r/languagelearningjerk • • 5h ago

In the Wild!

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r/languagelearningjerk • • 6h ago

Why is "real number" a countable noun? Are English speakers stupid?

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In mathematics the set of real numbers is uncountable, and yet in English "real number" is still classified as a countable noun, and the English speakers would even say "uncountably many real numbers" with the plural -s. Are they stupid? Did they fail their basic set theory class?


r/languagelearningjerk • • 10h ago

I have a month to better my french. My evil opp will be there. I am conversational but have no idea what resources to use

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I was speaking to a an American boy who had lived 6 months in France in French (I am French American thank you very much) and my accent isn’t the best, he had the audacity to say to me « ta mère est bête » when I told him I learned from my mother (who was born and raised in Paris and is truly French as she insults my accent but she’s allowed to as she’s actually FRENCH) and I was so insulted as I have my pride I genuinely started crying in the club (we were both drunk)

Anyways storytime over, I’m going to Paris to see my family and this opp might be there when I stop by to visit my friends- how can I frenchmog him quickly? I don’t want to pull out my passports (he’s such a bitch) but as a French person I know my accent is ass.

Long story short- I’m watching French tv and speak with my mum (for as long as she can stand it) in French, but what grammar and accent building resources do you reccomend? I tried busuu and liked it but people got judgy so I want to know what yall think.

Thanks


r/languagelearningjerk • • 1d ago

New Uzbek update just dropped

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Thoughts?


r/languagelearningjerk • • 1d ago

Konnichiwa 👋 Check out my new revolutionary app for learning kanji!

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398 Upvotes

I was frustrated with learning kanji. So I made my own very unique app!

It's not just an app ー it's a passion project and a love letter to the japanese language. ✨

It uses a revolutionary technique called spaced repetition that will make your learning more effective than other popular apps such as anki!

Would you like me to generate a different ad for a language learning app, or maybe we should continue our conversation from earlier, where I pretend to be your submissive japanese cat-girlfriend? Or we can return to our previous discussion about tentacle hentai?


r/languagelearningjerk • • 1d ago

If you teached kid Zhongguoese they be brainedwashed by evil CCP!!!1

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Follow me for more content to expose Zhongguo collapse


r/languagelearningjerk • • 1d ago

I wasn't expecting it to be quite as easy as simplified German but you have to be straight up built different to learn this lingo

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48 Upvotes

It's literally tutorial difficulty versus nightmare difficulty


r/languagelearningjerk • • 1d ago

Writing prompts that aren't gay?

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I need to practice my output but every writing prompt I see for this online is so fucking gay. "What groceries did you buy recently?" "What did you do today?" "What's your family like?" I'm gonna jump off a bridge wearing only a Duolingo mascot costume shut up. Does anybody know any REAL writing prompts for the homophobic (not gay)?


r/languagelearningjerk • • 1d ago

I've been learning にほんご with WW2-era training tapes so かわいい 😍✨🌈

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r/languagelearningjerk • • 2d ago

How to Shock the Turks

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Translated into English:

How to make Turkish people happy: 

Me: Ingilizce biliyor musunuz? (Do you know English?) 

Turkish 1: Only little, you know Turkish? 

Me: I know a few phrases. 

Turkish 1: Interesting. What phrase you know? 

Me: "Egemenlik, kayıtsız şartsız Milletindir" ("Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the Nation") 

Turkish 1: 🤯🤯🤯 

Turkish 2: Atatürk!!! Maşallah, maşallah!!! 🥺🥺🥺 

Turkish 3: "Egemenlik, kayıtsız şartsız Milletindir" Maşallah!!! 😁😁😁 

[Shake hands and takes photos] 
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So the key to making Turkish people treat you nicely is Atatürk, their angry faces completely disappear. 🤣 

And the naysayers say that studying history is useless lol 😎


r/languagelearningjerk • • 2d ago

I'm travelling to Coruscant, so I changed my phone to Galactic Basic to impress the natives.

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r/languagelearningjerk • • 2d ago

If only there was a way to convey these words in English…

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Unfortunately English is uncouth, I can never fully express my ideas in this simple language


r/languagelearningjerk • • 2d ago

Thought this joke should belong here as well.

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r/languagelearningjerk • • 3d ago

I'm studying to become a Chronicler and tomorrow I'm travelling to my TL destination, how's my grammar?

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r/languagelearningjerk • • 3d ago

Hellotalk is a dating app? Pfff of course not. That's how you use it!

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r/languagelearningjerk • • 3d ago

how's my handwriting?

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i started alphabet mining in genki earlier this week but people have been telling me to step back from hiragana to focus on the fundamentals of logographic languages so i started etching cuneiform into rocks i found outside. am i ready to move onto old japanese or should i do babylonian first. i just want to watch anime without subtitles
𐏂𐎧𐎠𐎭𐎪 𐏀𐎮𐎸!

UPDATE: i started sentence mining copper plates with the šaṭārumtan popup dictionary but the epic of gilgamesh is a bit too... erm... woke for my palate. are there any graded readers anyone could suggest? (i.e. preserved graffiti and shop manifests)


r/languagelearningjerk • • 4d ago

Is it cultural appropriation if I try to learn people's languages to show respect even though I'm not of their country of origin, ethnicity, or nationality?

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r/languagelearningjerk • • 4d ago

Typical 漢字 be like

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r/languagelearningjerk • • 4d ago

Word, English 🙄👎 Word, Japan 😍🌸

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285 Upvotes

r/languagelearningjerk • • 4d ago

Has German gone woke?

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320 Upvotes

What the fuck is this pronoun shit, and why do they think there are more than two genders? Has to woke agenda gotten to the German language?


r/languagelearningjerk • • 4d ago

Proto Germanic would've been evil

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I feel it in my soul


r/languagelearningjerk • • 4d ago

Any classes on Islamic?

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38 Upvotes

What about Cajun? How can I shock the natives with my excellent knowledge of Cajun and Islamic and not a taser?


r/languagelearningjerk • • 4d ago

They are not beating the eurocentric supremacist allegations in the comment

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r/languagelearningjerk • • 4d ago

Wake up chucklefucks, new pronouns just dropped

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r/languagelearningjerk • • 5d ago

Schrödinger's Dialects:

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170 Upvotes

Portuguese, Galician, Spanish & Italian resemble dialects that could be very simply reintegrated & reunified into r/Neolatino Romance, r/LatinoSineFlexione or r/Interlingua for maximized immediate comprehension & maximized international communication.