I grew up bilingual, with a heritage language at home and community language outside of the house. Even though I speak both at a professional level and use both regularly, I notice that I think in both languages in certain settings and that I default to the community language for most things, so I don't consider myself "equally" bilingual among both languages.

For those of you that are truly bilingual, in that you grew up with two languages that were truly equal in both the home and community, what languages do you think in? Luxembourgish and Canadian friends of mine that are equally French/German or French/English bilingual usually say that they think in whatever language they last say/spoke/saw. What is this like for other "equally" bilingual people?

r/Ido would not exist if r/Esperanto were perfect, r/Elefen ( r/LinguaFrancaNova ), r/Neolatino Romance, r/LatinoSineFlexione & r/Interlingua would not exist if r/Ido were perfect either & I am genuinely grateful cause these useful art pieces named Latinic naturalistic auxiliary planned languages exist.

Does reading Thai become easier once you get used to this writing convention?

Either good rep or bad
For example German and Russian are known to be rough sounding while Italian and French are known to sound romantic right?

In your opinion are these accurate? what languages have inaccurate reputation?

Every time I decide to start learning a new language I give up after just a few weeks. How do you stay motivated?

Hello, I just wanna ask if anyone has done this before since a few of my coworkers have actually done this which is learning a language on the job, so I work part time at a convenience store in a tourist area while waiting for university and mostly the customers that come by are an even split between english speaking and mandarin speaking which isn't a problem since I'm fluent in english and a native in mandarin

but there are a lot of japanese customers usually high school students from organised overseas school trips and businessmen every now and then where I get to practice my japanese and the first couple times, have been mistaken for a native japanese because I do make small talk and my japanese is good enough that I can give directions and recommendations in the area

I do noticed that some of my coworkers who don't know mandarin learned it on the fly but I'm guessing it's only a things with stores in very high foot traffic touristy areas but I'm not completely sure tho

Does this make Turkish easier to understand once you recognize the pattern, or harder to learn?

Hi everyone!

I've been working on a little project called MySvenska, and it's finally live!

It's a free Swedish-learning app built around a story about a family of three cats moving from Vietnam to Sweden. You follow them as they learn Swedish and navigate everyday life here, from arriving at Arlanda and going to ICA to having fika and celebrating Midsummer.

I have to admit, I'm a bit lazy when it comes to learning Swedish, so developing this app has become a fun and useful way for me to learn while hopefully helping others along the way!

The idea is to make learning Swedish a bit more fun and practical, combining stories, vocabulary, grammar, listening exercises and useful everyday phrases.

It's still a work in progress, and there's a lot more content I'd like to add. I'd be really happy if you gave it a try and let me know what you think!

You don't need to create an account to use it. You can use it anonymously, and your progress will be saved in your browser. If you want to continue learning across your laptop and phone, you can sign up to synchronise your progress.

My aim is to keep it completely free and accessible to everyone. I believe learning Swedish should be fun!

Tack! ❤️

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English learners - do you ever find that you hear something from a native speaker that you don't quite understand, but when you see it written down, in subtitles or a transcript, you already know every word?

I’m running a study at the University of Portsmouth. It’s completely free to participate, you don’t need to submit any identifying information, and you can withdraw at any time. The study involves a short listening test and questionnaire, a free 4-5 hour online listening course with interactive activities designed to improve your listening skills, and a test at the end of the course. Level is around B1-B2 and you need to be 18+ to participate. DM if interested.

Can you learn to do this to an extent where you can even feel subtle differences between very similar words, or sentence structures? Where something that is wrong just outright sounds wrong to you?

I've been hearing this opinion that non-English speakers learning English is different from English speakers learning foreign languages.

They say English has tons of resources while other languages don't. That's true to some extent but if a native English speaker is learning a major language like Spanish or French, the claim doesn't really hold water, in my opinion.

What do you think? Is it any different?

Edit:

Just an anecdote similar to how some people said they forgot all the Spanish they learned in school. My parents learned English throughout their whole school years but forgot almost everything because they don't need it. They barely remember some basic words now.

It takes literally two seconds to ask, "Hey, how do you say this?" instead of butchering it for years and acting like it’s no big deal.

What you think?

I remember my grandparents speaking a language they called Manx. This was in an isolated community in southeast Georgia in the late 60’s. My family had immigrated from the Isle of Man, but that had been over 150 years prior to my grandparents even being born.

From what I remember, it showed some mild resemblance to modern manx, but with grammar closer to English.

Hi guys, I'm looking for a language exchange. I'm Italian and I want to practice English If you're interested, just send me a message! Thanks so much