from most proficient to least:>German>English>Hebrew>Yiddish>Arabic>Thai
>English>Latin>GermanThat's it.
>>25552449>Spanish>English>Mandarin>Italian
>>25552449>Arabic>French>English>Spanish>Italian>German>Russianlisting more than two romance languages might as well count as cheating. i really like the sonorities of scandi languages like finnish, might give one of them a go at some point. i hear norwegian is relatively easy to learn for english speakers.
it took me over a decade to realize some of you just come on here to fuck with the retards because it's hilarious. it took me over a decade because sadly i (emphasis added) am one of thise retards.
>>25552467>thiseyep
>>25552449Actually speak:>Portuguese>Englishbabbling retard in:>French>Spanish (actual Spanish, not portunhol)>Japanese (hiragana/katakana and use a few particles semi-correctly)
>>25552472uma delicia...
>>25552449English.
>>25552449>Post you're languageYou might want to bump English up one
>>25552488you mean down one...?
WARNING: posting in this thread may cause brain damage.>>25552483honestly? I could never eat a macaco, they are too close to us, a vector of rabies and places that serve them are usually the most unsanitary shithole you'll see in your life.
Hyperpolyglot gigachad LARPers are even worse than Lit Bro LARPersProbably the worst LARPers of all in factI can say 'hello' and 'what is your name?'... I'll add that language to my "stack" kekSimple rule - If you have passed, or could pass, a formal exam at B2 level (or equivalent) it can go on your "stack"Watch those LARP list reduced down to 1 or 2
Ever notice that multilingual people on /lit/ devote more energy to bragging about being multilingual than they do actually using other languages to enrich their knowledge base?
>>25552496Some places in Brazil actually serve monkey? I thought it was a joke...
>>25552460This might seem impressive but it's really not that uncommon save for the Russian, which is probably very flimsy anyway. All you need is two feet on two different continents.
>>25552504I use most of my languages for reading and don't practice speaking them. It's fairly easy to get to reading proficiency in a large number of languages. It used to be expected of you, if you were a humanities scholar, to know Latin, Greek, German, French, and a few specialty languages.I watched some videos of the youtuber who "debunks" polyglots and was surprised that was he was some retard who only knows Esperanto and is learning Chinese for his Chinese wife. Just some retard who relies on his viewers to tell him if someone knows a language.
>>25552507yeah, you can find it in a few (VERY) poor towns, it's not common though.
>>25552449A descendant of oven dodging mountain jews who learned arabic while on duty during his aliyah and fled from the growing antisemitism in europe to be a balding sexpat in bangkok?
>>25552522Mom?
>>25552517Let me guess... That very modest threshold of B2 level competency brings your "stack" down to 1 - English. Every time. lolWith dictionaries and translation aids I could technically read a simple text in most languages. Probably only get significantly hard if the language is very different to what I know - e.g. Chinese, Japanese. Still probably doable with plenty of effort. Should I now list a "stack" with every major world language in it?
>>25552507Yeah and Koreans actually eat dogs too. The younger ones not so much but their millenial generation's have seen it eaten and said generation's grandparents ate it on the regular.
>>25552542>Let me guess... That very modest threshold of B2 level competency brings your "stack" down to 1 - English.no, 3 or 4.>Should I now list a "stack" with every major world language in it?If you want. It's not that serious. You won't get money or awards. You can also pretend to be a brain surgeon. Not sure what the point would be.
>>25552546>LARPer called out>resorts to vagueness, goal-post shifting, feigned ignorance...I play 10 instruments!- OK, play the pianoErr... ok, if you want.... i never said i was great at the piano... errr no i haven't passed any piano grades, but... how about we just talk about the piano.... ok, how about i show you my posts on hypersavantgenuismusicproforum.com? .... Look, i just don't understand why your so focused on me and my piano, Anon....
>>25552560relax
>>25552542NTA but I doubt you realise what a B2 level actually entails. If you can read a novel of average difficulty using the dictionary a handful of times per page, and can watch TV shows without subtitles, then you are already much closer to C1 than B2.In addition to that, the more languages you know the easier it is to pick up new ones. Learning your first foreign language is much harder than learning a second one, which is harder than the third, etc.>With dictionaries and translation aids I could technically read a simple text in most languages.With a language that's very close to your own, then maybe: I am Italian and I picked Spanish up by diving into it head-first. But with something like French I would have struggled if I hadn't study the grammar a little bit.
EnglishThinking about learning middle English
If English is your native language you've won the linguistic lottery by birth. Why the fuck would I waste time learning someone else's language when the entire world labours to learn mine? Lol.
>>25552580>NTA but I doubt you realise what a B2 level actually entailsNope, I know exactly what B2 tests. I chose it for a reason. It's a reasonable level for someone to be able to claim competency with a language. >novel of average difficulty / TV shows without subtitles, then you are already much closer to C1 than B2That's not entirely accurate. You're omitting all the difficulty of have a global set of set of skills at C1 - a trap people who've never sat formal lang exams often fall into. >the more languages you know the easier it is to pick up new onesIrrelevant for this topic.I'm not disputing that people can learn multiple langs, or learning additional langs can be easier (learned skills and all that).I'm calling out LARPers who bullshit about ability. People who list something like Thai, and on questioning will be found out that what they can actually say is: hi, bye, thank you, please, same-same.>I am Italian and I picked Spanish up by diving into it head-first. But with something like French I would have struggled if I hadn't study the grammar a little bit.Exactly my point. You *could* do it - you'd just struggle a bit. But... you would do it. So why not add French, and Portuguese, and Romanian... and so on. Add all the romance langs. Or.... we could not LARP... and have a competency threshold... at a reasonable level of B2. You've clearly learned a language, so you know that these LARPers are translating the text in their head into their mothertongue to understand it. That is not using the language.
>>25552587>He knows not the heavenly pleasure of racially abusing a savage in his native tongue!
>>25552580>I am Italian and I picked Spanish up by diving into it head-first. But with something like French I would have struggledNigga they're ALL romance languages, at least pick Germ to make your point dumdum.
>>25552592>You're omitting all the difficulty of have a global set of set of skills at C1 - a trap people who've never sat formal lang exams often fall into.Not to sound dismissive, but I have seen people pass a B2 or C1 exam and still struggle to have a basic conversation. I really don't think that "can pass an exam" should be the benchmark for anything. Your ability to interact with native speakers and content made for them is much more important. The CEFR also exists as a way to self assess, and while I agree that some people are overly optimistic about their skills it does not mean all of them are. Just at my local language cafe there are dozens of people who are conversational in 4+ languages.>Exactly my point. You *could* do it - you'd just struggle a bit. But... you would do it. I honestly don't think I would have learned French to any meaningful extent if I had tried that, but then again I cannot prove a counterfactual claim.>>25552600>Nigga they're ALL romance languages, at least pick Germ to make your point dumdum.My point is that even among closely related languages that is not an effective (or at least efficient) method.
>>25552449>Swedish>English>Norwegian>German>Danish, kinda
