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almostvermin · 13 days ago

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it is highly important for everyone who knows me on this godforsaken webbed site to understand: i am monolingual i go to a linguistics-focused school by that i mean theres an insane amount of languages avalible to take and almost everyone speaks at least three outside of that

like yeah i live in the uk but irl 1: speaks mandarin chinese, cantonese chinese, english irl 2: speaks mandarin chinese, japanese, english, italian irl 3: speaks mainland spanish, mainland portugese, brazilian portugese, english and greek irl 4: speaks italian, german, english, and ancient greek irl 5: if it existed in europe before 1200 she speaks it. why? idfk. irl 6: a variety of slavic languages and also french irl 7: speaks tamil, french, ancient greek and spanish

and thats off the top of my head

ive also heard at least three rants about esperanto after my school introduced it as an extracurricular language

#they can all understand languages they dont speak too. through osmosis #and ig i can a little but i am the Dumb Monolingual #uuuuuuh my school also offers arabic but i dont actually know anyone who takes it #well like i know of people #but im not friends w any of them #by coincedence #this is at the front of my mind bc there was a thing yesterday where people who know Not English give talks in their language #(also not to be egotistical or anything.. but middle english my beloved #theyre all struggling with macbeth. oh baybe that word has a different connotation in this time period. i am shakespeares number one fan #i am a jacobean theater kid at heart #they all hate me <3)

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