>mfw americans are monolingual and read translations

baguette detected

>>9593918
>mfw I speak Dutch (mother-tongue), German and French, but still end up reading books in English (or English translations)

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>>9593918
>he doesn't read Дocтoéвcкий in the original Russian

>>9593925
Is France the only European country burgerlards know?

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>>9593925
>he is european, he must be french

>>9593918
Since when is knowing multiple languages an accomplishment? All it means is that your country isn't powerful.

>>9594061
'Since when' you have acces to more information.

>>9594061
Yeah fuck other languages I speak AMURRICAN!

>>9593918
I am a trilingual Euro and most euro's are monolingual as well.
I was raised in Greece, and it is amazing how hard an older book can be due to different words, dialects etc.
Good translations should be considered stand-alone works of art.

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>>9594061

>>9594011
I'm pretty sure he was implying French people are the most language-patriotic, which is true

>>9593918
Question for people who read english translations: how is "informal you" vs "formal you" translated?

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>mfw I'm half literate and don't even read
checkmate

>>9594248
>I'm half literate
Did you only get through half the letters?

>>9594206
sir or just you

>>9594206
Tf kind of question is this? It's just translated as "you" and if you're not autistic, you can tell if it's formal or informal.

>>9593925
>American education

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>>9593918
>extremely limited amount of time to be alive
>wasting time learning how to say the same thing in a different way

If I'll ever read a book by a Swedish author.
I'd read the English translation.

>>9594171
Their language is beautiful and prone to extintion, it's only natural for them to be like that. I don't like their attitude though, but I can understand it.

>>9594695
this desu

>>9594142
Τράβα γαμήσου

Τι γλώσσες μιλάς;

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>>9594695
>muh precious time
>frogposting on 4chan

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>>9593918
>mfw I see these threads

>>9594794
>if only there was some way to achieve the skill of talking in foreign languages

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>>9594789
>10 minutes a day on /lit/ before I get to serious stuff
>several hours a day everyday practicing a language

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>Read an english translation of a book written by an author from my country
>A lot of the times the translation is wrong or it changes the meaning of words
>The chapter where he was writing about the nature of women is gone completely
>Turns out the book was translated and edited by an american woman

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>>9594806
>several hours a day practicing
>this is what monolingual plebs actually believe

>>9594801
There is but our education system greatly impares us. >>9594801

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These threads never fail to trigger americans. Pic related is Samuel Beckett laughing at langlets.

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>tfw I'll never be fluent or even decent in another language

>>9594816
if you're going to get good at a language it's going to require a large time investment

>>9594815
"Geschlecht und Charakter" by Otto Weininger?

Unrelated topic , yall have to hook me up on some sites where i can download a couple of books (ebooks) on the go ..... gotta need em soon

>>9594847
public library

>>9593928
Zijt gij een der mijn vlaemschen broederd of zijt gij een vuile kaasfreter?

>>9594847
Gutenberg.org or literally every torrent site

>>9595148
>Sumpfdeutsch in 2017

>>9595176
Pardon? Je ne comprends pas.

>tfw american and only speak one language
>tfw london bridge is falling down
get fucked nigel

>>9595187
>Froschdeutsch in 2017

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>>9593918
>mfw all the shit i give is contained in a picture

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>>9594695
Especially when American military hegemony enforces English as the lingua franca worldwide.

>>9595252
>Duits
>Nederlands is moedertaal
>mfw fucking oostkanton?
>mein deutsch ist nicht ser güt, es tut mir leidt

>>9594695
>the same thing
>Implying there can ever be two identical concepts.

So this is the power of being a langlet.

>>9595253
I assume you're shitting out frosted turds since you take it up the bum so much you fucking american piece of shit

>>9595330
>trying this hard
please stop, i'm starting to feel sorry for you.

>>9593918
>implying I read eurocuck literature

>>9595279
>hola
>hello
really makes you think

>be yuropoor
>get bombed
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA