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English is the best of these to be a lingua Franca. French and Spanish are okay. Not really Russian but whatever. Fuck Arabic and Chinese (coming from someone who speaks a dialect of it). It's possible but very hard. I've learned so many languages and that's why I support a universal one. Doing this is just far too tedious.

 

For my current brain state... ABSOLUTELY

 

Interesting enough I learned more of Japanese and began Russian post tinnitus. I don't know if I'll continue it. It's pretty difficult.

My next language will most likely be Hindi.

 

You're raising the standards. Hindi is hard too. Interestingly enough through this forum, my english writing skills has improved. That counts as post-t too. "Thank you tinnitus, now you can go to hell."

 

Sure. It's about as hard as Russian because it's in the indo-aryan family. Where are you from? Are you Dutch? Dutch is a very easy language for English-speakers to learn.

 

I am from Greece. Particulary Northern Greece, but i live in Athens.

 

Greece is an interesting country for sure. I used to have a huge interest in it back when I was reading Plato and Aristotle. I thought I remember you saying you could read Dutch. Must have been someone else.

 

It would also be interesting to read the original text form, which means Ancient Greek, which mean insanely difficult. However given that you speak Cantonese, you can learn everything.

Yeap, i can read Dutch as much i can read Cuneiform Script.

 

If you're talking about cantonalise script, we use a very similar script to the Rest of china. Just traditional characters (which are slightly harder) and not simplified. It's hard to say we have our own script because it's very similar to the rest of china. Chinese is very difficult though.

 

Believe it or not Chinese isn't even the hardest system I know. Japanese is a beautiful trainwreck.

 

Oh no @Tinker Bell changed her profile pic. End of an age :'^(

 

It was a short age.

This is my new “bravely facing tinnitus and hearing loss head on” look. Or something like that.

 

But you're facing away from it

 

Funny enough I'm learning ukrainian as I'm gonna be spending christmas eve there and wanna feel somewhat familiar with their culture.

 

Then I’m stepping away from anxiety (which there is a lot of here) into my future. Maybe?

I like that Tink you posted, might have to save her for my next update. She’s kind of like, “Yeah, tell me again how great TRT is.” Then she rolls her eyes.

And look, she’s even covering her bad ear which I subconsciously do allllll the time!

 

LOL

From what I gather it's similar to Russian but it doesn't use that retarded letter ы (thank god)

 

If you have any specific questions, I would be happy to try to answer them.

But it has letter "yi" that doesn't exist in any other language: ï

 

True but at least it's one letter. ы is basically two letters crammed into one. If that's not bad enough, Ь is the letter that makes another letter softer. So it's easy to think that the Ь in ы is making the previous letter softer. I often do a double take whenever I see it in a word, to make sure I read it right.

 

Thank you Bill, I'm sure I will run into some questions that I can't find the answer to, in that case I will definitely send you a message.

Thanks

 

To a native Russian-speaker, the opposite of the above seems to be true. ï is a combination of two letters й (yi ) and и (i). ы represents a second way to pronounce the sound и (i).

Oh, I see. You are referring to the actual symbols, and not to the sounds they represent.

To resolve the problem that you described above, recall that there is no letter that looks like "I" in Russian. So if you accidentally break apart ы into two symbols, the second symbol has no meaning, signalling to you that it is all part of one symbol.

 

Be that as it may, it's weird that this is the one letter in the whole of the Cyrillic alphabet that's like this. It's the only one that's divided into two parts. It's a consistency breaker and that's the main reason I dislike it.

 

When it is written in cursive, it looks like one letter

 

Well that fixes one problem, but Russian Cyrillic in cursive is it's own beast. Words like [picture] can happen and that's just not okay.

 

LOL The words on the first row of that example are actually easy to read. But all of the other words Are rough. I imagine the writer would be aware of it and would slow down when writing one of those words and ensure that it is more clear when one letter ends and the other begins.

 

Personally I just dislike cursive in general. It's difficult to read, and it's obsolete. Plus unless you can write in it very well, it's probably just as quick as print-writing. I get in Cyrillic that letters like д and ж aren't easy to write quickly, but there's shorthand for that too.

 

To all the people who don't like this post and think it's a "bad idea":

 

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(especially see 5:35 robot cooking arms)

 

Hey wait, I thought you didn't like this post. And you already posted this in the general chat, so why post it here?