I genuinely hate how English is becoming a sort of de facto global language. Just more cultural imperialism. But it's very nice to be able to communicate with comrades from around the world, it might be my favorite aspect of this site. So I do appreciate you all taking effort to think something in your native language, translate it in your head, then type it up in English. Hopefully in FALGSC we'll get our universal translators, too.

For real, learning languages is hard. I had 2 years of Spanish in high school and didn't do too well, something in my brain just didn't click. But maybe you need to use another language a lot to really learn it? I lived in Germany for just two months and by the end I found myself kinda picking up things.

:soviet-heart:

  • Cherufe [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I actually find it easier to write in english than in spanish online because in english we are all talking a standarized americanized verion of the language, but in spanish the few ties that I have written in spanish I had to be very careful of talking in a "neutral" way and not include much slang because if I write in spanish the same way I speak I dont think nobody here that isnt chilean would et it without getting at least a little lost

    • StuporTrooper [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      When Irish folks type like how they speak it's often hard to understand, as an Angloid myself.

      • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I'm Irish and I can't understand half the people here lol. The Irish aural exams, where you have to listen to someone speaking in Gaeilge, are infamous for having impossible accents that sound more like a frog croaking than someone from Ulster

    • Lundi [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah the wild variance in Spanish spoken between Central America, South America, and the Caribbean is bullshit. I come from the Caribbean and the other day I learned that the way we speak Spanish is more similar to Castellano than the way anyone else in the New World speaks it, which is just wild lol, and kind of explains why I can't understand the rest of you motherfuckers.

      • Cherufe [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Wow, Castellano is so different from the way that we speak spanish I wasnt aware of the Caribbean using it

        • Quimby [any, any]
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          3 years ago

          I think Argentinian Spanish is probably the closest dialect to Castilian. I've also found that Castilian speakers and Argentinian speakers have the biggest superiority complex about their dialect.