Another striking difference is the lack of immigration problem over at the Czechs

they usually throw foreigners they don't like out of windows

hol up
how many far east languages have articles?
there might be a fun correlation here

articles are a weird thing actually

from the little japanese i know it doesn't look like it has articles

far eastern languages have stuff like numerical classifiers, which are relatively similar i think

no idea about the others tho

enumeration in japanese is fustercluck, can confirm

you thought 3 syllabaries was the difficult part? you seen nothin' yet

ah yes, they also do weird stuff like marking the topic of the sentence

which does a very similar thing to the western articles

i'm actually having way more trouble with katakana than kanji

dunno man, that's pretty weird

Have you ever thought why 33, 22 but eleven

just be thankful you dont have to deal with german

german is a clusterfuck

i do have to deal with german

It's hard but if you want to read good research papers you just need to

and it's not that bad actually

> It's hard but if you want to read good research papers you just need to
yeah precisely

well, add two syllables to hiragana and katakana gets almost to 100% redundant, and my brain really doesn't like taking the scenic route for processing
also katakana contains the whole top 10 of linguistic abominations i've seen

ok weeb

you say weeb like it was a bad thing

it's annoying how interest in a language gets conflated with a lot of cultural things, like e.g. my buddy went on a japanese course and it was all anime watching girls, one liked to tear faces off of dolls

i went to study spanish and again, it was all spanish soap opera watching girls

talked about wanting to study korean a bit and got swarmed with kpop

it's exhausting

these sound like really shit studies tbh

i love me my anime but i know even if you watching anime for the language, you gonna get a VERY limited sample, even with anime being a medium (not a genre) with lotsa variety

i think you misunderstood

all the other attendants were either there because of anime in case of japanese or soap operas in case of spanish

oh that

yeah these people generally don't last long at studying a language

why are more memes posted in <#633966934622208031> then here

because i, a cunning linguist, derailed you

goddamnit

tbh I wanna learn new languages

I tried to learn dutch and swedish but I never fully comitted to it mostly cause it takes more time than I have

because clearly this channel is meant for debating

i only decided to study japanese after i visited japan. i've also been in at least 4 different states in the US, and having seen japan firsthand i garuntee "1st world of the 1st world" is no exaggeration

i had never seen SO much space so clean and orderly