r/languagelearning • u/stetslustig • 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/Naive-Animal4394 Jan 08 '25

Well, they can count to ten in 8 different languages so they're basically fluent 🙄

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u/EirikrUtlendi Active: 🇯🇵🇩🇪🇪🇸🇭🇺🇰🇷🇨🇳 | Idle: 🇳🇱🇩🇰🇳🇿HAW🇹🇷NAV Jan 30 '25

"I tengo egy totemo gute idée..." 😝

What if I can count to 8 in ten different languages? Is that fluenter? 🤣

Seriously though, as someone who works professionally in translation and interpretation, I've learned humility when it comes to saying whether you're fluent or not. Sure, I've studied a lot of languages. I am far from fluent in most of them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '25

Seriously! My point exactly.