r/languagelearningjerk

I mean, we're all here because we didn't do well on an exam and don't want to take personal responsibility for it, right?

I'm sure it's someone else's fault. I can't explain why right now, but yeah.

GUYS I LOVE YIDDISH SO MUCH,,,, IT HAS AN ALPHA SCRIPT AND COOL SEMETIC AND GERMAN SOUNDS PLUS ITS EASY BECAUSE ITS GERMANIC BUT ITS TOO SAD THAT YIDDISH IS JUST A DIALECT OF TURKISH

If languages evolve tones as sounds get dropped, why isn't French tonal by now? They have so many unpronounced letters in every word, surely they're overdue for tones?

Hey guys

So I'm trying to learn German but I'm having a hard time finding good content. Pop music sounds generic and boring (contrary to pop music in English) and when it comes to my favorite genres (Nintendo Jazz, Lowercase and life-affirming progressive corpse shredcore) there’s only a handful of bands and they mostly sing in English. Most German music is unrockable.

Most well-known books are translated into German but I prefer reading them in the original English, and I can't stand watching dubbed shows.

I'm also interested in Central Asian archaeology but so far no luck.

Could anyone recommend content that fits my highly specific tastes? I’ll make sure to ignore your recommendations and keep consuming content in a language where I dislike 99% of all available content but had an entire lifetime to filter out the 1% that I enjoy.

Sometimes when I'd see a Spanish speaker write 'jajaja', my brain defaults to the j used in some parts of Europe and would read it like 'yayaya'.

Language confuse me.