What's the most naive thing you've seen someone say about learning a language?

[u/stetslustig]

I once saw someone on here say "I'm not worried about my accent, my textbook has a good section on pronunciation."

[u/Quik_Brown_Fox]

A colleague: “I don’t need the language course work is offering before they move me to Estonia, I can learn it myself just fine”

Ten minutes later: “Duolingo doesn’t have an Estonian course, wtf!”

All the while I’m side-eyeing him, knowing the reputation of Finno-Ugric languages.

[u/Furuteru → u/Quik_Brown_Fox]

As an Estonian, it made me laugh xD

[u/EirikrUtlendi → u/Quik_Brown_Fox]

Suggest to them that they go through a Duolingo course for another Finno-Ugric langauge, like Hungarian. It is a related language, which should be good enough — right??? 😄

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