#you've done something with talk abt languages. i now feel extremely compelled to tell you abt my experience living 6 months in korea.

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when i found out i could have other language keyboards i put a japanese one and as a little kid was pretty much like Ah im fluent in japanese now (i was typing english words and then clicking whichever symbols popped up. because itw as a romaji keyboard i think.)

so like. as an example if i typed. “this sentence here”

ティsせんてんcえへれ. awesome japanese (i have the same keyboard i’m just actually learning the language now).

i 100% was convinced i was fluent when all i did was know one or two words and i could type on a keyboard

also i pretended to be russian once while playing a .io game with a chat function i had a name in cyrillic but then because “hello” was way too fucking long for me to figure out how to type quickly i just sent a spacebecause no way was i going to be able to figure that out

my childhood was varied in terms of linguistics and i guess that’s where my linguistics autism started as..

i know some chinese (mandarin) so i have the chinese keyboard on my phone. and since it's all english letters sometimes my phone switches to it sometimes and i'll just type something and send it and it'll correct to a strange jumble of chinese characters and english letters that didn't make the cut

my mom got me one of those keyboard covers with the english and korean keyboard on it. since korean's an alphabet all i had to do was find the character and type but i was legit so slow ㅜㅜ

koreans also use this condensed keyboard on mobile... and it is SO FREAKING COOL... like this

you combine the dots and the lines that are on the top row to form all of the vowels. really wish i knew how to use it quick bc i've seen ppl type really fast on these and it's probably a lot more accurate than the tiny keys on the full keyboard layout... actually i feel inspired i'll only use this one from now on