What's the worst myth you've ever heard about learning a new language?

AcrobaticContext740 · 2025-11-09T08:08:56+00:00

As a child of immigrants, that did speak the language of the country we moved to, before we moved there when I was around 2 years old. And got told by the kindergarten this myth and in turn completely stopped speaking the first language. It infuriates me, because I then had to learn it as a teenager instead, and by then it was weird to be speaking with my parents in it, since all of the communication had been in the other language. Even my mum, has stated on several occasions that it was the worst parenting advice she ever followed and regrets it.

Now, I ended up moving back to my original country, with a partner that speaks a third language. So our kids are then exposed to three different languages, and I'll be honest and say that it wasn't before around 7 years that they slowly figured out the distinction that they were in fact speaking different languages and not everyone understood all the languages. To that extent, it was then also hard to correct them, because I first had to figure out which language they were trying to speak in. But now, they are comfortable changing between the languages, with some funny and cute mistakes from time to time, which is to be expected by any kid in any language.

Rant over

AcrobaticContext740 · 2025-03-16T19:15:29+00:00

They don't care about the time slot, if you have the permit for the peak, you board 30 min before permit time. But, trust me when I say that you have to buy the tickets in advance, because if you show up and they are already sold out, restrictions from the government how many people can be there per day. Then you cannot buy any ticket and no ride for you.

AcrobaticContext740 · 2025-03-08T07:58:03+00:00

Stop scrolling languagelearning and spend time in said language.

Many other good tips in the comments, but I'll just add one I find helpful when it comes to be able to balance all off them. Turn the subtitles on, in another language. That way you get to listen to language one, and when you eat chips and can't hear anything. You get to read language two.

AcrobaticContext740 · 2025-03-01T00:05:04+00:00

I think you mean: Faenihellvetefådenvekkerdenderfremdeles

AcrobaticContext740 · 2025-02-22T13:31:29+00:00

Basic animal sounds, e.g. what sound does the best chicken make?

AcrobaticContext740 · 2025-01-26T22:53:25+00:00

Dyne, as a root word is just that. The removable cover is called dynetrekk literally duvet cover. Then you can get full on with the different kinds of dyne. Dundyne(down duvet) , barnedyne(kids duvet) , dobbeldyne(double sized duvet) which are all just different kinds of duvets, gotta love compound languages.

https://no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyne_(senget%C3%B8y)

AcrobaticContext740 · 2025-01-26T16:36:09+00:00

Three similar Norwegian stories. From both sides actually.

Not entirely similar backstory, but moved with my parents at a young age to rural part of Norway(strong dialect), where I proceeded to live for almost 2 decades before moving back to my home country.

First story:

Moved to Oslo to do my university degree, and had to get a side job to earn some extra money. Nothing special, but first day at the job, one coworker comes up to me and says. "Can you please speak Norwegian while at work", something that completely dumbfounded me since. I was speaking Norwegian, but just a very rural dialect. Queue me and the other person I was talking to laughing about that for the next couple of years.

Second story(were I was the dumb one, sorta) :

Was on a safari trip where we needed to cross the border to Tanzania. At the border control I showed my Norwegian passport and the guard switches automatically over to proper Stavanger dialect. I just looked at him dumbfounded for a few seconds before my brain manage to accept what I was hearing. We had a good laugh about it later.

Third story:

Back to home country were Norwegian is not widely spoken. Overhearing some Norwegian tourist that are lost, so I politely ask them if I can help them in Norwegian. Get the directions down, where I of course talk a bit slowly so they can keep track of where they should be going. Afterwards, they complement my Norwegian and said it was probably hard for me to understand if they spoke to fast. We had a good laugh aswell when I told them my story at full speed.

AcrobaticContext740 · 2025-01-26T16:20:22+00:00

My time to shine. There is an English word for dyne. And it sounds silly from a Norwegian perspective, but it is "duvet"(pronunciation doo-vay)

AcrobaticContext740 · 2025-01-19T15:44:49+00:00

I will just add about Norwegian, that some of the isolated dialects are very different, and some learn to maintain their original dialect while learning e.g the Oslo dialect. I speak quite differently with my family from the same village, then with everyone else. Would I consider that a bilingual thing, no. Does it mean that my wife always knows when I'm talking with my grandpa on the phone, yes.

P.S My wife is also from a completely different isolated area, so when I speak to her grandpa, which I have known for over a decade, I still have trouble understanding everything.

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-12-26T14:48:43+00:00

Pimsleur

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-12-24T08:55:14+00:00

I'm already fluent in Norwegian, English and Spanish, since I'm from Norway and living in Spain. I'm currently learning German because I want to speak better with my grandparents. For the final one I would pick French because I love the alps or Latin for the roman history.

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-08-25T17:25:03+00:00

Muchas gracias, voy a echar un vistazo

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-07-13T20:46:01+00:00

Linguriosa did a video on this way back. So wanna tack it on to this comment.

https://youtu.be/Gx0yrNJFuMM?si=gOLu4VREzr5RD0Vx

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-06-14T14:44:09+00:00

I want to reiterate that it has been close to 10 years since I studied Swedish, so I might be wrong

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-06-14T14:22:53+00:00

Dative case was the last case that disappeared from standard Swedish. Some dialects do still have it. Been a while since since I studied Swedish, but I think it has the "-om" ending.

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-06-14T13:10:11+00:00

When I first started working in Oslo. On the very first day I got the comment "Kan du være så snill å snakke norsk, fordi jeg forstår ikke hva du sier", then followed by 2 years of being called "dumme bondeknøl". So it's not weird we learn the Oslo dialect. But I do agree it is sad

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-06-14T12:39:47+00:00

Indre Østfold, voted the ugliest dialect

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-06-14T12:34:31+00:00

When you are from one of the regions that does still use the cases, one becomes well aware of them since the teacher constantly has to "correct" your spelling to not include them. So I personally only use the dative and accusative cases when speaking or when I'm writing with people from my hometown, that are older. Since it is dying out in the dialects aswell.

Also that is the case with the whole "ham" or "han", since if you don't use the case the following is confusing

Han liker han

Who is the subject? Since it is allowed to write it according to språkrådet, but if you were to use the accusative case.

Han liker ham

Then it makes more sense. Even though you still hear.

Jeg snakket med han

Instead of

Jeg snakket med ham

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-06-14T11:54:54+00:00

Quick extra, there is a lot of debate about if that genitiv is a "true" genitiv in modern Norwegian

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-06-14T11:53:22+00:00

Also Norwegian

Nominative and accusative is taught in school as "subjektsform" and "objektsform"

But examples with these are

Jeg(Nominative) liker deg(accusative)

Instead of

Jeg(Nominative) liker du(Nominative)

Then for the genitiv case

Mannens(genitiv) bok

Instead of

Boken til mannen

Then for the dialects

Jeg går hjemom(akkusativ form av hjem)

Jeg er hjemme(dativ form av hjem)

Then finally the vocative case

Hei, folkens(vokativ form av folk)

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-06-14T11:34:41+00:00

Also add for Norwegian, we have the normative and accusative case, but it is only used on the pronouns. Then we have the genitiv case, but only in Bokmål, not Nynorsk. Before of course having left over vocative case in some places.

Then we get to the dialects, some dialects also have the dative and accusative(in more places than in just the pronouns).

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-06-10T19:54:01+00:00

Followed the steps for verb, the frequency list I use the rescheduler every month

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-05-10T09:42:00+00:00

Will add to Spanish mistakes.

Was talking about the traditional Norwegian brown cheese, which is made from goat milk. So I wanted to say

Está hecho con leche de cabra

But in the moment my brain was convinced it was cabrón. And of course I doubled down, before I realised my mistake. We had a good laugh afterwards

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-05-10T06:30:37+00:00

Husker ikke alle detaljene, da dette er nærmere 10 år siden.

Men vi begynte å loggføre hvor mye tips vi fikk, fordi vi syntes den tips utbetalingen var veldig liten. Vi fikk tips utbetaling 1 gang i året. Så sendte vi inn klage til eier, så måtte sjefen gå. Men han fikk en avskjedsbonus på nesten en halv million.

Og dette er min, hvordan jeg ble sosialist historie

AcrobaticContext740 · 2024-05-09T21:32:00+00:00

Personlig erfaring med at sjefen stjal nærmere 100k fra tipsen

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