Tara's Thoughts

That's a very good point indeed! Yes, I think many people (unfortunately) feel lame or awkward when changing their natural/native way of pronouncing things 😟

Wow, Arabic sounds like an incredibly hard language in terms of pronunciation 😅
Did you take lessons with a teacher/tutor or did you learn by yourself?

Hey #langtwt #langsky! In your opinion, what majes some people particularly good with pronunciation in foreign languages?

A bit like Catalan and Valencian, I guess

Do Serbians and Croatians claim to speak different languages?

The bottom line is that the more languages you know, the easier it is to learn new ones, even if they are seemingly unrelated. #langtwt #langsky

Are Korean and Turkish related? No that I know of, apart from both being agglutinative languages. Turkish has vowel harmony, Korean doesn't. And yet, I can find a similarity in consonant change rules between both languages. 😁

Some years ago, I tried to learn Korean but gave up very quickly. Pronunciation and spelling made no sense to me and I couldn't retain vocabulary. Now, after learning Turkish, something has clicked, and Korean pronunciation rules seem slightly more logical.

Exactly! Even if Urdu has a heavier influence from Persian, people claiming they are two separate languages has more to do with politics and religion than with actual linguistic differences

Probably my hottest take related to languages is that Hindi and Urdu are dialects of one and the same language, and I will die on that hill. #langtwt #langsky

That's great! Keep going! 👏👏👏

That sounds great! Sounds like you have a very good Japanese level, is that right?

That sounds good! Practicing handwriting is super relaxing ☺️

Hey #langtwt #langsky! How is everyone's summer going? Any (language) plans you want to share? 🌞😎

Per què dius 'col·lapsar' quan vols dir 'ensorrar-se'? 15 anglicismes que són incorrectes en català 'Audiència' o 'evidència' són paraules que existeixen en català però que es fan servir (erròniament) amb el significat que tenen en anglès

Per què dius 'col·lapsar' quan vols dir 'ensorrar-se'? 15 anglicismes que són incorrectes en català
www.ara.cat/llengua/dius...

El català 😃

Hey #langsky! Do you like listening to podcasts in your target languages?
If so, what languages/topics do you like to listen about?

HI: 'crazy in love' and 'someone who shares your pain'. Both super poetic 🥰
TR: it just means 'goodbye', but in a more literal sense it means 'keep smiling'
IT: 'brushed', I just think it sounds funny
FA: same as in Hindi (actually, it seems the word हमदर्द/همدرد is originally Persian) 😀

EN: 'so beautiful that it takes away your breath', so poetic
CA: 'caress', I think both the meaning and the sound are so sweet
ES: it's a fancy way on saying 'stupid, I just think it's funny
RU: 'destined' or 'meant to be', very representative of the Russian culture
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EN: breathtaking
CA: moixaina
ES: mentecato
RU: суждено
HI: दीवाना, हमदर्द
TR: güle güle
IT: spazzolato
FA: I don't know the language well enough, but I'd say همدرد (hamdard), same as in Hindi!

Wow, that's so many languages!

Adding the #langsky hashtag to spread it through the community 😊

That's so cool! 😊 I feel these two are such underrated languages, especially Hindi!

🇫🇮 Spent some months in Finland on an Erasmus exchange
🇮🇹 Loved the sound of it (first self-taught language)
🇮🇳 Liked Bollywood movies
🇰🇷 Had seen some Korean movies and series (gave up very quickly as I found it too hard 😅)
🇹🇷 Loved the sound of it
🇮🇷 Was curious about the Persian influence on Hindi

List of languages that I have learned or tried to learn throughout my life:

🇦🇩 Mother tongue, spoken at home
🇪🇦 At school, with friends or out there
🇬🇧🇺🇲 Subject at school
🇲🇫 Optional subject in high school
🇷🇺 Chose it as my second foreign language in uni
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Interesting! I might want to look more into the topic 🤔

*sounds

That spund really cool! 😃 And I myself had not heard about language grief before 🤔

About the thesis topic 😅 But well, about the MA too 😛

I'm curious now 🤔

A vosaltres! 🥰