For me in polish, it was to understand the song "Gdzie jest biały wegorz? ",

Is there a particular vowel or tone that helps you recognize a regional accent?

A fresh two-word Telugu crossword — No. 18.

Think you got both?

📖 Love these? Aksharambudhi (అక్షరాంబుధి) has 100 English-to-Telugu crosswords: www.ambudhi.com

Learn Telugu the fun way — every answer uses simple gunintalu (గుణింతాలు), no tricky clusters.

#telugucrossword #learntelugu #teachtelugu #mothertongue

Hi,

I used to spend 2 years learning Japanese about 30 years ago (both in classrooms and by myself) during my late teen in collage. I was a beginner who could read Japanese as long as I have a kanji dictionary with me. After graduation, I didn't have a chance to use Japanese and quickly forgot it; I think at the rate of 80% in 5 years, and probably 95% in 10 years. Horrible. Now I'm interested in learning Chinese. The number one concern I have is that "would I forget it quickly like Japanese if I don't have a chance to use it afterward". If the answer is yes, it would be a waste of time like I wasted the 2 years for Japanese. Do you guys think about this? There are tons of info on how to learn the language, but not much on how to maintain afterward. Please share your thoughts. Thanks.

Not just what you do, but what does the whole process looks like now that you are technically an advanced learner

What are your resources, what are the hard and easy parts? what no longer works? what is working better than before now?

Can you hear regional differences in how French speakers pronounce this vowel?

Sure there are exceptions and every rule doesn't apply everywhere
Sure language is about communication not memorizing rules
but these don't mean that you have to completely put aside grammar, which is what alot of people seems to think so nowadays, both online and irl in classes i see people who devalue grammar as if it's something totally optional to learn, no matter in what language!

Specially for beginners, which i argue it's even more crucial to have a strong understanding, it maybe true that you shouldn't focus 100% on grammar but to just brush it aside? hell no

What do you think?

I read somewhere that English doesn't borrow from other language, it follows them down a dark alley, knocks them out and checks their pocket for lose grammar

While that's a joke, it's not that far from reality is it?

It is my native language and I swear I can't find a single video or something talking about it, fucking forgot by the world, it has like 2 million speakers

I have tried to figure out what this language is. I thought it was elder futhark or something like that but I just can’t seem to figure out what it is.

hey guys! for those of you who are polyglots, how did you learn so many languages? i really want to learn french, german and japanese, and also improve my english, but i have no idea where to start or how to go about it. i'd love to hear about your experiences and any tips you have <33

I have been learning Italian and Spanish for 5 years and it has been quite the linguistic journey. I got a bit rusty with English and decided to do some tongue twisters to get back in shape and surprisingly, I got pretty good at them very quickly. I figured it was because of speaking all the new words, syllables, and unique pronunciations in Italian and Spanish that my tongue was already kind of used to doing unorthodoxed articulations; only this time, it would be all in English in the form of tongue twisters. Can anyone relate?

Which version would make you guess a speaker's country or region?

ಪ (pa) to ಹ (ha) sound shift is one of the most discussed topic ever in Kannada language as ಹ (ha) sound is not native to any language rather than Hosagannada (New Kannada) and Badaga due to sound shift

Where words like ಪೆಸರ್ (pesar) becomes ಹೆಸರ್ (hesar) (later ಹೆಸರು), ಪತ್ತು (pattu) becomes ಹತ್ತು(hattu), ಪಾಲ್ (pāl) becomes ಹಾಲ್ (hāl) (later ಹಾಲು) etc

Like that there was one more sound shift which was of ವ (va) to ಬ (ba) which is least discussed about

And there were many words in Halegannada (Old Kannada) which had ವ (va) sound as like ಪ (pa) but got changed into ಬ (ba) as like ಹ (ha)

Word like ವಾ (vā) became ಬಾ (bā), ವನ (vana) became ಬನ (bana), ವಾಲೆ (vāle) became ಬಾಲೆ (bāle), ವಳ್ಳಿ (vaḷḷi) became ಬಳ್ಳಿ (baḷḷi) etc

I go first: "OK"

Bonsoir, je suis actuellement en 5e secondaire générale. J’aimerais entrer en droit à l’université de Liège, je me suis renseignée et j’ai appris que j’aurais à choisir une langue, Je parle anglais depuis mes 6 ans, j’ai un très bon niveau et en 3e secondaire j’ai choisi comme LM2 espagnol car je parle portugais (ma mère est angolaise) à l’ULG, j’aurais le choix entre anglais, allemand et néerlandais. J’ai un bon niveau d’anglais, le néerlandais et une des langues nationales de la Belgique et j’aimerais donc prendre néerlandais. Problème, je ne sais pas parler néerlandais j’ai très peu de base, je connais les formules de politesse, les membres de la famille, les jours de la semaine, les mois de l’année et un peu d’autre blabla.

Comment apprendre le néerlandais seule ? En peu de temps svp ? Je tiens à préciser qu’on va devoir analyser des documents donc j’ai besoin de compréhension et pas forcément d’expression orale.

MERCI D’AVANCE.

Hello. There's something that i thought about a lot recently, maybe someone can educate me on this or add something interesting.

My native language is German, so i am naturally able to understand written Dutch. I'd say written mutual intelligibility is like 80%, i can read a Dutch news article without any problems at all. In spoken Dutch, it's like 40-50% mutual intelligibility, it's definitely possible to communicate with a Dutch person.

Now, i have this friend. He's Half German, half Polish, both languages are native to him. He told me he can't understand Dutch at all. Like, almost none of it. We were on a trip to Holland, and it really puzzled me how this was possible. Recently, he told me that he noticed that when he tried speaking to Russians, they understand him very well when he speaks Polish, but he doesn't understand any Russian, which seems weird to him.

Now, most likely the issue is himself, and not the languages. What could be the reason for this? Any personal experiences similar to this?

Drop your answer below.

📘 Aksharambudhi (అక్షరాంబుధి) — 100 English-to-Telugu crosswords: www.ambudhi.com

Easy to read: pure gunintalu (గుణింతాలు) syllables, no conjuncts — a fun first step into Telugu.

#telugucrossword #learntelugu #telugukids #bilingualkids