#ofc i also want to try and learn Spanish and Japanese and ASL and Korean

[annbourbon]

Well but... I have a thing: I *need* speakers because of my hearing aids.

I usually try to use boosters on my headphones to not go blasting my music through the world... however as someone who is highly embarrassed already of taking a phone call, let me tell y'all a couple of things.

I don't know what in the world is different between music and phone but it does not help me to have headphones because I don't hear or understand anything. There are not subtitles. And. It distorts the sound. And believe me whenever I say I'm on the verge of crying every single time. Because usually it's my parents who call me. Despite of me repeating over and over again to just send me messages.

I also suffer, A LOT around my friends. Because they keep sending me voice messages. And funny thing here's: I told them, several times.

If you want to send me a voice message, keep in mind that I'm gonna grab someone else's ears and let them know the whole context, tell the whole story, in order to make sure they translate your messages correctly. That's how my mom, dad, brother and other people keep knowing about you. It's not because I don't want to keep your secrets. It's because you keep torturing me and sometimes not even bots who translate sound to text are able to help me.

Your messages are noisy, have a lot of background noise. People screaming. You're either in middle of a party or in middle of the town. And you keep your voice low. Like an ant whispering.

._.

Don't even get me started on you when we're face to face. If you have a mask I can't read your lips. If you don't have it, you're like him:

You don't even pronounce your words. You mumble. The other day I had a good laugh because I saw a lot of people complaining on how bad he is with it because you don't understand anything.

60% to 70% of the conversation is me trying to read your lips because you're speaking only for bugs to hear you, and really fast, with your mouth sewed. And some times you even hide your mouth. I never complained until now.

I speak Spanish, English, and I'm currently learning French, Japanese, Russian, Korean and ASL (at different times and struggling with stuff ofc)

I still have issues with pronunciation and hearing. But most of the time, programs, movies, series, radio and podcasts are people who actually know how to speak and pronounce, which is really helpful.

The rest of you? Please stop sending me voice messages because you make me cry and feel like a big traitor. And if you get angry with my behavior, keep in mind that I warned you that I would be sharing it. Several times. And you just said "I'm too lazy to type it all"

Well, then...

I hate being "obnoxious," or create issues around people like the post here is complaining. I always try my best to not be like that. I always do my best to be careful and go to a private space like the post here is suggesting. But I'm also stressed enough and tired enough, usually people around me are pressuring me to answer you ASAP. If I try to do it all by myself it'll take some hours. And I am honestly to fed up to keep caring about your judgement when you don't even care about me actually putting an effort on it.

Help me instead of complaining. Don't be lazy. Send me a long text. Otherwise I'll keep letting everyone know about it and putting my phone calls on speaker because

I don't have a choice

my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.

[writings-of-a-narwhal]

recently i’ve been noticing more people speaking Arabic around where i live and i kind of want to try learning the language?