Bavarian or something. Polyglot on a quest to find out how many languages can fit into one human brain.
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i speak: 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇬🇧🇻🇦
learning: 🇯🇵🇱🇹🇳🇿🇳🇱
i’d like to learn: them all
my phone: 🥗
my inner voice: 🇩🇪
my music: 🇻🇦🇬🇧
i read books in: 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇦🇩🇮🇹🇷🇴🇫🇷🇵🇹🇻🇦
i watch movies/tv shows in: 🇩🇪
my name is: 🇬🇷 🇻🇦
my eyes: 🟤
i am: 🥨
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Had a neighbor, nice lady, but she burned her food. About one evening a week there was stench of burnt whatever in the stairwell. We were afraid she'd eventually burn the house down.
We moved out last year (not because of her). The building was still standing last time I looked.
Jun 15
I feel like we don’t talk about how life-altering it can be to have bad neighbors. It’s quite literally one of the worst things that can happen to you!
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Jun 15
Americans calling Mate "Maté" bc they think it's like Café but it just means "I killed" in Spanish
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Jun 14
Ein bisschen Dialektkunde schadet nie.
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Jun 12
This joke is fantastic though if you know German.
Jun 12
"What are they trying to communicate with this? honestly puzzled."
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Quite the opposite. You should teach your kids your language *especially* if you speak anything other than those 4 or 5. Google Translate can speak Spanish, it can’t however Öömrang or Yucatec or Mru or Toda. You don’t want to rob your kids of a future in the CIA.
Should you tech kids your native language if you moved to the states? I think the answer is yes if the language is Chinese (preferably mandarin), Arabic, French, or Spanish. Cuz those are useful. And don’t rly bother if not
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The "critical period hypothesis" is oversold.
While children acquire accent more easily, adults learn vocabulary and grammar faster due to existing language frameworks.
Your maturity is an advantage, not an obstacle.
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Jun 4
X has made people forget that not everybody should talk about every thing, all the time.
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learned from my Royal Air Maroc in-flight magazine that the Arabic name for Venice is literally "the gun" (al-Bunduqiyya), also related to Spanish albóndiga ("meatball") and ultimately Greek Ποντικός/Pontikós ("pertaining to the Black Sea") 😵💫
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Happy feast to all who celebrate!
Fun fact: The German name of Corpus Christi is Fronleichnam, from the Middle High German 'vrône lîcham' (the Lord's body). "Fron-" (frô, Lord) is not readily understood by today's German speakers, i.e. by me before I looked up the etymology. 😅
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Goals
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May 27
Das ganze System ist natürlich grotesk. Im letzten Absatz kommt allerdings die schlimmste Botschaft:
"Derzeit sieht es nicht so aus, als würde sich die Bundesregierung unter CDU-Kanzler Friedrich Merz nochmal an das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz hinanbegeben. Und das, obwohl es besonders aus Unionskreisen massive Kritik vor der Verabschiedung 2024 im Bundestag gab."
Die Rechtsextremistin Marla Svenja Liebich änderte ihren einst männlichen Geschlechtseintrag mithilfe des Selbstbestimmungsgesetzes. PRO berichtete – und wurde von der Neonazi angezeigt. Ein persönlicher Rückblick auf einen kuriosen Fall.
Foto: picture alliance/dpa | Hendrik Schmidt pro-medienmagazin.de/rechtse…
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May 26
A key concept in both the Circassian and Georgian grammar is "Ergativity" which is something I have tried to understand dozens of times and only really got once, over lunch, after a couple of beers.
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May 25
Typical female reaction when they find out I'm fluent in Latin.
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Why do so many chefs get hand tattoos? Even some who have no visible tattoos anywhere else...
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May 15
I took the Deutsche Welle's A1 course. One thing i really liked about it is that their course is intensive and exercise-based rather than just passive reading. They cover all the essential topics, plus they have built-in level tests and a final exam as well to check your progress
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May 14
Apple’s AI not exactly covering itself with glory either
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Achievement unlocked: Walked around the centre of Valencia and understood every language I heard on the street.
#langtwt
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This is exactly why Indian app developers need to develop a good app to aid those wishing to learn Indian languages. These big apps like Duolingo etc. simply do not care to have real spoken languages but will have extremely niche made up languages like Klingon!
This is insane. Hindi is the 3rd most spoken language on earth. Bengali is the seventh.
Yes, many Hindi and Bengali speakers know English and you can get by without speaking them. But that's true of basically every European language Duolingo offers!
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The irony of generating this post 👇 with AI...
May 6
🚨Just IN: If you've used ChatGPT for writing or brainstorming in the last 6 months, your creative ability may already be permanently damaged.
A controlled experiment just proved the effect doesn't reverse when you stop using it.
3,302 creative ideas. 61 people. 30 days of tracking.
Researchers split students into two groups. Half used ChatGPT for creative tasks. Half worked alone. For five days, the ChatGPT group outperformed on every metric. Higher scores. More ideas. Better output. AI was making them better.
Then day 7. ChatGPT removed. Every creativity gain vanished overnight. Crashed to baseline. Zero lasting improvement.
But that's not the bad part.
ChatGPT users' ideas became increasingly identical to each other over time. Same content. Same structure. Same phrasing. The researchers called it homogenization. Everyone using ChatGPT started producing the same ideas wearing different clothes.
When ChatGPT was removed, the creativity boost disappeared -- but the homogenization stayed. 30 days later, same result. Their creative range had been permanently compressed.
Five days of use. Permanent damage 30 days later.
A separate trial confirmed it. 120 students. 45-day surprise test. ChatGPT users scored 57.5%. Traditional learners scored 68.5%. AI reduces cognitive effort. Less effort means weaker encoding. Weaker encoding means less creative raw material.
You're not renting a productivity boost. You're financing it with your originality.
The interest rate is permanent.
Community note
This AI-generated tweet misrepresents nearly every aspect of the cited study. The study assessed knowledge retention, not creative ability, and found traditional study aids superior to chatGPT. There is no implication of permanent damage to participants learning ability.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
pangram.com/history/f3c8ae…
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