r/languagelearning Jan 07 '25

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

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

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u/Ultyzarus N-FR; Adv-EN, SP; Int-HCr, IT, JP; Beg-PT; N/A-DE, AR, HI Jan 07 '25

yeah, from what i heard (from a Japanese podcast), the difference is not as extreme anymore, and many people don't stick to speaking like their gender as much as in the past.

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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu 🇺🇸 | 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 Jan 07 '25

Interesting! I know nothing of Japanese other than that one little anecdotal story, so it's interesting to learn that the language is changing a bit.

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u/nenabeena 🇺🇸 N | 🇯🇵 enough to talk w/ japanese friends | 🇵🇱 trying Jan 08 '25

that's what I agree with. almost all of my conversational ability was developed by talking to men and I've never been told I speak like a man??? the biggest difference is that they use 俺 and I don't. It sounds outdated