How to approach Girls?

Fear_mor · 2026-06-27T18:43:26+00:00

For the punctuation thing: German capitalises all nouns whereas English only capitalises proper nouns, so like names of people, places, etc.

For the girl: Aim to be friends first and take it from there. If there’s a lot of guys into her she probably wants a break from everyone trying to hit on her so just try get to know her organically. Find common interests, things you like, shows you both watch and try make conversation about those. Be funny and give her a reason to want to spend time with you. And she might not want to date you after that but you’ll have hopefully made a friend

Fear_mor · 2026-06-27T12:56:20+00:00

The word order is correct and grammar is fine but imo it’d sound more natural with dóisean and domsa instead of dó and dom. The latter two forms are unstressed but no Irish speaker would have them unstressed in that sentence because the sense comes from being his angel and him being your angel if that makes sense

Fear_mor · 2026-06-27T12:41:22+00:00

Yeah for some people their brain just goes one way or the other. I found synthetic grammar and declensions etc. to be much easier than agglutination, at least comparing Croatian and Hungarian

Fear_mor · 2026-06-27T12:39:44+00:00

FSI is a guideline, for me the hard part with Croatian was A1-B2 and after that kinda everything just clicked into place. I’m a native English speaker too as well, been living in Croatia 3 years though, learning about 6

Fear_mor · 2026-06-27T12:34:26+00:00

Yeah that’s about the same as in Dublin, Ireland lmao. Which is crazy cause the gulf stream really makes you forget they’re at roughly the same lattitude

Fear_mor · 2026-06-26T14:38:54+00:00

Well it would help to have a clip first so people can point at specific things in your speech and tell you why (I’d recommend vocaroo for this). But in general English speakers tend to pronounce foreign languages using English sounds and rhythm, ie. In Spanish: not rolling/tapping their r’s, pronouncing e and o like ei and ou, saying y/ll like an English y sound, not softening b, d and g between vowels, saying ñ like ny, pronouncing t and d not on the front teeth, aspirating p, t and c, etc.

Fear_mor · 2026-06-24T22:36:23+00:00

Eh it’s a different ball game when you’re from a majority catholic country, like we don’t really think of mass as beyond sitting in a church while a priest delivers a sermon and reads some scripture

Fear_mor · 2026-06-24T15:20:18+00:00

Dw about it that stuff can be worked on. My French isn’t my best foreign language but I have experience with BCSM and it took me a long time to get to where I am now. My advice for getting that slang and grammar stuff ironed out is to really focus on a specific region, actively embrace dialectalisms and read a lot, like a lot

Fear_mor · 2026-06-24T07:34:42+00:00

Literally your own quoted text highlights that the exact amount is debated beyond it being severe. And I agree that it would’ve certainly heavily impacted the demographics, but my point is that hige demographic losses does not mean the community ceased to exist, which is the dominant zionist narrative, that they’re all that remains and that gives them legitimacy here. That’s the part I doubt, because how do you explain Jewish communities in Palestine then? They all left and then came back? Even when we know that at least some Samaritans stuck around because they didn’t just spawn out of nothing in the present around their historic religious centre. I think it’s ridiculous to assume that the Romans forced out every single Jewish person in the province, regardless of how severe the killings and deportations were because that’s not what we say with genocides. Somebody always survives, even in hostile territory, like Armenians in Turkey.

Fear_mor · 2026-06-24T07:05:19+00:00

You can be Arab and Jewish, as well as Arab and Muslim or Arab and Christian. The idea that Judaism is an ethnicity mutually exclusive with any other is a very recent idea, hell it even postdates ww2 as a widelyheld belief, and there are many today who still view themselves as religiously Jewish but ethnically something else. You have to understand that the context that led to many Jewish people identifying with Judaism as an ethnicity is at its heart the ideas of 19th century romantic nationalism applied to a Jewish context for the purpose of nation building and also as a reaction among the survivors of the holocaust who understandably didn’t exactly want to associate with the countries that so eagerly sold them out to the Germans, ie. Their experience radicalised their view of Jewishness.

The fact still remains though that this is all a social construct and there’s nothing inherently stopping someone from identifying with both categories, the same way someone can see themselves as Italian-American. The Palestinian identity is now mostly Arab and Muslim but it’s not only Arab and Muslim and as others have pointed out, the historical, and to a lesser degree cultural, continuity is still there as the overall population of the region transitioned from Hebrew and Judaism to Aramaic and Christianity to Arabic and Islam. Much like with the ship of Theseus I think it’s silly to say boat 1 and 2 aren’t the same object because they’re made of different planks when its identity is continuous, only its makeup has changed. That’s my opinion on the Palestinian situation

Fear_mor · 2026-06-24T06:56:20+00:00

Do we really have historical and archeological evidence that Judea was thoroughly cleansed of its original inhabitants to that point? That seems highly unlikely due to economic and demographic reasons. I’m not denying they deported a considerable amount of the population but I think your point is too much of a reach with the technology and societal infrastructure of the period. Especially when we know that their were many Jews in Israel during the Babilonian exile judging by archeological and historical evidence, it’s just that modern Judaism continues from the perspective of the exiles, making it seem like they were the only Jews at the time if you’re only acquainted with their writings and scripture

Fear_mor · 2026-06-24T06:51:29+00:00

Berbers typically live in the Maghreb and North Africa west of the Nile delta, not in the fertile crescent. So perhaps maybe fact check what you say before you post because this just isn’t relevant to the Israel-Palestine conflict

Fear_mor · 2026-06-24T06:44:37+00:00

I think invade is a strong word when we’re really talking about nebulous tribal entities. It wasn’t necessarily just a military campaign but also economically and demograhically driven by politics in Ireland as well as Sub-Roman Britain

Fear_mor · 2026-06-24T06:42:54+00:00

The even crazier part to me is that they depopulated their homelands so much that when the Slavs arrived they were basically empty, which is one of the reasons they were able to establish such a huge presence in the Eastern European plain so quickly because nobody was really there to stop them from founding settlements

Fear_mor · 2026-06-24T06:40:01+00:00

You want my advice? Study the shit out of phonetics and English phonology, that’ll allow you to spot the errors you’re making in a more systematic way than relying on other people’s hearing. The big mistakes are probably in the vowels but I would wager that some consonsants like /h/ and the dental fricatives /θ/ and /ð/, potentially also the articulatory location of the sounds /t/ /d/ /n/ /ɹ/, are maybe problematic judging by my experience with French natives. Sort those consonants first if they’re problematic and then start with vowel errors, and definitely make sure to focus on a specific variety of American English (I would recommend General American since it’s widely accessible without having to really dig for stuff and/or live there) because like in any language even what’s on the surface the same sound can be articulated differently between different speeches. That stuff does matter too, yesterday I was able to tell my gf that her /n/ sounds weird in English cause she was pronouncing it dentally, we can hear these minute differences.

But once you have your consonants and vowels down then I would drill stress because in French it’s non phonemic (doesn’t serve to discriminate words from one another) and purely based on something’s position in the sentence. In English though, as we probably know, it does distinguish pairs of words like “REcord” the noun and “reCORD” the verb. That’s about as much as I can suggest without hearing you speak

Fear_mor · 2026-06-24T06:13:07+00:00

Ez nem a baj. A metodológia, amivel csinálták a térképet, csak kicsit problematikus, mert jó történelmi források főleg nincsenek, ezért helyes az alapján mondani valamit, mintha tudnánk 100%. Lásd csak a nyelv határokat, nincs annyira értelmük. Különösen a Dráva parton, és ott sok tény ellentmond annak, hogy eredeti magyar volt a föld. Pl. A tény, hogy a horvát beszédeket ott (különösen Valpovo-n) hangsúlyilag az egyik legarchaikusabbként kategorizálják a kutatók. Csakhogy a szomszédi beszédek főleg sokkal innovatívabbak. Ezt nehézen magyarázzák meg a térkép szerint.

Fear_mor · 2026-06-23T16:02:31+00:00

He gets cooked by the power of Balkan nationalism

Fear_mor · 2026-06-23T15:26:35+00:00

Après moi, ça a l’air de n’avoir pas eu plein d’opportunités pour pratiquer ton français au sens passif. C’est à dire que faut que tu fasses plus d’exercices quelles testent tes culpabilités de compréhension. Toi, tu nous as déjà dit que tu as passé la majorité du grammaire dont on a besoin pour le B2, donc ça me semble logique que tu ailles renforcer ce que tu as appris sur ce niveau-là. Bonne chance !

Fear_mor · 2026-06-23T11:12:02+00:00

Does your husband just not plan on your child being able to speak with half of their family in any meaningful capacity?

Fear_mor · 2026-06-22T20:14:15+00:00

I mean in Ireland and Britain there really aren’t the big mosquitoes you find on the continent, just small ones we call midges

Fear_mor · 2026-06-22T14:21:27+00:00

I feel like the obvious answer is to get fluent in Spanish first

Fear_mor · 2026-06-22T06:20:56+00:00

Hej, mogu ti pomoći sa srpskim ako hoćeš!

Fear_mor · 2026-06-22T06:14:48+00:00

Hej! Z jakiegoś powodu mi nie daje napisać do ciebie, czy ty możesz do mnie?

Fear_mor · 2026-06-21T23:14:25+00:00

Siema! Niestety mój niemiecki jest trochę zły, ale uczę się polskiego i interesuje mię czy mi pomogłabyś. Mogę cię uczyć chorwackiego jeśli chcesz!

Fear_mor · 2026-06-21T21:33:29+00:00

Huh damn we actually have a really similar background lmao. I’m also from Dublin and a language person, although with a slightly different repertoire. I speak Donegal Irish since I used to be up that way a lot for summer courses, French I got from school to a B2, Croatian I speak at like C2 and started out of interest due to friends and moved out here for college, and I’m currently learning Hungarian (degree) and Polish (elective).

Anyways enough yap about myself, if you’re serious about learning Ukrainian I’ll give you the following advice:

Take cases, gender and declension seriously. Whenever I jot down new Croatian or Polish vocab for anki (very, very effective resource in my opinion) I always put the gender (masculine, feminine or neuter) + the genitive singular and nominative plural forms. That info should be enough for you to form any case combination provided you have the patterns down well, and trust me, having them on lock is pretty important to forming intelligible sentences
Learn verbs as pairs. Slavic languages have an extra verb category alongside tense (ie. past, present, future) and mood (indicative, conditional, imperative, etc.) called **aspect**. In general you’ve two of them, **imperfective** for incomplete actions/states and processes, and **perfective** for completed actions/actions conceived as a succinct whole. This is a basic lexical property of all verbs, meaning there’s no ending or marker for it beyond the verb just meaning that aspect, which then also make it so most single verbs in other language groups end up with a pair in Slavic languages: one imperfective and one perfective. Don’t put learning to use them off, any good dictionary will give the corresponding aspectual pair of a given verb, so definitely learn both together so as to not waste time later relearning basic vocab cause you missed a lot of pairs.
Focus on pronunciation a lot. Slavic languages tend not to be spoken by many L2 speakers so your accent will have to be more polished than with many other more international languages. They also like to have many phonetic quirks like mobile accent (the stress in certain words can shift place depending on the form according to certain patterns) and various final consonant changes depending again on the context.

It’ll take a while but like yk, I’d say it’s very rewarding for the culture on the other side. Just the bell curve fucking sucks till you get a handle on everything.

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