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   milkposter (themilkman@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 02:25:28 JST milkposter

   • EdBoatConnoisseur
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   >or using it to strengthen English vocabulary
   for me it's not that but it is fun recognizing the differences in "translation", sometimes there are words that are technically the same word in both languages, but they have a very slight different meaning.
   which languages are you learning btw?
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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
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     @themilkman @theorytoe @EdBoatConnoisseur Learning languages is like history except you can be sure you aren't being lied to. Watching drift happen as you bounce from one region to the next is fascinating. Like, French sounds so different until you hear Catalan and then its like ooohhhh okay i kinda get how they got there. For me it's especially true when I look at grammar, because some languages like Spanish have really bizarre idiosyncrasies like colloquial "tener que" instead of "deber" which let my imagination run as to where they picked that up (probably english)

     Currently I'm on a small hiatus from languages while I power through my last bit of schooling but my best friend's sister learned mandarin and she's helping to teach me.