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[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 days ago (18 children)

The thing that got me when finally speaking to natives was how fast natural speaking is. You think you can understand things fine but that's because the teachers and apps are speaking clearly and slowly and waiting for you to parse each sentence. Natural conversation isn't like that.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I'm sorry for foreigners, I never learned how to properly pronounciate my owl language. It's OK not to understand me, other natives struggle too XD

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

my owl language.

Is 'my owl language' the language you're learning using Duolingo? Or is it a typo and you meant 'my own language'? It's interesting because normally I'd assume the latter, but in the context of this thread, the former makes some weird sense.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Obviously they were raised by owls and speak an owl language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

etymologynerd has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Maybe we just met a second speaker of the infamous bird/dolphin language

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