• teft@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    How I felt when I learned Spanish. It opened up a whole nuevo mundo de memes.

    Also fun fact: “memes” in Spanish is pronounced maymays and it always makes me laugh when I hear it.

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      3 months ago

      Donde esta la biblioteca?
      Me llamo T-Bone, la araña discoteca
      Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca
      Es en bigote grande, perro, manteca

      Yea, Boiii - source

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      3 months ago

      Not maymays, mehmehs. ( If you want to make something in Spanish sound like “maymays”, you need to spell it “meimeis”)

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        3 months ago

        Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.

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        Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.

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          Might be because of local accent as well, I don’t speak a word of spanish but I’d be very surprised if there’s no difference between spanish in spain and spanish in colombia

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            Nah, e is the same across most spanish accents. It’s more likely we’re just using different letters for the same sounds as i said in my other comment.

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      3 months ago

      Yes but school never managed to motivate me to learn more than just the nessesary to pass basics. So most of my english i learned from memes and entering communities after i left school

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    3 months ago

    英語とハンガリー語レミングは、よけいまんがやアニメのために日本語に勉強します。

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    3 months ago

    Every time i see a fully germen meme I laugh and assume its funny if you know German.

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    I would still say I don’t understand written German, and I certainly couldn’t understand SPOKEN German, but I understand enough to understand the memes.

    So thanks for that, ich_iel!

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      3 months ago

      i dont know what “blungt” and “hassenpfeffer” are
      blungt sounds like bringt (bringing)
      hassenpfeffer is confusing me more my head splits it in “hassen”(hate)/“Hasen”(rabbit) and “Pfeffer” (pepper) which does not make any sense

      still think you did a good job meyotch ^^
      often people new to german say “mein” instead of “meine” and i cant really explain why but in that context its correct

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    I’m sorry, michmichs? you don’t really say that, do you? it’s not like the word comes from “me”, its just a play on “genes”.

    you guys just say “memes” right?

    … right?