Luftmensch @lapis@polyglot.city

¡Hola!

Soy nerd, que me interesa a aprender idiomas.

Me defiendo bastante bien en #español. (~B1 informalmente)

Estudio #français.
Je parle un peu.

Je parle l'anglais, mais je voudrais ne écrire pas dans lui.

Vivo @ elekk.xyz - Videojuegos, BuJo, y los cacoposteaos.

@ Booktoot.club - los libros y #Riverdale y #Sabrina. Mantengo un grupo de lectura sobre joven adulto

Por favor corrijame cuando estoy equivocada.

J'aime corrections.

#Introductions #Reintroductions

¡Hola!
Soy nerd, que me interesa a aprender idiomas.

@elekk.xyz se puede escuchar cuando despotrico sobre los #Videogames y #BuJo.

@booktoot despotrico sobre los libros. y #LanguageLearning va a ir aquí. 😀

Me defiendo bastante bien en #español. Estudio #français.

My native language is English, but I'm going to try to avoid using that. 😉

Sorry that I haven't been on here lately. It turns out language learning when you're depressed / in the time of covid when time seems meaningless, REALLY SUCKS.

I'm trying to relearn my love of Spanish right now.

#Grocery #Shopping Pro tip for US residents:

Spices marketed in spanish tend to be cheaper. I'm not saying you have to go to a special market, one of my local grocery stores stocks hispanohablante spices in the "international" section.

1. Learn your spice names.
2. Bring a dictionary

If you're doing this in the supermarket, your cashier will be awed at you buying powdered ajo not knowing it's garlic. 😏 (true story)

Psst: it's a much cheaper way to get azafrán for your paella.

Scary thought.

What if that group of people who used てめ on Japanese Daytime TV write books on learning Japanese???

I'd like to believe you have to demonstrate proficiency, maybe whip out your N1 or N2 certification, but you never know, right???? 🤔

Also, if anyone knows Resources on being nonbinary in #Arabic. I'm giving myself 20 days to try the language (and then I will let myself quit if I don't like it) but if I don't know how to be nonbinary*, I don't know if I will want to continue studying it!

* You know how foreign languages make you express your personality different? I feel more comfortable being enby in non-English languages. I suppose this could be a part of myself that's changing and soon I'll be they/them pronouns only.

@ira_pace hi! How are you?

If you don't mind, could you make an introduction post so I know a bit about you (and what languages to use)?

¡Hola! ¿Qué tal?

Si puedes, publiques un aporte de introducción entonces nos conocemos (o si sabes el español)?

Resources on learning #Arabic (MS) welcome. I'm willing to pay a bit of money as long as:
1. It's not a subscription
2. I don't have to get it on Amazon.

I'm trying to learn the alphabet right now and while I managed my first day with an alphabet deck on anki, #Duolingo is seemingly more helpful.

I plan to try mango languages this week or the next.

I _think_ I'm going with Arabic for the time being, because Duolingo* offers it.

I downloaded a shitload of decks to anki though.

* 1. Yes I know this is probably MS, but I need to understand that anyway.
2. Mango Languages also offers MS, and I haven't tried it yet. I'm a bit wary of going into a course with nothing but vocabulary and such, so that's why I think I'll start with Arabic as opposed to Farsi.

I really want to start a new language today.

Looking at:

* Persian / Farsi
* ASL
* Finnish
* Swahili
* Turkish
* Arabic (this has grammatical gender for people afaik, so I'd have to find out how enbies handle Arabic)
* Czech (I already asked how gender for enbies is handled)

Me interesa el Lengua de signos americana, pero apesto :

* Contacto visual
* las expresiones faciales sutiles.

Pero Pienso que ASL los requiere. ¿Es verdad?

#ASL question: I'm somewhat interested in learning ASL, but I don't know if it's being #ActuallyAutistic or being socially anxious, but I am GARBAGE at:
1. Eyecontact
2. Reading subtle facial expressions

But I've heard ASL requires both of these. How true is this?