intro from ix !!!!

hi lads and lasses and the rest !!!

my name's ix i'm serbian n norwegian n i currently live in norway :3 i'm a butch lesbian and trying to make art in as many ways as possible while also not letting my grades kick the bucket (you girl wants 2 study civil engineering or physics talk to me about it !!!!)

mostly i write and draw, so you might get some of that here, mostly fanart but who knows, maybe i'll whip out an original piece at some point... also trying 2 branch out into fiber arts

i also looooooove languages and linguistics and phonology WOOOOOOOO languages r cool as hell i love learning them and poking them with a stick to see what they'll do if i do this or that so currently i'm learning korean n i'm nearing french fluency

anyways i'm super excited for this forum i love old internet n i wanna make a lil community here with u all lookin forward 2 many a good discussion and art and writing and friends !!!!!!! <333333

P.S. mostly i can b found on tumblr @ 8-bitdyke but don't b afraid 2 ask 4 other socials i'll probably hand them 2 u !

hi!!! so cool to see you here. would love to see any work you have to post, unfortunately my physics is beyond potato level so nothing on that front </3 tell me more about the languages!! how come korean and french. also do you speak serbian? (not sure if you moved there as adult or your parent emigrated which is why i'm asking :')

hiiii ditto but also you're kind of the reason i Am here in the first place !!!

korean i chose 2 learn in august of 2020 kind of on a whim and kind of not, i've been interested  in chinese language and mythology for as long as i can remember, (my mum's friend gave me some old chinese textbooks from first grade when i was like . i can't have been more than eight, maybe seven, maybe five who knows and i vividly remember being obsessed with them i looooved looking in them and sounding out the pinyin), but back to 2020, where i decided i wanted to learn either mandarin or japanese and korean, looked at the scripts, and decided korean had only one script and no tones ergo it had to be easier and more manageable... (i was wrong ) ( don't get me wrong, love the language, but Damn)

as for french i really don't know? in seventh grade i did a Lot of duolingo on it, i think it was prompted by my cousin moving to belgium and learning french there ????? but after that i took it as a course in school and now i'm on the other end of that course and on the very silly level where i can understand a Lot but just not Enough so i'm trying to read more and listen 2 more french podcasts maybe it'll help

aaalso i do speak and write serbian (even the cyrillic cursive) ! my mum did emigrate 2 norway 25 or so years ago but she has done such a job teaching me that my serbian is Very close to as good as my norwegian (which is my native language) i just need 2 read more and speak more i think atp it's not very easy 2 guess exactly what's missing (veoma čudno tvrditi sve ovo znanje a onda to napisati na engleskom ali ne znam tako je ispalo  )

omgg another language lover hiiiiii

Welcome! thanks for joining the forum (*´Д`)ﾉ and helloo fellow linguist! we should open a topic for learning resources lmao

8bitdyke wrote:

but back to 2020, where i decided i wanted to learn either mandarin or japanese and korean, looked at the scripts, and decided korean had only one script and no tones ergo it had to be easier and more manageable... (i was wrong ) ( don't get me wrong, love the language, but Damn)

yeah I attempted Korean for a bit but i was simply more familiar with Japanese so I sorta gave up.... bad choice cuz i gotta improve my korean for a vocal dance group i'm in now. my pronunciation is so japanese-style, I'm having a lot of trouble with some of the syllables (;△; )

languages are hard man, props for getting into it!


I am also a mathsman but the computer kind. GL with the study/art grind! Same boat squad but we ball

OMG HELLO FELLOW YUGOSLAV!!!

i love languages as well! i totally want to learn japanese too. i've been studying it on duolingo, but kinda fallen off track recently. T_T <3

Totel wrote:

OMG HELLO FELLOW YUGOSLAV!!!

i love languages as well! i totally want to learn japanese too. i've been studying it on duolingo, but kinda fallen off track recently. T_T <3

hiii !!!!!! i've tried duolingo as well but honestly it's so easy to fall off T__T the korean course Sucks as well which is kinda sad... i've heard a lot of good about the genki series though, so if u wanna learn japanese u might want to give that a try?

Raecaw wrote:

Welcome! thanks for joining the forum (*´Д`)ﾉ and helloo fellow linguist! we should open a topic for learning resources lmao

oh we definitely should! running right over to the thread !!!!!

Raecaw wrote:

yeah I attempted Korean for a bit but i was simply more familiar with Japanese so I sorta gave up.... bad choice cuz i gotta improve my korean for a vocal dance group i'm in now. my pronunciation is so japanese-style, I'm having a lot of trouble with some of the syllables (;△; )

oh no good luck TT the pronounciation cannbe reallly tricky i usually listening and repeating but ykno . still hard and i also don't have a japanese  pronounciation to fight off...