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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io · Jul 27, 2026
I kind of like that sea lion in Chinese is ‘sea lion’, seal is sea leopard 海豹, manatee is sea cow 海牛, fur seal is sea dog 海狗 #Marine #Languages #Chinese
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Chiara Benedetta Condorelli @CBCondorelli@mastodon.social · Jul 19, 2026

Hi! Are you looking for a qualified and experienced translator? If yes, then look no further! My language pairs:

  • English to Italian;
  • Italian to English;
  • French, Spanish or German to either Italian or English. Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiara-benedetta-condorelli Can't wait to meet you! P.S. IMHO, a 100% human-made translation as accurate as possible is better than a machine translation that will need proofreading. 😉

#translation #translator #freelance #languages #english #italian #french #spanish #german

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The Language Garage @Language_Garage@mastodon.social · Jul 18, 2026
Les roses ont des épines sur leurs tiges. Roses have thorns on their stems. #French for the natural world. #FrenchVocabulary #LearnFrench #Languages. https://thelanguagegarage.com/french-nature-vocabulary/
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James @james@expressional.social · Jul 15, 2026
Bluey dubbed into one of the world's oldest living languages https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c07y7r91vz9o #languages #language #linguistics
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⁂Esplendor Topologico Abstracto⁂ @ParabenAparaten@mast.lat · Jul 12, 2026

[a little preamble words in spanish for spanish-only readers: Ese mensaje no es en Español. Estoy preguntando a otros usarios de #Latinoamérica cuales son sus preferidos servidores para interacciones internacionales #internalismo]

I am gonna pause messaging from this #mastodon account

I have been contacted by the moderation team complaining about my usage of other languages than #spanish

Question for spanish-speaking mastodonts:

I do need some guidance and advices: I will probably have to move there at some moment

Learning implies to read & interact in the other languages: and my account is dedicated to language learning/reading

#internationalism #polyglot #languagelearning

In a nutshell, what are the spanish language #fediverse servers that do accept posts & interactions in other languages too: #mastlat https://mast.lat/about is not one of them

#mastoserver #mastoinstance

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Miro Collas @Miro_Collas@masto.ai · Jul 13, 2026
The Most Spoken Language on Earth Has Almost No Native Speakers - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4pI0Bg4lLU #Languages
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Science | The Guardian @theguardian_science@halo.nu · Jul 12, 2026
At last, a proper excuse for monoglots to learn another language: it helps keep your brain young | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/12/learn-another-language-french-restaurant-service-multilingual #Languages #Neuroscience #Education #Linguistics #Science #UkNews
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Chocotalo @Chocotalo@mastodon.au · Jul 03, 2026

Hi, Fediverse. What is something that you grew up saying at the end of sentences in your childhood? Or silly responses to things. It can be in English, in any country, in any language (if it's in another language other than English, I'd love a translation).

There is no specific reason to ask, I am just curious.

When I was in my teens, it would be:

  • Your mahm!
  • That's what she said (unashamedly still say this)
  • In bed (Still sometimes say this :ablobwobble:)
  • Psyche!
  • Jinx!

#AskFedi #Languages #LanguageNerd

Edit: Boosts are appreciated. Let's learn. :blobcat_hearthug:

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io · Jun 30, 2026
Replying to @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
‘Gostan lagi, gostan sedikit, okay good liao’ I miss speaking singlish and manglish and will get to do it again soon!! #Languages #Singapore #Malaysia
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io · Jun 30, 2026
TIL that the word ‘gostan’ (used by many Singaporeans and Malaysians to describe ‘to reverse / back up’ comes from.. ‘Go astern’ Colonialism! #Languages #Singapore #Malaysia
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World news | The Guardian @guardian_world@robot.villas · Jun 27, 2026
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io · Jun 26, 2026
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A BBC story about the Teochew movie I posted about recently. Teochew is my mother tongue and I hate that I have rarely / never been able to listen to or watch media in it, because of Mandarin hegemony everywhere. This story has more context: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yzv23g75eo #Teochew #Chinese #Languages #Singapore #TootSea #Movies #DearYou
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abadidea @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange · Jun 19, 2026
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RE: https://retro.pizza/@mrencyclopedia/116767709992953410 Hi it’s me, “English speaker who learned grammatical nightmare Dutch and then randomly decided it was time to get serious about Chinese, and did in fact learn to read Chinese” Make your own flash cards. Write your own notes. Ideally with pen and paper, but if that’s not an option, type it letter by letter or use speech-to-text. Don’t copy-paste. Don’t autocomplete. Don’t generate with AI. You need to use YOUR hands or YOUR voice if you want to change YOUR brain, YOUR own inner neural network weights. I’ve been trying an Obsidian plugin called HiWords. You select a word, right click, and add a definition; from then on, that word will be highlighted in Obsidian notes, and you can hover to see your definition. Elegant, helpful, I like it. They have a (completely optional, opt-in) functionality to shell out to an LLM for filling in the definition. I imagine that a lot of students requested this functionality, and it wasn’t hard to implement, so I understand why they added it. I can see why the students want it; it sounds so much more efficient, so much more ✨data✨ per effort to get the vocabulary collection up and running. But it’s self-defeating. It’s drowning your senses in noise that won’t stick in your memory. Two or three words you took the time to look up and write down yourself are vastly more helpful than a paragraph churned out by a machine. Do it by hand, learn it by heart. 📓💖 #languagelearning #languages
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io · Jun 17, 2026
A popular Chinese movie made in my native language Teochew (extremely rare, we don’t have much media in the language) made it big in China Singapore decided to screen it in its Mandarin language dub It will most definitely remove most of the joy for me so I’ll try to get it in the original or go to Johor, Malaysia to watch it https://www.thinkchina.sg/society/how-chinese-film-sparked-cognitive-warfare-singapore #Movies #China #Teochew #Languages
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IndieAuthors.Social News @indieauthornews@indieauthors.social · May 08, 2026
‘Being human helps’: despite rise of AI is there still hope for Europe’s translators? A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing – but they could be needed for a while longer yet In February 2022, while he was plugging away at rendering the US writer Dana Spiotta’s novel Wayward into French, the literary translator Yoann Gentric decided he needed a bit of light relief. He would test whether AI could put him out of work. Gentric had been grappling with a short non-verbal sentence that described the book’s protagonist’s feelings upon opening a window: “Bright, sharp night air, bracing.” He put the prompt into DeepL, a neural-network-powered machine translation engine that regularly outperforms Google Translate in… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/08/being-human-helps-despite-rise-of-ai-is-there-still-hope-for-europes-translators #AIartificialintelligence #Publishing #Europe #Languages #Books
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Shaula Evans @ShaulaEvans@zirk.us · May 06, 2026
Someone asked me what my favourite word is in the various languages I speak. What a delightful question! So I'm turning it over to you: What is one of your favourite words in the languages you speak? #Language #Languages #AskFedi
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io · Apr 09, 2026
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Just realized that here in London, I can say ‘I took the lift up to my flat after removing the items from the boot’ and people are going to understand me I also look forward to standing in a queue, and throwing away my rubbish In the afternoon, I shall have some biscuits #English #Languages
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io · Apr 05, 2026
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In many Chinese families it’s pretty common for people to talk to each other in completely different languages. My New York aunt speaks to me in Mandarin / Hokkien. She speaks to her husband in Toishanese. They speak Cantonese to other people. We all sort of understand each other when we are speaking different languages, but respond in our own language. From time to time we might dip into another language to illustrate a point. My grandma used to call this ‘chicken and duck talk’ #Languages #Chinese
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FJ Brodie @FibroJedi__dup_32774@gamepad.club · Feb 23, 2026
I love languages. Want to be a shy, wild, savage? Sois farouche 😉 #French #français #languages #langues
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