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I mostly post #comprehensibleinput that I use🏄‍♂️ & sometimes share output ✍️🗣 #langtwt

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@MLautmer Native speaker, and I never would have known the difference between lay and lie if I hadn’t learned German

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@FitzJennings2 Yeah that stuff is something else

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Mandarin 最近zuìjìn (lit. Most close/closest) = Japanese 最近saikin =English recent

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Random examples how basis in Mandarin & English helps you get into Japanese (unreliably, but better than starting cold)🧵

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Spoilers: some words are Chinese loans & sound similar to Mandarin. Some Chinese loans use same characters but sound different bc history/geography (time/dynasty of loan), some words are Japanese (pronunciation diff but characters same). Some postwar words are straightup English

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Mandarin 态度/態度taìdù ≈ Japanese 態度taido ≈ English attitude/way of being or doing

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Mandarin 电话/電話 dìanhuà （lit “electric speech”) means “telephone.” Japanese 電話denwa means same and is a loan (both pronunciation & characters) from Chinese (I’m not sure which variant. Guessing Cantonese, but could be wrong)

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Mandarin 棒棒糖bàngbàngtáng （stick stick candy) is just a childish/cutesy way of expressing “candy on a stick.” Japanese “rolipoppu” is obvs straight from English

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Aisukuriimu is obviously a loan from English “ice cream”. Mandarin bīngqílín is more obscure but is also an English loan. 冰bīng means “ice.” 淇淋Qílín is Mandarin reading of same thing in Cantonese, since Hong Kong was introduced to 🍦1st. Canto “gilim” phonetic for “cream”

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Serge pleurait parce que a) c’était tellement belle l’interprétation de sa chanson, ou b) il était furieux d'avoir été si sauvagement moqué?

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pretty sure i overrode my nervous system to the point of ego dissolution yesterday

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I don’t know tennis so I don’t listen hard when it’s on the news. 4+ years of listening to foreign news radio for comprehensible input— until now I vaguely thought Roland Garros was like the rising Tiger Woods of tennis, dominating all the news.

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Vocabulario relacionado con AtLA y la Leyenda de Korra en español
https://t.co/1Par0KZk5U

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For some reason I’ve started writing a random phrase in katakana 2-3 times every 1-6 hours (when awake/home) on this chalkboard. After a few days, I switch to a new phrase.

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对话：the wacky world of 舔狗，直男
(汉字/pīnyīn/English subs)

https://t.co/mCSaeuZDLk

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True Story: Lucky Luke war vor allem Humanist. Faszinierende Perspektive https://t.co/LqDgffe13K

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Escuchando people 50/50 codeswitching es algo totalmente new for me. I can’t do it myself pero ahora al menos puedo understand cuando other people do it https://t.co/HHkHqa4sYX

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Faust für beginnende Deutschlerner https://t.co/DRZPp2TZd7

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Mi pensamientos mientras mirando el video
1)Oh, es en portugués, debe ser difícil a entender
2) Damn este portugués es increíblemente fácil a entender
3) Ok, es realmente español pero hablado con acento brasileño más fuerte del planeta. Muy intehessanche
https://t.co/EKFcPywvjp

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@FitzJennings2 @PorrudgePrive This is 20 yr old vague knowledge: ask somebody where all the Italian restaurants are in the North End. I don’t remember street names but there were whole rows of nothing but Italian storefronts. Stroll & pick one based on menu/aroma

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Een heel catchy liedje over schoenen, met de grote Lucretia van der Vloot + B. Spears als Tinkerbel

https://t.co/JtdgHgrYQ2