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Bilingual/language learning cubers?

Isaac VM

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in Spanish classes in our high school here, we were taught kinda the opposite:
USTEDES is used for informal plural YOU
whereas
VOSOTROS is the formal (and literary) form and rarely used

Most conversatuons don't include meeting the governor (or the Pope) so most of the time all one gears is USTEDES
In Spain vosotros is informal and ustedes is very formal (like when you talk to the king and his family) while in Mexico we don't use vosotros and we only use ustedes for both formal and informal situations.
 

artless1der

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In Spain vosotros is informal and ustedes is very formal (like when you talk to the king and his family) while in Mexico we don't use vosotros and we only use ustedes for both formal and informal situations.
right on, and *ustedes* is plural, *usted* is singular
whereas vosotros is itself plural (not singular), and when speaking to, as you say, a king/queen(prince/princess) one would use vosotros in much thebsame eqy as monarchs employn"The Royal WE" (one thus is addressing the royal family and lineage)...
There are many ways in which Spanish and other languages of the European continent are, I guess, classier than English ƪ⁠(⁠˘⁠⌣⁠˘⁠)⁠ʃ
 

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Anyone else learning German, or speak it already? I think I can hold a basic or moderate conversation at this point, but it's been a long time since I've practiced with a native speaker.
 

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in 2020 I tried and failed to learn german, (got kinda far and then got bored and stopped)
then in 2022 i had to briefly learn spanish in duolingo for a class in middleschool
and last year I started learning japanese cuz i wanna be able to understand my favorite songs, and now just learn it passively for the most part.
and along with japanese now im taking an actual spanish class in high school
 

asbjorn

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in 2020 I tried and failed to learn german, (got kinda far and then got bored and stopped)
then in 2022 i had to briefly learn spanish in duolingo for a class in middleschool
and last year I started learning japanese cuz i wanna be able to understand my favorite songs, and now just learn it passively for the most part.
and along with japanese now im taking an actual spanish class in high school
i tried learning japanese back in like 2015 but failed because I just got overwhelmed with kanji to memorize, not to mention how the same kanji can have different pronunciations in different contexts. I believe the two syllables "kiko きこ" has something like 20 different meanings lmao
 

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I'm from Romania (I think already everyone knows this) so I know Romania, of course English, which I started to learn since kindergarden, and like 2 years ago, me and my brother started to watch english youtubers, so we got our english REALLY good comparing to what school was able to teach me, I also learn French at school, not that I can speak, but I think I could understand like 20-30% percent of a text, I also was bornt in Italy🍕 and lived there my first 6 years, but I know 0 about Italian language, so I know:
-Romania: 99.99%
-English: 70-80%
-French: 10%
-Italian: 0.0000000000000001%
 

Enirolf

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I know: Dutch, German and English
At school I learn French (most boring subject in the Dutch school system), I also got the choice of learning Latin, but i didnt want to do that though.
Did you know that only the Netherlands and Italy I think offer both Latin and ancient Greek in in high school?
Also, you also didn't want to do Greek? It is way better than French!
 
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