#monolingual problems

[youknow-likealiar]

Not a fan dubbed shows, yet I try to do chores while watching and then realize, “wait, I can’t understand them cause I don’t actually speak that language”

[mynameisgoliath]

Remember when I was little and called myself ‘Mirror’ because I couldn’t pronounce my own name?

[faithlessdreamer]

New goal in life: be fluent in French next time I visit France

[intpmusings]

My apparent inability to learn new languages is a source of relentless personal disappointment and shame. 

[virtuouspagans]

In the version of Les Mis I have, Grantaire's final lines are translated as: "Might as well kill two birds with one stone," "If you don't mind." 

Now it might just be because I've only ever seen it translated as "Finish both of us at one blow," "Do you permit it?", but it just has far less impact and I feel like one of the most powerful moments in the book has been ruined for me. I'll probably have to read the whole book again in a better translation.