if you could be proficient in any one language instantly, which one would it be?
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@Clarisse29 🤔🤔 can I be instantly fluent in bird language? It would be so cool to talk and sing with the birds in the garden😁
@Tinywhisper11 "Chirp, chirppy, chirpster, chrip, chirp?"
@genericbeing woofff woff woof
@Tinywhisper11 "Squirrel, squirl, squip, squirrel." - *Your accent is a little thick, in Squirrel*
@Tinywhisper11
the disney dream!
@Clarisse29 Russian because its weird, it sounds funny, and I could speak it in public places to confuse everyone.
@genericbeing ha it sounds cool :D
@genericbeing not to brag, but I talk normally in public places and still confuse everyone😁
@Tinywhisper11 I'm confused right now, whoa
@genericbeing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Any one of the many Indigenous languages around the world (and particularly where I live) which are one generation away from dying out, as their last fluent speakers are small groups of elders in their respective group, nearing the end of their lives without anyone to pass the language on to, for many grim reasons yet to be properly acknowledged or properly addressed.
With language is culture and the structure of the language comes with it a style of thinking. For example, many Indigenous languages are verb-based, focusing on doing and action. English is noun-based, focusing on people, places, and things. German, which English is partly influenced by (the Angles and Saxons were Germanic speaking), even capitalizes nouns, to show their importance.
Losing their language means losing much of their culture, and since it is not by choice, it's particularly affecting that more isn't being done to support language revitalization efforts.
In the last sentence, I meant "Losing Indigenous languages, etc."
Most Indigenous culture is transmitted through oral tradition. When the last speaker of an Indigenous language dies, any possible descendants lose connection to their history, their traditions, their knowledge (including how to maintain the Earth's biodiversity) and ways of life. This is what I mean by losing culture.
@Clarisse29
ALL of them! That’s not just limited to all the human languages but every language or form of language that exists. Not only bc I’m that ambitious but why not? It’ll expand and diverse my social club allowing different types of people who speak different languages and different animals too. I see nothing wrong and all benefits in that!
