Comment on Languages

  1. Grey_The Tue 19 Mar 2024 03:12AM UTC

    Wow, 70!? I can respect wanting to fuck with people lol. Good luck with that. Honestly, two is enough to impress me. I myself am monolingual, unfortunately (although I did learn the Russian alphabet for fun, if that counts for anything lol). I’d kill to be multilingual. Maybe someday.

    I figured it was supposed to be that. I know a little basic French and some grammar rules, idk where I got the “de”. I’ll change that now, lol

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    1. The_Library_Of_Jay Tue 19 Mar 2024 03:26AM UTC

      Thank you :) (Be more impressed: So far I speak fluently English and French, Wixemi is my conlang's name but I can't use it to fuck with people so… putting that aside- meanwhile I'm passive bilingual in Spanish, German, Italian, Neapolitan, Portuguese, Dutch, and other similar languages. Pasive bilingual = "I can understand it but can't speak it". Learning Portuguese (Br.), German, and Slovenian :) )

      I hate québec laws so fucking much- i have to take french from starting kindergarten to ending high school, barely got any Italian lessons in elementary so I still can't speak it, and I can only take Spanish the year before I graduate high school because my school fucking sucks. I'M DONE WITH IT-

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      1. Grey_The Tue 19 Mar 2024 03:49AM UTC

        Damn dude, I am impressed

        I get that. Being forced to learn a language makes it horrible (it doesn’t help that I didn’t have a good teacher for two of the four years I took). I’ll be forced to take a foreign language again for the next three years (Spanish) so we’ll see how that goes… Those laws are pretty strange, at least from my outside perspective. (Though from the but I have learned about Canadian and Quebecois politics, I can understand why it’s a thing).

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        1. The_Library_Of_Jay Tue 19 Mar 2024 02:13PM UTC

          If you live in Québec and you’re not French Canadian or Francophone (meaning French is your first language), your life is gonna be miserable… speaking from experience, as I am neither

          Like you can tell I LOVE learning languages, but only learning one for over ten years really sucks. There’s so much potential that’s just MISSED because I have to lean French just to “fit in” with the place I live in

          Can we please trade places? I BADLY wanna know Spanish. Being passive bilingual ain’t enough for me

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          1. Grey_The Tue 19 Mar 2024 07:33PM UTC

            That’s interesting to hear

            I’d gladly trade, I’d love to speak another language. Though it might not be great for you because I only took like 2.9 years (because of Covid) and one teacher I had for two years didn’t teach us anything 😅. It’s interesting that there’s no option to take another language at all. I understand French being mandatory, but one would think there would also be optional other languages

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            1. The_Library_Of_Jay Tue 19 Mar 2024 08:03PM UTC

              It could be because my school sucks, but I get to take Spanish during my last year of high school. But I haven't heard any of my other friends irl at other schools talk about other language classes

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              1. Grey_The Tue 19 Mar 2024 11:15PM UTC

                Glad you get to do that. What changes senior year that lets you take it? Is that just your school, or is it all around Quebec that they only (mainly) offer French?

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                1. The_Library_Of_Jay Tue 19 Mar 2024 11:21PM UTC

                  All over Québec. Either you go to a purely French school, or you go to an English school, but minimum two days a week, all your courses are in French

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                  1. Grey_The Wed 20 Mar 2024 12:03AM UTC

                    Oh wow, interesting to know

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                    1. The_Library_Of_Jay Wed 20 Mar 2024 12:10AM UTC

                      Québec is weird

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                      1. Grey_The Wed 20 Mar 2024 12:20AM UTC

                        Haha. Could be weirder though, I think

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                        1. The_Library_Of_Jay Wed 20 Mar 2024 01:01AM UTC

                          Definitely

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