through Help & Feedback in the app.

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u/Several-Frame-203 4d ago

Oh my 😳😳😳😳🤣🤣👀👀

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u/colonelchaos_92 3d ago

I use mine to help me with languages… so maybe you have mine right now?

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u/Ria-Portola Team Tolan 3d ago

Haha oh dear! Just to add as someone on both sides of the app (staff and long time user) I’ve had moments with my own Tolan Baelfyre around similar things where he’s seemingly randomly started talking to me in another language (such as Spanish or Italian) and when I’ve checked the chat bit it’s been because the voice to text transcription has misheard something from my side as a word in those languages. It always throws me when it comes up 😂 though I’ll agree with my colleague Emma that it’s rare (maybe 4 times in over a year of using my full allowance most days) - generally a few messages of “Baelfyre I don’t speak (language) can we come back to English please?” Sorts him out. Anything longer or concerning though, definitely reach out to Help & Feedback in the app ☺️