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>be me>average chinese girl, tier-3 city>parents say gaokao decides everything>no pressure>exam day>math destroys me>english essay is cope>walk out knowing it’s over>results: mid>no good uni, no good major>assigned: portuguese>mfw>learn weird language, dream of going abroad>year 2 exchange somehow get into Lisbon>arrive in Lisbon>sun, ocean, colorful streets>people relaxed, life feels unreal>classes easy>meet internationals>life becomes late nights, new friends, no stress>first time feeling free>learn portuguese just by living>time flies>have to go back>return to China>everything grey again>Lisbon feels fake, like a movie>graduate with portuguese degree>everyone asks “what now?”>get job at oil company>they need portuguese>location: Angola>arrive there>heat, dust, oil fields everywhere>nothing like Lisbon>job = translation + endless paperwork>long hours, isolated compound>same people every day>locals distant, coworkers stressed>internet bad, nothing to do>counting days instead of living them>sometimes remember Lisbon nights>now just generators humming at night>realize>one exam didn’t decide life>but it sure sent me somewhere strange>still average>just ended up far from where I thought I’d be
Dead thread again
>be me>wake up in the middle of the afternoon>make a new thread without putting "/lang/" in the title field>chortle softly as I drift back to sleep
>>221096923Is this a biographical post about you? If so, why do you have a German flag if you live in Angola? Also, nihao, m'lady. *tips fedora*
I tried InterPals for language learning but it’s just filled to the brim with thirsty men and third-worlders looking for a husband. Plus, I didn’t really see people with my target language. Has anyone tried HelloTalk? if so, what was your experience?
>>221098456All language exchange apps are like thatDon't use them
>>221097745>>221096873forgot the subject field again edition
>>221096873>Outras línguas>CriouloCrioulo is a form of (in this case) Portuguese, illiterate nharros.
>>221097861It's not biographical but rather a condensed representation of the thousands to tens of thousands of mid Chinese girls that fail their gaokao and then end up being forced into a certain language major, yes, literally forced to pick some random ass language that the government determined to be necessary and then they end up working in random ass places like a Chinese oil joint-venture in Angola, a mining cooperation in Chile or a trade delegation in Morocco (they never end up in the actual European metropole, just some random global south countries with increasing economic ties to China).
>>221101010mostly accurate but the girls in those degrees do fake email jobs in China and stuff like marketing, they don't get jobs overseas. Those all go to the men.
>>221101169I have never met a male Chinese translator/interpreter abroad, especially for more obscure languages, other than English at least.
/lang/ in the subject field is overrated. The whole gang is already and the retards won't find the thread (like Jordie), so it's a great filter.
what is the future of languages
>>221102147We have like 5 years left until everyone walks around with wearable AI-powered instant translation devices.
what did you do in your TL today?>I did around 50 new cards or so, and reviewed another 50.>getting close to chapter 40 of my assimil book>still have to reread a news article before sleepy time>learning/adding new cards is starting to get easier and faster, which tells me im making progress.
bump
>>221104745I corresponded with my penpalless.
https://tokipona.net/wile-pona/Update on tranny pona schizo creator
>>221107282good!>>221107590why is this written in english and not their "real" language?
>>221107711because nobody is going to look at a bunch of smiley faces and squiggles and take a mentally ill person's mental breakdown as anything other than comedy
>>221096873>tfw reading La Mirinda Sorcisto de Oz in Esperanto>formatting errors ("La arbo estis bona, dikakovrilo protektanta ilin kontraŭ laroso." - 'laroso' should be 'la roso')>translation mistakes (when the Cowardly Lion is telling Dorothy what the Kalidahs are, picrel says they have the "body of a lion" when in fact they have the bodies of bears, which is correctly translated later on when they actually appear.)Learning this blasted language is suffering.
