Language Tales
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<p>Posts by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma" class="u-url mention">@<span>rauschma</span></a></span> about language learning in general and these languages in particular:<br />🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese (普通话) – my current focus ✅<br />🇬🇧 English<br />🇫🇷 French<br />🇪🇸 Spanish<br />🇳🇱 Dutch<br />🇩🇪 German</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fedi22" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fedi22</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LanguageLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LanguageLearning</span></a></p>
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Post #4067298
How to Tell Americans and Canadians Apart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtSYZZ3NlEA Some differences (obviously, there are also regional differences in Canada): • Some words are pronounced different—e.g.: “sorry”, the letter Z, etc. • Some words are spelled like in British english—e.g.: kilometre, behaviour, etc. • Canadians also use different words for some things—e.g.: beanie (toque), sneakers (runners), etc. Additionally, Canadians also use the metric system for many things 👇
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Post #3908290
1/ English often uses a Germanic word for an animal and a French word for its meat: • beef (French: bœuf) vs. cow (German: Kuh), ox (German: Ochse) • pork (porc) vs. pig, swine (Schwein), sow (Sau) • veal (veau) vs. calf (Kalb) • mutton (mouton) vs. sheep (Schaf) • poultry (poulet) vs. chicken (Küken), hen (Henne)
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Post #3487520
Es verwirrt mich immer ein wenig, wenn auf deutschen Formularen steht: Name, Vorname: … Warum nicht „Nachname, Vorname“?
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Post #1802375
English has the convenient word “creator” when it comes to the person who authored a video. You wouldn’t call that person an “author”, right? I’m wondering what the corresponding word in #German would be: • “Produzent” doesn’t quite fit. • “Schöpfer” sounds a bit weird, but maybe we should embrace that term. • “Video-Gestalter” sounds good. • “Creator” and “Content Creator” also seem to be used in German, but if we can avoid anglicisms, we probably should.
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Post #1802367
#English: The word “postparation” (=the opposite of “preparation”) would be useful, but doesn’t exist. Alternatives include: • review, evaluation • debrief • post-processing • wrap-up • post-mortem In #German, there is “Vorbereitung” (before-processing) and “Nachbereitung” (after-processing).
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Post #1622848
#German vs. #English: Der Inhalt der Tasse und digitale Inhalte. The contents of the cup and digital content.
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Post #1622845
“A thought-terminating cliché is a form of loaded language – often passing as folk wisdom – intended to end an argument and reinforce cognitive dissonance with a cliché rather than a point.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9
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Post #1554377
#Deutsch: Mir gefällt “low-effort content” als Ausdruck für AI slop. Wie würde man das übersetzen? Vielleicht so? lieblos generierte Inhalte
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Post #729722
Really good introduction to Chinese sentence structures (even if you don’t know any Cantonese and only want to learn Mandarin, as an English speaker): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvBZTBaX0Is