Language Learning Anonymous 256547[Reply]
Any nonas learning languages? I'm learning Latin right now.
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By the way, here's a fun bit of trivia a Japanese guy told me. I've heard that Tsugaru is a separate language rather than a dialect, but all dialects being separate languages is new for me.
>I think many Japanese people who are not native speakers of Japanese (only 30% of the Japanese population speak Japanese as their native language) have encountered something similar.
>In fact, what is called a dialect in Japanese is linguistically a different language. Lezgi and Yiddish are languages spoken in Russia, but they are not dialects of Russian. However, during the creation of the modern Japanese state in the 19th century, the Kanto language, spoken around Tokyo, was classified as "Japanese." Each regional language is a completely separate language, mutual intelligibility between them is completely impossible. In fact, Japanese is an agglutinative language, while my native Kyushu is an inflectional language, expressing aspect through case inflections, like Latin or Russian.
>Until the end of World War II and the introduction of English education by the Americans, the Japanese were completely unable to communicate with people from other regions. Translation from "Japanese to Japanese" remains an important profession, and for the Japanese, the Japanese language is a status symbol, similar to what French was for the Russian Empire.
Anonymous 323461
I think I agree with him too, somewhat. Tsugaru is not mutually intelligible with std Japanese.
So if someone speaks two Balkan languages, or Spanish and Portuguese, and is considered bilingual, why in the world is someone who's speaking Tsugaru and std Japanese isn't?
So yeah.
But one has to keep in mind that the language-dialect distinction is very recent and problematic as a dichotomy. "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy" something like this. So maybe abandoning this dichotomy would be preferable.
Anonymous 323502
I hated how chinese sounds for most of my life but these little pieces of shit are making me reconsider
Anonymous 323516
I should post my hellotalk on djt for shits and giggles
I don’t understand the point of djt on int.
If I wanted to yap about boring stuff in Japanese why wouldn’t I just go talk to natives
