It's social media...
Just go and do your best, you'll pick it up fastest that way.
Make a burner account if you're afraid of looking stupid.
But nothing would be better than just jumping into a French instance and giving it a try. Even if it takes months before you really understand stuff.
You are right, and I have tried, however it is painful needing to translate while on a phone when there are so many different words i don't understand in a short sentence. Not to mention the slang and internet culture associated with posting online on memes and stuff.
If you're on Android, you can long press the home button and translate everything on your screen, even if it's text in an image. I use this feature frequently when practicing Chinese with my girlfriend.
Also, just remember the amount of times you've seen someone post on a forum in what appears to be perfectly coherent English, and then end their post with "sorry for my bad English, it's not my first language". I personally have witnessed that situation here and on the alien site probably hundreds of times. Languages are usually pretty error tolerant, especially if you have a basic understanding of the grammar rules and double check what you've written with a translator before hitting send.
If you're on Android, you can long press the home button and translate everything on your screen, even if it's text in an image.
Holy shit, that's genuinely, amazingly helpful. Thank you for pointing it out :)
iOS does something similar, but you take a screenshot and it translates all the text in the image. Just tap on the preview in the bottom corner, click the select all text button, then it should show a translate button. If there’s not enough foreign language then you have to manually highlight and hit translate. That part is annoying.
Je ne connais pas de communautés correspondant à ce que tu décris. Tu pourrais reposer ta question dans !forumlibre@jlai.lu par exemple et commencer à interagir en français et/ou anglais (le serveur francophone https://jlai.lu/ accepte les participations en anglais).
Merci beaucoup pour votre réponse ! Je vais regarder. Bonne journée.
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I really enjoy trying to interpret german memes, and the one time I asked for help understanding some grammar they were very polite and helpful
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