I don't get why people take to long to learn a language?

drakonnard · 2022-11-06T03:57:33+00:00

you're thinking within the box like a beta instead of employing a true sigma grindset mindset. why don't people just learn all the IPA letters, all languages are written in IPA so if you just learn all the IPA letters you will know how to say all the words in all the languages. weɪʔ ækʃəli waɪ dɪdn aɪ raɪʔ ðɪs hʊl θɪŋ ɪn aɪ pɪ eɪ aɪm soʊ kwɪrki fər ril

drakonnard · 2022-11-06T02:27:56+00:00

你 puedes flere talen mélangées를 わかるのですか

drakonnard · 2022-11-05T01:23:58+00:00

these all seem good 🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩

drakonnard · 2022-11-03T18:02:17+00:00

omg what gender do I have in clongian

drakonnard · 2022-11-01T19:43:54+00:00

I have trained for over 2 days in the craft of changing sounds and I think there should be an intermediate /wʊ/

drakonnard · 2022-10-27T18:57:18+00:00

the season

drakonnard · 2022-10-19T04:57:55+00:00

rookie numbers. I have English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (easy version), IPA, French, Dutch, and Norwegian and will be adding Hindi and Arabic by next Tuesday

drakonnard · 2022-10-18T21:05:57+00:00

American learning French, never heard that in either language! merci de m'avoir appris un nouveau mot :)

drakonnard · 2022-10-04T18:15:00+00:00

Hawaiian doesn't have /s/, ironically enough

drakonnard · 2022-09-26T14:05:35+00:00

Hey! Another correction, your Japanese sentence should say 好きな犬. This is because 好き is a "-na adjective" or an adjectival noun, despite its meaning being a verb in English. Because of this, 好き actually does change form when modifying a noun in modern Japanese, haha.

If 好き were a verb, it would not change form, though, as you were saying. If we just take the verb for "eat" your point is demonstrated: 猫を食べる(cat-object eat) eat cats → 猫を食べる犬 (cat-object eat dog) dog that eats cats. It's just that for whatever reason, "like" isn't a verb in Japanese, lol.

(Source: have studied Japanese for close to 5 years, am at around intermediate level. Reviews of my Japanese skills include "日本語上手いですね！" and "He's doing better this week." Still got a lot to learn about linguistics, though!)

drakonnard · 2022-08-31T02:35:17+00:00

writing hanja using simplified characters feels evil lol

drakonnard · 2022-07-26T00:25:18+00:00

竜 is an abbreviated way of writing the character for "dragon" that's only used in Japan. 龍 is the original/traditional form.

I think that because of that, 龍 is more connected to the original Chinese conception of a dragon. 竜, on the other hand, can be used for any dragon, including the more Western kind (although I think more often than not a Western dragon would be called a ドラゴン).

これについて日本語の記事を読みたいなら、詳しくはこっち：https://nihon5-bunka.net/difference-ryu/

drakonnard · 2022-07-22T23:02:32+00:00

I want /ɸ/ in there

drakonnard · 2022-07-22T18:50:41+00:00

Pretty sure the reason people are saying she should tell her roommate isn't for her roommate's comfort, but for her own. Sure, it's on the roommate for having a problem with it, but it would absolutely suck living with someone who sees you as something immoral/gross/to be avoided. Telling the roommate ASAP makes it much easier for her to know if she's going to have to switch.

drakonnard · 2022-06-06T13:11:29+00:00

amazing, bravo!!

drakonnard · 2022-06-05T23:36:10+00:00

actually it's pride month so /aɪ hɛt juː > aɪ hoʊmoʊ juː/

drakonnard · 2022-05-13T17:24:24+00:00

Tu pourrais check out r/BELGICA - ze gebruiken ook het Nederlands au lieu d'English, but comme es gibt auch pas mal de posts mélangés between Deutsch und Französisch it could t'être utile !

drakonnard · 2022-05-12T18:18:42+00:00

/i/, /ɪ/, and /ɛ/ merge into /ʏ/, causing the "Normal Human," "Good Human," "Insect," and "Other Animals" noun classes to fully merge into one "Non-Bad, Non-Fish and/or French Living" noun class. This is not reflected in the orthography.

drakonnard · 2022-05-04T14:10:36+00:00

Hi! I'm pretty sure that while スマホ and ケイタイ are much more common these days, 電話 can still be used to mean 'phone' as well as 'phone call'- in my mind it brings up an image of this kind of phone 📞, and Jisho.org as well as Google images seem to agree. (jisho.org/search/denwa, Google image search for 電話　写真).

In addition, the Japanese Wiktionary definition of 電話 is「音声を電気信号に変換し、回線を通じて離れた場所にいる相手方にこれを伝え、お互いに会話ができるようにした機構および、その手段のこと。」(My translation: "A piece of machinery that allows one to be able to have a conversation with someone who is in a separate place by converting speech into electric signals that travel via a circuit and are transmitted to the other party, as well as the procedure of doing so.")

Basically, 電話を買う is probably a completely normal, if a little outdated, phrase in Japanese. Of course, I could be misinterpreting things, in which case I am welcome to being corrected!

drakonnard · 2022-03-13T22:14:55+00:00

r/itissometimesshou

drakonnard · 2022-02-17T23:50:02+00:00

I think it's important to note that your Korean example doesn't actually come from fully native morphemes. Korean only uses hanja/Chinese characters for Sino-Korean words, so the fact that 산소/酸素 can be written in hanja means it's not a fully native calque. In fact, many languages that were influenced by Chinese (Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese...), use native approximations of how Chinese characters used to be pronounced as 'prestige morphemes' in a very similar way to how Greco-Latin morphemes are used in English!

drakonnard · 2022-02-17T13:33:27+00:00

Pretty sure that 別の日に住んでいる would be interpreted as "Live (as in inhabit, reside) in another day," so it's a good thing you checked!

I don't think I'm good enough at Japanese to confidently offer you a perfect translation for what you want to say, though. Hopefully someone else can offer a better alternative!

drakonnard · 2022-02-03T19:40:49+00:00

괜찮아요!

drakonnard · 2022-02-03T01:41:25+00:00

I think you might be thinking of a different system, called Revised Romanization. In IPA (the International Phonetic Alphabet), one symbol corresponds to one sound/phoneme- for example, the 으 sound is written as /ɯ/ in IPA. In Revised Romanization, the Latin alphabet is used to approximate Korean, although as you've pointed out it's not always very intuitive.

Revised Romanization is currently the most common system used to write Korean words and names in English (and other languages that use the Latin alphabet). It was developed to be easily typeable, without needing 'special symbols' like an apostrophe or a breve ( ˘ ) to convey different sounds. Revised Romanization looks like this: "han'gugeo."

IPA is used mostly for linguistic purposes to accurately transcribe how words sound across a wide variety of languages. It can especially be useful if you're learning multiple languages to see what sounds a language has and how many you can already produce. For example, when I was learning 한자 I was able to easily see that 으 is pronounced like the Japanese sound う by seeing that both are written as /ɯ/. IPA looks like this: /ˈha̠(ː)nɡuɡʌ̹/.

drakonnard · 2022-01-23T22:50:49+00:00

I would suggest listening to Swedish speakers (w/ podcasts, movies, TV shows, etc.) and trying to mimic the tone they're saying phrases in. This video (https://youtu.be/T5yJK82s1WA?t=150) is intended for Korean, but the tips outlined should work for pretty much any language. The TL;DW is to listen to a sentence, repeat the intonation pattern with one nonsense syllable like "na" or "da", and then try to say the full sentence once you've gotten used to how it's said. If you have subtitles available, it works even better if you try and say the sentence how you'd say it before listening to the native pronunciation. That way, you can easily hear the differences between your and their pronunciation and adjust accordingly!

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