Ms Bailey, Sound Production ArcJun 4, 2024
Easy: the vowels in Japanese are the same in Spanish!
Difficult: Speaking Japanese without a LatinAm accent

#language #linguistics #spanishLanguage #español #JapaneseLanguage #nihongo #polyglotProblems
Martine NyxMar 2, 2024

My grandparents, who used to live in Switzerland and are fluent in both Italian and French, asked me: “So, people in Ontario are bilingual in English and French, right?” to which I had to respond by explaining that the average Torontonian can barely speak English…

#canada #polyglotproblems #immigrantlife

賢進ジェンナFeb 6, 2024
Unfortunately, there is no way for me to study Suomalainen(Finnish) on #Duolingo via Nihongo(日本語). This means I have to use English. What I have learned after studying both Francais(French) & Suomalainen via English in Duolingo is that they need to adopt ESL rules for English speakers. I keep getting things wrong during my Suomalainen lessons not because I am bad at Suomalainen, but because I am bad at remembering to add in all of the useless articles found in #English.
#polyglotproblems
Martine NyxDec 14, 2023

Trying to explain to English speakers the difference between иней and мороз has to be the most Russian thing ever.

#russian #russianspeakers #polyglotproblems

Mme ZabetSep 30, 2023

I feel bad about using Google Translate for so much because I haven't yet learned more Korean, so I've started translating it into Spanish instead of English so that I'm at least practicing one language. 😂

#PolyglotProblems #Korean #Spanish #MachineTranslation

asekingSep 22, 2023

I'm not a dane, at least not yet, but i am danish enough, that earlier today - while speaking in english - i referred to a 'grass-hitting machine', because i blanked on the word 'lawnmower'.

#PolyglotProblems #MastoDK #DanskerTrut

Show threadtheNEDec 23, 2022
@AeroBlazt oh, come to think of it, that was another concern of mine: which language I should use on my accounts #PolyglotProblems
Rich West-SoleyNov 15, 2022
You can get some lovely macarons from Maison Bigot in Versailles. 😂 Apparently French “bigot” is less harsh than the English term, meaning something like “holier-than-thou” or “sanctimonious”. #LanguageLearning #Languages #french #français #PolyglotProblems #polyglotlife
Kitty ChandlerDec 21, 2017

Ah, the morning language wheel, wherein I try to maintain my languages and inevitably end up wondering how anyone can live with ten languages in their head.

Memrise: *here is some Italian*
Me: *stares at it for five minutes trying to remember which is the Italian*

Memrise: Translate 'the call' into French.
Me: ...llamada. chiamata. chamada... L'APPEL. Fuck you French you're not special.

#polyglotproblems