Trying to level up a language from "Your $language is so good!" to "Where are you from?" is a grind.
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Trying to level up a language from "Your $language is so good!" to "Where are you from?" is a grind.
@evacide I suspect this is easier with languages/countries that exhibit a high degree of regional dialect variation. Most Germans when I talk to them just assume I’m from a different part of Germany.
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Trying to level up a language from "Your $language is so good!" to "Where are you from?" is a grind.
@evacide Next level: they ask “how long have you been here?” as if you were a native speaker who has been in the US too long
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Trying to level up a language from "Your $language is so good!" to "Where are you from?" is a grind.
@evacide My $spouse, a native speaker of US English, is somewhat regularly asked what country she's from. I would love having a linguist + speech therapist determine root cause for this!
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@evacide Next level: they ask “how long have you been here?” as if you were a native speaker who has been in the US too long
@wendynather @evacide I’m trying so hard to get to “Québécoise?”
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@wendynather @evacide I’m trying so hard to get to “Québécoise?”
Ha! I got that after a couple of years. It's actually almost an insult when you've heard their weird French.
At a party once, some chap thought I was from the south of France like him. But we were passably drunk...
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@evacide My $spouse, a native speaker of US English, is somewhat regularly asked what country she's from. I would love having a linguist + speech therapist determine root cause for this!
@tychotithonus @evacide where do you live?
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@tychotithonus @evacide where do you live?
@axx $spouse grew up here (Alaska)
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Trying to level up a language from "Your $language is so good!" to "Where are you from?" is a grind.
@evacide I wish "Japanese Rule of 7" was still online. One of those 7 was "日本語上手", or, as you said, your Japanese is so good!
(いや、まあだだよ。なかなか勉強しなっきゃ）
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I was pleased when my french had reached a level that french people thought I was Belgian
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I was pleased when my french had reached a level that french people thought I was Belgian
When you have laws with which it is impossible to comply, you end up with selective enforcement that only punishes the opponents of people in power. Just sayin'.
