i hate when people say they can speak a language

[Coni]

The only thing that get on my nerves recently (Im already immune to the fake japanese speakers being studying that language for 3 years) are the letters collectables, nobody seems to get them in the correct order and at first I thought it was funny all scrambled but I have yet to see someone with that collection set it up the right way D: (not that I know how to configure them in the right palce) But hey, if you want the logo it would be nice to have it readable....
/rant

 

[bloomwaker]

English was actually my second language. I also look pretty white, so when I speak Spanish publicly, people look at me like I'm some sort of mythical creature.

 

[meringue]

haha someone on my bus was actually talking about this a few days ago they said they spoke Latin and Chinese. The funny thing is when they actually started to speak in "Chinese" they were actually talking in Japanese. If you're gonna learn a language you should learn which one it is first.

 

[raimon]

it only bugs me when it's like blatant fetishism otherwise i'm just like... eyeroll
the thing about linguistic social studies is interesting, though. my sister-in-law is a speech therapist and has told me something similar. i agree that it's very hard to be fluent in a language though unless you use it on a day to day basis. i speak cantonese and shanghainese what i would consider to be fluently but when i'm away at school for a while i find myself struggling a bit when i get home.

 

[CR33P]

English was actually my second language. I also look pretty white, so when I speak Spanish publicly, people look at me like I'm some sort of mythical creature.

vietnamese is my first language but i pretty much left it for english, now i'm not fluent

 

[PopteenPrincess]

that doesn't even annoy me anymore tbh if someone thinks they can speak japanese it was my own first language so it's laughable when their accent is terrible

i'm not fluent though i'm at a basic 3-4th grade level since i was forcibly removed from there and i had to learn english instead but no matter what i don't consider myself fluent in english either, it's way too hard for me and usually the things i say are things i have to read somewhere else first or else i'll forget. japanese is still my native tongue and i refuse to replace it with english.

i'm also learning french and although i'm not fluent i guess i can consider myself toddler level to be so humble. it's nice learning this kind of stuff, but it's always safe to consider yourself mediocre if it's your second language. unless it's english. lmao

 

[Nouris]

English was my second language and I don't mind too much as long as people don't say I can speak (so and so) and then only speak two words

 

[fun123Joker]

'but learning _____ language IS SO EASY!"
guys i abosuloutly hate this!

WARNING: RANT

ok so im half cuban on my mother's side, she is 100% cuban thing is im white as hell so people dont believe it but im fine with that
i have a grandmother who only speaks spanish and i cant so there is a huge language barrier and out of 4 kids im the only one who cant speak spanish
But I HATE when something happens and my mom goes "oh just say blah blah blah" like dude that would of been helpful eariler and everytime i go places i tell everyone but my grandma and she would freak out so my mom tells me "JUST TELL HER"
dude I cant speak spanish i can barley speak english! I cant just tell her! but the worst thing
"this whole thing wouldnt have happen if you just learned spanish" "Its so easy! why are you getting a bad grade in spanish?!"
what am i suppose to say "sorry i learned english?!" THEY SAY ITS SO EASY BECAUSE IT WAS THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE! ASDFGHJKL. and dont get me started on family reunions.

like dont get me wrong i want to learn another language, i do. i'm wondering how it would be like if i learned german but just saying its so easy or why i dont know spanish (it hurt when a teacher asked me that) really triggers me. My parents always expect me to just wake up speaking spanish. kinda ruin languages for me

again sorry for the rant

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one time i went to this sience fair convention thing and there was this setup on how people decide the word in sign language for a new scientific term, there was a guy who spoke in sign language and his translator. after they explain to my sister and I the process my sister said "oh i know some sign language" and began saying abunch of foods in sign language. I tried to stop her becuase imagin going up to a person and just saying " cake, icecream, chocalate cake, vianilla cake, taco, church, day" or just going up to you and start saying the alphabet. The man who only spoke with his hands gave us thease rad pencils i signed thank you and he gave me a thumbs up like in a "good job!" way

 

[Capella]

Omg I'm so Japanese!1111 hehee kawai wiefu desu!!!!!!!!1111

 

[fun123Joker]

the worse of my weeaboo phase was when i answered the phone "moshi moshi!"

 

[amemome]

I think "speaking" language is very different from fluency...

Also, I think there's an area between fluency and "speaking" defined by the process of learning a different language...

For instance, I don't truly consider myself "fluent" in Korean because I don't know all the necessary vocabulary to function at the critical thinking levels of high school students, though I am able to pull meaning out of context and speak comfortably. This is a very different feeling of fluency from Japanese, which I learned for several years but need textbooks to remember basic grammar. For me, Japanese would be in a position between "speaking" and "fluent": since I do know a variety of grammar rules and vocabulary, I can make more complex sentences and place them in context.

I think that if you don't have a handle on basic grammar and conversational vocabulary, you "speak" the language. And this varies in degrees of severity. "Konnichiwa" and "ayudame" are phrases that can be correctly used in the context of conversation. Remarks like "kawaii" and "sugoii" are just adjectives... which the people who tend to take these adjectives "out of context" cannot attribute to a grammatical construct.

Yup... haha... TL;DR: "Speaking" a language = absolutely no knowledge of grammar and vocab. And there are gray zones between "speaking" and "fluency"

 

[ransu]

right

or when they pronounce everything wrong omg

 

[KarlaKGB]

haha someone on my bus was actually talking about this a few days ago they said they spoke Latin and Chinese. The funny thing is when they actually started to speak in "Chinese" they were actually talking in Japanese. If you're gonna learn a language you should learn which one it is first.

lol speaking Latin ok, literally useless.

 

[raimon]

lol speaking Latin ok, literally useless.

i don't think it's useless to learn i mean if you come from or live in any country where the primary language is a romance language then learning latin isn't a bad idea

 

[debinoresu]

most people who say they can speak japanese and then use desu kawaii blabla-chan are prob most defin it ely inadvertent racist weaboobies

ive taken 3 yrs of spanish and I still cant speak in proper sentences

TOOK THE CLASS, DONT SPEAK THE LANGUAGE

talk highschool spanish 2me

 

[cIementine]

talk highschool spanish 2me

*jazzy saxaphone music*

But speaking of, I can speak Japanese watashi wa kawaii desu ahahahahah

 

[Byngo]

~*~*~*~*KAWAII DESU*~*~*~*~*~*~

LOL guys I can speak Japanese!!!!1!1!1!!!!!!!11!!!1111!!!!

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

I expect an infraction for this.

 

[debinoresu]

*jazzy saxaphone music*

But speaking of, I can speak Japanese watashi wa kawaii desu ahahahahah

cannot handle the desu, its too kawaii for my sugoi self, my tsundere is wearing off~~~~~~~

omg actually one time this kid in my spanish class was like "watashi wa kawaii" to some girl and he told her it meant "you're cute" but infact that would be kimi wa kawaii so

he just told her he was cute and got away with it

bad at flirting???? do it in another language

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~*~*~*~*KAWAII DESU*~*~*~*~*~*~

LOL guys I can speak Japanese!!!!1!1!1!!!!!!!11!!!1111!!!!

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

100% pro winnr of kawaai olympics for the desu trophy of moe champions

 

[cIementine]

cannot handle the desu, its too kawaii for my sugoi self, my tsundere is wearing off~~~~~~~

omg actually one time this kid in my spanish class was like "watashi wa kawaii" to some girl and he told her it meant "you're cute" but infact that would be kimi wa kawaii so

he just told her he was cute and got away with it

bad at flirting???? do it in another language

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100% pro winnr of kawaai olympics for the desu trophy of moe champions

There's this Japanese and anime obsessed boy in my art class and ALL he ever speaks about is Japan and Anime. ALL he ever talks about. I mean, great, you have interests but pls stop rubbing them in my face. People don't really like him because he's an attention seeker. So he asked this girl out in Japanese and she was like 'wtf are you saying speak english pls'. And then he translated it and she was like 'ahh that makes sense. Oh and no lol.'

 

[debinoresu]

There's this Japanese and anime obsessed boy in my art class and ALL he ever speaks about is Japan and Anime. ALL he ever talks about. People don't really like him because he's an attention seeker. So he asked this girl out in Japanese and she was like 'wtf are you saying speak english pls'. And then he translated it and she was like 'ahh that makes sense. Oh and no lol.'

shes just being tsundererere shell warm up eventually

he sounds like he needs a bra to contain his weaboobies bc theyre flapping all over the place y/k

hopefully hell get out of that phase soon and look back on his behavior with shame