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casa-domeupai · 5 months

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General Post; Lost in Translation: Embracing the Comedy of Learning Portuguese

Years ago, I shared with my dad my eagerness to learn Portuguese, and during our trip to Lisbon, he gifted me a book. It’s a bit bittersweet that I can’t update him on finally cracking open that book after it spent far too long gathering dust. But let’s not make this a sad post, because I know my dad would beam with pride knowing I’ve embarked on this language-learning journey. I’ve decided to…

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swiftpegacorn · 2 years

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✨✨✨✨✨✨ switching to my second language while talking about something deep and personal and upsetting so that I can be emotionally detached from the conversation ✨✨✨✨✨✨

#bilingual life

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zzzzzestforlife · 3 months

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increasingly "useless" reasons why i like learning languages

@studentbyday said i should re-define "useless" in my mind. instructions unclear. made a shitpost instead 💩

💌: inside-my-phone format is back!🍃 do you agree/disagree with my MTL rankings? what motivates you? 👀

i can be a more empathetic, understanding, and supportive person who makes sure to only cuss people out in languages they don't understand so that their feelings aren't hurt ❤️

i can talk to more people who will probably think i'm an idiot because of how badly i speak their language 👄

i can nurture my self-confidence/-esteem as long as i don't think too hard about how much i don't know 🥰

i can read more books, articles, people arguing on the internet, etc. 📚

i can travel to foreign countries more easily until someone asks me to translate something important and i mess up and land us both in prison or something ✈️

i can unlock new work opportunities until someone asks me to translate something important and i mess up and land us both in prison or something 💼

i can multitask better even though i shouldn't even be doing it in the first place 🤹‍♀️

i can watch my favorite shows/listen to my favorite songs without subtitles/translations so that my brain rot can continue in peace 📺

i can, on the other hand, stop losing brain cells?? 🧠

i can eavesdrop on more people, probably at the grocery store 🙉

i can show off at work and other places where it is appropriate to show off irrelevant skills ✨

sex appeal?? 🥵

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elonomhblog · 4 days

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español resources

- better than duolingo lesson platform; exam style questions - tongue twisters in spanish - best spanish homepage (it has everything) - spanish tutors - quite costly - translation of 'silly phrases' - basic spanish 1 - basic spanish 2 - basic spanish 3 - coffee break spanish (youtube) -foreign service institute basic spanish - foreign service institute programmatic spanish -foreign service institute headstart for spain - foreign service institute headstart for latin america

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inthewaytoamultilinguallife · 7 months

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Had a nightmare in Portuguese and woke up agitated at 3am thinking in full French. Turned on the bed and saw I had a message. I spent the next 5 minutes staring at my cellphone trying to make sense of what seemed like nonsensical keymashing -until I realised I was trying to understand Spanish with an English focused brain. I just, what

truly, what

(native language is Spanish btw lmao)

#language #welcome to my life #this is from last year lmao it gotta get out some day #multilingual life #multilingual #polyglot problems #learning language #bilingual #bilingual problems #polyglot

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olde-scratch · 1 year

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would akechi speak multiple languages? cause at this point its basically canon that he soaks up information like a sponge. would he go all out and get dictionaries and textbooks and pronunciation guides or would he be able to learn just from watching shows in the target language?

im asking bc i wanna know if he would memorize every single verb tense in french. 99% of them are unnecessary, useless, needlessly specific, and so similar to like five others. but would akechi be able to use them properly.

#saiki k #saiki kusuo #the disastrous life of saiki k #saiki no psi nan #he would 100% be able to school a native speaker #most french people cant even get their verb tenses right all the time #i wanna hear akechi spitting french SO FAST that hes basically just a collection of the r sounds and keysmash #WOULD HE ROLL HIS RS?? oh my god.#i dont know enough about other languages to make stuff up for this so if anyone else is bilingual/studying another language please add on #theres a whole website ik dedicated to conjugating french verbs bc theres SO MANY #i feel like hed learn english first bc lingua franca. would he learn latin so that he know the proper names of animals and stuff????

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v7n5 · 2 months

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Feel like pure shit, just want a smutty multi-chapter Howard Hamlin fanfic that recounts the many secret sexual affairs that he has had with different people throughout the course of his life, most of which he sought out to recompense for the lack of intimacy in his marriage because both him and Cheryl were iron-closeted and only got married out of familial pressures (things took a turn for the worse after the fight that ended with Howard moving into the guest house). Ultimately, none of them could fulfill his wants and needs because they're all cold and distant in their own ways: there were the handsome strangers he met at some gay bar like Nacho who were emotionally unavailable and only wanted to dick and dash like they're in denial themselves; Jimmy whom he was smitten with and trusted to be able to keep a secret, but it didn't take him long to realize that Jimmy being selfish and cruel and rougher than Howard had liked and not paying any mind to Howard's own pleasure in bed was his way of getting back at him for being a jackass of a boss; Chuck whom he'd got especially close with ever since he was still studying pre-law, so close that he would make up any excuse to be alone with him and suck him off in his office from time to time to seduce his mentor because the daddy issues that had been developing throughout his father-absent youth came to fruition the moment a wiser and older man gave him a sliver of attention, Chuck allowed him to live out his fantasy but never reciprocated in that sense but they remained really good friends, hence Howard's desperation for his approval and affection and the idea of "I still have a chance" kept brewing in his mind even when he could see Rebecca out of the corner of his eye (the incident at the end of ss3 scarred him for life and talking about the intimate details of their relationship before it in therapy did not help). The latter half of 607 didn't happen because he decided that he was in fact the bigger person and the right thing to do was to drink himself into reflecting back on his life choices and wallowing in his own self-pity. Though he didn't storm Mcwexler's condo, the whole ordeal was still his Joker moment, so he put his foot down, got a divorce and resigned from his CEO position because fuck you, he deserves to do that. And maybe after a year or so, he met a certain Salamanca who got out of a certain shoot-out unscathed (haven't determined if Howard happened to stumbled into El Michoacáno or he went back to the gay bar), their chemistry was through the roof, they bonded over the loss of families/ lovers and "being a nepo baby is oh so hard", their romance blossomed because Lalo was textbook definition of charming and exactly Howard's type. One date led to another, and Howard ended up getting the best pipe he'd ever had while trying to hold back the tears stemmed from indescribable emotions. Would Howard find out who Lalo actually was? Would it matter? Would they last? Those are problems for future them.

Like literally that's all I want tbh.

#howard hamlin #He's my girl. My fucking princess.#Idc like he's still rightfully owed a soft dom who's gonna take good care of him and appreciate him #(as much as I feen for power bottom Howard)#The slutification of this middle-aged man HAS to be riddled with angst or else I'll die #1 of the worst things that could ever happen to me is getting ideas that I think are good but cannot for the life of me do anything about it #That and becoming a **** ****** but we're not trauma dumping today #Being a bilingual with an English-leaning brain is not the W that people made it out to be #Honestly Nacho came into the picture when I was deadass half unconscious. I was like 'Ariana what are you doing here???'#But it's hot. And I kinda wanted Nachoward to win a bit #I also wanted to squeeze Gus in there too but in my head it'd be an 'admirer from afar' type of deal. Like Howard would have a crush on him-#-but decided against making a move cuz he would think Gus is out of his league or sth #This is essentially a Howard x everyone who I think could be compatible with him fanfic #For clarification. Cheryl and Howard don't hate each other. if anything they're each other's emotional support system #But I feel like there's only so much pretense you can put up you know #And yes. Lalo and Nacho were in love there.#Ok I've got it all out there now. Time for me to go marinate in shame #nacho varga #jimmy mcgill #chuck mcgill #lalo salamanca #better call saul

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atthebell · 4 months

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Why do you think Roier and Missa are easiest to understand? I found the same thing as someone who's just learning Spanish, and I wasnt sure if it was because I've watched so much Roier content that it influenced my ability to understand him, or if there's a deeper reason due to some regional accent differences being easier for non-native speakers to understand. I'm curious about your thoughts since you have really good insights into linguistics, but ignore this if it's too much for tumblr lol!

neither of them talk super fast, and imo their accents are fairly easy to understand-- for me, missa is easy to understand bc he's from the north and that region has accents i'm more familiar with, and roier's accent is somewhat neutral although obviously still clearly mexican and he uses a lot of slang. i think that also helps-- roier uses a lot of the same vocab, so if you're still learning spanish, you can pick up that slang and then understand quite a bit of what he's saying because he swears literally five times in a single sentence. they both speak pretty clearly and, additionally, i think most non-native spanish speakers, especially U.S. americans, are most familiar with mexican spanish rather than other dialects. so that's why someone like rubius or spreen is harder for nonnative speakers to understand, unless they're more familiar with spanish or argentine dialects specifically.

for me it's hard to parse bc i understand most of what they all say regardless since i've spoken spanish for so long, but i think rivers is just difficult because she speaks very fast. mariana is pretty easily to understand as well, there's just less for me to say about him tbh idr where he's from and i don't really have a hard time understanding him, i just watch him less than anyone else really.

for quackity, his accent is more noticeable, and his spanish is a little weirder, in that he is so bilingual and if you're not familiar with that way of speaking it can be hard to pick up what he's saying sometimes. this is partially why i wish there were a few more latino americans on the server so people get more familiar with that type of bilinguality-- i think quackity is in a unique position that he doesn't full share with other server members (aside from mouse, in that she is also a latino who lives in the states, although from a content perspective she doesn't do the same kind of bilingual split that q does nor does she stream in spanish), and i would be interested to see more of that kind of diasporic latino experience on the server. that's me rambling and doesn't have to do with accents i've just been thinking about it for a while and i think it would be cool. but yeah q phrases things funny sometimes because he's thinking of the english way of saying something or vice versa, and he is by far one of the most fluently bilingual members of the server, so it's an interesting dynamic for people watching him who aren't super familiar with spanish nor the kinds of calques and things that end up happening with bilingual speakers.

anyway back to your actual questions i do also think exposure does tip the scales lol most of us watch more roier than anyone else and esp for people just learning spanish, you're gonna understand him better than anyone else because of that. which is nice in some ways bc you learn a lot of slang but also if you're going to speak spanish in any kind of non-casual setting please do not talk like roier he is a fucking crazy person who swears so much it's actually unreal

#asks #anons #also this isnt me trying to label q as mexican american since he doesnt call himself that at all #just that he is a latino who lives (part-time) in the states so its a slightly different dynamic if that makes sense? idfk #labels are difficult im not trying to put any on q i just think that element of his life is important to acknowledge #when it comes to his bilingualism #also im not putting a value judgment on fluency levels its just very clear q is extremely fluent in both in a way most people aren't #sorry i have to give a billion caveats i dont want anyone to think im trying to be a dick or assume too much about ccs #and again im white us american and not latino myself #also unrelated to the rest of this but the funniest thing to me about qs accent in eng is how randomly he throws in east coast vowel change #like where did he get those. i need to know #anyway this is way more answer than was probably needed and i spent forever writing it #and now my nephew is here i have to go play with hotwheels

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joliackermann · 9 months

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When you have a really good joke and it only works in one language but you need it to work in a different language BUT IT JUST DOES NOT (ㆆ_ㆆ)

#multilingual #bilingual #bilingual problems #I hate my life #This joke would have been so good #writers problems

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librarydeyo · 7 months

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I don't speak Portuguese, but one time I was listening to a gamer's stream, Cellbit, in Portuguese at midnight while working on a project about strokes for my anatomy class

I got so focused that I forgot it was on, and when I started hearing it again my sleep deprived mind FLIPPED OUT for a good 10 seconds because it sounded like gibberish and I thought it was English.

I thought I was having a stroke, genuinely ㅠㅠ

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jestr333 · 7 months

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HOW TO LEARN SPANISH

So, Rap Monster learned english from watching "F•R•I•E•ND•S", yeah? Sooo,,, does that mean that if I listen to "No Mutuas" by "Fake Fruit" while reading the lyrics to "No Mutuals" by "Fake Fruit" for, say, 4 hours, and then listen to "No Mutuals" by "Fake Fruit" while reading the the lyrics to "No Mutuas" by "Fake Fruit" for, say, 1.27 hours, for a few weeks straight, then will my SPANISH improve? Or will it get worse because I cannot hear anyone who would like to converse with me in SPANISH or teach me preterite tense in SPANISH? Por favor, mis mutuas, necesito ayuda. (Gracias para tu ayuda tambien mis mutuas, de antemano.)

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stuckinapril · 3 months

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I get you so much 😭 I'm lacking a lot of the "normal" features and sometimes it makes me sad? like I just wish I looked the part more. and one of my sisters is a redhead as well!!! I don't look like what I am at all, but i speak both the languages and I am undeniably connected to both of my cultures and heritages. i just wish people automatically knew what I was sometimes 😭 SOMETIMES

No LITERALLY !! I remember being at a kickback chatting w a guy and he literally guessed every race ever before arriving at the conclusion that I’m Arab. It actually bothered me lmfao?? The name does not help. The fact that I don’t have an accent doesn’t help. People are just lost every time and sometimes I even feel like they wanna argue w me ab it and it’s like back the fuck off I’m arab bc I am

#English first name and Arabic surname. bilingual in Arabic and English. elements of both culture lacing my life. bc I come from both #I am not 100% one or the other #but it does get under my skin when ppl try to erase my arab side as if they have any right to #like who are you to decide what’s the right way to do it #also HII JAG I love you always and forever #ask #mutuals ♡

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moonmeg · 9 months

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We had a guy come into the restaurant yesterday. He didn't speak German so we communicated in English. His English however, wasn't the best and he had struggles explaining things to us.

At one point my coworker asked him what language the man knows and he replied, shyly and almost ashamed, that his native language is Russian. I had a feeling he was eastern european judging by his accent but I didn't want to assume he spoke Russian you know... anyway his lucky day that I spontaneously jumped in yesterday and he was able to speak to me.

He was nice and at some point, randomly but genuinely curious, asked me what "Scheisse" (German for "shit") means because he was so confused. My multilingual ass brain betrayed me that very moment.

I stood there trying to think of the Russian word for shit. I immediately knew the French merde and the Italian merda but couldn't for the life of me think of the Russian word. I did remember it after a little and explained the usage of it and so on.

He left a very generous tip and it kinda was the highlight of my long shift :>

#things happening in meg's life #life as a bilingual person 😭

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ukulelegodparent · 2 months

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Few things are more cringe than the location specific db greeting signs

#'Bienvenuti a Bamberga! Oder auch: Grüß Gott im fränkischen Rom.'#whaz if we all sat down and had a second to think about our life choices #I don't think they're bad btw like yay for celebrating dialects wish the sign in Chemnitz was bilingual #and like in general wish db did bilingual signs in places with minority languages like ???#but yes i do think they are cringe

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the-tenth-arcanum · 1 year

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me: *minding my own business and trying to save money*

the globe: hey check this out