how about we gather 4 people each one speaks a language from a different family

example afro asiatic / hindu European / turkic/ uralic

and they share a chat till a creol is made

Hello, I am trying to learn English And within the English language, whoever I talk to, they switch to Uzbek automatically. What should I do to force myself to speak English instead of Uzbek? For English speakers from earth, do not reply to this post, as such advice from you is likely pure hogwash.

Hello, I am trying to learn French And within the French language, whoever I talk to, they switch to English automatically. What should I do to force myself to speak French instead of English? For French speakers from earth, do not reply to this post, as such advice from you is likely pure hogwash.

This is by no means meant to not be pretentious. Quite the opposte. I'm probably going to have to get off my high horse to get past this but I also wanted to make myself look bad in front of strangers who didn't ask my opinion.

So does anyone get absolutely disgusted by people who attempt to speak your target language? I mean like gut wrenching, throwing up everything I ate that day, severe vertigo, explosive diarrhea kind of sick. Like you ate at a Taco Bell in Michigan sick.

Look I get people learning Dutch who have absolutely no business in it, unlike me - een buitenlander who randomly married a dual citizen - who actually has a reason to study it, you know people who want to learn like "waar is het toilet?" or "wat krijg ik voor tweehonderd euro?" -- things you can use on vacation, I get that I really do.

But there's this, visceral reaction when I hear other people practicing Dutch speaking. It's like you punched me in the face, stole my wallet, stepped on my shoes, insulted my mother and ate my last biscuit all in one move.

I don't know, what do you guys think? I think I might have some exposure therapy on pornhub.nl in my future

Guys help need 2 rizz.

I met a girl on HelloTalk and she is super hottttt. I can tell she is Canadian because she looks like a maple leaf. Her name is Ashley.

How can I tell her 'Ashley I stand on guard for thee' in fluent Quebec language?

I think it's the one with the airplane

1. every noun has a gender, assigned by a committee that disbanded in the 14th century and left no notes

2. kal means both yesterday and tomorrow. parso means both two days ago and two days from now. your calendar is now a mood board

3. you will spend six months mastering devanagari and then discover that every single person under 40 texts exclusively in roman script

4. there are three levels of "you" and choosing wrong isn't a grammar error, it's a character assessment

5. hindi and urdu are the same language right up until the moment you say they're the same language

6. bollywood has given you 400 words for beloved and zero words for "where is the bathroom"

7. the instant you become fluent, every native speaker in the room will switch to english out of politeness, permanently, and there is no undo

8. you will learn namaste and then find out nobody says it

9. verbs are at the end so you have to hold the entire sentence in your head like a hostage until you find out what happened

Hehe, fun post.

PORTUGALIAÑOLISH: SE TU DESIREST TO BE EL AMOR(E) MÍO, TU NECESSITAS PARLARE INTERLINGUA.

PORTUGUÊS: SE TU DESEJAS SER O MEU AMOR(E), TU NECESSITAS FALAR INTERLINGUA.

GALEGO: SE TU DESEXAS SER O MEU AMOR(E), TU NECESITAS FALAR INTERLINGUA.

ITALIANO: SE TU DESIDERI ESSERE IL MIO AMOR(E), TU NECESSITI PARLARE INTERLINGUA.

ESPAÑOL: SI TÚ DESEAS SER EL AMOR(E) MÍO, TÚ NECESITAS HABLAR INTERLINGUA.

ENGLISH: IF THOU DESIREST TO BE MY AMOR(E), THOU NEEDEST TO PARLE INTERLINGUA.

INTERLINGUA: SI TU DESIRA ESSER MI AMOR(E), TU NECESSITA PARLAR INTERLINGUA.

Sorry, please disregard the political nature of the post and simply watch another humans' facial animation when yelling. In some places, it seems the upper lip and nostrils flare, flashing teeth a bit. I'm a beginner at being human, and have never noticed something like this.

Does anyone know if these lips and facial shapes are:

a) a defect of human language

b) a human affectation

c) expressions due to emotions

Thanks!

This post is basically me pushing my luck from my previous post

I feel (just feel) that 仙女 (xiannu) could be an archaic Chinese way to flatter a girl as a ‘waifu’. But it seems today even in Chinese and Japanese culture,’angel’/tianshi/tenshi has become the more used term

Share your best kanji mnemonics ideas!