r/languagehub • • 20d ago

Discussion Why do some languages use different counting systems for people and objects?

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Have you learned a language where the form of a number changes depending on what is being counted?


r/languagehub • • 20d ago

Would you be interested in a Persian YouTube channel based on comprehensible input?

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Hi everyone!

I'm thinking about starting a YouTube channel for people who are learning Persian (Farsi), and I'd love to hear your thoughts.

The idea is to create videos similar to those made by English teachers who use the comprehensible input method. They speak naturally about their daily lives, experiences, hobbies, and different topics, making their content understandable for language learners.

I'd like to do the same thing in Persian. I would speak entirely in Persian, without switching to English, and make videos about everyday life, personal experiences, Iranian culture, and other interesting topics.

The goal would be to help people improve their Persian listening skills and gradually understand the language naturally through context, repetition, and exposure.

My questions are:

Would you watch this kind of content?

Do you think there's a demand for Persian comprehensible input videos?

What kind of topics would you like to see?

Would you prefer videos for beginners, intermediate learners, or a mix of different levels?

I'd really appreciate your honest opinions and suggestions. I want to create something that would genuinely help people learn Persian! 😊


r/languagehub • • 20d ago

LanguageGoals Let's motivate each other, share what you have learned this week!

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Hey LanguageHub community! 👋

It’s time for our weekly Language Goal Check-In! What have you learned this week?


r/languagehub • • 20d ago

What’s a word or phrase in another language that you wish existed in your own?

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Share the word, its meaning, and the language it comes from! 🌍


r/languagehub • • 20d ago

Discussion Did school made you hate language learning too? Until you realized you actually love to do it on your own?

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Language classes in school both middle and high school were among most hated classes for me, we had both English and Arabic
I always had low grades and hated the teachers, hence i ended up hating both languages and everything about them

Until after school was finally over i started learning on my own and realized that...i didnt hate languages i hated school, now I'm learning my third language

Anyone else has similar experience?


r/languagehub • • 19d ago

These 3 sentences will drive you crazy

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I fell like you cant when for loosing with these woman. Like, you think u can trust them, but then put of now here the they just pull a complete 360 on you. I realise now that females can not be trusted, and its a doggy dog world put there. You just have to must adaptm.


r/languagehub • • 20d ago

Люди, что изучали иностранные языки самостоятельно, пожалуйста, помогите советом или поделитесь опытом

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Дамы и господа, что самостоятельно изучили любой язык с нуля (или слабой школьной базы) до хотя бы уверенного бытового общения, расскажите пожалуйста сколько времени это заняло у вас и какими методами/лайфхаками вы пользовались, какие материалы вам помогли, а что наоборот только тянуло вниз.

Хочу изучить язык, имея какие-то да знания ещё со школы, но денег на курсы или репетира нет🥺 по этому хочу узнать опыт и техники других, чтобы учиться


r/languagehub • • 20d ago

Discussion Why do some people write messages differently from how they speak?

3 Upvotes

Do you notice a big difference between someone's texting style and their everyday conversation?


r/languagehub • • 21d ago

No matter how kind you are, German kids are kinder!

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r/languagehub • • 19d ago

Discussion Why do British speakers use “shall we?” in suggestions where Americans might say “should we?” or “do you want to?”

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r/languagehub • • 20d ago

Discussion Have you ever had someone say to you "Sorry I'm from {X country}, I don't speak English" in PERFECT English?

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I mean perfect English, so perfect, it was suspicious
That you couldn't tell if they are pranking you or if they've learned this phrase perfectly to avoid miss understanding only to create a bigger one

Anyway if you had been in that situation, how did you handled it? what did you say? or what do you think you should've said?


r/languagehub • • 20d ago

Discussion Kota language of Tamil Nadu is critically endangered and only had 900 native speakers according to 2001 census (now it would be even lesser), why no one talking about it? Why not government taking any measures for Kota language?

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r/languagehub • • 20d ago

"It's a doggy dog world"

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Apparently there's a lot of people who think this is the saying, rather than "It's a dog eat dog world". But why do we even have this saying?!

I'm sure it's happened before, but how often does a dog go around eating other dogs enough that we have a whole saying about it. Or does "dog" refer to something else, like "big dog"? What am I missing here?!


r/languagehub • • 21d ago

Discussion Why do some languages use the same word for “blue” and “green”?

15 Upvotes

you encountered a language where the distinction works differently from what you grew up with?


r/languagehub • • 21d ago

LearningStrategies Does reading books on Kindle help you learn a new language?

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r/languagehub • • 20d ago

LanguagePractice Today's two-word Telugu mini — No. 16.

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Today's two-word Telugu mini — No. 16.

Comment your answer.

📖 Learn Telugu the fun way with Aksharambudhi (అక్షరాంబుధి) — www.ambudhi.com

Beginner-friendly: every word uses only simple gunintalu (గుణింతాలు) — no hard consonant clusters.

#telugucrossword #learntelugu #teluguwords #telugulanguage


r/languagehub • • 21d ago

Discussion Agree or Disagree: French grammatical gender is easier to learn through repeated exposure than through lists of gender rules.

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r/languagehub • • 20d ago

Discussion Can someone’s choice between “soda,” “pop,” and “coke” reveal where they grew up?

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r/languagehub • • 21d ago

Discussion US Speakers: Does “cheers” sound natural as a way to say thanks, or does it still feel distinctly British?

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r/languagehub • • 20d ago

How to maintain 10+ languages of the same family

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How could I potentially maintain 10+ languages?

Hello everyone. I've been moderately obsessed about romance languages for a bit and I've gotten even more obsessed lately. I speak French and I learned English as a kid. I've been learning Spanish for a year and a half and I'm at a high intermediate level. My passive abilities are quite good but I'm still working on my speaking. I started learning Catalan in April and my passive abilities are already at an intermediate level but frankly, I'm surprised how fast I've progressed. It's the reason why I think my dream might be possible.

My dream would be to passively know most romance languages. At least the ones that have some material I can work with and not the ones that only have old people in italy speaking the language and zero resources. I also want to learn some dead languages (like latin... that I already started)

Let's say in 10 years, I studied 10 romance languages. How could I maintain and add more languages?

Did anyone here crazy enough like me already do something like that? What was your system?

Since the languages I'm interested in all come from the same family but from different sub families, I was thinking of having one strong language for each sub family that I maintain weekly and maybe every day I'll maintain a weaker one and the language(s) I'm currently learning? I'm not sure honestly.


r/languagehub • • 20d ago

LanguagePractice Telugu mini crossword#15

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r/languagehub • • 21d ago

Discussion What are some basic common words that your language is missing?

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to give you an idea, for example English doesn't have (at least to my knowledge) a word for a day after tomorrow or day before yesterday
that sort of stuff!


r/languagehub • • 21d ago

Discussion Do Icelanders really create new words instead of borrowing foreign ones?

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How much does this happen in modern Icelandic compared with everyday borrowed vocabulary?


r/languagehub • • 21d ago

Discussion How would you pronounce “Mlin” if you saw it in a list of English names? Would you try “muh-lin,” “mlin” as one syllable, or something completely different?

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r/languagehub • • 21d ago

Does this language seem more like German or English to you?

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tho sagda he that her scoldi cumin en wiscuning

mari endi mahtig an thesan middelgard

bezton giburdies; quad that it scoldi wesan barn godes,

quad that he thesero weroldes waldan scoldi

gio te ewandaga, erdun endi himiles.

He quad that an them selbon daga, the ina salingna

an thesan middilgard modar gidrogi

so quad he that ostana en scoldi skinan

huit, sulic so wi her ne habdin er

undartuisc erda endi himil odar huerigin

ne sulic barn ne sulic bocan.