What's the fastest way someone who is fluent gives away being non-native in your language?

Mostly online through voice or text because i think we all could tell foreigners in person!

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u/AutumnaticFly — 16 hours ago

What advice would you give someone whom you hate about learning your native or target language?

I would probably tell them to not worry about learning vowels in Persian and just wing it, it'll come to them eventually

It will stick and they will end up sounding hilarious when talking and everyone will laugh at everything they say

Hahaha!

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u/AutumnaticFly — 24 hours ago

Do native speakers of your TL unintentionally annoy you sometimes?

I mean with compliments or descriptions that they think it's wholesome about your ability to speak their language but secretly annoys or hurts you?

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u/AutumnaticFly — 1 day ago

What was the hardest language you've learnt?

Something that maybe you use as a flex, something that showed you, you are smarter than you thought

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u/AutumnaticFly — 2 days ago

If you had an opportunity to make a case for you native language, to become the Earth's official language....

Would you do it? would you want this? and also what would you say? why should your language becomes earth's official language?

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u/AutumnaticFly — 3 days ago

If you speak a rather niche language, do you tend to gatekeep it?

At least subconsciously, maybe you don't like people butchering the pronounciation or it feels like an untouched gem to you!

Do you know anyone else that does? other than this, do you know of a reason as to why anyone would even do this?

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u/AutumnaticFly — 3 days ago

What was a simple yet impressive hack or system that you applied to your language learning that massively helped you?

I enjoy poetry so around 7 8 years ago i started translating old Persian poetry to English on my own, a while ago, i had a couple translated by AI and i was surprised at how much better my own was compared to it

sure it's no way near official printed translation but it helped my writing immensely though it was something very simple and took a very short time everyday

What about you?

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u/AutumnaticFly — 4 days ago

In a multilingual family, which language would you talk to your kid?

Your native language or your partner's native language, or your common language or the language of the place you live in? (assuming the four are different)

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u/AutumnaticFly — 5 days ago

Aside from gamification, what else do you do to make learning language at any level more fun?

It could be about learning or practicing any part of the language, could be something really simple that makes it more fun for you, for example when i read books and reach a word that I've never seen before, i look it up in dictionary and then post it on my personal channel as word of the day, that way, it retains some sort of significant for me and i never forget about it again AND, it's fun to share snippets of my life with my friends

What do you do?

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u/AutumnaticFly — 6 days ago

Do you practice calligraphy or beautiful handwriting in your target language?

Do all alphabets have some sort of calligraphy, maybe cursive or something else? or are there ones that have no such thing?

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u/AutumnaticFly — 6 days ago

Do you also cringe at translated stuff after becoming fluent in your target language?

There was a time where i didnt have a choice but to read and watch everything with translation, and i didnt mind, i thought i was getting the full experience!

But years ago since i became proficient enough with my TL (English) i started reading and watching everything in English and now, when i have to see or read translation, i cringe because i can just feel its wrong

doesnt matter if its a quickly translated sub for a movie or a book translated by a legitimate publisher and translator, i can just figure out the mistakes and when i compare it with the real text, 90% of the time i turn out to be right and they did in fact didnt do justice during the translation

Do you feel the same? with whatever your native and target language is?

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u/AutumnaticFly — 7 days ago