May 17
what language did u learn in school (before university/college)
- spanish
- french
- mandarin
- other
- none
what language did u learn in school (before university/college)
Spanish
French
Mandarin
Other
None
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what language did u learn in school (before university/college)
- spanish
- french
- mandarin
- other
- none
what language did u learn in school (before university/college)
Spanish
French
Mandarin
Other
None
because language is vague and tricky and I'm checking my own idiomatic biases
What does the phrase "I'm not mad about it" convey to you?
"It doesn't make me angry/upset" (I'm USAican or derive my idioms from them)
"It doesn't make me angry/upset" (I'm British or derive my idioms from them)
"It doesn't make me angry/upset" (I'm something unrelated to USAicans/Brits)
"I'm not wild about/super into it" (USAican/idioms derived from USA)
"I'm not wild about/super into it" (British/idioms derived from UK)
"I'm not wild about/super into it" (idioms unrelated to USAicans/Brits)
This means something totally different to me & will explain in reblog/tags
Would you rather...
instantly learn any language
instantly learn to play any instrument
Ok I have a question. Recently I heard someone pronounce "hehe" differently than how I say it and it's been stuck in my brain, because what they said has a whole different vibe imo
I pronounce hehe
with the e from acne
with the e from leg
neither of the above (let me know in the tags/comments)
Your native language is...?
English
Chinese (Mandarin)
Hindi-Urdu (Yes, I know these are technically different languages)
Arabic
French
Bengali
Portuguese
Indonesian
Spanish
Russian
German
Something else (put in tags)
And yes, I'm aware that much, if not most, of the world's population has a native language not on this list.
How many languages can you speak?
Only one
More than one
I used to be able to speak German and French somewhat fluently as a teenager but I got bored of it and now I can't speak them at all. I want to learn Morroccan Arabic but I have ADHD I can barely focus on surviving xddddd
What are everyone’s favorite words?? If you see this please tag some of yours
What would you consider your primary language?
English 1.45 billion
Manderin Chinese 1.12 billion
Hindi 602 million
Spanish 559 million
Standard Arabic 274 million
French 274 million
Bengali 273 million
Russian 258 million
Portuguese 258 million
Urdu 231 million
Other
Options are the 10 most spoken languages, listed with their number of total speakers for comparison to final results (Source)
Please share for sample size, I think it would be really interesting to compare the tumblr data set to the global data set!!