#monolingual — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #monolingual, aggregated by home.social.
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In an epic twist of #linguistic hilarity, the National Weather Service decides that translating weather warnings is just too much work. 🌦️ Apparently, Mother Nature's wrath will now be strictly #monolingual, because weather doesn't discriminate—only the #NWS does. 🌪️
https://apnews.com/article/weather-spanish-translation-noaa-nws-trump-71c727dbe2e4956247c9d9152494f1dc #weatherwarnings #humor #MotherNature #HackerNews #ngated -
A quiet power rises in SF politics: #ChineseGrandparents
Much like candidates and elected officials adopting #Chinese names, the prominence of #monolingual Chinese seniors at #political rallies has become a perennial election-year phenomenon in #SanFrancisco. This demographic may not swing elections, but their presence sends a signal to other pockets of this heavily #Asian city about diversity and organizing power.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/21/san-francisco-mayors-race-chinese-grandmas-grandpas/
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To my #polyglot, #multilingual, #trilingual, #bilingual peepodons, or even #monolingual folks who are nonetheless curious about #languages.
I’ve started an alt account over at polyglot.city where I plan to geek out on #LanguageLearning. I’ll record my upcoming journey learning #Taiwanese, and share #trivia about names, words, and phrases in different tongues.
Follow @[email protected] and #CodeSwitch with me.
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To my #polyglot, #multilingual, #trilingual, #bilingual peepodons, or even #monolingual folks who are nonetheless curious about #languages.
I’ve started an alt account over at polyglot.city where I plan to geek out on #LanguageLearning. I’ll record my upcoming journey learning #Taiwanese, and share #trivia about names, words, and phrases in different tongues.
Follow @[email protected] and #CodeSwitch with me.
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To my #polyglot, #multilingual, #trilingual, #bilingual peepodons, or even #monolingual folks who are nonetheless curious about #languages.
I’ve started an alt account over at polyglot.city where I plan to geek out on #LanguageLearning. I’ll record my upcoming journey learning #Taiwanese, and share #trivia about names, words, and phrases in different tongues.
Follow @[email protected] and #CodeSwitch with me.
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To my #polyglot, #multilingual, #trilingual, #bilingual peepodons, or even #monolingual folks who are nonetheless curious about #languages.
I’ve started an alt account over at polyglot.city where I plan to geek out on #LanguageLearning. I’ll record my upcoming journey learning #Taiwanese, and share #trivia about names, words, and phrases in different tongues.
Follow @[email protected] and #CodeSwitch with me.
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#introduction copied from my other profile @[email protected] 🔠 I'm also @[email protected] 🦣
🧬 Side tracked #biologist
🌏 from the #WesternPacific region
#Monolingual 🏴 #English speaker, curious about more #Languages than I will ever learn 🇪🇺 #German 🇩🇪 #RussianLanguage :flag_wbw: #Hindi 🇮🇳 #Urdu 🇵🇰 #Farsi 🌙 #Arabic 🇲🇹 #Maltese 🇮🇲 #Manx 🇵🇬 #TokPisin
🔠 I can read familiar names in multiple scripts but I am only fluent in English & German is the only other language know well enough to be useful.
🤖 i click "translate" a lot
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Languages evolve, this means they are alive.
🧬 Side tracked biologist
🥄 Looking for my niche
🌏 Western Pacific
#Monolingual #English speaker, curious about more #Languages than I will ever learn #German 🇪🇺 #RussianLanguage #Hindi 🇮🇳 #Urdu #Farsi #Arabic #Maltese 🇮🇲 #Manx 🇵🇬 #TokPisin
🔠 So far I can read familiar names in multiple scripts but I am only fluent in English & German is the only other language know well enough to be useful.
🤖 i click "translate" a lot
🦣 I'm also @[email protected]
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💡How many #languages do you speak at least conversationally? 🗣️🙋♂️
#foreign #language #bilingual #multilingual #polyglot #monolingual #English #French #Spanish #Chinese #Italian #German #Japanese #Korean #Russian
