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Jelena | UGC Creator retweeted
What doesn't kill you introduces you to:
- Carl Jung
- Dostoevsky
- Tolstoy
Jelena | UGC Creator retweeted
"Do not be fooled by your prayers and fasting. Look at how you treat others, that's the real reflection of your soul".
*-Al-Ghazali
🧠 Language fact I bet you didn't know:
Russia (population of 148 million people) has by far the highest number of languages spoken on its territory: from 130 to 200 depending on the criteria.
🧠 Did you know that half of the population speaks only 23 languages?
These are the top 20:
English
Spanish
Portuguese
French
Mandarin Chinese
Russian
German
Arabic
Hindi
Bengali
Urdu
Indonesian
Japanese
Nigerian Pidgin
Marathi
Telugu
Turkish
Tamil
Yue Chinese
Vietnamese
👇🏻 Do this if you wanna learn a language:
1. Learn 1,000 of the most common words that you'll use in day-to-day conversations. You don't need a 10K vocabulary.
2. Immersion > perfection. It's better to speak broken Spanish before perfecting your grammar. Your brain will absorb how the language sounds and adjust later on.
3. Speak to someone within the first 2 weeks. Whether with a friend or with an AI avatar like @praktika_ai. Do it scared because that improves your memory.
If you're looking for a resource to learn with, highly recommend to check out @praktika_ai 👌
4 tips to learn a foreign language:
1. Accept that you'll make mistakes. Failing forward and learning from mistakes is key.
2. Use apps like Duo or @praktika_ai daily, because consistency is your friend.
3. Listen to music, read the lyrics, and translate it.
4. Watch movies and TV shows with subtitles in your native language.
Jelena | UGC Creator retweeted
🇷🇺Why do Russians look so serious and why can smiling at a stranger actually seem suspicious in Russia? 👀
Body parts are useful to know in a foreign language you're learning. Here's how you say "ankle" in Spanish. Add it to your vocabulary. 😉
#learningspanish
Uncultured people - those who refuse to look and think outside the box, who are very pro-left or pro-right, without understanding nuance. And those who refuse to learn new languages too. How daft can you be?