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subrosa wrote

Almost everything I read and watch is (American) English, with occasional escapes to Italian and French. As a teen I used to study Italian, for myself, but only recently picked it up again for reading. In spoken language I pretty much exclusively use the local Bavarian dialect, which differs from standard/school- German quite a bit.

As a result I'm not quite at home with any language. I think I would want to improve my English, full immersion style. But I'm not sure I would want to live in any English-speaking places.

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idkalice wrote (edited )

prob the closest would be spanish since its rly somewhat close to my 1st language and a lot of ppl speak it, tho ive never rly tried

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tuesday wrote

he estado aprendido español durante tres años. también quiero aprender asl

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moonlune wrote

Sign language for me too.

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tuesday wrote (edited )

I've got the alphabet down so I can very slowly spell everything but that's just miserable. Once my schedule settles into something pretty regular I'm going to start going through the free videos from lifeprint.com I think.

There's also a school for the deaf near where I work. I'm going to look into if they offer asl classes for hearing people.

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kano wrote

I'm learning german, but after that it's hard for me to decide between french, spanish and Arabic. All would be very useful.

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NOISEBOB wrote

Standard Arabic is a good one.

I’d like to speak better German and Swedish… I have quite a polish vocabulary by listening to it a lot, but lack the grammar and also the fucking fricatives are hard. From there I could learn Ukrainian (which would be fun just for the cyrilic alphabet).

Also, old norse.

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veuzi wrote (edited )

Polish. That would be hard, though. But it would be cool if I could actually speak to some of my co-workers. I'm also saving up for a long-ish trip to Poland at some point and it would be helpful to know some of the language.

As of now I only recognize one word, and that is of course "kurwa".

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NOISEBOB wrote

“Kurwa” is problematic… it translates to “whore” but is just used as the english “fuck” or “shit”, ie. very common, even in feminist circles… also, the polish equivalent of ACAB, HWDP, is something like “fuck the police in the ass” and quite homophobic, really.

Ja pierdolę!

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veuzi wrote

I've heard how my Polish co-workers (who are almost all women btw) use "kurwa", and yes, it sounds like they are interjecting it into sentences at seemingly random, but probably for emphasis or emotional affect like "shit" or "fuck". I'm aware of the literal meaning, though.

I've heard of HWDP too. Think I'll prefer ACAB.

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kin wrote (edited )

Standard Arabic, would be useful

(And get more intermediate inna couple of romance languages)

Edit: by now I almost lost hope in getting past basic modern Greek vocabulary. If I had more motivation I could switch the Arabic by getting serious on Greek

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kin wrote

What I mean by learn to communicate in Arabic would be useful?

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kin wrote

Well, I have personal reasons and Arabic is one of the most used languages in the world right now, and we have an ongoing diaspora that have a considerable amount of arabic speakers, so the chances of using it is fairly high

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mjem wrote

I've dreamt for writing down the music I randomly

I even consider music as a language more "natural"/ancient than "natural languages".

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256 wrote

Det er lett å lære norsk når du snakker tysk eller engelsk, men grammatik mislykkes ofte.

English, as in better vocabulary with more articulate and expressive meaning

A sign language

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genesis47 wrote

yes 2 of them the occult language & hebrew

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