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FAQ U: >How do I learn a language? What is the best way to learn one? How should I improve on certain aspects? Read the damn wiki >Should I learn lang Y so I can learn lang X? No >What is the most useful language? Old Aramaic >What language should I learn? Sanskrit
Learning Jamaican Patois right now because it's the closest language to English that could reasonably be considered a separate language and not just a unique dialect
Henry Perez
Post your resources, I always wanted to learn it.
Angel Rivera
Language Challenge: Nite Life Edition
Let's get some fine clothes. We need a tape recorder for special music. It's going to be hard to find it, especially in this city. This club is always full, let's find another place. We need a convertible car. Let's dance. Where did you put the alcohol? What do you mean with "I don't drink alcohol"? Are you going to bring your girl? Drink at least a can of beer. Yo, taxi driver, we are hungry, find some drive thru so we can eat. Puke outside of the car dummy. I know the language of love, do you? Go ask that girl out, she seems cute. What is your phone number? It is five-one-oh five-five-five nine-six-nine-six, got that? Ask the DJ to change that music, it's very boring.
These are good for formal learning, but if you speak standard English patois is close enough to pick up through watching Jamaican youtubers and following Jamaican social media accounts. They dance between full patois and Jamaican English a lot, which can make learning patois both easier and harder, because you don't know whether it's a patois word or an English word. For example, in jamaican English the word for spider is "Spaidah" but in full patois it's "anansa"
Jacob Howard
tfw no purple haired condescending bitch language teacher/partner
Matthew Reed
based, gl
Zachary Jenkins
Allons acheter quelques vêtements nouveaux Nous nécessite une magnétophone pour le musique spéciale Ce club toujours est très plein du personé, allons trouver un autre club. Nous nécessite d’une voiture convertible. Allons danse Boire une bière au moins Qui est votre numéro de téléphone? Skipped some that I didn’t know, hope I did good.
Luis White
I want to learn Faroese, I found plenty of resources in English, but there’s better resources in Danish, should I learn danish and then learn Faroese?
Nicholas Collins
Danish is spoken by more people if memory serves, but if you're adamant about Faroese, Icelandic is pretty similar. There's a few differences between the two, but imo you could find more resources/places to use Icelandic.
John Allen
Mi ĵus elŝutis el libgen na Toki Pona La Lingvo de Bono. Mi bedaŭregas, Sonja Lang - mi estas nur malriĉa universitata studanto, sed kiam mia muzika aŭ iu ajn el miaj vojoj futuraj min pliriĉigos, mi vin dankos iel.
Bentley Long
You actually found plenty of sources for Faroese? I thought it was one of the harder languages to find resources for
why are united states anons so inclined to learning conlangs?
Parker Morales
Learn what?
Colton Williams
Constructed Languages
Charles Gonzalez
There's just a lot of burgers on the internet. For a long time, France was probably the center of the Esperantujo.
Parker Miller
Pop culture, with Game of Thrones, LOTR & Star Trek >zomg!!1!!1! Star trek is soooo kewl!!! I HAEV to learn Klingon!!!
Jason Rivera
Most conlangers aren't Klingonists.
Hunter Wright
Allons acheter des bons vêtements Il faut un recorder de cassette pour musique spéciale Ça ira être difficile à trouver, specialement à cette ville Ce club est toujours bondé, allons trouver un autre lieu Nous avons besoin d'une voiture conversible allons danser Où as-tu mis l'alcool ? Qu'est-ce que tu veux dire avec "Je ne bois pas de l'alcool" ? Tu vas emmener ta petite amie? Bois au moins une canette de bière Yo, Taxi, nous avons faime, trouve quelque drive-thru afin que nous pourrions manger Dégueule dehors de la voiture retard Je sais la langue de l'amour, et toi ? Va demander laquelle fille-là a sortir, elle semble mignone Quel est ton numéro de téléphone ? C'est cinq-un-null cinq-cinq-cinq neuf-six-neuf-six, t'a pris ça? Demande le DJ à changer cette musique, c'est très ennuyeuse.
That was hard.
Oliver Cox
Have you been on one dick?
Evan Nguyen
Most conlangers aren’t getting laid either.
Ryder Torres
Zamenhof had multiple kids. One of his grandkids passed away pretty recently I think.
Mason Sanders
Obv, that's just an example -- if you want to get more specific, it would probably be something like this Dothraki -- dude GoT is so cool Klingon -- dude Star Trek is so cool Elvish langs -- dude LOTR is so cool (and maybe JRRT too) Star Wars langs -- dude I'm a super turbo nerd Ido/Volapük -- we're still relevant!! Esperanto -- we can still definitely be a global language Globasa -- let's share it over the internet, that'll def catch on Linguists who make their own conlangs -- varies from based to absolute cringe
TL:DR, conlangers are either turbo nerds, hobbyists, or professional linguists
Jordan Johnson
At least quenya and sindarin sound and look pretty nice
John Phillips
A lot of the language seemed really natural too, words like "mordor" and "morghul" seem like pretty basic things, but they actually have meaning -- "dark land" and "dark magic" respectively
Jason Rodriguez
Yeh I'm familiar with some of the words through reading hobbit, lotr, unfinished tales and silmarillion and having some autism to find amusement in glancing through the dictionary therein
Brayden Bell
Because Tolkien was a linguist and knew what he was doing.
Daniel Allen
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Charles Lee
I had a dream where I was speaking Russian in my head with ease, and I turned my alarm off and stayed asleep because I wanted to keep speaking it. But I can't remember anything I said and can't remember if I actually refused to wake up because of it. It might have been a dream within a dream where I was speaking gibberish and thinking it was hot shit.
