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How has learning a language as an adult helped you to learn about a culture / gain new perspective? (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 months ago by Lazycog@sopuli.xyz to c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

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I personally feel like I understand German-speaking people better the more I study the language.

E.g. my experience was that they are generally good listeners because their language has a sentence structure which forces the listener to wait for the most important information at the end of a sentence.

Bad Denglish to demonstrate:

"I have yesterday night... at the football field.... together with friends ... (dude get to the point) had a beer"

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[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can read manga without waiting for a scanlation team to post a poorly done chapter in random intervals. also can read and watch cool anime and manga that doesn’t get picked up for localization by viz or whoever

livin that weeb life

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Be a proud weeb! That is incredibly cool and a useful skill you should be proud of.

Keep on weebin!

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

やります、ありがとう

Oh this made me think of another one: years ago I worked with kids and teens. sometimes they would fuck with my phone when I wasn’t paying attention to go on youtube but I would leave the keyboard on the kana flick keyboard which would stump them

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Ha! Smart! I once accidentally changed my phone language to arabic and was completely lost with the settings trying to figure out where are the language settings.