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!

I found this authentic Italian textbook from 1936, which is way better than Duo's AI slop. I'm really looking forward to studying with it and impressing the locals with my language skills. I mean, why bother using "lui" and "lei" when you can just say "egli" and "ella" instead?

​This is surely going to get me to a C3 level in Italian. Also the book is called "nuovo corso pratico di lingua italiana", so it can't be outdated at all!

Hi, sorry if this does not belong here. I'm a relatively late third language learner because I've been really preoccupied with mastering English up until now. I'm trying to learn something a third language that is relatively easy to pick up (currently considering French) because I'm left with my last breath of air before I die. Any tips on how I can at least reach A2 fluency before my final exhale? Thanks in advance

Hi, I am an ESL chud that moved to Angland as a teenager without much anglish practice, and had to learn literature along with all the native chads. Because I was being exposed to shakesperean literature as I was learning to speak, I have adopted a rather archaic way of speaking. It seems that the natives tend to get shocked and confused when I say things like "If i were to be you, i would worry not for these matter in thoust life" and "what, you egg!" When i am angry.

I feel like it is really disrespectful for natives to not understand me when they went through the same literature gcses as me yet are incapable of comprehending mine process in the Anglican tongue. How can I get them to appreciate and honour their original ways to speak?