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dedalvs · 1 year

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can you make a translator for firish i want to use it in my rps i have with friends

I've actually gotten this question a couple times, which is great! But this type of thing just isn't possible with a conlang. It has nothing to do with the quality of the conlang or the level of completion (i.e. the amount of vocabulary, how much of the grammar has been recorded, etc.), and I'll tell you specifically why.

First, you may have seen "translators" for various languages online like LingoJam. LingoJam not only has translators for a bunch of different languages, but allows you to make your own translators. The way these work, though, is you write down a word in one language and write its translation into another—something like:

English > Spanish

I > yo

am > soy

to > a

the > el

store > tienda

going > yendo

That is, you put in one to one correspondences, and that's what it has to work with. Once you're done, if you ask for a translation, it looks up the words and sees what's available and it spits back what it has, in order. If we had this very minimal English to Spanish dictionary (which is 100% accurate, by the way! That is, all of these English words can be translated as all of these Spanish words), you could ask LingoJam to translate the following into Spanish...

I am going to the store.

...and you would get...

Yo soy yendo a el tienda.

Now, if you speak Spanish, you'll see all the places this went wrong. (Short version: You don't always need subjects pronouns in Spanish; you use a different helping verb for "to be x'ing" in Spanish; you rarely actually use this "to be x'ing" construction in Spanish; the present tense is sufficient; though el means "the", it's the wrong gender for tienda—analogous to saying "an store" as opposed to "a store" in English.) And you can actually avoid this in LingoJam by adding phrases on top of single words:

English > Spanish

the store > la tienda

I am going > voy

But you can imagine how much work that would be...

The reason why things like LingoJam are so popular, though, is because imagine if you knew nothing about Spanish. Typing in "I am going to the store" and having it instantly spit out "Yo soy yendo a el tienda" is pretty darn satisfying! If you don't know it's wrong but you're happy with it, what's the problem?

Now, a language like Spanish is huge, so it's easier to get accurate Spanish translations online than it is to get accurate Korean translations online—and it's easier to get accurate Korean translations online than accurate Tigrinya translations online, etc. The reason for that takes us to Google Translate.

I think most people know that with LingoJam, you get what you pay for. Google Translate, on the other hand, is much more sophisticated, and much more accurate. It's not 100%, but it's pretty darn good—for widely spoken languages. This is why.

Way back when, Syfy facilitated a chat between me and the folks at Google Translate because they wanted to see if Google and I could work together to create a translator for a couple of my Defiance languages at TED in 2013. After all, we had a full two weeks. We could bang something like that out in two weeks, right? (lol no)

I learned then how Google Translate works. Google Translate doesn't actually know anything about the specific grammar of a language—maybe a couple language specific tweaks, but it's not as if you can go under the hood and find a full grammar of Spanish that tells you when to use the subjunctive, what all the conjugations are, etc. Instead, what Google Translate has is a database (i.e. Google, along with Google Books, Google Scholar, etc.) with tons of, presumably, fluent documents written in the various target languages offered on Google Translate. They also have faithful translations of those documents—not all, but a percentage. Google Translate uses that information to predict what a given sentence in one language will turn into in another.

In order to do this successfully, Google Translate needs BILLIONS of documents to troll. And it has that. It has BILLIONS of articles written in Spanish and translated to English. That's why the English to Spanish translation is as good as it is.

Now, having said that, anyone who's bilingual in English and Spanish knows that Google Translate isn't perfect. Sometimes it's pretty good, but sometimes it produces a lot of clunky, unnatural, or even incorrect translations. This is because there isn't a human back there calling the shots.

But that's its best translator. Now imagine translating between English and Samoan (one of the other languages it offers). There are EXPONENTIALLY more online articles in Spanish than Samoan. Consequently, the translations you get between English and Samoan on Google Translate are absolutely no guarantee.

And bear in mind, there's a kind of minimum threshold they work with before adding a language to Google Translate. If Samoan is on there and not Fijian, it's because there's that much more Samoan online than Fijian.

Now let's go back to conlangs. What Google Translate wants is BILLIONS of articles written online in the target language. Forget how complete the grammar of a conlang is, whether you can find that description online, or how many thousands of words the conlang has. How many fluent articles are there written in that conlang that are online? How many can one person to? How about a team of people? And how many conlangs have that?

This is why Google Translate has Esperanto and nothing else. Esperanto has been around for 136 years, and in that time there have been a good number of people who have learned to speak it fluently, and have written things (poems, articles, books) that are now online. It is as much as Spanish? Certainly not, but it is enough to hit Google Translate's minimum threshold, and so it's available.

Assuming you have a conlang with a full grammar and a good amount of vocab, if it were popular, it might have enough available material for Google Translate to work with 125 years from now. But at the moment, it's not possible. That says nothing about the language: It's about how Google Translate works.

And bear in mind, Google Translate is, at the moment, our best non-human translator.

If predictive-AI gets good enough that it can learn the grammar of a language, then it may be possible to produce a translator for a new conlang. That, though, is not the goal of Google Translate. Maybe ChatGPT and things like it will get there one day, but even that isn't a dedicated language learning AI. We need an AI that doesn't work with billions of fluent articles, but works with two books: a complete grammar and a dictionary. If an AI can one day work with those two tiny (by comparison) resources and actually produce translations that are as good as or better than Google Translate, then we'll be at a "translation-on-demand" place that will be good enough to feed a new conlang to. At that point, it will simply be a matter of producing a grammar and lexicon of sufficient size for the AI to do its thing.

So, no, right now we can't do a Ts'íts'àsh translator. :( We can go over things like the sound system and basic grammar and you can create your own words to work with it... A lot more work, but hey, we don't have to churn our own butter or milk our own cows anymore! We've got time!

#conlang #language #linguistics #translation #google #google translate #ai #elemental #pixar elemental #firish #tsitsash #ts'its'ash #ts'íts'àsh #syfy #defiance #spanish #translator

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haesunflower · 1 year

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Help now you need to write something about being their English tutor holymoly I’m not going to be able to get this out of my head…

I’m so soft for Jiwoong now I need him

this sent my mind spiraling, so here's a quick lil something

₊˚⊹♡.....pov you're zb1's english teacher.....₊˚⊹♡

good students: hanbin, gunwook, gyuvin

gyuvin is already pretty advanced, but he insists that the more he knows the better

gyuvin consistently turns in THE BEST assignments and does THE BEST in terms of pronunciation/verbal tests

you can tell he studies vocabulary a lot, because he'd mix difficult words in to his everyday speech

hanbin and gunwook study hard too, and i think gunwook is more motivated with competition

like he cant get left behind if gyuvin is doing so well already!!!

i see gunwook and hanbin buying dictionaries, thesauruses, and just general easy english books they can practice reading with

gunwook 100% understands more than he lets on

and hanbin is the exact opposite where people think he's doing much better than he actually is

there for vibes: jiwoong & hao

i think hao shows up for reassurance, (although he says he isn't that good) he can speak english and understand it pretty well but he likes testing himself if he knows everything

i can see him speaking english the whole class duration just to really practice and get compliments on how well he's going

you do compliment hao a lot!

jiwoong doesn't really need the basic english lessons anymore but has to go so it doesn't look suspicious as to why he's suddenly so good

(headcanon bc you're dating him already)

(sigh) read this so it makes sense

but he lovingly stares at you as you talk, literal heart eyes

thinks it's funny that no one knows that you two are together

wants to learn but is easily distracted: taerae & yujin

these two try their best

it's not their fault matthew and ricky are annoying!!

is pranked the most, i see taerae falling for ricky and matthew's bullshit when they teach him stuff like "shitface means handsome in english"

yujin watches all his hyungs and is confused 90% of the time

so he stays quiet and nods, accepting some things as fact without even questioning it

why are you even here?: matthew & ricky

literally shows up on random days just because they're bored

ricky likes to ask dumb questions or just literally stirs the pot

ricky: how do you say "gyuvin is an airhead" in english?

and you're like...well you just said it

and then ricky goes 😏 "exactly lol"

meanwhile matthew asks extremely difficult questions that's not relevant to the current subject matter, just to brag that he's a native speaker lol

matthew, raising his hand: how do you conjugate a verb?

and you're like matthew we're talking about nouns

kinda gets on your nerves for being #1 distractors for taerae and yujin bc they think everything is funny

but in all seriousness, outside class they've very helpful and encouraging, i see them helping out other members with their homework!

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rigelmejo · 3 months

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Why learning mandarin is not that hard, if you were considering studying it but scared (this post is partly joking, in that any language could be easier for you to learn than another, and it depends on the individual, so you may not find these aspects as easy or vice versa you might think another language's aspects i found hard were easier for you. Also, if you've studied or tried to study japanese then in particular these aspects compared are going to be more familiar)

1. You're scared to learn hanzi. There's 4000 you say. They look hard! Well some happy news: hanzi are made up of 214 radicals put together (like letters) to make 1 sound-meaning piece (so like how c a r are put together to mean CAR). The sound meaning piece is hanzi. Each hanzi usually has 1 pronunciation (compared to english which often pronounces syllables multiple ways). Each hanzi is like 1 syllable or word-part. Many hanzi are 1 radical that's related to it's pronunciation, and 1 radical roughly related to it's meaning. (With some exceptions, like with any language). Examples: 人认任仁仞 all have the person radical 人 "ren" (which looks like a diagonal line with a straight line down, when it's put on the side of hanzi), all of these hanzi are "ren" like the radical, with different meanings (which the other radical hints at). So 人 means person, since it's just the person radical. 认 means to know someone, and the meaning radical on the left is the smushed radical 言 that means speech. As you get used to seeing hanzi, you'll notice that you can often guess the rough pronunciation (at least enough to see 吧 ba and then later see 把疤靶 and guess that if you type "ba" you can look them up, since they all share 巴). You'll often be able to start guessing new words based on the meaning radical, and hanzi you already know. There's some hanzi which are just one radical, like 人 person, 女 woman. Many of these are like the 214 radicals, and the radicals are the main thing you'll need to memorize. I know 216 feels like a lot. But once you practice identifying those 214 radicals, new hanzi become much easier to remember because you can recognize how to make them and what information they might contain about meaning and pronunctiation. If you learn 手 shou is hand and it looks like 扌when it is a radical, then you can start figuring out 把 and 拉 may have something to do with hands or using them. Many verbs that people do, have the hand or foot radical. Here's a list of the radicals:

Most words are 2 hanzi put together (similar to english driveway, airport, steering wheel, cross walk, coffee cup, inter-nation-al, extra-terrest-rial) with the sound-meaning hanzi contributing to build a new word. There's some 1 hanzi words, like person 人. There's some 4 hanzi words and phrases. You'll learn hanzi and over time, that will result in learning or being able to guess MANY MORE WORDS beyond just the number of hanzi you've learned. If you learn 清 qing means clear, you'll see new words like 清晰(qingxi distinct, clear) 清楚 (qingchu be clear about/understand), 清除 (to clear away, eliminate), 清新 (pure and fresh, original), 清洁 (qingjie clean). If you guess "something to do literally or metaphorically with "clear" then you may figure out the words with 清 in a show or novel, if you know the other hanzi then you'll then learn to guess even more words.

Once you learn a few hanzi, it opens up the understanding of many words. Then as you learn more, the words you can guess expands a lot. You can rely on radicals in hanzi to help you guess what pinyin to type to look a hanzi up, and what general area a hanzi might relate to in its meaning (like the water radical 氵in 海冰池 indicating these hanzi may be related to water).

2. The grammar! Is it hard? Now this will depend on what you prefer. Mandarin has no conjugation. I hate conjugation. This means when you learn a word? You can recognize the word in all contexts. You don't need to learn several versions of "to run" in mandarin, it will always be pao 跑. There might be similar words, like in english dash/sprint/run etc. But you're not memorizing run/ran/running. You learn 跑, and you'll recognize it in the past, present, future, and with whoever is saying it. In contrast to say japanese where 分かります (わかります) 分かりました分かった分かるない分かるなかった分かりませんでした are all "understand" in different verb conjugations and levels of politeness. 明白 (understand mingbai) is the same whether its I understand 我明白, i understood 我明白了, 我会明白 (i will understand that... although id use liaojie or zhidao probably). In chinese you may use another word for tense, like english says "i will go/i have gone" and 会，要，了，过 show up in those sentences. And there is 的得地 which have grammar functions. But there's no conjugation. The sentence order is also generally subject verb object, if you're an english speaker then the overall word order will be familiar and make it less of a hurdle to get used to other grammar differences. For me, the biggest hurdle (with japanese) was and still is the word order in sentences, and it's taken me years of practice to get familiar enough to interpret sentences i hear as i hear them. For me, french's biggest hurdle was conjugation (and still is if i have to write). So in those regards, mandarin can be quite approachable.

3. Tones! What can I say. There's a lot of good youtube videos that explain the 4 tones and neutral tone, tone sandhi (tone changes), and how tone pairs may be easier to study with. It is definitely new if you don't already know a tonal language. But it is also something you can practice listening to, and get better at hearing. It is something you can get used to recognizing in months, it may not take you years. There are hurdles with speaking, but people who learn english have to learn where to put the emphasis in pronuncing multi syllable words (along with learners of french and german and spanish). Practice, shadowing, and working on where you struggle, are part of it just like any language. I've found these pages very helpful: dong-chinese has a Pronunciation guide under Learn Pinyin, and if you go through it and do the practice tests it can help a lot with listening skills:

And this site Accent Lab has tone pair drills. I really like this exercise, as tone pair recognition helps a lot with recognizing words:

#mandarin #chinese #rant #chinese resources #resources

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sayitaliano · 8 months

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i need help to learn italian in 2 years do you have suggestions

i have italian friends im bothering but yk

sono è un idiota :/

Ciao! Okay first of all I cannot guarantee you can make it in two years: it depends on the level you want to reach, and how much you'll be able to study&practice/find time to schedule some Italian in your daily (or at least weekly) time. This said, for sure you can become a beginner if not even an intermediate... it depends on what level you are now as well. It also depends on what you need to do in two years: I mean, if you for example want to come here on vacation, it's perfectly fine to be a beginner and talk English as well when necessary.

Now, you can find all the resources I have in the various masterposts on @sayitalianohome: there's grammar, vocabularies, audio/reading/apps resources and especially suggestions on how you may want to try to study on the daily.

I can already suggest you to go slow and don't rush things: I understand you "only have two years" and you already want to speak Italian fluently but rushing won't take you there, ever. It will just make you more confused. Learn easy vocabularies (animals, colors, forniture, food... things you see on the daily + how they change in gender/number) and verbs conjugation first, starting with the auxiliary ones: eg. from your last line, "sono" or "è" un idiota? Who is an idiot? You (io sono) or one of your friends (lui/lei è)? Try to start translating easy sentences (as this one) word by word: subject, verb, and eventually direct complement. Longer more complex ones can wait for when you'll know more vocabs and own the basic grammar of this pretty complicated language.

Best of lucks, here I am if you need further help/infos!

#it #italian #langblr #italiano #italian language #italian langblr #languages #learning italian #italianblr

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catchyhuh · 10 months

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Well part 6 made it obvious that besides French and Japanese Lupin can talk at least in English, Italian, Russian, Spanish, German, Turkish, Korean and Dutch (gosh, he's good, I'm jelly).

What languages do the others know? I have some headcanons about Goe, but I'm curious about your ones!

well, the short of it, for all of em really, is: “do i need to learn this language to continue living for the next month? yes? ok let’s learn some conjugation.” so it’s less about which specific languages and just HOW many they know so much as how do they go about the process of learning/how do they USE the language once they’ve learned it so. IT’S A LOT

and uh also they all tend to default to japanese but you probably knew that LET’S GET INTO THE LOT

jigen:

jigen knows the least out of all of them, mostly because he. does not talk to many people. he’s an unintentional perfectionist about it in just that one sense; if he’s communicating, he wants to be SURE he’s understood, no room for misunderstanding

of course, that doesn’t mean he’s a slouch. i’m sure he can still speak, listen to, read AND write at least ten more languages than you and i can, minimum. BUT STILL, he just doesn’t want any room for misinterpretation, none whatsoever. so usually, he lets someone else do the talking, or he attempts to get by with whatever he and the other party can understand. it’s kind of funny because his stubbornness with this means a lot of times the gang will purposefully leave him to flounder, because THAT’S WHAT HE GETS FOR NOT WANTING TO REMEMBER SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS “no ice in my drink please”

because of this, he’s most proficient in READING in other languages. there’s no need for input on his end, and he can get a hang of sentence structure AND the words themselves, so there’s no embarrassment later. so particular about these things

fujiko:

the only one who can speak a language better than she can understand it being spoken to her. like jigen, she mostly learns by just reading it, (sometimes by rereading a book she already knows, so she already has an easy guide to go off of) so trying to decipher someone TALK talking at a conversational speed is. a different beast

uses the whole multilingual thing as more of a novelty than a necessity. like it’s a party trick to her. like she's a translation dictionary in the flesh! ask her how to say purple in danish! wanna know the word for cookie in malay? if you want to know how to say “penis” in 30 languages, fujiko will frown and go “c’mon. grow up." ...but she'll still answer since it’s actually still just ‘penis’ in like five different languages anyway,

this is mostly because she weaponizes the “you don’t think i can understand x language, but yes, i can, and i can hear you calling me stupid while i’m standing right fucking next to you. you will regret this in time”

goemon:

absorbs foreign languages the fastest, which is hilarious because he’s always the most stubborn about wanting to just speak his first language. i mean it’s goemon, you probably saw this coming!

has since softened on the concept, not because of a “loosening of his personal principles,” but rather, he saw how damn DIFFICULT it made things for the average person he interacts with for two seconds of his life. it was initially easy to hold onto it, until he saw the poor waitress grin apologetically and say she was so sorry she didn’t understand. then he softened. a BIT. if you know even a smidge of japanese he’s expecting it from you.

wore a t-shirt that said COOL GUY in big, obnoxiously american letters once for a disguise. burnt it when the operation was over. lupin has five pictures of it. goemon allows the records to exist because he is, objectively, a COOL GUY

zenigata:

the funny thing is you’d ask him about it and he’d get kind of sheepish. like, yeah, he knows (he pauses to count on his fingers for a second) 23 languages but he’s not REALLY good at most of them it’s just like a thing for WORK it’s not like he’s REALLY got them down--

again, it’s the fault of that freakish hypercompetence that comes up for rule of funny. if he’s just getting off the plane and he realizes he’s left his gloves at home and is desperately trying to find a pair, no, he can’t get through in the slightest. but if it’s LUPIN involved, oh buddy if there is an ELEMENT of DANGER AND/OR LUPIN, he just breaks out entire sentences with almost perfect pronunciation and everything, to the point the other people in the room wonder if he was faking his issues earlier. and the answer is no, he wasn’t, he just didn’t have the proper motivation. NOW he does, and NOW he can speak fucking perfect indonesian, just because!

also kind of sort of treats it as a party trick the way lupin and fujiko do if he’s in a good enough mood (but you actually do get hints of that in the show, like that one little part 3 bit!) so that’s fun

#these people are insane. need to do a scientific study of how their brains work for real #lupin iii #lupin the third #jigen #fujiko #goemon #zenigata #asks

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slayingfiction · 2 years

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Creating Your Fictional Language AKA Conlang

Hi Everyone!

As I am working currently on a conlang for my WIP, I thought I might post about the steps for anyone else thinking of going above and beyond in their world building to create an entirely new language.

First: if you don’t want to create your own language but need one for your WIP, there are many online generators that will do it for you. My favourite is vulgarlang.com and it comes with a free demo version.

Before we begin:

IPA: learn all about the International Phonetic Alphabet. This is when you will be deciding which sounds will be present in your language.

Study existing languages to get an idea of all the ways you can design your alphabet and language. This will give you an idea for grammar, punctuation, sentence structure etc.

Getting Started:

Name your language.

Make your alphabet. This can mean creating your own drawings for sound, or using an alphabet that already exists. You can make an alphabet, each symbol representing a particular sound (up to about 50 usually) , a syllabary which represents a syllable (up to about 100) or pictographs (hundreds needed).

Create words by putting your sounds together. Try combining words to make new but similar words. For example, any is an indeterminate word, and where is for a place, anywhere being a compound word being a place that does not have a pre-determined location.

Order your sentences. English has an order of subject-verb-object (the dog ran after the ball), while in Japanese they use subject-object-verb. Once you choose an order for where your words fit into your sentence, be sure to always follow the pattern as to not be confusing later on.

Make grammar rules. These are the rules that dictate your language, and if you are following the steps, you will have already started. Does your language have plurals? How many ways can your verbs be conjugated? Is your punctuation the same as in English?

Start creating your dictionary, and be sure to always write it down and keep notes, or you won’t remember.

Practice. Practice. Practice. Create new documents using your language, writing journals entries, translating books or try speaking it out loud. Get to know your language.

For languages similar to English, here are the word classes to help you start choosing which words you need translated: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, determiners/articles, interjections and suffixes. Please note, not all languages have these classes, and your language may not require them either.

Things to remember:

Making a symbol equal to English letters and writing English words with your new alphabet is a cypher, not a new language.

The shape of your creature’s mouth will determine the sounds they can make. That being said, if you make a language too hard to pronounce or remember, no one will be able to learn it. You probably want your new language to be useable.

Homophones are words that sound or are written the same, but have different meanings. This happens all the time, just be careful when using similar words, people will confuse them often. This could mean your character learning the language can make people laugh with silly comical mistakes, or insult an entire race.

Your conlang will, and should, have words that don’t translate to English, and that’s ok. A fantasy world will likely have many different words that we are not accustomed to for things like weapons, or food or instruments we don’t have.

Implementing the language into your WIP is an art. You want the language to come naturally to native speakers, but using too many words too quickly will draw attention away from your words, and your reader will start to skip them. Try putting in a dictionary at the start of the book for reference, and slowly growing your readers knowledge without overwhelming them. No one wants to try to remember a new language while also getting to know your characters, environment and plot.

Keep in mind, all languages have slang and idioms. There may even be several dialects of the language, similar to English. Don’t forget, you also need a new name for their currency. These are all things you need to consider when creating your language.

You need about 800 to have conversational basics and over 8000 words to be a native speaker of a language. No matter where you end up, you need to start somewhere.

Hopefully this is helpful to someone! If something I wrote is wrong, please let me know so I can change it :) Any questions, comments or concerns, message me or leave them below!

Happy Writing

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wromwood · 3 months

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My own context under the read more:

My mother raised me with the vague warning that I needed to learn Spanish by the time that she was ninety, had no teeth, and would refuse to speak English anymore. This is despite the fact that she never actually taught me Spanish whatsoever.

Apparently, she just assumed that speaking Spanish out loud sometimes would be enough for someone to pick up an entire language. She did not expect that not only does this (understandably) NOT WORK if it's your only strategy, but also that I can't learn languages well without seeing the words spelled out and learning the intricacies of its phonetics/alphabet with visual support.

This is why my French is so much stronger than my Spanish. Despite hearing Spanish a lot all throughout my life, I actually had French classes in school. I learned what the words look like, what their letters sound like, how the verbs are conjugated, all that jazz. Sure, my brain still turns to soup in a French conversation, but I can parse out enough words to get by and reach for studied responses in a pinch.

Before I started taking Duolingo, spoken Spanish sounded like a reassuring and familiar mess of sounds. They're sounds I'd heard a lot before, and I knew a bunch of them, and some of them strung together formed phrases that I knew well... but what were those words? What letters formed those sounds? Well, that's anyone's guess.

#this is me #polls #language

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copperbadge · 6 months

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Questi sono i miei "carti di studio" Italiano -- non il mio "biglietto stufare" come pensavo primo. Sono diviso in parti per tipo -- vocabolario o grammatica. Non mi avevo studiare grammatica a scuolo, così devo lo studio ora.

Biglietto stufare. LOL. James Bond, Biglietto Stufare. È un universo alternativo di capocuoci.

These are my Italian "study cards" -- not my "ticket to stew" as I thought before. They're divided in parts by type -- vocabulary or grammar. I didn't have to study grammar in school so now I have to study it.

Stew ticket. LOL. James Bond, Licensed to Stew. It's an alternate universe of chefs.

(I tried to type biglietto studiare which is an inelegant way to say "flash card", but I mistyped Studiare, to study, as Stufare, to stew.)

Duolingo has done well for me in terms of learning the basics and figuring out how sentences go together, but I've reached a point where every module is just review/practice. I don't feel like I understand the grammar as systematically as I could, especially since I never had a proper class in English grammar in school, so I'm augmenting. Also I need to start studying vocabulary where I see the word and don't have an immediate list of words it could be, like in the Duo app, so flashcards are a good option there too.

[ID: A photograph of a carabiner clip with several plastic "binder clips" strung on it; each binder clip has a deck of flashcards in it of varying thicknesses, representing nouns in English and Italian, grammatical oddities and idioms, regular verbs, and tense conjugations. I'm still figuring out how to fit all billion tense conjugations onto the cards I've made for the irregular verbs.]

#sam learns italian #language learning

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beforeiread-studies · 3 months

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First Korean lesson on Italki - done!

It went well. It was just 30 minutes and we spent 10 of them talking in English about my goals and then moved on to "free talk", that is, she asked me questions (like what's your 직업, describe your family) and I tried to talk as much as possible.

I was afraid I would not understand what she said but the teacher spoke very little and when I didn't understand, she wrote the word and explained it. So I felt very comfortable. If you are on the fence on trying a lesson, just do it!

I'll now try to book a couple of other lessons. I might also try another tutor, who knows.

I just wish I had sent her an introductory message beforehand because while we were speaking I forgot half the things I wanted to tell her. Like, I didn't even tell her that I specifically want speaking lessons. She had to pull that out of my confused ramblings lol.

It went well but I'm also humbled. I really suck at conjugating verbs and should have learned all numbers (I only know how to say 1 2 3 7 9 and now 4, I guess). I realized that I need a more solid grammar base, which is why after the lesson I ditched my to-do list and ran to the bookstore. I think having a teacher to impress not disappoint (?) will give me the motivation to complete the exercises (also the price point).

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Rhea & Deafness

Rhea is a Deaf character, and I've always tried to do justice by her in regards to both her clinical deafness, and more importantly, her cultural Deafness. This post expounds on some important historical, societal, legal, and medical information in regards to the Deaf community, and I wanted to expand on some of the topics here specific to Rhea.

So Rhea is Deaf?

Yes! She has some residual hearing, but it's only about 15%-30% of what a typical person hears. She can recognize Vaggie's voice if she's sitting right beside her, and she finds a lot of comfort in hearing Vaggie talk and sing to her. She does not hear with enough clarity in order to decipher language, so she does not understand what's being said. She also misses most ambient sounds from her environment, like say, people walking behind her or shouting across the room.

Why is there such a big communication gap between her and everyone else at the hotel. Why doesn't she just use lip reading/writing notes/etc.?

There's a lot of components to this, but by far the most important is: Her native language is American Sign Language, not English. Lip reading requires extensive familiarity with English, which she did not get at her Deaf school; lip reading is also a mediocre communication system in general, as even the best lipreaders can only recognize about 30% of what's being said, and end up filling in the gaps through context clues. To be blunt, Rhea just sucks at it, but it's no skin off her bones.

Writing things down leads to a similar issue- English is not her first language. English literacy rates among the Deaf community are often lower than hearing individuals, but this is not due to lack of intelligence or even education. To read, you have to KNOW ENGLISH (including the grammar, syntax, conjugation, word order, etc. that's wildly different from that of ASL); then you must use the complex SOUND SYSTEMS of the English language to decode and decipher. It's not impossible, but it has its limits. Rhea's literacy is okay, and originally she had communication cards at the hotel. But they were simple words like "eat," "pool," and "Vaggie," and were useless during her meltdowns when she needed so much more help communicating. Everyone in her life is learning ASL (yes, even her grumpy case manager Lute), and while it's a slow process, it's already proven more meaningful for everybody.

She went to a Deaf school?

Yes, it was a residential school in a shitty little beach tourist town. As a school it was okay; just a little old and outdated. She was never the most social, but she had community there. She was on the swim and dance teams. She's won a few state medals in swimming. If Vaggie could find a way to smuggle those into hell for Rhea, that'd be great.

So she has a hearing aid?

Yes, a hearing aid! Not a cochlear implant. The implants are way more invasive, controversial, and often unnecessary if a person has residual hearing.

Hearing aids simply sit on top of the ear and act as a microphone to amplify sound. She never had them on earth as her birth family was...pretty neglectful about her altogether. Maybe if she had them growing up, she'd be better at English and lip reading/writing would benefit her more. But that's not even close to being the worst thing they've done, so let's just move on.

She LOVES her hearing aids. She loves the experience of bolder & brighter noise at the hotel. She's always loved music, but her hearing aids add a whole new level of vibrancy to it.

It's important to note that hearing aids do not "cure" deafness, and that's neither Rhea's nor Vaggie's intention with them. Making things louder doesn't affect the pitch, tone, or intonation discrepancies that can make understanding speech hard for Deaf people. Rhea is just a stimmy girl who's enjoying the world around her some more.

But Rhea's not JUST Deaf, right?

Correct! And honestly I think this the most important thing to remember about her.

She is Deaf, as well as autistic, as well as an age regressor, and she struggles from mental illness. Deafness affects everything she does, but it's not what's causing her a lot of the struggles she goes through.

Her struggles, as well as her negative traits such as aggression, immaturity, instability, self injury, tantruming, dissociation, and meltdowns ARE NOT TIED TO HER DEAFNESS. She should never ever be seen as representation for the Deaf community, she is just one person, one FICTIONAL person.

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A Guide to Language Domming, Pt. II

The Seven Key Phrases of Language Play

Welcome back! In Part I of this guide, I talked about what language play was, how you can engage in it with your little, and why it’s such a fun and immersive experience. I may also have mentioned that it’s possible to learn to language dom without being fluent in your target language beforehand. And in this part, I’m going to explain how.

Below are seven key phrases to keep in mind when you’re learning a language for play. With all of these, though, it’s not about translating the exact phrase - it’s about understanding the kinds of words highlighted, and being aware of them. These are language elements that common learning apps might not cover, and I’ll be including some helpful places you can look to fill in the gaps.

Beyond these, if you haven’t studied your target language much before, you probably will need to spend a week or two with DuoLingo, Youtube guides, and the like to get comfortable with language basics. Yes, it’s work, but isn’t it worth it to give your little one such a special experience? Plus, if you’ve ever wanted a good reason to go study a new language, it doesn’t get better or more fun than this!

Oh, and even if you have studied your target language quite a bit, or even if you consider yourself fluent, these might not be words or phrases you’ve thought much about, or are very familiar with. So read on, friend, and get ready to expand your vocabulary.

Phrase #1: “Good morning, Princess.”(Terms of endearment)

To be clear, “good morning” is fairly basic - Duolingo and the like will be sure to cover that in an early lesson. It’s the second part that’s trickier, and that’s because translating “princess,” or whatever word you like to use in English, isn’t going to cut it.

Common terms of endearment vary wildly from language to language. From the Spanish changuita (“little monkey”), to the Polish laleczko (“little doll”), every language has a wide assortment of colorful favorites. The lists are pretty easy to find online, and you’ll have plenty of great options no matter what you plan to study.

So why is it so important? Because for the duration of your play, this is essentially going to be your little’s name. Other than possibly the word “no” (if they’re an especially naughty little), your chosen term of endearment is going to be the word that they hear the most, and that they will have the strongest emotional association with when you’re done.

Phrase #2: “Now now, behave.”(Imperatives)

An imperative is essentially a command phrase - do this, don’t do that, and so on. In many languages, this is its own grammatical form, and learning imperatives means learning a few rules for verbs and their conjugations.

Now, all that sounds like it should be in a normal language syllabus, and it usually is. But I mention it here because this is one grammar lesson that you have to have to have down pat. Commands should be given clearly and quickly, especially if your little one has decided to be a bit of a brat. In fact, this is probably the most common way you’re going to be using verbs in play - you can’t really have much of a conversation, after all.

Some of the variations aren’t obvious - even with something as simple as “no!” it’s worth noting that some languages prefer “can not!” and some just say “bad!” So be sure to spend a little extra time on these lessons, so you can be ready to give some lessons of your own.

One last note on this: imperatives are probably the single most important part of language domming if you’re using it in a petplay context, and “training” your pet to follow commands in your target tongue. Now, that’s not something I’m personally experienced with, but boy does it sound like fun!

Phrase #3: “Would you like your teddy bear in the playpen?”(Household items)

As with imperatives above, common nouns for household items are already a part of the normal language lessons you’re likely to find. The tricky part here is that everyone’s household is different, especially when we throw in a whole bunch of paraphernalia. You might have your Italian words for sofa (“divano”) and refrigerator (“frigofieri”) down pat, but how about teddy bear (“orsacchiotto”)? How about baby bottle (“biberon”)? And did you know that the term used for playpen is just box? I sure didn’t, before I made this guide.

Obviously, not all of these are going to be featured in your standard beginners’ lessons, and Google is your friend. If you do use the translation tool though, be sure to swap back and worth to make sure it’s got the right word (if you put in “seal” because your little one has a cute baby seal, you may end up with the word for stamp, etc.). Also be sure to press that sound button to actually hear the word - some of them aren’t what they look like, and accent is important for the immersive experience!

Phrase #4: “Uh oh, did somebody make a pee-pee?”(Potty euphemisms)

Okay, you probably saw this one coming. It’s for those moments that so many AB/DLs and their caregivers look forward to - when we discover that our little has had a little accident. Language domming is all about creating a deeply immersive experience, after all, and what could be more immersive than being talked down to for using your diaper, in a language you don’t understand, knowing full well you’re about to be laid down on the mat and changed, and that you’re too little - and know too few words - to have any say about the matter? Sounds fun, right?

For those unfamiliar with the term, a euphemism is a ‘nice’ way of putting something that might not be so nice to talk about. With ‘potty’ related words, these are important, since technical terms for urination, defecation, and even diapers can be clunky and awkward. Knowing the right words to use for pee, poo (if you want to include that), potty, diaper, change, accident, and so on can go a long way.

Of all of the words covered on this list, these might be the trickiest to actually look up, but you can find some useful discussions in forums online. Here’s a lovely Wikihow guide on talking about poop in Spanish, and here’s a Reddit thread covering “polite ways to talk about bodily functions in German.”

Now, in the future, I’d love to start a repository of these lovely terms for ageplayers around the world to fill in, but that’s going to require you sharing this out with all your kinky friends! But I digress.

Phrase #5: “Ummmm… uh…”(Filler words)

Huh? Yes, believe it or not, knowing how speakers of your target language handle those awkward pauses we all have is important. The “ehhhh”s and “ahhh”s of the world are different, and you’ll want to get used to your target’s.

Why does it matter? Because accent is important. You want to create an immersive experience for your little, and sounding like a high schooler trying to fill a foreign language credit is not the way to do that. Having a confident accent (doesn’t mean it’s great - you won’t be tested on that) is crucial, and being able to maintain that when you’re looking for the words to say is a big deal.

One of the best ways to pick up on these filler words and how they’re said in your target language is to watch candid videos. Reality clips, interviews, man-on-the-street type deals - all of them will have people looking for what to say, and you’ll be able to see what they look like when they do.

Phrase #6: “Awwww, does my widdle pwincess want her stuffy-wuffy?”

(Diminutives)

If you’re wondering how to really baby-talk your little in your target language, the key is here, and it might be a bit more technical than you think. Baby-talking in language play, as it turns out, comes down to a combination of confident accent, CG attitude, familiar terms of endearment, and a whole bunch of diminutives. I’ve covered all of those things except the last - and it’s a big one.

Technically speaking, a diminutive is a modification of a word, used to convey smallness, endearment, or both. Tommy is a diminutive form of Tom, doggie is a diminutive from dog, and so on. When encountering foreign examples, they usually end up getting translated as ‘little’ + whatever the original root word was.

For many foreign languages, there are actually pretty clear rules about how to create a diminutive, and a lot of them have to do with endings added on, such as the Portuguese -inho / -inha, or the Czech -ka and -ička/-ečka. Wikipedia has a colossal list here, though you may need to have some knowledge of your target language’s noun cases and word structures to process it.

If all that sounds complicated, well, it can be at first. But once you nail that condescending tone and make your little just burn up blushing, it’s all going to worth it.

Phrase #7: “Oh, goodness, did I forget to turn off the thingamajig?”(Placeholders)

Last but not least on the list are those words that we use when we know exactly what we're talking about, but we don't know how to say it. And while catchalls like the English thingamajig, whatchamacallit, and doohickey do exist in other languages (including, amusingly, the Spanish chimichanga), this topic is much bigger than that.

The key point here is that you don't want to interrupt the immersive experience you've worked so hard to create, just because you happened to forget the word for toaster or the like. You can use the word for thingamajig. You can use the word for that. Or - and this can be our little secret - you can even make something up!

Remember, this isn’t a test. You’re not being asked to master a foreign language. Just to use what you know - maybe you’re doing a Duolingo crash course from scratch, maybe you took it in high school or college, maybe you know some from family - to make for the best, most immersive play experience you can give your little one. And hopefully, these phrases can help with that.

Phew. Hope you all learned a bit today! If you have any questions, or any suggestions for what I can add above, feel free to shoot me a DM. And if you want to help me build my repository of foreign language vocab for AB/DLs, please do reach out!

In the next and final part of the trilogy, I’ll be going over some slightly more advanced tips and tricks for language players, including a deeper dive into activities and props for play, combining language domming with other kinks, and even my picks on which languages most and least lend themselves to all this fun wackiness. As always, my friends, keep it kinky. - ONND

Pt. III Can Be Found Here

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How to write German in your König fanfics by a native speaker

It’s basically exactly what it says in the title. These last days, I’ve made a hobby out of reading König fanfiction and looking at the German in them and if I see one more bad google translation, I think I might actually cry

Listen, I have used google translate too. I admit that and I know that resources are limited unless you have a native speaker around. That’s what this guide is for!

Also, if you have any further questions or want a translation on something, absolutely feel free to message me. I have no problem giving you guys specific translations if it means I don’t have to read any more google translate stuff XD

If you’re just looking for a list of curses and pet names, because I feel like that’s the most used stuff, they’re at the very end. If you wanna learn more about German though, stick around!

The contents of this includes:

German dialects

the German alphabet

gendered language

capitalization

the formal “you”

conjugation/declension

direct translations and when not to translate

writing bilingual characters

a note for smut writers

pet names

curses

German dialects So, first things first, unlike König, I am not Austrian. I’m German, meaning I speak, well, German-German if you so will.

The thing is though, König’s VA doesn’t speak Austrian-German either. Both in the English and the German dub of the game, he speaks the most accent-free standardized High German I have ever seen in my life. It’s a common thing in the dubbing industry to do, but I still feel like it’s worth pointing out that it’s not exactly accurate.

Germany is an official language in 6 different countries, in which the language will be different and that is not counting each different state in those, where equally vast differences can occur.

I have a Berlin accent, for example. If someone spoke to me in a Saxon accent, I wouldn’t understand shit and that’s just two states over.

So keep in mind that this guide caters to High German, which is the standard for the written language and also what König speaks in the game. It is not, however, an accurate representation of what an Austrian guy actually sounds like.

The German alphabet Ah yes. The enemy of every non-native speaker, right after the ultra-long Frankenstein words.

Generally speaking, German does use the Latin alphabet like English. Only that we have 30 letters instead of 26. The four special characters would be: ä, ö, ü and ß

I find it important to point out that those are their own characters. They are not interchangeable with any other character in the alphabet. ä is not the same as a, ö is not o and so on. So if I see one more person spelling König as Konig, I will commit arson.

And that is also the only thing I will actively blame people for. Google giving you bad translations is not your fault. But this? This irks me in ways you can’t even imagine. It would be like spelling king as kang, for example. You wouldn’t do this in English so please don’t do it in German either.

What do you do then if you have a limited keyboard? Well, either you use copy and paste (the easy way), or you use the official workaround. And yes, there are official replacements for these

Ä = Ae / ä = ae

Ö = Oe / ö = oe

Ü = ue / ü = ue

ẞ = SS / ß = ss

As you can see, the capital ß is replaced by two capital S instead of one capital and one lowercase. This is because this letter can never stand at the beginning of a word and thus, it would only be capitalized if you write in all caps.

It should also be said that not every ss can be replaced with an ß. You can write “Straße” as “Strasse” but you can’t spell “dass” as “daß”. It is not wrong per se as far as I know, but you just wouldn’t do it.

Gendered language German is, to put it mildly, a very gendered language.

Linguistically, German has 3 genders: masculine, feminine, neutral. You need to watch out for this because it means there is often a male and female version for certain words.

Arzt = male doctor

Ärztin = female doctor

Also, even inanimate objects have gender. Cars are neutral, trees are masculine, the sun is feminine and so on.

A lot of times, people will use the “generic masculine”, meaning they will use the male version and “mean the women too”. Nowadays this is counted as outdated and insulting towards women/other female presenting identities.

Is this a very binary system? Yes. Which actually brings us to another issue: there is no they/them in German. There are workarounds, like neopronouns or other ways to describe people, but this is generally really tricky.

Long story short: watch out what gender the person you’re referring to is.

Capitalization This is by far the most common mistake I see made in fanfiction.

While in English, things are generally written in lowercase unless they’re names or things like “I” for example, German has a few extra rules

Nouns – these are always written with a capital letter. And yes, this includes pet names. Anything from Liebling to Maus or whatever else you chose, it needs to be capitalized. I beg you.

verbs that act as nouns – Now this rarely comes up in fanfiction and as far as I can see, platforms like google translate actually get this right, so I won’t get too far into this, but if you give an article to a verb, something like “the walking” it has to be capitalized in German

Formal pronouns – Which brings us to the next point!

The formal “you” Long story short: German has two variants of the pronoun “you”

One is the formal and polite way to address someone, the other is the informal and more casual version. Depending on the social context, people can be very picky about which version to use and addressing someone by the wrong version can be counted as an insult.

Formal you – Sie/Ihnen/Sie

Informal you – du/dir/dich

When do you use formal pronouns? Well, it depends. Here are the two main scenarios in which you would address someone formally

They’re above you in the social hierarchy. Your boss, teacher, superior, someone a lot older than you. All these people would be addressed with formal pronouns. Of course you wouldn’t address your family formally. Same if you count older people as close friends/found family.

You’re addressing an adult you don’t know personally. This can also depend a lot on context. A teacher will address an 18-year-old student formally, but the students will talk to each other informally among each other, even if they don’t know each other. Generally, you start addressing people formally around their 18th birthday or if you assume they’re around that age. If you’re the same age as someone, it depends a lot on the social context and how old you are, exactly.

Both of these examples can be ignored if the other person offers the informal you. Say you’re starting to befriend a coworker, the two of you would at some point agree to use “du” with each other.

Conjugation/declension I know this sounds really grammar specific, but I noticed that platforms like google can’t conjugate or decline properly if they have too little information. Mostly because German grammar is a lot more dependent on context than English grammar is and also slightly more complicated.

An example!

Let’s work with the English word “promise”, which we can use in two contexts. Either as a verb or a noun. In both cases, it looks fairly similar and aside form promise/promises/promised, you won’t have much variation in both the verb’s conjugation and the noun’s declension.

German, however…oh boy.

As a noun, it would be “Versprechen” and as a verb, it would be “versprechen”. Looks similar enough you say? Until you realize that the noun can be:

das Versprechen

des Versprechens

dem Versprechen

die Versprechen

These tiny differences can change a lot in the meaning of the sentence and also, how it has to look. Verbs aren’t any better either.

Let’s say you want your character to say “Promise?” as a short form of “Do you promise me that?”. In both sentences, the verb looks the same.

Put “Promise?” into Google translate however, you get “Versprechen?”. Which, as you can see, is the noun. It can be the infinitive verb form, but either would be wrong to use here.

Instead, “Promise?” should be “Versprochen?” (which is actually past tense) and “Do you promise me that?” would be “Versprichst du mir das?”

You see the problem?

What Google translate gave you is not wrong necessarily. It is a correct translation in a certain context. Only that it’s not the context you want to portray. So if you do use google translate or similar, give as much context as you possibly can.

Direct translations and when not to translate Sometimes, it’s honestly just better to don’t translate something at all. This might sound weird at first, but hear me out

I’ve seen it a couple of times that people will put military ranks into google translate and then have König refer to people by those titles.

A couple of issues with that.

Again. Context. Say for example you give google the word “Captain”. It will give you the word used in the navy, which would be “Kapitän”. However, the actual equivalent rank in the army would be “Hauptmann”

Titles and ranks are rarely actually translated. Sometimes because they don’t have an equivalent or it’s too much of a hassle to mentally search for it or even just because they’re counted as part of the name. So, even if the entire sentence is in German, König would for example still say “Sergeant MacTavish” to Soap instead of “Feldwebel MacTavish”

When it comes to other direct translations, it just doesn’t work sometimes. Different languages don’t just have different words for things, they have different contexts and cultures associated with it. Languages work differently.

Another example for the last one in terms of pet names. Do not translate English pet names directly. It doesn’t work.

Let’s take “love”. Google Translate gives you “Liebe” as the translation. Which is not wrong, that’s the translation for the noun. The pet name however does not work like that, which is something I’ll touch on in the pet names part.

A problem is also that sometimes, your target language has more words, sometimes it has less. The best thing would be to look up a word in an actual bilingual dictionary. PONS is a great example.

Writing bilingual characters For the love of god, please don’t write bilingual characters switching their language in the middle of their sentence. I know that Activision didn’t do that much better, considering that König’s voice lines often do this mistake, but that’s not how bilingual people talk.

If we don’t know a word, we try to find a way around it. We don’t just say our native word, unless there’s someone around who speaks our native language or the two languages are related. Spanish and Italian would be a prime example for that but also German and Dutch, the Slavic languages or Nordic languages amongst each other.

Curses are an exception to this. At least personally, I do use German curses when talking to English-speakers. But even that is rare and really only happens as a knee-jerk reaction. Somebody scaring me, for example.

But other than that? Bilingual characters are completely able to separate their native language from any others they have learned.

Besides, König would have started learning English fairly young, I assume. I can only speak for the German education system but here, English became mandatory in 4th grade and was only droppable by grade 11.

For smut writers I’m just gonna go ahead and say it: no German-speaker I know, me included, finds German dirty talk sexy. And to us, other German accents are also not considered hot. They’re just…weird.

Really, just once I want to see König absolutely cringing at using German in bed, especially if it’s heavily accented because that would be an accurate representation XD

Pet names Keep in mind that with German being a gendered language, a lot of these have a male and female version. Also take a look at the disclaimers. Just because these are actual pet names doesn’t mean people actually use them.

Liebling – darling

meine Liebe (fem.)/mein Lieber (masc.) – my love; rare as an actual pet name and rather used in a teasing sense

Maus/Mausi/Mäuschen – mouse/little mouse/cute mouse

Spatz/Spatzi/Spätzchen – sparrow/little sparrow/cute sparrow

Hase/Hasi/Häschen – bunny/little bunny/cute bunny

Schatz/Schazi/Schätzchen – treasure/little treasure/cute treasure; Schätzchen can be very condescending if used towards woman and in general, this one is a 50/50 thing. Either you love it or you hate it. Personally, I know more people that hate it, but there are also some psychos that use this unironically

Engel/Engelchen – angel/cute angel

Süße (fem.)/Süßer (masc.) – sweet one; same as Schatz. Not really liked and can be very creepy, especially if used on women

Herzblatt –This is rather used when talking about your partner instead of talking to them. As far as I know, it comes from the heart cards in a card deck and basically means your partner is good luck

Another thing to watch out for: the word for a platonic friend is the same as a boyfriend/girlfriend.

Freund (masc.)/Freundin (fem.) = platonic friend

Freund (masc.)/Freundin (fem.) = boyfriend/girlfriend

Oftentimes, the latter is often made clear through saying “fester Freund/feste Freundin”, which would mean something like permanent or attached friend (don’t question it).

Sometimes it also depends on context again: “eine Freundin”, meaning “a female friend” is often seen as platonic vs. “meine Freundin” with “meine” meaning “mine”, it is often interpreted as romantic.

Some more terms for spouses would be

Ehemann (masc.) – husband

Ehefrau (fem.) – wife

mein Mann (masc.)/meine Frau (fem.) – shortened version of husband and wife

Lebensgefährte (masc. or neutral)/Lebensgefährtin (fem.) – literally means “life partner” and refers to either a husband/wife or an otherwise long-term romantic partner

Partner (masc. or neutral)/Partnerin (fem.) – just means partner

Curses Ah, yes. Let is just be said there are a lot of curses in German and we can get quite creative too. Sometimes, insults and curses can just be everyday words used in a certain sense. I shall compile some general ones here, however, as well as some of my personal favorites

I have to assume that some of these are a special quirk of my native dialect, so use with caution.

Scheiße – shit

verdammt – damn

verdammte Scheiße – fucking hell (literally “damned shit”)

Schnauze/Klappe/Fresse! – shut up!

Halt die Schnauze/Klappe/Fresse! – shut your mouth!

Fick dich – fuck you

Leck mich am Arsch – kiss my ass

Leck mich – kiss my ass, but shortened

Hackfresse – refers to someone who is ugly (literally “a face like ground beef”)

Arschloch – asshole

Du kannst mich mal – similar to fuck you/fuck me

Hast du Lack gesoffen? – are you crazy? (literally “did you drink paint?”)

alternatively: Er/Sie hat zu viel Lack gesoffen – He/she is crazy (literally “He/She drank too much paint”)

Du bist dumm wie ein Meter Feldweg – literally “You’re as stupid as a meter of dirt road”, means someone is being very stupid

Du denkst auch nur von der Wand bis zur Tapete – literally “Your train of thought reaches from the wall to the tapestry”, also meaning someone is very stupid

Intelligenzallergiker – someone allergic to intelligence, so very stupid

Warmduscher – refers to a very whiny/sensitive person (literally “someone who takes a warm shower”), mainly used for men

Nervensäge – refers to someone who is very annoying (“someone who saws your nerves”)

Arschkriecher – refers to someone who tries to earn the favor of another, in a very annoying way (“someone who crawls in someone else’s ass”)

Pissnelke – a nerd or know-it-all (literally made up of the words “piss” and “carnation”)

Arschgeige – annoying idiot (comes from the words “ass” and “violin”)

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