BirdyBee
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Just curious
Also if you're monolingual please try and learn a language, it's fun What are some facts about your language(s)? What languages do you speak? How many? Why did you learn the language?
Well, good job for trying to learn a languageI speak english and a litttttle bit of spanish ive always wanted to learn ASL
Thatβs funny. My dad would swear at the dog in Polish and some of my teachers used kidsβ words in Polish. So I started to learn Polish in the last couple of years and remembered stuff Iβd been taught as a very small child.I grew up in south Louisiana and while my grandfather on my dads side was fluent in French (Cajun) and that whole side of the family speaks it; my dad was never taught and I only took classes in k-12 so I can get by if I need to but am by no means conversational! It has made for some funny/awkward encounters at funerals when we see our small-town relatives who still mostly speak Cajun French.
Thereβs some kind of interesting research about the disappearance of the Cajun French language as a dialect in Louisiana - basically it was treated as illegitimate, instructors were required to teach in English, and if French was taught it was Parisian French. They actually instituted corporal punishment for children who insisted on speaking it in a school setting - and when those kids grew up, they didnβt teach their own kids French.
All this to say, my French is atrocious and my grandfather used to cuss in (Cajun) French because he knew he could get away with it in front of us, lol.
That's so cool! Didn't know the languages had similarities.Afrikaans π€ Polish
No "th" sounds and "w" pronounced "v"
I once told my grandma that I want to learn a language like Russian, and she said "That is the most ugly language, it sounds like 'ghleflhighrlerrghghglelgh'" LOL.I had few lessons of Russian but I shouldn't count it because I don't even know how to readπ The teacher learnt us some basic words/sentences (only pronunciation) but I forgot almost everything (eg I remember how is "Monday" and "Tuesday" but not the rest days of week)
Well, here in Poland currently Russian and Ukrainian are the most useful languages because of the war stuff near us... in some Polish schools Russian is an obligatory language but I never was in such schoolThat's so cool! Didn't know the languages had similarities.
I once told my grandma that I want to learn a language like Russian, and she said "That is the most ugly language, it sounds like 'ghleflhighrlerrghghglelgh'" LOL.
Actually I think I can tell the same thing about Czech and German.Afrikaans π€ Polish
No "th" sounds and "w" pronounced "v"
It's the same in German too!Fun fact, Afrikaans doesn't have a "th" sounds. Also "w" is pronounced "v", and "v" is pronounced "f"
A lot of languages have German origin or borrowed some things from the German language. It's really interesting!It's the same in German too!
I can actually understand a little in several different European languages, because they're so similar to German, especially Swedish. I could understand a lot when I visited Sweden.