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How people react when you try to speak their language (lemmy.ml)

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[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

My partner has been learning Norwegian and some of the reactions from native speakers lean toward the red.

It's not about difficulty (it's one of the easier languages for English speakers), but moreso that they believe it's pretty useless outside of Norway lol

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[-] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

They arent exatcly wrong here.

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