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If you could instantly learn 3 languages which those would be and why?

by QuestionGuy August 30, 2022, 10:57 am

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I found languages’ physical forms

by CopyPastaArchive August 29, 2022, 7:14 pm

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TIL a minority of the world’s languages are “ergative”—the object of a transitive verb & the subject of an intransitive verb are treated the same. For example: whereas in English we’d say “SHE likes HER” & “SHE walks”; in Basque (spoken in N. Spain/SW France), it’d be “SHE likes HER” but “HER walks”

by whatilearned August 29, 2022, 9:42 am

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TIL Phil Collins recorded 5 songs in 5 languages (English, 2 Spanish dialectics, French, German, and Italian) for the Tarzan movie (1999)

by whatilearned August 16, 2022, 6:49 am

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TIL In Romance and other European languages, Hellas is named “Greece” after the Grecians, a Hellenic tribe which colonized southern Italy and interacted with the Romans, who used their name to refer to all Helenes.

by whatilearned August 13, 2022, 5:24 am

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Dear multilingual redditors, how does other languages you speak affect your personality ?

by QuestionGuy August 12, 2022, 3:28 pm

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TIL research suggests “huh?” is a universal syllable. It’s used to express confusion in at least 31 different languages, e.g. Icelandic, Dutch, Japanese, Hungarian, Lao, the Aboriginal Australian language Murriny Patha, Cha’palaa (spoken by 3k indigenous Ecuadorians), and of course, English.

by whatilearned August 10, 2022, 4:15 pm

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TIL: 242 known languages went extinct during the 20th century

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 9:59 pm

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TIL that voodoo is an official religion in Benin. Considered black magic, this ancient cult is known for sacrifices and mystical rituals. In Benin, instead of school, children are sent to voodoo convents, where they’re deprived of their names and forbidden to speak their native languages.

by whatilearned August 1, 2022, 11:14 pm

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How Ben Shapiro talks during sex (translated to 15 languages then back to English)

by CopyPastaArchive July 31, 2022, 8:30 pm

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The Navy Seal Copypasta, but it’s been filtered through all 133 languages on Google Translate

by CopyPastaArchive July 14, 2022, 2:24 am

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TIL The Yamnaya steppe horse culture of the Black and Caspian sea regions was a major driver of migrations into western Europe about 4,500 years ago. This migratory surge is now regarded as the most likely source of the vast family of Indo-European languages, spoken by half the world today.

by whatilearned July 8, 2022, 10:56 am

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