#the daily struggles of an incompetent polyglot
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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
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Every single person studying a language when they recognize the most basic word of the language in a text or a video
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#the daily struggles of an incompetent polyglot#years of trying and 48 languages later#including asl morse code written cyphers and fictional languages#and i’m still only fluent in one.#one language. english.#i’m semi conversationally fluent in uh like#french spanish portuguese (ish) norwegian swedish icelandic (another stretch) german and uh kinda greek? ish??#but still no fluency in anything else#and i’ve tried believe me#10+ years of spanish education#except american education system#so
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