#english french spanish asl

[freakurodani]

one of my favorite jokes to tell at work is that i know 4 languages, and i suck at all of them

[soulless-bex]

headcanon that percy is smart in a sense that he picks up language really easily, like he just learns them through exposure and stupidly fast, but since he’s dyslexic and has a hard time writing/reading and that’s all schools care about, he never learned the value of his skill

[tesl8n]

I wish I actually spoke French. Looking up the text of Le Petit Prince in its original French for the sake of trying to translate a French quote written in phonetics in the English translation of a Japanese novel, and once upon a time I absolutely would have gotten sucked into translating the whole book. I just don't remember enough from high school :(

[ri-afan]

Picture it: me, 430 in the morning

I tell my cat that it’s 4 in the morning in French, as one does, and go to tell him I need to sleep.

Except I can’t remember the word for ‘need’ and all that’s coming up is ‘necesito’ which I KNOW is a Spanish conjugation for the word I actually want in French despite not studying Spanish in eleven years. Spoiler alert I guess, the word I wanted was ‘besoin’.

I decide ‘fuck it’ and go to say that I want to sleep instead, ‘cause at this point it’s accurate and ‘voudrais’ has been hammered in for all the time I practiced it saying I wanted tea, except I try and add the word for ‘today’ somewhere in there and get stuck because what’s the word for ‘today’ in French again??

Heddiw? No, that’s Welsh I think.

Hodiau? No, that’s Esperanto.

So I turn to my cat again and ask “como si dice ‘today’ en francés?”

Motherfucker meowed.

Y’all, I thought I lost my goddamned mind for half a second.

[welcome-to-green-hills]

Wait you saw the Brazilian Portuguese dub and the English dub? I didn’t know that you spoke Portuguese

Hi Hon!❤️✨

I am not fluent, but am learning! (Thank you Duolingo for giving me the basics). I speak more than one language! English and French are just ones that I speak the most here!

But in general, I loved both version. They were a great story!

[grantaire-lover-69]

The power of having a Hispanic family that have impossibly high standards is being able to manage multiple personalities/identities like a pro. Going to my Grandma's house? Boom, I'm suddenly a Catholic girl that loves dresses and sewing. Dad's house? I'm a carefree and forgetful girl. Mom's house? I'm a straight-A student, with perfect attendance that knows 5 languages and can draw. Honestly sometimes I forget how I really am until I go on social media or go with my friends.

[wutheringheightsfilm]

the knowing how to say thank u in multiple languages number for me is actually more like 10 after thinking about it for more than a minute and a half...

[signalspells]

10+

Please reblog, I'm curious

[analogboii]

been on rednote less than 24 hours and people already putting up English to mandarin lessons and theyre coming up on my explore page. i love this. sticking another language in my arsenal. my dream of being a polygot is gonna be real truuuust 🙏🙏

[thebucketpail]

Sister and i forgot the english word for "eight" today and ended cycling through 5 different languages trying to find it with increasing frantic and desperate energy only to end up asking our brother. He didnt get it until we got to french

[thalassic-p4rk]

me when i’ve collectively attempted to learn 48 languages (and counting) and so i get this constantly except i know literally nothing else but a word or two in those languages cuz the brain isn’t meant to hold all that information so for me it’s more like

Every single person studying a language when they recognize the most basic word of the language in a text or a video

[cleocatrablossy]

FUCK. My schools outside of school PE thing doesn’t work if you aren’t exceptional at your sport, have a special ed plan that requires the time slot, or taking an advanced PE. FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK. I don’t have fucking time in my schedule for PE. I’ll have to drop a science. Like??? I already have to take French 3 outside of school and talk to a councilor about what other required classes I can do at community college instead. I have 5 more science classes to squeeze into 2 years. FUCK. And I don’t want to drop any of them. Because we’ve got: AP Bio, Marine Bio, Environmental Science, Forensics, and Physics. I mean if any of them were to go, I could probably lose AP Bio? I mean going into regular Bio lasts year I already knew almost all of the material, so it’s the one I likely stand the least to gain from. Or I could drop forensics, but that’s the class I’m specifically taking with my buddy so it has to stay. FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK. I’ll go to the councilor this week and ask about all of this stuff. I mean at least we have weights as a class, I wouldn’t mind that. I want to build upper body strength and hopefully I’ll be getting to work on trail clearing so that’ll be good. Like o could technically not do math one year and still graduate, but I actually sorta like it??? And I want to take calc and stat. Calc for college reasons and stat just because I like the teacher lol so I’m taking algebra 2 over summer. And Sure I could lose theatre, and lose my sanity with it. Or it might just work out??? Unless I’m missing something. But I think I might just have time if I do French 3 over summer, because I’ll have my two years for graduation plus the third one that UCs like. Wont have time for art class though. Why did I have to start highschool like… the Year after they got rid of the 8th period??? Please please please please give me more classes actually. I am a try hard who in freshman year decided to take every science class here and now has to stay committed to it because it’s funny.

[bodythieves]

Have I told you guys I'm multilingual !???? I can't remember ???

[modernmutiny]

If anyone's wondering how my Spanish learning is going (you're not, but I wanna talk about it and it's my blog so....) it's going very well! I held an entire conversation with a 5 year old at my job today for like 20 minutes which is basically A2 fluency and I'm very proud of myself 🙂‍↕️

[ravenassassin]

Learning languages is fun because I love being able to embarrass myself internationally