Kinda related:

Turns out "I don't like pitbulls and those kind of dogs" is a dogwhistle in yankland. Fucking everything is a dogwhistle, even the word "boy" turns out to be a dogwhistle too. Fuck dammit stop being so fucking racist.

Tv series, lectures, podcasts, anything really. Bonus if it has subtitles in hindi as well as in english

As an English speaking American trying to germen, I can tell you this is 100% accurate. Can’t stop laughing and cringing.

From someone in Overwatch lol.

From what I've got 母狗 means bitch. But 司马 all I can find is either a minister of war or a surname. Individually 司 is department, take charge of, division, and to manage and 马 is horse. But I don't know what it all means together. Putting it in DeepL gives me Sima Bitch which is literally just the pinyin of the first two characters (sīmǎ) then bitch.

I was wondering if it's internet slang or if anyone here has the cultural context that I don't.

• Malarkey

• Fungible

• Tartare (steak)

my brain is gabagool now

the wild thing about translating is like

if i try to read german or swedish i translate it into the english part of my brain

if i try to read russian i translate it into the czech part of my brain

at least with slavic languages theyre all so closely related that its far easier to translate than german or swedish

its just so hard to be like 'ok i read cyrillic convert it to latin characters then translate russian to czech to english' in my head lmao

:brainworms:

I'm not there yet but I want to have a plan after I go through everything

I know vaguely of the science of linguistics and I want to actually try my hand at seriously attempting to learn a language. Unfortunately, linguists keep throwing a bunch of words at my brain like "syntax" and "conjugation" and "grammar trees" that just... go over my fucking head. Is it better to try and learn the structure of one particular language at a time or will understanding linguistics first give me a better edge? And if so, where do I start if I want to sit down and actually try to fluently understand a second language?

Good news if you plan on learning Vietnamese

Vietnam National University, Hanoi has been tasked to create an online Vietnamese language education site for members of the diaspora. According to the university’s website, the programme will feature six levels and some lessons will be launched this month.

I'm honestly surprised and only realizing now that large powerful countries like the US, China, and Russia don't provide free courses to learn their respective languages. I think that would help push their popularity a lot more. Though I don't think English is necessary because it's basically expected that you learn it as a child regardless of country.

I guess they purposefully put the "minute" there because I fell for this twice :angery:

Duolingo has had quite a few bizarre or poorly worded questions or questions that fail you for completely valid answers

Hi guys, just wanted to take a moment to ~~shamelessly shill~~ promote my new Anki plugin for learning foreign language vocabulary. Feed it a list of words you want to learn and it will automagically translate and generate cards for you. I use it while doing language immersion to create cards for any words I encounter that I don't already know and I've found it super helpful for memorizing those less common words that aren't generally in existing card decks and would be really difficult to absorb naturally due to how infrequent they are.

Happy learning :duck-dance:

If you enjoy Mexican slang, ControlZ is your show.

(CW: elite rich kids and problematic tropes. I’m sure a lot of the slang is problematic too.)

Your education system is just going to be a bunch of different mobile apps with microtransactions in five years isn't it

Also, recommend an app for practicing writing kanji, I got a stylus and everything

Serious. I've struggled with learning a second language in school and want some advice on how best to learn one as an adult so I can flee this hellish country before they outlaw my existence next year

Cuba is about the only place I can think of that I'd want to move to and contribute towards, though I doubt its easy for crackers like me to immigrate

Hmm yes mom is actually dad

So I took a free beginners Chinese language course on Coursera last year that was offered by Peking University. It was great, but pretty limited. After that I started using Transparent Language from a Humble Bundle deal I saw. It's ok, but it expires in August and I wanted to see what else is out there. Paid is ok, but I wouldn't want anything too absurdly pricey.

Are there any in particular you all would recommend?