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always-a-slut-4-ghouls · 5 months

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Why are the Romance languages so much more fun to yell at people with? By comparison Norwegian and English are so clunky Spanish just flows. Maybe I’ll change my mind when I get better at the other two (I phrased this awkwardly. I meant Spanish and Norwegian when I said “other two” because Spanish is my, admittedly not fluent anymore, Second language and Norwegian is my, also not fluent yet but I have more of an excuse with that one, language) but in my experience so far one definitely feels more bulky, if that makes any sense?

#emma posts #you know someone is going to try saying it’s racism but Italian is like that too #I just barely know any of that #I’m very rusty at Spanish and new at Norwegian but so far my experience with Germanic languages (including my first) has just been more… idk #rough I guess? if i want to threaten a guy it can feel more like a punch #but cursing someone out feels more flat #Latin vs old Norse and old English is like that too #but I know Latin mostly from science #vs old English from classes on the history of literature in this language #and old Norse from books because I was bored I guess?#I’m not good enough at anything else that i would trust having a conversation in them #but in my limited experience this tends to track #except whatever the fuck French is doing. i feel like I’m clearing my throat when i try to copy French people #sorry but that’s just how it feels #especially Canadian French #I’m not really interested in learning German or anything tbh #but I am interested in being able to read some Nordic ones and just ended up digging deeper into my special interest languages #maybe it’s just because Nordic languages are slightly more familiar? not enough for conversation. but more familiar #as well as Spanish. which i actually could hold a conversation in at one point #I’m not really interested in French either #just more English. Norwegian. Swedish. Spanish. and one day Icelandic.#I WILL read those old books before I die! provided i don’t die young #i don’t care if i can get them translated. I want to read THOSE ones.#‘you have an English Bible and aren’t even Christian’ i don’t care! I want to be able to read the Icelandic one! I want to read what #my great grandparents did! I want to read the Norwegian postcard from my great grandparents family overseas #we got it translated. but it’s not the same!#and I’d also like to be able to speak the second most popular language in my country #that is probably more practical and i have had more experience with it #I just cannot get the gendered ‘the’s correct. la and el are currently my biggest hurdle #that and the difference between making my brain focus on practical skills vs my hyperfixations

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