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I like that I have a lot of options in English. To my EFL bias, I enjoy being able to make slight changes to a sentence for subtle effect or to suit context. Saying the exact same thing but the slightest change can completely alter the overtones.

I've been skating on the barest surface of polyglotism for years, and am stunned at how basic some of the basics of other languages can be (if that makes any sense). Like, I didn't think they wouldn't be since kids have to learn them, just that I would have had a harder time picking it up.

As a kid, Hebrew and Hangul were enormously easy to get the alphabets down for, though I'm sadly out of practice. People are always calling Hiragana easy, though haven't tried (apparently there's a game for it on Steam). More recently, Cyrillic was an easy study, though I had a Russian friend on Steam helping me out on stuff. Shouldn't be too hard to get that back.

I was looking at the French language for like two weeks but never really followed through. Same with German. In face-to-face landlocked America, you pretty much have to go out of your way to find something that isn't English or Spanish. I think retention requires more than passing interest and the rush you get from native speakers gratified of your bumbling attempts.

To this date, I have never been mocked for a non-English error.

You are probably going to drive into a bunch

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I like that I have a lot of options in English. To my EFL bias, I enjoy being able to make slight changes to a sentence for subtle effect or to suit context. Saying the exact same thing but the slightest change can completely alter the overtones.

I've been skating on the barest surface of polyglotism for years, and am stunned at how basic some of the basics of other languages can be (if that makes any sense). Like, I didn't think they wouldn't be since kids have to learn them, just that I would have had a harder time picking it up.

As a kid, Hebrew and Hangul were enormously easy to get the alphabets down for, though I'm sadly out of practice. People are always calling Hiragana easy, though haven't tried (apparently there's a game for it on Steam). More recently, Cyrillic was an easy study, though I had a Russian friend on Steam helping me out on stuff. Shouldn't be too hard to get that back.

I was looking at the French language for like two weeks but never really followed through. Same with German. In face-to-face landlocked America, you pretty much have to go out of your way to find something that isn't English or Spanish. I think retention requires more than passing interest and the rush you get from native speakers gratified of your bumbling attempts.

To this date, I have never been mocked for a non-English error.

i mean, there’s a bit more to being polyglot than learning a few alphabets. that’s not even a beginning. by polyglot i mean comfortable thinking, living and working in several languages. not ‘i can do the russian a-b-c’. i can read and parse and compose in french with a bit of effort but i’m in no ways ‘fluent’ like a polyglot. 

never been mocked for a language error? visit paris.

Last edited by uziq (2021-02-24 15:36:44)

You haven't been past the rocky mountains. Visit NYC before you go to France. I will teach you to speak NY.

re: languages

Funny thing Youtube recommendations, totally unprovoked:

Of course it's clickbait. The video is a part of the youtube recommendations rabbit hole. There's an art to it. It's just that it's barely like a day since I was talking about languages here and all of a sudden youtube is throwing this stuff at me. Hilarious, and still spooky in 2021.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Of course it's clickbait. The video is a part of the youtube recommendations rabbit hole. There's an art to it. It's just that it's barely like a day since I was talking about languages here and all of a sudden youtube is throwing this stuff at me. Hilarious, and still spooky in 2021.

I've seen that in the generic YT sidebar recs for months if not years (never clicked it so dunno when it was posted).

SuperJail Warden wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

re: languages

Funny zthing Youtube recommendations, totally unprovoked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njn6krU3tQ8

That reminds me of a time I was at a dive bar with my sister. There was some ginger talking fluent Spanish to some Hispanic guy who might have a day laborer. The ginger even had the whole "speaking with hands" thing down. We asked him where he learned such good Spanish and he said he lived in the Dominican Republic for a while. He was like Uzique but not a weeb.

aren’t weebs for japan? don’t you collect gundam dolls for little children?

i’ve literally never expressed any cringe fascination with asian culture or it’s products. you couldn’t even find me gushing about asian music in 180 pages of ‘what are you listening to’.

meanwhile you’re living in your parents’ crawl space in junkyard new jersey, a place you’ll never leave because you’re a health risk and a DSM-V exhibition ... putting together gundam dolls.

some self-awareness with your trolling, pls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
you feeling ok bro?

i'm sure they have a fancy noun for 'spends hundreds of dollars on tacky boxes and nerd collectible cards' as well, but i'm not that well-versed in japanese.

Geez man, that sucks. Take it easy for awhile.

4 pints of blood is rather an awful lot, though survivable. I'd think there would be a transfusion involved at that stage. Hemoglobin levels couldn't have been good?

This is my facebook drama

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

FWP, listening to someone talk about their facebook drama like as if I can relate to facebook drama is actually kind of draining.

Legit same no one i know uses Facebook anymore except older people. It's funny how serious they take it too. A lot of them were the types that hated kids being on MySpace and thought technology was the devil lol