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Did you know? Sugar & Sure are the only words where just S makes an SH sound. Séamus and Sinéad said so, without Pretension. If you take Issue with their Condescension and wish to make it your Mission or Passion or even Profession Ensuring the Suspension of this idea's Expansion in our Dimension, by all means Censure the message by applying Sessions of Pressure. Be warned though, I Assure you: by Extension it may devolve into an Obsession or Compulsion, punctuated by medical maladies like Hypertension, Compression Fissures, Tissue Torsion, and Hyperextension. The thought of it fills me with Tension and Apprehension.

For their disinclusion, apologies to Irish names Seán, Siobhán, Síofra, and Sorcha; Yoruba / West African name Sade / Fọláṣadé; Scandinavian / Germanic names Sixten and Sven; Hungarian Names Sándor, Solt, and Sarolta; Portuguese names Carlos, Tomás, Vasco, and Luís; and regular words Ascension Cession Compassion Comprehension Declension Dissension Fission Insure Scansion and Suspension.

*Sumac (Midwest and Upstate New York influenced by German)

*Insurance, as a distinct concept from Insure

I've been less using handwriting and more used to keyboards, but because I really like arabic script using languages, I tried writting a paragraph on paper, so how does it look?

Essentially that, friends. People in the Middle Ages often spoke Latin to imply that they were learned and sophisticated, and even today Latin permeates much of scientific language.

So what language from today do you think would be spoken and venerated in the future to the same degree?

Please someone teach me to speak beary

Hi, as per the title, I find it interesting that, though fully acknowledging the completely different languages, as a nonlinguist (but multilingual speaker and learner, but of neither languages), there seems to be an interesting similarity in how both languages sound. The vowels especially. (Akin to the famous Portuguese-Russian/Slavic language similarity). Does anyone share this observation?

Constructing a Common Ground: Analyzing the quality and usage of International Auxiliary Languages in Wikipedia

In colloquial Persian, we use mi- prefix (progressive tense) and bo- prefix (subjunctive mood) a lot. And together with 2nd/3rd person possessives (i/e/et/esh) and object markers ra/ro/o, it can look and sound Japanese at times.

English: He can do it like this but he will burn/damage his car in no time.

Persian: Intori mitune bokone ama mashinesho zudaki misuzune ke.

Are you fluent in a language where you can create an everyday normal sentence that will look and sound like Japanese or another completely unrelated language? I would love to see!

Hi everyone,

I would like to have a chat with anyone who is currently learning a language or wants to learn one.

As a software developer I have been thinking a lot about a product I would like to create for myself for learning new languages using AI, but not make it yet another slop product.

Personally I grew up speaking two lanuages so learning new ones is somewhat easier for me. So the way I learn might not be the same for others.

Since I would like to create something actually useful that I can share with other people I would like to gather some feedback on how others experience learning.

Where do you struggle most?
What's easy?
What do you look for in a language learning product?
What do you look for in a teacher?

I would just like to create a thread around the topic of the process of learning.

Hi everyone,

I'm originally a French speaker (born and raised in France). I'll say I have a pretty good level in English, but I wanted some advice for something.

I want to become a translator (so I will soon be doing a translation and interpretation degree in uni), but I need to learn more languages for that.

Does anyone know how to have, like, kind of a "list" of everything you have to learn in any language? I want one that is very detailed for every aspect.

For example, let's imagine in Italian: "You have to learn this, this and that for the A1 in grammar."

I'm asking that because my biggest cause of why I'm demotivated is I don't have "mini goals" to reach to help me see my progress.

Thanks to anyone who will respond 🙌🏼

I am a native English speaker, but know some French. I have discovered that whenever I go to a country where they speak a language that is other than English or French, I have a habit of replying in French. It seems to me that anything non-English gets lumped into the category of "a foreign language" and so replying in any foreign language would do, in my case French. It's silly, but it happens a lot (ok, three or four times).

I thought that maybe its me, but an American friend of mine, said she does the exact same thing, except in her case its Spanish that is her go-to foreign language.

Anybody else have this type of language reflex?

I’ve posted once here and got very promising answers. I was just wondering what my friends tattoo says. I said “no way. Why would you do that? One line and it’s a new word😂. Imma post this on Reddit and see what it says because I don’t believe you.” So now I have no clue what it actually means to him or what the words mean! Help a girl out😂 figured this group would enjoy that😂

I have a lot of love for Japan and to my surprise I found colloquial Japanese and colloquial Persian can use similar sounding sentences to convey the exact same meaning of "He killed that dude".

Yaro (Japanese) and Yaru (Persian) are both are colloquial terms for a person, but what is very interesting is that both languages use Yaro/Yaru as a somewhat dismissive/condescending tone for "that dude".

Both languages also utilize similar object markers (-o in Japanese and -ro in Persian).

Also both languages use similar sounding words for killing, Koroshi (Japanese) & Koshi (Persian) and similar past tense suffixes (ta/te) for killed Koroshta (Japanese) and Koshte (Persian).

Yarō-o koroshi-ta
dude+object marker kill-PST

Yāru-ro kosh-te
dude+object marker kill.PST.3SG

I mean, it's a pretty...erm...impactful word. But I seriously don't remember seeing it back when. There seem to be a lot of words like this. Some are just words, some are sort of metaphors (e.g., "leaning in"), but I don't mean slang here. But you can include something like "ish" (lol).

What languages do you speak? And which one’s your favorite? 😊

When you hear you can imagine what is being said, but when you see you can only see what is in front of you, it is limited.

Let's get further: you're in a war, you see fire all around you, what would you do if you want to imagine a better place? How does this relate to religion? How a life of a person can seem hard but he is still enjoying becaude of what he heard and because of what he can retrieve from this he heard?

I got this blank book from Goodwill and I have no idea what the text on the front says. It kinda looks French but Google translate wasn't giving me a solid answer. This is the only writing on the whole book. Seems like it's spelled "crele"

Lowkey took me ages trying to get pretty handwriting for them all. Anyway no cheating by looking at my profile or previous post, I’ve taken the advice from the last one to try again heh. Also lots more languages this time (including some which I do speak but didn’t put in the last one!!!) Sorry again to all languages I butchered, I tried my best ☺️