Language stumbling blocks
Mar. 10th, 2021 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnozomiBecause I am frustrated with the state of education in this country: tell me about characteristic mistakes in various languages!
For instance, native English speakers of Japanese tend to need a long time to get used to the practice of omitting pronouns all over the place. We also (at least judging by me and Seiden-sama) have trouble keeping straight transitive and intransitive verbs, and struggle with the fact that the お honorific prefix is sometimes used in humble, as opposed to respectful, language (I have a couple of college-era stories about this... .).
So what are the typical mistakes non-native speakers make in your language, and vice versa? Or what are the mistakes you tend to get stuck on in your second language?
Or if some more positivity is indicated, tell me about constructions or idioms or words or characters in one of your languages that just appeal to you specially. Anything!
Oh yeah, I have a[nother] dumb pun for this one, not really mine to begin with. So [the actor] Liu Chang posted some photos of himself and his friend Wa'er, with, respectively, big wide eyes and eyes squeezed shut, captioning it "没眼晴的弟弟快楽相遇" (happy meeting with my little brother with no eyes). The Japanese Twitter account that follows him for some reason, not that I'm complaining, translated this as 目が無い弟と幸せな出会い. I have no idea if it was deliberate or not, but 目がない in Japanese means both literally "no eyes" and metaphorically "devoted to someone," so you could more or less read the Japanese translation as "a happy meeting with my adoring/adored little brother" too... .
Be safe and well.
For instance, native English speakers of Japanese tend to need a long time to get used to the practice of omitting pronouns all over the place. We also (at least judging by me and Seiden-sama) have trouble keeping straight transitive and intransitive verbs, and struggle with the fact that the お honorific prefix is sometimes used in humble, as opposed to respectful, language (I have a couple of college-era stories about this... .).
So what are the typical mistakes non-native speakers make in your language, and vice versa? Or what are the mistakes you tend to get stuck on in your second language?
Or if some more positivity is indicated, tell me about constructions or idioms or words or characters in one of your languages that just appeal to you specially. Anything!
Oh yeah, I have a[nother] dumb pun for this one, not really mine to begin with. So [the actor] Liu Chang posted some photos of himself and his friend Wa'er, with, respectively, big wide eyes and eyes squeezed shut, captioning it "没眼晴的弟弟快楽相遇" (happy meeting with my little brother with no eyes). The Japanese Twitter account that follows him for some reason, not that I'm complaining, translated this as 目が無い弟と幸せな出会い. I have no idea if it was deliberate or not, but 目がない in Japanese means both literally "no eyes" and metaphorically "devoted to someone," so you could more or less read the Japanese translation as "a happy meeting with my adoring/adored little brother" too... .
Be safe and well.
