>mfw i know 7 languages
>Only 2 of those languages have more than about10 million speakers
>The only one of those 2 languages that is relevant is English
>tfw know 16 languages
>only 1 is relevant
>its my native language
>>62150822
>Tfw my older brother forced me to speak English at home and would beat me if I spoke our native language.
I speak three languages:
>one has 28 million speakers
>one has ±110 million speakers
>one has 1+ billion speakers (English)
r8
>>62150712
Post which ones
>speak 24 languages
>nobody online believes me
>>62150922
I know English, Burmese, and a shitton of random ethnic languages
Know a little Norwegian, German. Romance languages come hard to me.
>know one language
>it's literally the only one I will ever need like ever
>>62150712
dumb frogposter
>>62151760
>Mfw I speak your language perfectly with no accent
>Mfw your language was like the 7th language I learned
>Mfw I didn't even need to study English to learn, just watched movies
I struggle with English, I don't think I'll get where I wanna get anytime soon,
>>62151850
>with no accent
>>62151899
Pic
>>62151895
Just keep watching movies, and speak English at home, its how I learned.
>>62151895
Hello I polish yes you need sink fixed? I ask for good price only thank you
>>62151992
that's what I do actually, I have issues with fast speaking guys/movies, tho. Like Nostalgia Critic or Tarantino movies (40%-60% understood aproximately). Well, at least without English subs.
>>62152200
Hmmm, do you have any English friends?
>>62152401
Nope, I don't know anybody with much better English than mine.
>>62150887
CHI
>>62151277
That's awesome t b h. I'm learning Vietnamese, a bit more speakers than Burmese but still pretty useless unless (until) I go to Vietnam.
>>62152482
Hmm, then you can only take matters into your own hands, just keep doing what you are doing and you'll surely make improvements
>>62152534
I'm asian
>>62152642
What's your native language?
>>62152632
Yea both are useless internationally
Burmese is pretty easy desu, someone could probably being able to perfectly write it in like 3 months
>>62152642
I don't wanna call it a day yet (nor I have reasons to do it) but I'm quite happy with it's state. Not too happy, so I keep working on it, too. I couldn't understand and pronounce shit at my 27y/o (8 y ago). I could only more or less write and read it. U know, old games had almost no spoken content
>>62152721
I have like 4 native languages.
Burmese as my country's language, Chin (Hakha) as my state language, Mara as my county language, and chhai hlo as my mother's village language.
>>62152753
The Burmese script looks really cool. Vietnamese is the easiest Indochinese language to write tho since it just uses a Latin alphabet with a fuckton of diacritics. Vietnamese is kind of like Chinese, Chinese is related to Burmese, and all the languages are tonal, so they must be pretty similar.
>>62152884
Burmese is related to Nepali, they sound like cousin languages, and we have a lot of Anglo (many English words exist in Burmese) and Chinese influences. Burmese is probably easiest for a native English speaker.
>>62151045
>languages
More like dialects
>mfw I'm learning a language
>all I've done with it is shitpost on /int/
What am I even doing with my life?
>>62153468
using wroten foreign language, actively and passively
it won't earn you nobel prize but still, there's like 100kk worse ways to spend time
>>62153525
or written
>three mandatory languages in primary school
>only one of them is truly useful
>>62150712
>Tfw know 2 languages
>Only one is relevant
>It rhymes with Ithkuil
:^)
>Tfw when born and raised in Montreal so speak French, went to English school and come from a Portuguese family.
>tfw when I speak 3 of the top 6 most spoken languages.
Feelsgood.jpg
>>62153775
Kamelåså
>>62154501
Tit gera bara lívið truplari fyri okkum
>>62151277
> I know a language
> 1, 2,3,4,5 hi, bye
americans everywhere, tourists included
I speak both english and Portuguese fluently.
I can understand and read spanish perfectly (like any Portuguese person), and talk/write fairly okay.
I can write, read and understand french (speaking is a bit harder since I never practice so it's really rusty).
I can read hiragana and katakana and i know some basic jap.
Im learning korean.
I wish i could learn mandarin and japanese too but for now i'll just stick to Korean.
>>62155269
wtf me too, exactly the same languages with almost exactly the same skill level.
>>62152642
>CHI
NESE
>>62155375
Ever since ive started learning korean ive found so many people who are also learning it haha. It's a pretty rewarding language to learn. The fact that hangul is so easy to pick up really helps. Also fortunately the pronunciation isn't too hard for us Latin speakers even if it's a tiny bit harder than jap. How long have you been learning it? Ive been learning by myself for the past month.
>>62150712
>tfw murricans will never know how it feels being able to speak all european languages
>>62155557
I've been learning it for 2 years, but not actively. I only studied it seriously for around 2 to 3 months (alphabet, basic sentence structures, how verbs work and a little bit of vocabulary). My biggest accomplishment is being able to read/sing rap 노래방 written in hangul kek How about you? How much do you already know?
>>62154727
Lol, Im not American
>>62155269
>I speak both english and Portuguese fluently.
>I can understand and read spanish perfectly (like any Portuguese person), and talk/write fairly okay.
>I can write, read and understand french (speaking is a bit harder since I never practice so it's really rusty).
Literally me.
>>62155269
just from reading this post I can almost smell the haven't-left-the-house-in-weeks stench this obese neckbeard weeb is sure to be releasing
I speak the perfect language, which is spanish; any other can't into our rich nuances and vocabulary (no amerifags, wetbacks aren't an example of intellectual spanish speakers). Also I speak english, wich lets me to communicate with the world.
Confy status:achieved
>>62150712
>tfw I know 5 languages AND THEY'RE ALL RELEVANT
>>62155921
I'm assuming:
French,English, Spanish, German, ????
>>62156118
...and Italian.
I didn't count the various Asian languages I tried to learn and forgot. Will learn Russian soon.
>>62156118
portuguese...
oh wait... it's irrelevant
>>62156156
Just learn Portuguese, should be easy as hell for you.
>>62150712
>tfw I speak 2
>only one is actually relevant and the other one is not even as relevant as Spanish for my job
I am trying to pick up Japanese or Spanish but I dont feel like it's worth it to study either intensively to reach college level.
>tfw duolingo actually works if you just want to learn how to speak a language and ignore focusing on grammar
wew
>>62156167
Dude, it's more 'relevant' than German...
>>62156156
I fail to see how italian is relevant
>>62150712
How do I learn a language anons? My classes in middle and high school never helped.
I tried Duolingo for Spanish, but I stopped due to lack of commitment and feeling like it progressed too slowly and I'd forget it anyway.
How did you guys learn and remember a language quickly and efficiently?
>>62156342
culture. both audiovisual and literature.
>>62156314
>canada
>relevant
“Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.
Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.”
― Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla
>>62156175
I can already read Portuguese and guess wildly what it says. But I'm not motivated to learn it. Maybe I'll try just for the bunda?
>>62156336
It's relevant in opera and high culture in general.
>>62156342
Practice everyday with people or media from the country.
>>62155269
>I can understand and read spanish perfectly (like any Portuguese person)
Every portuguese person might be able to read spanish, but not understand it. Not if it's spoken at natural speed and with regionalisms.
>>62151895
Easy, just find some anglophones to practice with, and given that we're fucking everywhere, it can't be that hard to find someone that you can actually talk with
Especially online
>>62151992
How the heck can you learn by just watching movies??! Do you have native subtitles on? Pls teach.
>>62156395
>>62156167
Is this the level of intellect I can expect out of all Germans?
>>62156342
I know it sounds stupid, but just keep watching movies or TV shows from that language, for the first few months, it will seem like 0 percent progress but then you start picking phrases (slowly but surely) up and you get to see all the slang and grammar. Also for
>>62156494
>>62155662
As I said I've been learning it for only a month so I'm still just starting. I study about 40m-an hour a day bc unfortunately I don't have more time.
I started by learning hangul and pronunciation. Then I learned some simple words/phrases like hello, please, thank you, excuse me etc.
Now I'm learning some more vocabulary like numbers, colours, animals, objects etc. I have stickers with the names of furniture and objects all over my house haha. I think relating words to "images" helps a lot, kinda like when you're teaching kids. Since I'm studying alone I tried to recall how I learnt French in school. We started with learning basic vocabulary before starting grammar. Im thinking of starting grammar next month. Phrase structure/verbal conjugation. what do you think?
>>62155734
I'm a girl, I work everyday and have been to China. Plus my job is related to animation. Vai masé apanhar na peida meu ganda tuberculo.
>>62150887
Sounds like your brother is just the kind of immigrant we like having around here.
>>62156670
Good writing. Better than mine. My first language is Korean but my writing is so bad that I have to make every handwriting with English as I cannot read my Korean handwriting
>>62156472
Spanish is really easy for Portuguese to understand, of course there might be one word here or there that we don't know of but I've never been in a situation where I couldn't understand what a Spanish person was saying, be it irl or TV. Also you have to understand that every kid born in the late 80's/90's watched a bunch of cartoons dubbed in Spanish. Latin american Spanish is even easier.
Linguist here, ask me questions bitches.
>>62156711
T-thank you! I think it helps that I'm an illustrator. I do find hangul really easy though. Plus it's super cute looking.
>>62156796
What field of linguistics do you study?
>>62156796
why are you a neet?
>>62156670
I'm >>62155662 and I'm also a grill. O que a foda, guria.
From what I can see in your papers I think it's time you begin learning how the language works. Do you already know simple stuff such as 는/요/에요/없어/etc? If not, you should try to pick it up as soon as possible.
> I think relating words to "images" helps a lot
>We started with learning basic vocabulary before starting grammar
That's a great approach. Also, your handwritting is cute.
>>62156304
To me Duolingo is only used for grammar actually. I get vocabulary and phrases from Memrise flashcards and fill in the gaps with books and other sources.
>>62156871
Because I just graduated. Gonna apply for master's programs though most likely.
>>62156821
I'm drawn to computational linguistics, though unfortunately my program was purely theoretical. Out of my classes I preferred the more typological/morphological stuff because of the emphasis on cross-linguistic patterns. I don't understand the people who go into the field to look at literally nothing other than English, but that's just my opinion.
>>62156735
>you have to understand that every kid born in the late 80's/90's watched a bunch of cartoons dubbed in Spanish
This explains it. Kids living in the border with Brasil learn their portuguese watching Globo.
Thing is that if you don't have exposure to the language, it's very difficult to understand it when brasilians talk among each other. It's easier when they talk to us, since they drop the slang, the idioms and they use a slower pace.
I have a good command of portuguese, and I can understand almost everything from Rio to Uruguay. Understanding northeasterners talking among each other is beyond my abilities.
>>62156796
Is it necessary for a linguist to speak many languages?
>>62156796
Do you suffer from any autism spectrum disorder?
>>62155609
You do not speak latvian.
>>62150712
One of them is Esperanto isn't it?
>>62156927
What are you planning to do with computational linguistics?
And what languages do you speak?
>>62157001
>Understanding northeasterners talking among each other is beyond my abilities
You're not alone, Uruguay.
>>62157052
No, I don't know any romance languages
I speak Finnish, English and Turku
>I speak X languages
Pointless unless we define what "speak" means.
Most weabs that I've met that claim to speak my language couldn't even hold a conversation about the morning news.
>tfw I only know 2
I just don't know what language I could commit to actually learning.
>>62153058
Burmese is definitely not related to Nepali.
Burmese is Sino-Tibetan, while Nepali is Indo-European. Nepali is LITERALLY closer to English than it is to Burnese.
>>62156888
I know that -yo is added to verbs/words to make them formal right? Like jebal/jebalyo right? Other than that I don't know what the others refer to. But I'll deffo look it up. Thanks for the tips and the compliment on my handwriting! c: also continue to study! Don't drop it now 화이팅!!
I speak four of the most common languages spoken in the world
English
Chinese
Hindi and Urdu
Spanish
>>62157024
No, but generally they do. Not because they have too, but because studying languages makes you want to speak them.
>>62157029
I'd like to think I don't
>>62157063
I'm planning to get a job, really. It seems to be one of the only real ways to make a living in Linguistics and coincidentally I do like it, so hopefully it'll work out. As far as what specifically I'll do, I'm open to pretty much any sub-field. If I get into a program I'll probably end up getting steered in one direction or another based on the school/faculty.
Language-wise, I speak English and Spanish, and am conversational in Farsi, Japanese, and Italian. However I still have a long ways to go in all of them.
>>62157024
Nope, it's totally possible and common for a linguist to speak only their native language. I personally don't understand why someone would do that, but that's the reality of things. I find that my interest/knowledge of foreign languages was very very helpful for my degree though.
>>62157120
That's weird, they sound so similar, and now that you mention it, so does Tibetan. I guess it's just that we all are influence by Chinese
>>62150712
I speak 2 languages
One is English.
The other is Spanish.
I can communicate with 2.5 billion people.
>>62157001
Well it's understandable that you don't understand heavy accents or local slang and stuff, I mean even people from north Portugal don't know south Portugal slang / vice versa. I'm from south pt and sometimes have a hard time understanding people from Azores. Lots of Portuguese people also have a hard time with northeast Brazilian accents (luckily i don't since my mother is from NE Br). It always depends on exposition but I can understand pretty much everything I hear on TV, be it doraemon getting angry with Nobita for not doing his homework or people from Venezuela complaining about the lack of food. I think it's the case with both sides (Spanish people having a hard time understanding EUPT tho).
>>62157203
I meant, what do you want to do with it? Continue the work towards a universal translator, work on voice recognition, etc?
Would you say that knowing two languages helped you become conversational in the other three?
What drove you to go for Farsi?
>>62156888
>>62157133
-yo (요) is informal honorific (honorfic is something like voce instead of tu)
formal honorific is -pnida (-ㅂ니다)
>>62157133
>Don't drop it now 화이팅!!
você também
쉽게포기하지마라
알았어?
YOU WILL NEED TO KNOW CHINESE MANDARIN AND CANTONESE BCUZ CHINA IS THE NEXT EMPIRE.
How the fuck?
How do you learn even 2 languages?
>>62154236
hello are you still here
>tfw hopped on this language learning meme
>you only know how to talk to yourself with it
>>62157301
Well as I said I'm open for pretty much any sub-field, so I don't have any particular goal in mind. I have mixed feelings about universal translators; I know that they're a good thing, but at the same time there's that feeling of cultural and linguistic heterogeneity that I don't want to disappear. I like the idea of going to another country and being lost in their language, not being able to rely on using English to solve all my problems. That being said, I'd still work on them if given the chance, simply because it'd be an exciting project.
Thinking about it now, I'd really like to work on speech synthesis. All of those prosodic effects like how to make computer voices use emphasis, question intonation, etc. sounds really cool to me and is such a difficult problem to solve.
I absolutely think knowing an L2 helps in the learning of an L3 and so forth. The study of another language involves not only the learning of the lang itself but also the act of learning. It gives you a roadmap for how to learn that you can apply to any further studies. Also, even very different languages have similarities that many people overlook. Concepts like case, agreement, and register are prevalent in so many of the world's languages. Learning the German accusative case teaches you how the accusative case works in any other language as well, so if you pick up Japanese you can look at their accusative particle and say "oh, well this is formed differently than in German, but it's the same idea".
Farsi is an amazing language and I went for it because I live in an area with a large Persian population (Southern California). I highly recommend that anyone look at it because it's just so cool. It's essentially a European language just like the ones most of us are familiar with, but that collided with Arabic culture, vocabulary, and writing. It's very easy to learn, too! The difficulty is in finding enough learning materials, even though it has as many speakers as German does.
>>62157624
Are you white?
I just graduated high school, where I had a german class. It was a good class and I learned a lot, but of course not enough to come anywhere near being able to just take any random german sample text and read it. Well I guess sometimes I can, but more commonly I can't. And certainly I'm far from being able to write/speak it myself aside from some select shit.
For about the past month I've been continuing learning it, since I don't want to die monolingual and as long as I have a foothold in this language I might as well continue with it. But then again, I don't really want to speak german. Much rather would be able to speak spanish or something else more relevant.
So I don't know if I should continue with german or drop it and go for something else, I feel like being actually inspired to learn it would help a lot. Then again, what if I drop german for something else and the fascination wears off? Then I'd have below-mediocre skills in both languages instead of maybe decent skills in one.
>>62157809
Just go with Spanish m8. I regret not learning it while it is kinda plus for my profession
>>62154236
>knowing ithkuil
Bullshit.
>tfw I only know English and Spanish
>my English is fine but my Spanish is absolutely shit compared to my family and friends
>I have to slow down and often mispronounce things
>recently my friends have been giving me flack for my shitty Spanish
I mostly blame for being exposed to only English media for the longest time as a child and going to private school where speaking Spanish was considered profanity
>>62157702
Do you know anything about arabic? I feel like MENA isn't going to stop being relevant in the news for this whole century.
How "easy" is it to learn?
The writing system is syllabic rather than alphabetical right? I feel like I would never get used to that
>>62158115
Not them but it's supposedly hard as balls. Dialects aren't that bad but there's more than one you need to speak to most people casually, and then you have Modern Standard which is, excusing the shitty analogy, like the Middle East's equivalent to Latin and complex as fuck. It's necessary for anything formal including many things in media and writing. Dialects are lacking in resources because most people learning are expected to go through standard Arabic first.
>>62157802
I'm am brownish.
>>62158115
Yeah Arabic is certainly on my to-do list but the fact that it's such a messy dialect continuum (like this guy said >>62158168) kinda turns me off on it. Either I choose a dialect and don't understand the others, or I choose MSA and have to learn a much more complex grammar for no real benefit. It's such a wild language though, has a lot of interesting features. The alphabet isn't syllabic, it's an abjad, which is essentially an alphabet that hates vowels. For example, you'll have a word spelled with the letter 'k' and the letter 'd', but you won't know whether it's 'kad', 'kod', 'kid', etc. This is a really simplified explanation though.
Farsi uses the same alphabet, by the way. It's kind of awkward because an abjad makes much more sense for a Semitic language than it does for an Indo-European one, but that's the way it happened.
>>62157041
I do...
"Potato Potato Potato"
see?!
>>62156618
So keep english subs on?
>>62158476
Yea
>>62158292
Was farsi written in a different script before the arabs conquered persia?
>>62157595
Um, no!
>>62157859
Caloika'kš!
Anyways, if you want you can meet us on discord...
https://discordapp.com/invite/VcR5bys
>>62158355
Holy hell.
>>62158704
Oh and the skype chat is nice
https://join.skype.com/tgW5my7E9mrF
>>62158688
It certainly was, yeah. I don't know the details unfortunately, though I'm sure wikipedia would know. Persia is very very old whereas the Arabs only showed up in the 7th century CE, so there would have had to be some other system in place.
>>62158704
Seeing as there's no reading material and it's a boundlessly complex language, even if you read all the grammar books how do you know if you're speaking it right?
>>62157105
For traveling and business, I'd suggest French; French is that language someone is likely to know if they don't know English.
>>62151277
>Burmese
Where do you live, may I ask?
My city has lots of Burmese refugees and I know the local ESL/refugee-helper folks are often looking for interpreters...
>>62156551
Is it too overwhelming for you?
>>62150712
this is one of the comfiest threads i've seen in a while
>>62158853
Currently in Maryland suburb between DC and Baltimore
But I could move to Denver soon
>>62155880
Spain speaks Spanish with a lisp lol
>>62155880
too bad neither of those are going to come in handy once everyone in europe is speaking arabic.
>>62151277
>ethnic languages
>ethnic
stop using that fucking word motherfucker
>>62158264
In any case if you know english reasonably well you could make bank by teaching prostitutes and others the language, being a native Thai speaker gives you a huge advantage.
>>62150712
>American
>7 languages
pick one
>Spent 17 years of my life knowing only english
>spent 2 years learning french,german and some russian
although im pretty rusty in all of them now, i feel like if i spend 3 months in any of those countries id be fluent easily.
7 Languages is insane though wtf
I can only communicate with finnish and english and my swedish and german are a bit rusty :/
