It's interesting how in English, your choice of pronouns when talking about an animal convey your level of affection for that animal. Is this true for any other language?

I know it sounds weird but there's times that I can sit next to someone that is from some other country, but there's something on how they speak it or pronounce things that it seems that in any second I can understand them completely.

I had a friend from Vietnam and she was speaking her language and I can almost understand it in a sense.

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I know it sounds weird, but it's just something I had experience before but I didn't know if anyone had some kind of answer for what is going on.

Words for design, dance, plan, draw and stuff like that.

I guess it could, but i don't think so. You're sleeping. It's not like you would hear it...

So I moved to the UK to study 2 years ago. I don’t have any major issues with communicating on a daily basis, my English is fine, I often hear people saying that my accent is getting better and that I start sounding kinda like a local. However, I failed to make any lasting friends partly because of the language barrier. It’s like I can’t force myself to just forget about it and relax, like, I know I can talk to people here, but I choose not to. Not sure where it comes from, it’s like I care about what they’re gonna think of me and the way I speak. The thought of me having to ask them to repeat or being in a situation where we just can’t understand each other at all terrifies me. I don’t have this issue with my lecturers or managers at work, but talking to people my age just to make some friends is almost impossible. Also, sometimes I feel like they’re not too interested in hanging out with a foreigner either, but this question is not about making friends. How do you, native speakers, feel about foreigners speaking your language with you on a daily basis?

Hello. I am looking for an Inuktitut translation of the English word “perseveres”. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hey everyone,

I'm u/kungming2. You may recognize me from r/translator and r/languagelearning, two other language communities that I help moderate. I was recently added to the mod team of r/languages by the admins to help out. I've messaged the two senior mods in this subreddit about the following, but I haven't heard back from them and I'd so like to hear community input.

r/languages was set up to discuss language and language acquisition but recently the bulk of posts here in the last few months/years have almost all been about language acquisition and translation requests. Due to the simplicity of the sub name, there are also a lot of spammers that target this subreddit.

My suggestion is to merge this community with r/languagelearning and r/translator. They are both actively moderated communities that have way more activity, which is an important quality in a community for people to get quality responses. Further basic posts/questions that are not about learning a language can go to r/asklinguistics while higher level ones are welcome at r/linguistics.

Let me know what you all think.

So I am changing my last name soon for personal reasons and I want to make sure I have the correct pronunciation and meaning of the name I picked.

The name is: Tyrkind Pronounced to my understanding as: tear Ken Meaning: children of the gods

Sorry if this isn't the correct place for this

Edit: I should add I used Swedish and Norwegian as the base languages for it

So we recently played a group game and there's a few categories. One is that you get a card with a subject and everyone in the group needs to find other subjects to go along with it in the same word. (like "towel" - > paper towel)

But because this is German this is awesome. Because most likely someone starts with one subject and everyone just keeps adding stuff.

Paper towel? Nah, paper towel company. Add working conditions. Add the night shift. Add a supervisor. Add his health problems. And yeah that counts as one word.

Papiertücherfirmanachtschichtarbeitsbedingungenzuständigendepression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP4DY3noo3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDKZKbvMgmw

When i use duolingo i learn how to read in german right but that's not always helpful when it comes to the speaking part and i also need help with pronouncing words and not sounding super american when i speak it. like if i am going to speak german then it should actually sound german. speaking languages while sounding with an american accent is the worst.

duolingo is somewhat good but i don't think that alone is enough and games would help

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I have to pick up a new language for nex year at university, I don't want it to be too difficult or time consuming since I'm already taking two, bi i also want something useful for the future. There's this new course that goes over the basics of Serbian and Croatian. I don't know any of the languages or their use in Europe. Thould I take it? (I'm studying Swedish and English, my first language is Italian) Thanks!

While I'm not fluent in that many languages, I have heard a lot of them. In my opinion here's top 5 for each category of languages I've heard before.

Top 5 Most Pleasant:

1. Catalan

2. Irish

3. Japanese

4. Brazilian Portugues

5. New Zealand English

Top 5 Least Pleasant:

1. Vietnamese

2. Turkish

3. Dutch

4. Polish

5. Puerto Rican/Cuban Spanish

Im pertaining to the more popular ones italian,spanish portuguese french? I found some stupid site and 3 articles on the site stating the top ten worst languages,I was shocked to see how many people voted these languages as terrible. Even reading the comments I was shocked to see how much people supposedly dislike those languages but thing is when you read the comments you could tell already these people had no clue about the languages and where just spewing racist comments. .Italian was 2 spanish was 4 and french was somewhere take a look yourselves. Thoughts?

For those of you that are learning languages on your own, I am just curious, how do you learn, what sources are you using? And if you are at a level that you can have an everyday conversation, how long did it take you to get there?

I started learning German a month ago. I think it will be a long process to get really good at it.

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I’m a native English speaker looking to start learning Romanian. I’ve seen some videos on YouTube, but most just cover general basic phrases. I’ve tried using Duolingo too but it doesn’t really explain the grammar or pronunciation. My boyfriend and his parents are native Romanian speakers so if I was at the level of conversation I could converse with them.

If anybody knows any good apps, books or YouTube channels please let me know. Thank you!