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You get funny looks for laughing out loud on a train because you've just written 'and I recently taught myself Icelandic' on an application form and you've suddenly realised how ridiculous it sounds when you say it to an outsider...
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When you have no intention of reporting a bug, due to which a game throws random languages on you on its forum, wiki, and in a player survey (btw yay! I got through a player survey in German! I even wrote a few words in the open questions!). The longer this isn't fixed, the better!
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Neurotip wrote:You get funny looks for laughing out loud on a train because you've just written 'and I recently taught myself Icelandic' on an application form and you've suddenly realised how ridiculous it sounds when you say it to an outsider...
I used to be so embarrassed about studying Icelandic in high school. I’m still embarrassed about whatever language I’m studying, so I just say I’m studying French instead.
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sporedandroid wrote:Neurotip wrote:You get funny looks for laughing out loud on a train because you've just written 'and I recently taught myself Icelandic' on an application form and you've suddenly realised how ridiculous it sounds when you say it to an outsider...
I used to be so embarrassed about studying Icelandic in high school. I’m still embarrassed about whatever language I’m studying, so I just say I’m studying French instead.
And don't people ask you how to say stuff in French? That's how it goes for most learners (you know, like Tom Riddle asking Dumbledore to prove he's a real magician). Or perhaps you've mastered this already and learnt a few phrases for this purpose?
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Cavesa wrote:sporedandroid wrote:Neurotip wrote:You get funny looks for laughing out loud on a train because you've just written 'and I recently taught myself Icelandic' on an application form and you've suddenly realised how ridiculous it sounds when you say it to an outsider...
I used to be so embarrassed about studying Icelandic in high school. I’m still embarrassed about whatever language I’m studying, so I just say I’m studying French instead.
And don't people ask you how to say stuff in French? That's how it goes for most learners (you know, like Tom Riddle asking Dumbledore to prove he's a real magician). Or perhaps you've mastered this already and learnt a few phrases for this purpose?
That would be a cool YKYALLN addition: a person learns a language to cover learning other languages
I do know some basic French since I went to French immersion for a year and I’m Canadian. I don’t think I remember much, but I do have okay reading comprehension for French. Having Spanish as a heritage language probably helps with my so called French skills.
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When you're reading through Amikumu posts (your fourth app downloaded for language exchanges) and making fun of Esperantists for being such nerds. Yet you can read most of the Esperanto and explain the history of the language and its basic features to your mother...
I was unabashedly proud of my Icelandic obsession. Same with anime and Japanese. And Romanian... Icelandic is cool. Your choice of languages is cool. Rock it.
sporedandroid wrote:I used to be so embarrassed about studying Icelandic in high school. I’m still embarrassed about whatever language I’m studying, so I just say I’m studying French instead.
I was unabashedly proud of my Icelandic obsession. Same with anime and Japanese. And Romanian... Icelandic is cool. Your choice of languages is cool. Rock it.
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eido wrote:sporedandroid wrote:I used to be so embarrassed about studying Icelandic in high school. I’m still embarrassed about whatever language I’m studying, so I just say I’m studying French instead.
I was unabashedly proud of my Icelandic obsession. Same with anime and Japanese. And Romanian... Icelandic is cool. Your choice of languages is cool. Rock it.
I just always get embarrassed. Right I just feel super embarrassed to study Hebrew. Maybe because I feel like I’ll obsess about it too much if I’m more open about it. So I just pretend it’s French. I chose French because I know some French, it’s a “useful” language and some people think Hebrew sounds like French. So if they happen to hear some of my Hebrew music/tv or hear me practice it they could believe it’s French. As long as I avoid common words like shalom I should be fine.
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When you wonder how one would go about ordering a periodic table of languages rather than elements?
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sporedandroid wrote:I just always get embarrassed. Right I just feel super embarrassed to study Hebrew. Maybe because I feel like I’ll obsess about it too much if I’m more open about it. So I just pretend it’s French. I chose French because I know some French, it’s a “useful” language and some people think Hebrew sounds like French. So if they happen to hear some of my Hebrew music/tv or hear me practice it they could believe it’s French. As long as I avoid common words like shalom I should be fine.
There is no reason to be embarassed about a cool language! Especially in front of monolinguals. You wouldn't be embarassed about most hobbies, would you?
And it seems to be weird from the other side. I've just imagine going into the room, hearing you and your tv in Hebrew, and then you tell me "ah, it's just French." I can clearly hear it's not (even though I'm not sure I'd recognize Hebrew, true). Like: "wth, one of us is definitely not ok!"
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Cavesa wrote:And it seems to be weird from the other side. I've just imagine going into the room, hearing you and your tv in Hebrew, and then you tell me "ah, it's just French." I can clearly hear it's not (even though I'm not sure I'd recognize Hebrew, true). Like: "wth, one of us is definitely not ok!"
Hah, my French daughters would give you the side-eye, too. Hebrew has a lot of questions attached that I don't want to necessarily answer each time (religious, political) so I just avoid talking about it. But I think I'm going to borrow the idea from here and just say I'm studying Sentinelese or !Xóõ.
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