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i love languages so much i think they are so beautiful and linguistic diversity needs to be maintained because there are so many languages in the worlds and thats so aweosme *visibly choking back tears over the fact that i will never be able to speak every language ever*

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do any other bilingual people start speaking another language when they get exasperated

for me it’s french

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If I had a dollar for every time a man told me I was “very opinionated” I’d be able to pay off all my student loans.

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For me to write poetry that isn't political

I must listen to the birds

and in order to listen to the birds

the war planes must be silent

- Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian Lebanese poet.

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You are allowed to exist alone in public btw. You're allowed to go to the movies alone and go out to eat alone and hang out in a park alone and go for a walk alone and whatever else. It isn't weird or creepy, it doesn't make you lonely or a loser or whatever. You are allowed to just exist as yourself.

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I want my life to revolve around dying to learn everything about science, politics, literature and music so that I can argue with people with extra intellect and extra delusion (that would be me)

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my English teacher: I hope this video motivated you to start a new language!

me, who is learning ten languages simultaniously and has no free time because of it: I hope it didn't

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constantly torn between "i wish I could magically learn this language immediately and speak it perfectly" and "part of language acquisition is the process, and learning it immediately wouldn't have as much meaning or significance to me"

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Me: what if I tell nobody about this language I'm learning and then just come out one day able to have a conversation

Also me, as soon as I try something new: hey y'all check out what silly things I'm up to

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Being bilingual isn't being good at speaking two languages, it's seeing a feather and calling it a leaf, horribly misspelling everything, making up words like it's newspeak and forgetting either language when you need to talk

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Can we talk about how chaotic Narnian battles would feel?? Especially in Prince Caspian. Like, imagine you’re a little Telmarine soldier waiting for the catapults to go and you’ve got all your regiments in nice orderly rows and these two 16 year olds suddenly yell “charge” and the ground opens up beneath you, a mouse with a sword the size of a large pencil takes out your bestie, a griffin drops a dwarf 5 ft away from you and he comes up swinging. As you try to rationalize this, you’re stabbed by a twelve year old with a British accent. Finally, a really freaking big lion shows up, roars, and your entire army collectively pees their pants. At one point in the movie (yes I know the movies aren’t quite the same as the book but they’re still good) Peter says like “we have the element of surprise” like dude, you have drafted the trees I’m pretty sure everyone’s gonna be surprised no matter what.

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got myself into reading and look what happened again

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vowel harmony? yes please

suffixes? *chefs kiss*

no gendered words? sign me up

why does Turkish make more sense to me than English does? (English is my first language)

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why does Turkish make more sense to me than English does? (English is my first language)

#internationalstudents #language #linguistics #learning languages #english language #language learning #bilingual #polyglot #turkish language

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Every single person studying a language when they recognize the most basic word of the language in a text or a video