#learning another language

[jimvasta]

As a native English speaker learning German, I believe all the memes about the scary language are totally wrong.

German is cute!

It's like that really big scary looking guy lifting weights in the gym, who when you get to know him is actually a sweetheart who works as a dog groomer and collects teddy bears.

They have compound words that should be whole sentences, but the little words don't want to be alone.

The German for dumplings is maultaschen - that literally means mouth pockets (or feedbags)!

X-rays are Röntgenbild - Röntgen picture (because he discovered the radiation which he called X)

It's so literal and yet so adorable.

[quilledart]

HELP!

Im trying to learn french so I want to listen to the hp audiobooks in french since i know the story so well but dont want to give money to terfs. Anyone know how i can make this happen???

[karmagotme]

Yet ask me on the spot to say something and I'll draw a blank :( My brain is silly

[bilingual-culture-is]

learning bi/multilingual culture is being upset that your school doesn't have any classes for the language that you're trying to learn [bonus points if it's a language that you actually kind of need to know and be able to use [in my case i have issues with speech and it'd be really cool if my school could teach asl ::') ]

[flamingredanon]

Ellie speaks Spanish, RHM can translate it and finds it sexy. That’s the premise, TK ending.

(Ellie is from Spain and her English isn’t very good)

Right finds out Ellie spoke Spanish when he ran into her ranting to herself while training, with Right surprising her with the comment that her accent was hot.

Ellie completely goes flustered and embarrassed, with Right asking if Spanish was her native language. Ellie found herself sheepishly admitting it was, that while she was decent at English, she had a long ways to go.

So Right offered to give private English lessons to Ellie, knowing what it was like since he only spoke Russian for the longest time.

And soon the two bonded and their private lessons grew longer, with it being more private and less lessoning going on. And sometimes, Ellie found herself giving Right Spanish lessons, with Right very much enjoying them.

[postersbykeith]

[simascreams]

Heyo my dudes does any of you speak Russian?

I am taking a Russian course this semester so it would be pretty nice to chat with someone whose mother language is Russian or you know, just fluent in Russian

You can message me if you wanna help your girl out and you know... be friends and stuff

[factoidfactory]

Random Fact #3,214

1 in 7 people on Earth speak English (~1 billion people).

Slightly over 66% of them (743.5 million) are not native speakers, making English the most spoken second language in the world but the world’s third biggest first language.