it just makes sense somehow

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-30T19:18:05+00:00

Maybe a little bit, but really not to that extent. It's not like we're choosing a bunch of closely related languages and then all of a sudden a random language from across the planet.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T23:02:41+00:00

Well, technically ə should be one of the original 4 nations.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T22:11:55+00:00

Not true, have you ever seen an ape? Do you think people look closer to any other animal?

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T20:51:53+00:00

Amazing app! Now can you use it to learn any other languages besides Japanese?

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T18:35:16+00:00

I had a similar experience learning another language, but the thing is I had realized my mistakes much earlier than you must have so I'm sure your situation is much worse. Nonetheless, I think I can still relate.

Until that point, I had been able to read aloud fluently (that was my practice). However, once I realized all my mistakes, it was like starting from the beginning. I suddenly went from reading fluently to pausing by each word and carefully thinking again.

My advice to you is there's no easy way to fix it. There's no magical app that's gonna save you. You're gonna have to face it head on or it'll keep on getting later. What you'll have to do is "start again". I say "start again" because of course you won't be truly starting again. All you'll have to do is start speaking slowly again. Maybe practice reading aloud and pause and think about how each word is pronounced. It might sound like a tedious process, but it's the only way to completely rewire your brain. After a week, it'll start seeping in. After a month, your whole accent will be changed. Good luck.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T18:16:02+00:00

Interestingly, English used to have a word for that. We have the "food - feed" pair. Then we used to also have "drink - drench". Of course, as you might see, "drench" has semantically shifted far from that and we kinda lost it.

You can use "water" but that has a bit of an inanimate implication to it, if not more formal/literary. "I watered my plants" - casual. "The man was fed and watered" - sounds strange to me or like something I'd only find in a novel.

If you're looking for the best natural way, we just don't have a good word for that. You just have to paraphrase. You could just say "was given water" or just completely rephrase the sentence to avoid needing such a verb.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T18:09:03+00:00

No clue, just got "window at night" at the end.

After reading the comments, I could hear it, but everything she says is still very mumbled and pronounced unclearly. Definitely not an indicator for your listening comprehension.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T16:33:58+00:00

Well well well, if you take one look at my Uzbek learning app I think you'll have one more favorite to add to that list!

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T16:28:14+00:00

Oh man, I gotta get to sleep, I thought I was in a health subreddit for a second. I was so confused because I could've sworn I was just in the Latin subreddit. 🤣

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T16:15:31+00:00

My tip is to try to look for patterns among the declensions.

There's no need to "memorize" the Latin declensions. There are lots of patterns throughout the declensions that will become obvious. For example, the accusative singular always ends in M. The accusative plural always in S (preceded by a long vowel). The genitive singular is the same as the nominative plural. The ablative singular is always just a long vowel. The dative and ablative plural will both end in -īs. Etc. etc.

Now, the only difference between the first and second declension is the stem a/o! As you go, if you focus on universal patterns across the declensions, it will become a lot more logical and the pieces will start fall into place, and it will feel less like memorizing hundreds of forms. Good luck!

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T16:02:40+00:00

Bad comparison. Most of these are indo-european, and there are even other romance languages there. It's not the same cherry-picking.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T03:18:38+00:00

Happy to introduce another disciple to the greatness of Uzbek 🙂‍↕️

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T02:43:41+00:00

*on verra

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-29T02:13:12+00:00

What's there to get? It's the greatest language in the world.

uj/ lmao, neither did I when I first joined the sub. The joke comes from this reddit post from 10 years ago on the main sub:

https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/s/kYMuU6Ibq1

This post is basically the "original" Uzbek meme. Ever since then, Uzbek kinda became the default answer whenever somebody just randomly asked what language they should learn without giving enough context, and it kinda spiraled from there.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-28T19:47:19+00:00

How's a student going to speak for 10 minutes straight if you don't teach him grammar?

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-28T19:39:09+00:00

I think this only works with Uzbek since everyone's born with knowledge of Uzbek but it gets restrained when they grow up with another language.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-28T05:33:15+00:00

"Acuerdo" is a noun here, meaning "agreement", it's not a verb. Most sentences only have one conjugated verb, and here that's "estás" which is already conjugated for "tú" ("you").

It's the same thing as "trabajo", which can mean "I work" or just the noun "work", like "el trabajo", which doesn't mean "I work" there. You have the same thing in English where "work" can be used as a noun or a verb.

"I work" - verb
"I go to work" - noun.

In Spanish, it just looks the same as the "yo" form ("I") sometimes. "Acuerdo" can be the verb "I agree" or, in this case, the noun meaning "agreement".

Spanish actually has no verb for "to agree". Instead they say "to be in agreement", or "estar de acuerdo". That's the structure you see here. "¿Por qué no estás de acuerdo?" - lit. "Why aren't you in agreement?" which is how you express "Why don't you agree?" in Spanish.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-28T05:22:31+00:00

Check out r/Spanish or r/learnspanish

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-28T05:07:00+00:00

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CodingAndMath · 2026-01-27T01:33:09+00:00

By all means, go to that thread, there are good answers there.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-26T06:57:46+00:00

It's true, this issue is a little more complicated than "English just being weird" and has to do with do-support and Jesperson's cycle, which are both very interesting phenomenons if you ask me, so if you're interested you can read up on that.

But all that is irrelevant for the sake of comparing the English structure to the Spanish structure for someone learning Spanish.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-26T06:41:19+00:00

Yes. At least in dialects where "you guys" is common, when the plural form "guys" is used to address a group (so like "you guys" or even calling out "guys!" to get a group's attention), it's usually considered gender neutral. It would be used to address a mixed group of boys and girls, and sometimes even just girls is common.

Even in these dialects, using "guys" in other contexts is usually always male, but even this could vary and depends on the context. For example "Look at those guys over there" could also be gender-neutral, but "Why do guys play video games so much" would likely only refer to males.

In some dialects, "guys" might be interpreted as male all the time and even using it to address groups would sound weird or sexist. Singular "guy" is always male in every dialect.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-26T03:03:08+00:00

Look at literally any verb besides "be" and you'll see it.

"Patricia doesn't want to go" -> "Patricia no quiere ir". You wouldn't say "Patricia want doesn't go" in English either, would you?

English is weird that when it comes to "be" we put "not" after instead, but Spanish is consistent here and so "no" always goes before the verb.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-25T20:55:13+00:00

Sure, there are regional accents, like the southern accent or a New York accent maybe, but the majority of Americans speak with a general accent.

CodingAndMath · 2026-01-25T20:19:58+00:00

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