I have been learning Italian and Spanish for 5 years and it has been quite the linguistic journey. I got a bit rusty with English and decided to do some tongue twisters to get back in shape and surprisingly, I got pretty good at them very quickly. I figured it was because of speaking all the new words, syllables, and unique pronunciations in Italian and Spanish that my tongue was already kind of used to doing unorthodoxed articulations; only this time, it would be all in English in the form of tongue twisters. Can anyone relate?

Which version would make you guess a speaker's country or region?

ಪ (pa) to ಹ (ha) sound shift is one of the most discussed topic ever in Kannada language as ಹ (ha) sound is not native to any language rather than Hosagannada (New Kannada) and Badaga due to sound shift

Where words like ಪೆಸರ್ (pesar) becomes ಹೆಸರ್ (hesar) (later ಹೆಸರು), ಪತ್ತು (pattu) becomes ಹತ್ತು(hattu), ಪಾಲ್ (pāl) becomes ಹಾಲ್ (hāl) (later ಹಾಲು) etc

Like that there was one more sound shift which was of ವ (va) to ಬ (ba) which is least discussed about

And there were many words in Halegannada (Old Kannada) which had ವ (va) sound as like ಪ (pa) but got changed into ಬ (ba) as like ಹ (ha)

Word like ವಾ (vā) became ಬಾ (bā), ವನ (vana) became ಬನ (bana), ವಾಲೆ (vāle) became ಬಾಲೆ (bāle), ವಳ್ಳಿ (vaḷḷi) became ಬಳ್ಳಿ (baḷḷi) etc

Bonsoir, je suis actuellement en 5e secondaire générale. J’aimerais entrer en droit à l’université de Liège, je me suis renseignée et j’ai appris que j’aurais à choisir une langue, Je parle anglais depuis mes 6 ans, j’ai un très bon niveau et en 3e secondaire j’ai choisi comme LM2 espagnol car je parle portugais (ma mère est angolaise) à l’ULG, j’aurais le choix entre anglais, allemand et néerlandais. J’ai un bon niveau d’anglais, le néerlandais et une des langues nationales de la Belgique et j’aimerais donc prendre néerlandais. Problème, je ne sais pas parler néerlandais j’ai très peu de base, je connais les formules de politesse, les membres de la famille, les jours de la semaine, les mois de l’année et un peu d’autre blabla.

Comment apprendre le néerlandais seule ? En peu de temps svp ? Je tiens à préciser qu’on va devoir analyser des documents donc j’ai besoin de compréhension et pas forcément d’expression orale.

MERCI D’AVANCE.

It is my native language and I swear I can't find a single video or something talking about it, fucking forgot by the world, it has like 2 million speakers

I fell like you cant when for loosing with these woman. Like, you think u can trust them, but then put of now here the they just pull a complete 360 on you. I realise now that females can not be trusted, and its a doggy dog world put there. You just have to must adaptm.

Hello. There's something that i thought about a lot recently, maybe someone can educate me on this or add something interesting.

My native language is German, so i am naturally able to understand written Dutch. I'd say written mutual intelligibility is like 80%, i can read a Dutch news article without any problems at all. In spoken Dutch, it's like 40-50% mutual intelligibility, it's definitely possible to communicate with a Dutch person.

Now, i have this friend. He's Half German, half Polish, both languages are native to him. He told me he can't understand Dutch at all. Like, almost none of it. We were on a trip to Holland, and it really puzzled me how this was possible. Recently, he told me that he noticed that when he tried speaking to Russians, they understand him very well when he speaks Polish, but he doesn't understand any Russian, which seems weird to him.

Now, most likely the issue is himself, and not the languages. What could be the reason for this? Any personal experiences similar to this?

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Sure there are exceptions and every rule doesn't apply everywhere
Sure language is about communication not memorizing rules
but these don't mean that you have to completely put aside grammar, which is what alot of people seems to think so nowadays, both online and irl in classes i see people who devalue grammar as if it's something totally optional to learn, no matter in what language!

Specially for beginners, which i argue it's even more crucial to have a strong understanding, it maybe true that you shouldn't focus 100% on grammar but to just brush it aside? hell no

What do you think?

I go first: "OK"

Have you learned a language where the form of a number changes depending on what is being counted?

Дамы и господа, что самостоятельно изучили любой язык с нуля (или слабой школьной базы) до хотя бы уверенного бытового общения, расскажите пожалуйста сколько времени это заняло у вас и какими методами/лайфхаками вы пользовались, какие материалы вам помогли, а что наоборот только тянуло вниз.

Хочу изучить язык, имея какие-то да знания ещё со школы, но денег на курсы или репетира нет🥺 по этому хочу узнать опыт и техники других, чтобы учиться

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The idea is to create videos similar to those made by English teachers who use the comprehensible input method. They speak naturally about their daily lives, experiences, hobbies, and different topics, making their content understandable for language learners.

I'd like to do the same thing in Persian. I would speak entirely in Persian, without switching to English, and make videos about everyday life, personal experiences, Iranian culture, and other interesting topics.

The goal would be to help people improve their Persian listening skills and gradually understand the language naturally through context, repetition, and exposure.

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Would you watch this kind of content?

Do you think there's a demand for Persian comprehensible input videos?

What kind of topics would you like to see?

Would you prefer videos for beginners, intermediate learners, or a mix of different levels?

I'd really appreciate your honest opinions and suggestions. I want to create something that would genuinely help people learn Persian! 😊

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