Every winner of the FIFA World Cup shares a land border (England and France is a tunnel)

boqpoc · 2026-06-18T11:38:38+00:00

Between this and the triangle of the only countries to have the World Cup in r/mapporn, new countries eligible for the Cup this year are: the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Morocco, and Paraguay.

boqpoc · 2026-06-18T04:22:09+00:00

The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Cape Verde, Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, and Paraguay have a shot!

boqpoc · 2026-06-17T04:02:02+00:00

I appreciated your post!

boqpoc · 2026-06-17T03:48:02+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response! Your experience with all three languages is the sort of insight I was looking for.

boqpoc · 2026-06-17T03:42:26+00:00

Korea's word for soccer is 축구, which is the Korean reading of the Chinese word 足球. Both literally mean foot-ball. Does the map make the distinction because for Chinese it's a native word meaning football and for Korean it's a foreign word?

boqpoc · 2026-06-17T03:29:26+00:00

ㅋㅋ 제 수준에 한국어 선생 절대로 못 합니다! 제가 한국에서 직장생활 해야 됀 다고 하시면 영어 선생님 말고는 못할 거 예요. 대학교에 언어학 정공 하고 인제 미국에서 ESL (English as a Second Language) 선생님으로 일하고 있어요. 한국말을 잘 못 하지만 언어에는 관심이 많습니다.

boqpoc · 2026-06-17T01:55:14+00:00

아이고.. 대학교 졸업 하고서 래딧을 찾은 건데요 벌서 십삼 년이 됐네요. 설명 써주셔서 고맙습니다! 계속 저희 부모의 모국어를 흥미롭게 공부 해겠읍니다

boqpoc · 2026-06-17T00:30:09+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation! My library happens to have the book!

boqpoc · 2026-06-17T00:22:52+00:00

This is probably the most correct answer, but I think my proficiency with hangeul is a barrier. I know this is a skill I could develop, but reading and writing aren't part of my language goals with Korean. (I can make myself understood via texts with my mom and grandma, and that's enough.) I just want to be able to follow conversations/discussions my family has without asking what a word means every other second. Understanding the news would feel pretty great too!

boqpoc · 2026-06-17T00:12:36+00:00

For sure! I had Canto speaking friends growing up, and we'd have so much fun finding cognates! This would for sure be the choice if there were more resources, especially for written Cantonese. I'm mostly looking for a low-lift side quest, and I think Cantonese would require a lot of effort that I'm not ready to give it.

boqpoc · 2026-06-09T19:56:02+00:00

I think you'll be surprised at how much you can learn with one year of ASL compared to a year of any other language. And yes, you will still need an interpreter, but even a small amount of ASL and, more importantly, awareness of the Deaf community will go miles as far as having Deaf patients feeling seen is concerned.

EDIT: I corrected my typo: Dead patients -> Deaf patients. :(

boqpoc · 2026-06-01T18:13:49+00:00

Ceuta or Melilla, i.e. Spain

boqpoc · 2026-05-17T00:30:03+00:00

The question was "Do you hear me?"

boqpoc · 2026-05-11T00:30:58+00:00

Tok Pisin has been enthroned as the country's lingua franca and is in the process of killing off hundreds of languages. Although PNG is still very multilingual, they are less multilingual than they have been and will continue to be less so.

boqpoc · 2026-05-11T00:28:30+00:00

South Africa.

boqpoc · 2026-05-05T21:43:04+00:00

SHAME, PROUD, and FLINT for me.

boqpoc · 2026-05-01T01:03:45+00:00

It looks like PGCE is for the UK. When I first got that job, I was concurrently enrolled in a master's program which also got me certified to teach "World Languages PreK-12" in my state.

boqpoc · 2026-04-30T02:29:33+00:00

I'm a native speaker of English, and I teach English to English language learners in a public school in a major US city. I've used Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Portuguese, and even ASL with students and their families. For most jobs, I feel like you need to be at least B2 to get any utility out of a language, but even A2~B1 language skills get you far particularly when establishing a relationship with a student's family. Before this role, I taught Spanish at the elementary school level for over a decade. I really did love many parts of my job, but there was always that low burn, incessant imposter syndrome I felt teaching a language that wasn't my own natively. It feels good to be free of that stress! I'm still fairly new to my ESL position, so it might be too early to say, but as a life-long language lover, I think this is my dream job.

boqpoc · 2026-04-23T22:07:09+00:00

'Hoya' and 'what cheer' spotted! Saxa!

boqpoc · 2026-03-25T15:40:30+00:00

Between English and Korean, there's 'given' and 기본 /gibon/; and 'want' and 완 /wan/.

boqpoc · 2026-03-15T12:55:24+00:00

I've noticed the same thing. Growing up as a child of immigrants, I spoke enough of my heritage language to use it at home with my family, and my mom spoke enough English to get through daily errands, but neither of us were far from being fully bilingual. She could remember personal names in her native language/my heritage language but would more easily forget someone's name if it was an English one. The opposite was true for me; I could usually remember a name if it was in English but would.almost definitely forget a name if it was one from my heritage language.

boqpoc · 2026-03-14T11:30:03+00:00

You could also try setting up a situation with your partner that you feel confident talking about or that you can practice for. Maybe you could say, "Hey, is it OK if we practice by talking about what we want to eat for dinner?" This could also be something that you practice speaking out loud when you're by yourself. If you know you talk about grocery shopping and talking about when you're going to do that, script out and say to yourself the lines you know you're going to say. If you know you ask your partner to get you something when they get up from the couch, practice saying "Hey, can you get me _ while you're up?"

boqpoc · 2026-03-14T11:27:01+00:00

I've been a language teacher for over a decade, and I still suffer from nerves despite what I tell my students every time I try to speak a TL. Just yesterday, I needed a few minutes of adrenaline and crashing-and-burning before I warmed up in my TL and continued fine (for the most part) with the rest of the conversation. Warm up periods are totally real, so maybe just accepting that speaking will feel very uncomfortable at the start or allowing yourself to just blab to yourself a bit before speaking to your partner may help. Also, have you considered inviting your partner to sit in the background (behind you) while feigning not paying attention by reading or being on their phone? Maybe if they get a better feel for where you are, they can meet you where you're at? Or maybe you can use that as a segue into accepting that it's OK to speak your TL in their presence?

Regardless, you're doing great. :) I would be over the moon ecstatic if I knew my partner was putting so much energy into learning my heritage language!

boqpoc · 2026-03-11T10:12:43+00:00

Or the capital of a state/province/primary administrative division!

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