Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
I can speak five languages pretty well (English, Urdu, Persian, Turkish, Arabic) and also have bits and pieces of other languages (French, Russian). The problem is when I focus on one the other suffer and I am experiencing this lately, with the exception of English which is my default operating system language. I’d love to learn Mandarin and I feel this will be useful in the world to come but it seems like a greedy idea beyond the capacity of one person as well as a huge time commitment.
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kripcat.eth 🎩
@kripcat.eth
I found learning to read Chinese very difficult because of the need to rote learn so many hanzi and I’m not a very visual person. But as a spoken language it’s very logical and not that hard. Grammar is far simpler than European languages, intuitive compound words like computer 电脑 (electric brain) hippopotamus 河马 (river horse) abound. Even the tones are pretty easy to infer from context. You should give it a go using pinyin!
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SydneyJason
@sydneyjason
When did you learn your first second language? I have a theory that if you learn other languages early in life, it’s “easy” to get other ones, and fluently. I have a lot of Belgians in my life and they show that all the time… But when you learn later, it’s like you only have two modes: native and non-native. I learned Portuguese in my 30s and was getting good at it. Now I’m on to Spanish, can’t speak Portuguese really at all, and actually mix the two all the time (unbeknownst to me until I see confused people reacting to my Spanglish…)
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Kasra Rahjerdi
@jc4p
wait we should be friends… i also do farsi (and Dari but that’s the same) cause im from iran!! PS if you want to practice farsi or chinese (i could add it) here’s a tiny app i made: https://talktrainer.app — ill give you a free premium account
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@degencummunist.eth
https://warpcast.com/degencummunist.eth/0x5a94ee22
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Omar
@dromar.eth
Feel the same way but I only know English/Urdu and a little Turkish. Whats your recommendation on the best way to learn Arabic? Mandarin would be amazing. Its so unique too that you feel you're entering another realm of linguistics.
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Alex A.🦊🎩
@whatsgood-al
As-salamu alaykum Habibi, shkran lak is the only thing I can say in Arabic 🙏🏾 Other than English I speak and read Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese
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Shoaib
@psydeffects
Urdu came as a surprise.
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Omar
@dromar.eth
276 $Degen
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