#gotta learn french :/

[celtrist]

Would love for them to bring up languages at some point.

Angel: "shit they're speaking French. Smiles! Translate!"

Alastor: "I'm not sure which is more insulting; assuming I can fluently speak and understand French because I'm Creole, or that you think French and French-Creole are the same thing."

[anniaart]

Oh, Aziraphale got a taste of that.

[dyrewrites]

"Do we use the Greek spelling or the anglicized spelling?"

"If you don't use the Greek letters people can't look it up."

"Okay but it looks real weird and out of place and I'm pretty sure it is all entirely wrong."

"All of the languages are probably wrong, on account of all four translator sites giving different translations and there being a whole mess of contextual and cultural usage your dumb one language speaking ass does not understand."

"Okay...so what do I do?"

"Leave it as is and find people to help properly translate things later."

"But it looks wrong now."

"It's a first draft. It is allowed to look wrong."

[pwhl-mybeloved]

not fluent in a french in the sense that I could hold a sustained conversation but fluent in the sense that I can cuss you out for turning right on a red light

[ozuzo]

Call me Mr. Worldwide the way I'll speak five languages poorly if I manage to keep up with Japanese and actually practice my Italian 😎

[marswasnothere]

Thinkin about merperson shark max and marine biologist daniel

[arsonistbunny]

Things happening on qsmp and fans reminds me of that time dream had another brilliant idea of asking for speculative work for his icon and I said that it wasn't normal or okay and I had this discussion with an American person and at some point, they went "well when we want to enter a school we have to pay for the test to enter. are you saying this isn't normal" like a gotcha but like? yeah?? that's not ok?

In France, having to pay to pass a test to enter a school isn't illegal but your teachers will warn you: this is a sign of a scam. the scam being that the school actually sucks and is just trying to get as much money as fast as possible before eventually closing down due to being bad.

And I'm saying that because qsmp fans on twitter are doing their best to defend doing nothing to fix the situation. (The situation being free work by the way. And unsigned contracts. And abusive clauses.) And invoking things such as "oh the union that wants to take this to court are illegal" and things that appear to be normal in USA. And like, ok, listen I don't know a lot about how your country works but please question it!

You may not realize it but your worker's rights suck so much that you think a union fighting for worker's rights to be respected has to be illegal or nefarious??

[waffletheorist]

My mum's side of the family: Learn Greek so you can talk to us!

My high school Spanish teacher: You scored really high on the test, I hope you continue to take this class.

My high school French teacher: You're good at French, you should keep studying it.

Personal interests: You should study Japanese so you can learn more about me!

Me, nervously sweating, staring at my Duolingo realizing I might have to learn 4 languages.

[misspelled-url]

not to put French on everyone's dash today but tell me how i only just found out that RSVP stands for "répondez s'il vous plaît" ("please respond", with the formal 2nd person)? i always underestimate how MUCH French is present in English when it comes to more formal contexts...

[weast-of-eden]

at this point ao3 is about to be my duolingo. gay ass owl teaching me a foreign language while some dude gets pregnant one shot 5k words

[oh-katsuki]

some french ppl are so willfully ignorant!! i hate them!!! have u ever spoken to a french person?? they act pissy and shitty on purpose if you have even the slightest bit of an accent!!! i hate them!!!

[oldtreeinanalley]

recently learned that in greek the traditional ending for fairytales is "and they lived well and we lived better" and that has stuck with me

[fernforest16]

German cake appreciation post

Holy fuck why does nobody talk about this. Okay France has pastries and Italy has bread etc etc but Germany? Best cake in the world. Goddamn. There’s this giant range of traditional cakes that are sold by the slice so you try em all with a group of friends/family over coffee. There is cake Everywhere. Most of the time it’s Kuchen-not layered/frosted, like a coffee cake. That is usually sheetpan-baked and comes marbled with pudding, yoghurty cheese, cinnamon sugar, streusel, apple, plum, poppy seeds, berries, cheesecake, honeyed almonds………anything your sugar-loving heart could imagine. Kuchen also refers to what Americans would call tarts and pies. And then there are tortes, which are layered with all of the above plus ganache, frosting, more pudding, etc, more like an American layer cake. God i love it. I love it all. Genuinely have never had better cake in my life than here. I want to cry holy shit

[scribblingface]

duolingo just updated the browser version to also make you lose hearts for making mistakes 😒

[merrigelblogs]

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[nagitosstolenhand]

writing aoyama is fun cause i get to do very important fic research