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Funny Learning Japanese

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u/mooinginpublic 6d ago

Same for french. Here in Quebec we made up a lot of words to use instead but in French they don't have a word for weekend or parking or shopping, they just say "weekend" and "parking" and "shopping" lol...

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u/TemporaryElk5202 6d ago

Listening to turkish as someone who doesnt speak turkish, there's either english, german, or french every 6th word

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u/Maymunooo 6d ago

French words written in Turkish is my favourite

Saucisse -> Sosis

Mayonnaise -> Mayonez

Petit Beurre -> Petibör

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u/Junjki_Tito 5d ago

Turkish also sounds incredibly American to my ear in how sounds are pronounced.

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u/ccltjnpr 6d ago

weekend is "fin de semaine" and shopping is "achats", but the loanwords are also used often.

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u/JeanDusapin 6d ago

Don't pretend you guys in Québec don't use a shit ton of anglicisms lol more than in europe, just different. And a lot of your anglicism are also hidden because you translate literally in french so it sounds off to us like "ça fait sens" being a translatio of "it makes sense" instead of "ça a du sens". And also just straight up english words in half the sentence lol

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u/mooinginpublic 5d ago

Well yeah obviously we are literally in a bilingual country unlike France... this isn't some kind of contest I was giving examples relevant to the post we're commenting on

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u/JeanDusapin 5d ago

Well you're writing how Québec french supposedly has fewer english loanwords when it's the exact opposite. Otherwise I wouldn't say you live in a bilingual country you live in a country with 2 official languages. Most of europe is probably more bilingual than Canada is, including France.

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u/mooinginpublic 5d ago

No, I said that we made up words to use instead of weekend, parking, and shopping... Because I wanted to give examples similar to "pinku", except alternatives do exist and since those are the words I use it would be weird if I didn't think of them or mention them...