#Learn To English Spoken

[laurasimonsdaughter]

how many languages do you speak? :o

That's a very cruel question to ask a multilingual person, I have never spoken a language in my life

#okay to reblog #for my fellow multilinguals <3 #I'm from the Netherlands and Dutch is my mother tongue #I'm close to fluent in English #my French is an embarrassment. meaning I can understand enough to get by and to correct google translate but can hardly speak it #my German is appalling. meaning I can read it okay because it is similar to Dutch but cannot understand it when spoken nor speak it #and I /wish/ I spoke papiamentu but I never learned more than a few words #beneath-thestyx #for the record I don't mind the question at all ^^ (but I /am/ deeply embarrassed about my french)

[awkward-teabag]

I have to wonder how many people celebrating AI translation also complain about "broken English" and how obvious it is something was Google translated from another language without a fluent English speaker involved to properly clean up the translation/grammar.

Because I bet it's a lot.

I know why execs are all for it—AI is the new buzzword and it lets them cut jobs thus "save" money and not have to worry about pesky labour laws when one employs humans—but everyone else?

There was some outcry when Crunchyroll fired many of their translators in favour of AI translation (with some people to "clean up the AI's work") but I can't help but think that was in part because it was Japanese-to-English and personally affected them. Same when Duolingo fired many of their translators in favour of LLM translation. Meanwhile companies are firing staff when it's English to another language and there's this idea that that's fine or not as big a deal because English is "easy" to translate and/or because people don't think of how it will impact people in non-English countries.

Also it doesn't affect native English speakers so it doesn't get much headway in the news cycle or online anyway because so much of the dominant media is from English-speaking countries and English-speakers dominate social media.

But different languages have different grammar structures that LLMs don't do, and I grew up on "jokes" about people speaking in "broken English" and mocking people who use the wrong word when it was clearly a literal translation but the meaning was obvious long before LLMs were a thing, too. In fact, the specific way a character spoke broken English has been a way to denote their native tongue for decades, usually in a racist way.

Then Google translate came out and "Google-translated English" became an insult for people and criticism of companies because it was clearly wonky to native speakers. Even now, LLMs—which are heavily trained on English compared to other languages—don't have a natural output so native English speakers can clock LLM-generated text if it's longer than a sentence or two.

But, for whatever reason, it's not seen as a problem when it goes the other way because fuck non-English readers or people who want to read in their native tongue I guess.

#and it's not like no people were doing translations so wonky translations were better than nothing #it's actual translators being fired for a subpar replacement #and anyone who keeps their job suddenly being responsible for cleaning up llm output rather than what they trained in #(which can take just as much time or longer than doing the translation by hand from scratch) #(if you want it done right anyway) #hell to this day i hear people complain about written translations of indigenous words and how they 'aren't english enough' #even though they're using the ipa and use a system white english people came up with in the first place #and you can easily look up the proper pronunciation and hear it spoken #but there's such a double-standard where it's expected that other languages cater to english/english speakers #but that grace and accommodation doesn't go the other way #and it's the failing of non-english speakers when an english translation is broken #you see it whenever monolingual english speakers travel to other countries and utterly refuse to learn the language #but if someone doesn't speak in unaccented (to them) english fluently in their home country the person 'isn't trying hard enough' #this is just the new version of that where non-english speakers are supposed to do more work and put up with subpar translations #even as a native english speaker/writer i get a (much) lesser version of this because i write with canadian spelling #and some people get pissed if their internet experience is disrupted by 'ou' instead of 'o' or '-re' instead of '-er' #because dialects and regional phrasing/spelling is a thing #human translators can (or should) be able to account for it but llms are not smart enough to do so #and that's not even getting into slang and how llms don't account for it #or how llms can put slurs into translations because it doesn't do nuance or context and doesn't know the language #if you ever complained about buying something from another country that came with machine-translated instructions #you should be pissed at companies cutting english-to-[language] staff in favour of glorified google translate #because the companies are effectively saying they're fine with non-native speakers getting a wonky/broken version

[odegirlie]

MY LIFE HAS BEEN CHANGED.

#learning fluent polish brb #YOU DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MEANS. #first time he's ever spoken english 😭😭😭😭 #i've lost my mind #jakub kiwior #also tomi/kiwi crumbs they're the only two to do this 😭😭 #arsenal #arsenal fc

[samodivas]

#woke up with a fever at 5 am and this burning question #p: mine #langblr #my reasoning is that I suspect English speakers #(though also other majority languages in their spheres; like Russian; Spanish and French) #have a harder time immersing themselves because that language is so widespread #so because of the convenience of their spoken language being everywhere… they just never learn

[antisocialxconstruct]

gonna make an extremely self-indulgent worldbuilding change to WALL which is that gendered pronouns just kinda fell out of use some time in the last couple hundred years and now there's just one universal third person pronoun and if someone want a pronoun with a distinct Implied Gender they have to ask for it

#and everyone honors that request of course #tbh I DID always kinda like the idea of spoken English in WALL being a more distinct dialect #like it's still definitely English and it FEELS intelligible but you're still gonna be learning a lot of new words on the fly #via context clues and such #I'd just have to be careful not to like... lay it on so heavy that players dont feel like they know what dialogue options actually mean. idk

[eumeliafeu]

Can I just say something? Okay, so, I think the funniest live bloggers are the Brazilians. They are so funny, and for what? I can almost always find something to laugh at in their live blogging for each day and I am just sitting looking through my tags and nearly laughing in the middle of one of my classes. Thank you, so so much Brazilians. You guys and your CCs are so dear to me. I can almost always find enjoyment in the live streams even if I can't understand a word they are saying(I can pick up little things here and there and it honestly makes me so happy) and it is so awesome coming on here and looking at the QSMP live blogging tag and figuring out through the live bloggers.

Other English speakers that are fans of the QSMP need to realize that the Spanish speakers and Brazilians are a part of our community and without them, we wouldn't have some really cool content. I am tired of seeing people make fun of or generally being awful to the CCs or even fellow fans. Do better.

Again, thank you Brazilian fans and also thank you to the Spanish speaking fans. You guys are awesome. Keep doing you and I hope other English speaking fans start appreciating you more, or even as much as I do and that they try to understand even a little bit, whether it's through learning one of the languages, even just watching the Brazilian and Hispanic creators and finding the cognates and understanding even a little bit, or even just interacting with fans who don't speak English as their first language and taking the time to even put their words through google translate(honestly, as someone learning Spanish, it isn't great but if you have a reading level over that of a first grader then you should be able to figure it out even then) just to help it reach more people as most social media sites are more English friendly than they are to any other language.

Feel free to translate this post so it can reach more people. I don't really care for credit but it would be really nice because we need to start crediting people more in not just this space but also in other spaces. Credit artists and writers, they are the back bones of many fandoms, especially ours. The museum in the QSMP itself credits the artists. Give credit where credit is due.

#qsmp #I am so tired of English speakers using their privileges for bad #do better #these people are important to our community and Q wanted to bridge the gap and you are stopping that from truly happening #also #remember to not make fun of people for their bad English! #English may be one of the most spoken languages in the world but that doesn't mean everyone knows it or has the ability to learn it! #qsmp brazilians appreciation #qsmp hispanics appreciation

[dersandmannkommt]

*has loved sign language since childhood* *is more or less proficient in american sign language* *has studied and continues to study Deaf culture and its history* *has met and befriended many d/Deaf people*

*asks deaf person to repeat a fingerspelled word more than once*

omg now they hate me and they probably hate me for trying to learn their language and then failing at it so miserably and i should probably just switch majors and gosh they probably think im just another stupid hearing person. please i can do better i swear i didnt mean to disrespect you

every single deaf person that i have ever met: *does not care* *probably didn't even register any mistake i made* *understands that I am learning an entirely new language and am bound to need a bit of help*

#asl #american sign language #sign language #deaf community #this goes for how it feels to learn any language tbh #a previous asl professor of mine was actually spanish #(english was her 3rd language) #and she once said “como estas?” #you know #one of the most well known spanish phrases that you dont even have to take a spanish class to know (“how are you?”) #and i completely blanked #not because I didnt know what it meant #but because i was too nervous to speak spanish with a native spanish speaker #which is actually hilarious #because the whole point of learning more than one language #is to be able to communicate with the people who speak those languages #i think this is more of an american culture thing #the fact that we are often taught to perfect things like pronunciation (if its spoken) and grammar #instead of actual communication #of course sign language grammar is a bit more important to learn than other languages grammar #you say smt wrong in english and a native english speaker will be able to understand you fine #but signed languages are pretty much dependent on the grammar side of things #but my point still stands

[eosofspades]

the weirdest thing i just discovered about myself is that i have an american accent when speaking english but an arab accent when i'm talking in other languages ??

#for context i'm arab and english is my first language; the other language i've SPOKEN the most of is assyrian but #i'm not fluent in it and it's been so long i don't really remember almost any of it #and now that i'm trying to learn other languages im realizing i. i have an arab accent fjsgkjdfhsdf #mine

[boimgfrog]

boyfriend's mom is setting a "no english" rule when I come over to help me learn Spanish and I'm like. well ma'am. get ready to hear a lot of "your house is very beautiful!" and "where is the bathroom?"

#jay says a thing #i can read spanish a good amount of the time? but speaking and understanding it when spoken is still so hars #i gotta learn though i wanna be able 2 talk to my bfs family #and his cousin who's staying with him doesnt speak english at ALL and i want 2 bond w her bcos she seems sweet

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

so im doing a preliminary translation course french-dutch in january which if i do it well enough i can do the real course starting september, and you dont need any official recognition of your level in either language they just say you have to master your working language (ie dutch here) well and that your passive knowledge of your source language has to be good, around at least b2

and, okay, ive been told i do set too high standards, but like, that feels,,,,,cheating isnt exactly the word but like. if i couldnt make the sentence, then how could i ever hope to translate it well into another language you know what i mean?

im glad, because my chances are way better to get my passive french to b2 than my active french before january, im probably already there, but like, im still gonna try to get my active french there too right?

like it just feels so.....precarious. to only have b2 and to dare to try and put a sentence into your own language? if i couldnt have made the sentence, then i would never think i can write it as correctly as possible in another language. honestly.

#maybe im just underestimating what b2 is but i dont think so #i know my written french is not there yet but i have no idea where it is. i havent been writing much #learning french is a process of me realising my french wasnt as good as i thought it was and my english is WAY BETTER than i thought it was #my written english is better than my written dutch #my spoken english is another question but my spoken dutch is also full of stammering and gaps so #i might just be being autistic there #i also dont speak english with my mouth like ever #so similar to how i thought my french was 'probably b1?' back in may or whatever (it wasnt) #i Think i can say english words #bc i can say them in my head #but my mouth is not used to them #i sound like ive never spoken an english word in my life #my written english tho #i know thats not exactly impressive since anyone on tumblr is doing fandom in english im hardly the only one but still #it would be way easier for my to translate french to english than to dutch #i need to get on that #crash course dutch literature this month

[childeproof]

to selfshippers that are multilingual, how would your f/o respond to you or your self insert speaking your second language? what about your third, if you have one? if you don’t speak your mother tongue on a day to day basis, how would they respond to hearing your mother tongue?

#boykujou #i’ll go first! outside of english i speak french & portuguese #i usually only type portuguese bc i’ve learned it myself online but i do speak a lot of french to my family #I can imagine amelia inviting jesse home to meet her parents and they start speaking franglais and he’s immediately confused #(she’s likely never spoken french around him before) #he’s like “woah woah you never told me you spoke french and stuff” and she’s like “oh yea it never came up” #the ONE thing she doesn’t brag about #as for portuguese amelia wld likely never speak it but if he happens to go through her phone she probably does have portuguese on her phone #portuguese language settings i mean #enough about me though #self ship #selfship #self ship community #f/o #f/o community #yumejoshi #yumeship #yume #🧊 ; jesse

[wilbursooted]

as an avid language learner and native fucking bilingual the whole idea of the United SMP on a fundamental level is gonna be a goddamn failure in comparison to the QSMP and i hope this whole debacle is what makes dream fade off the face of the fucking earth.

#piece of shit white man thinking he can 1up a latino whos spoken both english and spanish nearly his whole life like Okay #you didnt even bother learning spanish for the 6 day event you were formally invited to with majority spanish speakers MADE BY spanish #speakers FOR spanish speakers. YOU WERE A GUEST AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE COURTESY TO LEARN. #i hope his ass gets fucking slammed i hope a bilingual/non-monolingual cc calls him the fuck out. #dream situation #discourse

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! Do you know of any good sites to learn non-baby ASL for phrases like can I pet your dog, are you okay, do you need help, please help me, or other things like that? Mostly I just want to be able to communicate with one of my neighbors in an emergency, but also she walks her dogs around the neighborhood and they are adorable and I really want to be able to ask if I can pet them, but googling it is just getting me baby ASL tutorial videos and idk if that’s the same

#the person behind the yarn #ideally I want to learn all those phrases and any other important emergency phrases in every language spoken in my neighborhood #having to evacuate from fires back in california kinda instilled in me a like...you MUST be able to communicate with the community #and you MUST be able to get out in case of an emergency #and I can't drive. so I guess I should also learn #please help I can't drive so I can't evacuate or something like that #my neighbor's parents are long term visiting from India and do not speak like any English at all #so I also want to learn phrases like this (except maybe the can I pet your dog one) in a language they do understand #but idk which one that is yet. I only talked to that neighbor once but I've had a few charades conversations with his dad #nice dude! but I know there are multiple languages it could be and I want to get it right #is this all overkill: probably yet. Would it be better to pick one language and learn it fluently so I could really talk to that neighbor: #possibly! but idk if I can #I do think I can learn helpful emergency phrases in several languages though

[shehzadi]

i had my first arabic lesson todayy 🫶🫶 my teacher is very nice and it feels good-strange to be learning something difficult and new for the first time in months

#first time i’ve been given homework since like. january? #also just realising i’ve never had to learn like a typically ‘difficult language’ because i’ve always spoken english + urdu which ig is #considered difficult to learn from scratch #and i chose spanish in school which was easy af #so. this is new!!! #🧩

[nysus-temple]

YA'LL I'M AT MY LIMIT— Someone came today and said "why do you want to defend Latin and Greek so much? They aren't of any use" AND SIR I'M SORRY TO BREAK IT TO YOU. BUT YOU'RE SPANISH. YOUR LANGUAGE COMES FROM LATIN. USE LATIN INSTEAD OF COPYING ENGLISH WORDS. And then he went and made it worse saying "ok fine, Latin is useful, whatever you say. But Greek? What do you need Greek for?" LIKE DUNNO. IT'S A FUCKING ACTUAL LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN AN ENTIRE COUNTRY WITH YEARS OF HISTORY. PERHAPS THE FACT THAT MANY SPANISH WORDS COME FROM IT. DUNNO BUDDY. IS THAT USEFUL ENOUGH TO YOU, YOU PIECE OF SHIT???

#WHAT IF SOMEONE WANTS TO STUDY GREEK INSTEAD OF FRENCH #WHATS THE FUCKING PROBLEM #BOTH ARE SPOKEN LANGUAGES YOU IDIOT #no because i don't see anyone seeing this with English #i get it. universal language and bullshit #BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN GREEK SHOULDN'T BE A CHOICE TO STUDY #I'VE STUDIED FIVE LANGUAGES WITHOUT COUNTING MY NATIVE ONE #LANGUAGES DESERVE TO BE LEARN I DONT CARE HOW LITTLE PEOPLE SPEAK THEN #*YOU* SIR SHUT THE FUCK UP #Greek isn't useful. MY ASS #they tried to remove Greek from the subjects option and many people. including me. got mad #you CAN'T get rid of that #cool. you don't want to learn it. it's a choice #but ME and many others want to #and you can't remove that from us #THE FUCJING SPANISH GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE DEFENDING THIS #SO TECHNOLOGY NOW HAS TO BE OBLIGATORY FOR KIDS #BUT THEY CAN'G CHOOSE GREEK BECAUSE IT'S NOT USEFUL ACCORDING TO THEM #IMSOFUCKIBGDONE #rant

[grammarbdexplorer]

Sentence (বাক্য) কাকে বলে

কিছু কথা : Sentence বা বাক্য সম্পর্কে কম বেশি সবারই ধারণা আছে। তার পরও বাক্য চিনতে আমাদের কিছুটা হিমসিম খেতে হয়। আমি মনে করি যদি আমরা একটু সচেতন থাকি তাহলে এ সমস্যা থাকবে না। নিম্নে খুবই সংক্ষিপ্ত আকারে Sentence বা বাক্যের সম্পর্কে কিছু ধারণা দিলাম। বাক্যের সংঘা : যখন কতকগুলো অর্থবোধক শব্দসমূহ এক সংগে সুবিন্যস্ত আকারে বসে মনের সম্পূর্ণ অর্থ প্রকাশ করে তখন তাকে Sentence বা বাক্য বলে। Sentence বা বাক্যের প্রকার: অর্থের উপর ভিত্তি করে বাক্যকে পাঁচ ভাগে ভাগ করা হয়েছে। আবার অন্য দিকে কাঠামোর উপর ভিত্তি করে বাক্যকে তিন ভাগে ভাগ করা হয়েছে। অর্থের উপর ভিত্তি করে বাক্যের প্রকার :

Assertive sentence

Interrogative sentence

Imperative sentence

Optative sentence

Exclamatory sentence কাঠামোর উপর ভিত্তি করে বাক্যের প্রকার :

Simple sentence

Complex sentence

Compound sentence বিভিন্ন প্রকার বাক্যের উদাহরণ নিচে দেওয়া হলো:

Assertive sentence : a. I go to school. b. I don't go to school.

Interrogative sentence : a. Do I go to school?

Imperative sentence : a. Do it.

Optative sentence : a. May Almighty Allah bless you.

Exclamatory sentence: a. How beautiful the bird is! কাঠামোগত বাক্যের উদাহরণ :

Simple sentence : a. I eat rice.

Complex sentence : a. If you come I will eat rice.

Compound sentence : a. Do or die মন্তব্য : যেহেতু খুব সংক্ষিপ্ত আকারে বর্ণনা করা হলো সেহেতু একটু হলেও গ্রামার বই দেখে নিবেন। আপনাদের মতামতের অপেক্ষায় রইলাম। ধন্যবাদ সবাইকে।

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