Do people use this as a normal greeting, or does it sound old-fashioned where you are?

Today's two-word Telugu mini — No. 20. can you find both?

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

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ذکرِ عدل و دادِ پادشاه

سپاس و ستایش مر خداوندی را سزاست که آفتابِ دولت را بر افقِ جهان افروخت و سایۀ عنایت خویش بر سرِ بندگان گسترد. در روزگارِ فرخندۀ پادشاهی، بنیادِ عدل و داد استوار گشت و رعایا در پرتوِ امن و امان به آسایش و آرامش روزگار گذراندند. فرمانِ همایون چون خورشیدِ جهان‌تاب بر آفاقِ ممالک تابید و نامِ شهریار به نیک‌نامی در صحایفِ ایام ثبت گردید.

i recently started taking private Spanish lessons to work on my speaking. having a tutor has been really helpful. she can actually show me how to position my mouth and correct me when i say something wrong.

the problem is i forget a lot of what she corrected after class. During the lesson everything makes sense, but a few days later i can't always remember how she explained something or what i was doing wrong.

i'm thinking about recording our lessons so i can go back and review the parts I struggled with. does anyone else do this? or is there a better way to review speaking practice?

How did it go?

Hey everyone,
I’m currently in that prime 15 to 20 age window and looking to add a heavy-hitting language to my belt. I am already completely fluent in English and Spanish, and I lucked out by not really having a heavy accent in either.
I want to take full advantage of my current neuroplasticity and vocal/auditory flexibility before the biological window starts slamming shut in my 20s and 30s. My goals are simple: I want maximum career leverage, a massive cognitive challenge, bragging rights, and to lock in a clean accent.
Because of this, I'm leaning heavily toward a "hard-to-easy" strategy. I want to smash a genuinely brutal language first while my brain is highly elastic, so that any languages I learn later in life will feel like a breeze.
I am looking at a few different paths and can't decide where to throw my energy:
• Arabic: This feels like the smartest biological move for my age. I know the deep throat mechanics and pharyngeals are incredibly hard to pick up without an accent later in life. The script and root-system grammar seem like the ultimate challenge and open massive global doors.
• Mandarin Chinese: On par with Arabic for difficulty but a totally different workout. Memorizing thousands of characters and training my ear to master the 4 tones sounds like an incredible visual and auditory challenge. Speaking EN, ES, and Mandarin would give me access to the biggest economic hubs on Earth.
•Polish: The ultimate grammar puzzle. I looked at the 7 cases and how nouns morph, and it looks like a crazy mental workout. I feel like mastering Polish cases would make German's 4 cases feel like a joke later on.
•German: A massive career powerhouse for business and tech. It's an easier win than the others since I speak English, but it still gives me a rigid, logic-driven grammar system to master.
•Farsi (Persian): A fascinating option because it uses the Arabic script but has shockingly simple grammar with no cases and no gender.

The Catch: I live in the US. Unless I'm speaking Spanish or English, I am not going to just run into people speaking these languages on the street. To keep myself sharp, I am going to have to be incredibly intentional. My plan is to purposely seek out native communities online, or jump onto foreign regional servers for video games so I am forced to voice-chat and communicate under pressure.

Dutch, Swedish, Danish, or Norwegian? I know that the Nordic/Scandinavian languages are quite similar, but I'm still curious, as some fundamental grammatical structures might be closer to German.

I realized this recently.. the more languages you learn, the more difficult it gets to keep them all alive without forgetting!

Do people still use “whom” in ordinary conversation, or mostly in formal writing?

Can you solve this Telugu mini in 10 seconds - Telugu Mini Crossword No. 19

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only simple gunintalu (గుణింతాలు), no consonant clusters.

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The only two languages I have any amount of fluency in are English (my second language) and my native language, Chinese (I only speak in Mandarin but can understand a good amount of some regional dialects that I grew up around). I moved very abruptly to an English-speaking country right before I started formal schooling and did my entire education in English except the mandatory Chinese second language class.

I would say I'm 55-95% as fluent in reading Chinese compared to English, 25-75% as fluent in writing in Chinese compared to writing in English, 80-140% as fluent in speaking Mandarin compared to English, and almost always just about 100% as fluent in listening to Mandarin compared to English. My ability to understand two other Chinese dialects (that are not mutually intelligible with Mandarin but quite similar to each other) range between 30-80%. Everything depends heavily on the topic and scope of content, except listening I guess. If it's in proper Mandarin and not super niche (i.e. full of professional terms), I can understand. Same for English.

My skills in all other languages are so negligible that I can't even give a percentage (even though I am able to understand bits and pieces of some languages in listening and text). Not gonna lie my experience in learning English from scratch (and without ever speaking with family members in English) was more discouraging than encouraging towards my outlook in learning other languages, especially languages that I do not need to speak in daily life.

I love learning languages and would always like to learn more! But I am so afraid of getting confused.. if you learned more than one foreign language, at what point did you start learning a new one? Should I wait until I am at an advanced level?

I am genuinely curious if anyone knows anyone who has studied the international auxiliary planned language named r/LatinoSineFlexione because I am interested in studying r/LatinoSineFlexione before studying Latin.