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23 posts · Last used Jul 27

Chiara Benedetta Condorelli @CBCondorelli@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago

Hi! Are you looking for a qualified and experienced translator? If yes, then look no further! My language pairs:

  • English to Italian;
  • Italian to English;
  • French, Spanish or German to either Italian or English. Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiara-benedetta-condorelli Can't wait to meet you! P.S. IMHO, a 100% human-made translation as accurate as possible is better than a machine translation that will need proofreading. 😉

#translation #translator #freelance #languages #english #italian #french #spanish #german

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⁂Esplendor Topologico Abstracto⁂ @ParabenAparaten@mast.lat
· 2mo ago

[a little preamble words in spanish for spanish-only readers: Ese mensaje no es en Español. Estoy preguntando a otros usarios de #Latinoamérica cuales son sus preferidos servidores para interacciones internacionales #internalismo]

I am gonna pause messaging from this #mastodon account

I have been contacted by the moderation team complaining about my usage of other languages than #spanish

Question for spanish-speaking mastodonts:

I do need some guidance and advices: I will probably have to move there at some moment

Learning implies to read & interact in the other languages: and my account is dedicated to language learning/reading

#internationalism #polyglot #languagelearning

In a nutshell, what are the spanish language #fediverse servers that do accept posts & interactions in other languages too: #mastlat https://mast.lat/about is not one of them

#mastoserver #mastoinstance

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Chocotalo @Chocotalo@mastodon.au
· 3mo ago

Hi, Fediverse. What is something that you grew up saying at the end of sentences in your childhood? Or silly responses to things. It can be in English, in any country, in any language (if it's in another language other than English, I'd love a translation).

There is no specific reason to ask, I am just curious.

When I was in my teens, it would be:

  • Your mahm!
  • That's what she said (unashamedly still say this)
  • In bed (Still sometimes say this :ablobwobble:)
  • Psyche!
  • Jinx!

#AskFedi #Languages #LanguageNerd

Edit: Boosts are appreciated. Let's learn. :blobcat_hearthug:

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
· 3mo ago
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‘Gostan lagi, gostan sedikit, okay good liao’ I miss speaking singlish and manglish and will get to do it again soon!! #Languages #Singapore #Malaysia
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abadidea @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
· 3mo ago
Boosted by @trending@homestead.social
RE: https://retro.pizza/@mrencyclopedia/116767709992953410 Hi it’s me, “English speaker who learned grammatical nightmare Dutch and then randomly decided it was time to get serious about Chinese, and did in fact learn to read Chinese” Make your own flash cards. Write your own notes. Ideally with pen and paper, but if that’s not an option, type it letter by letter or use speech-to-text. Don’t copy-paste. Don’t autocomplete. Don’t generate with AI. You need to use YOUR hands or YOUR voice if you want to change YOUR brain, YOUR own inner neural network weights. I’ve been trying an Obsidian plugin called HiWords. You select a word, right click, and add a definition; from then on, that word will be highlighted in Obsidian notes, and you can hover to see your definition. Elegant, helpful, I like it. They have a (completely optional, opt-in) functionality to shell out to an LLM for filling in the definition. I imagine that a lot of students requested this functionality, and it wasn’t hard to implement, so I understand why they added it. I can see why the students want it; it sounds so much more efficient, so much more ✨data✨ per effort to get the vocabulary collection up and running. But it’s self-defeating. It’s drowning your senses in noise that won’t stick in your memory. Two or three words you took the time to look up and write down yourself are vastly more helpful than a paragraph churned out by a machine. Do it by hand, learn it by heart. 📓💖 #languagelearning #languages
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
· 3mo ago
A popular Chinese movie made in my native language Teochew (extremely rare, we don’t have much media in the language) made it big in China Singapore decided to screen it in its Mandarin language dub It will most definitely remove most of the joy for me so I’ll try to get it in the original or go to Johor, Malaysia to watch it https://www.thinkchina.sg/society/how-chinese-film-sparked-cognitive-warfare-singapore #Movies #China #Teochew #Languages
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IndieAuthors.Social News @indieauthornews@indieauthors.social
· 5mo ago
‘Being human helps’: despite rise of AI is there still hope for Europe’s translators? A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing – but they could be needed for a while longer yet In February 2022, while he was plugging away at rendering the US writer Dana Spiotta’s novel Wayward into French, the literary translator Yoann Gentric decided he needed a bit of light relief. He would test whether AI could put him out of work. Gentric had been grappling with a short non-verbal sentence that described the book’s protagonist’s feelings upon opening a window: “Bright, sharp night air, bracing.” He put the prompt into DeepL, a neural-network-powered machine translation engine that regularly outperforms Google Translate in… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/08/being-human-helps-despite-rise-of-ai-is-there-still-hope-for-europes-translators #AIartificialintelligence #Publishing #Europe #Languages #Books
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
· 6mo ago
Boosted by @hypebot@tacocat.space
In many Chinese families it’s pretty common for people to talk to each other in completely different languages. My New York aunt speaks to me in Mandarin / Hokkien. She speaks to her husband in Toishanese. They speak Cantonese to other people. We all sort of understand each other when we are speaking different languages, but respond in our own language. From time to time we might dip into another language to illustrate a point. My grandma used to call this ‘chicken and duck talk’ #Languages #Chinese
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