Have you discovered anything about your native language by studying other languages?

• Y

  y***

  2026-05-05

  I have 2 native languages but after learning welsh more in depth it did make me actually realise how irregular English is. Also I realised welsh is a gendered language which I actually didn't notice before 🥲

• S

  s***

  2026-05-05

  French gives gender to objects

• B

  b***

  2026-05-05

  (vn) grammar is very casual (basically no grammar unless you want to sound like google translate) and word formation is very logical, you know how to spell a word just from learning the "components" (...looking at you eng). also, the intuition behind it is very similar to jp, so it feels more natural to learn jp compared to eng. finally, the beauty of chinese characters used across languages

• L

  l***

  2026-05-05

  Chinese grammar is weird. There's no conjugation or declension or whatsoever. Thus in a sense you can say there's no grammar.

• A

  a***

  2026-05-04

  That we are in the middle of an active shift between an alveolar [r]/[ɾ] and a guttoral [ʀ]/[ʁ]. They've become allophones by now and who knows, by 2100 the kids might all be rolling their r's the French way. Oh no. <:topi_sweat:1496906338612154490>

• H

  h***

  2024-07-07

  Yes, I learned new words in French by learning some advanced words in foreign languages

• K

  k***

  2024-07-07

  yes... about how terrible it is.

• S

  s***

  2024-07-07

  vocational form, intransitive, and transitive verbs........

• K

  k***

  2024-07-07

  english has a lot of irregulars

• T

  t***

  2024-07-07

  Spanish have the same pronunciation (sounds ) as Japanese and Spanish its a lesser regular language than I thought

• J

  j***

  2024-07-06

  Funny enough, learning how japanese is structured and how you can say so much with less words, alongside knowing english from a young age, spanish has become kinda cumbersome to speak to me because of the need of longer words and phrases to express what I want to say.

• P

  p***

  2024-07-06

  || "mulatto" || is a VERY offensive word in english but not in my language 🗿

• F

  f***

  2024-07-06

  That english is a bit of a mutt when it comes to linguistic origins.

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