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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Omg people aren’t automatically switching to English when I speak Portuguese?? Am I…fluent?

Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

What do you mean?? There exists this magical time period of ‘next time’ or ‘in the future’ when we’re all fluent in all our target languages!

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

One porto in, and all of a sudden, I’m fluent in Portuguese (allegedly)

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I love this. It hurts me to be this villain unfortunately, so I need to lean into it more!

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I honestly feel ridiculous trying to speak a language I’ve barely studied, but it’s kinda crazy to hear and feel Portuguese coming out of my mouth.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It was going well until she asked me if I could understand Portuguese well before she was gonna give me a bunch of information, and I just couldn’t lie. We ended up switching to Spanish.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

In Porto now, right outside my accommodation, trying to hype myself up for my first Portuguese conversation. Here goes nothing…

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I just wanna use the word ‘obsequious’ in an argument. Anyone wanna fight?

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I keep repeating the word ‘gender’ in (what I think is) an Australian accent to amuse myself. Jeen-dah, jeen-dah, jeen-dah. Did I get that right?

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I just wanted to make sure íbamos had an accent. It does hehe

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Me: I think I can take on the Spanish C2 exam! Also me: *googles ‘ir conjugation’*

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

No, I just wanted them to tell me!

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Is it weird that I get offended whenever I see people going to the Philippines without telling me, even if I don’t know them that well or even at all? It is, isn’t it?

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

My friend in Indonesia: banyak gossip Me: spill-lah!

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Yeah i should’ve said tungkulin

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Mine was in my own L1…I confused the Tagalog word for ‘right’ with the one for ‘responsibility.’

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

What time does everyone do their daily ‘regretting something wrong I said in some language’? Mine’s at 8:15 am today.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Used the English expression ‘for what it’s worth’ earlier today, and honestly, I don’t know if I used it right.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

You interpret everything while i speak then

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Mine should be, if I’m not mistaken…eu sou duz eshtaduz unidush

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I just keep randomly repeating the phrase “Sou dos Estados Unidos” to myself for when I go to Portugal next month.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Can confirm. I'm always at a 10

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Wait, apparently she thinks I’m half Chinese??

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

At a Chinese restaurant in Madrid right now, and although it was already established from the start that I was Filipino and did not speak Chinese, the owner seems to keep forgetting and keeps on speaking to me in Chinese anyway.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Going for the first time to Portugal next month, and so I’m finally gonna take on some Portuguese. Let’s see how far I get in a month knowing Spanish.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Normalize leaving your gay dads at home unattended

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Another day, another pat in the back for a masterful use of the Spanish past subjunctive

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Code-switched to corporatese at a meeting this morning, and I’m torn between feeling proud of myself and vomiting my brains out.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Spanish really said “Y’all on your own” when it dropped all the conjugations for ser and ir.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I always like to think that at some point, I must have had Malay-speaking Tagalog ancestors that were disappointed that their kids weren't learning Malay anymore, which at the time was considered a prestigious language. Don’t worry, lolo and lola, I got you.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Yay! How are you gonna prepare for it

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Does anyone else use glosbe.com? I typically rely on Reverso for looking up sample sentences for vocab, but, while it's good for many European languages, it doesn't offer many languages in other regions. But Glosbe does! So far, the sample sentences in Indonesian have been helpful! #langsky

glosbe.com

Glosbe Dictionary - All Languages of the World in One Place

Glosbe dictionary - one place, all languages! Translations, example sentences, pronunciation recordings and grammar references. Check it out!

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Duolingo, Clozemaster, and Anki for Indonesian done before 7 am. Let’s see how long this lasts. #langsky

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Saw a French news headline and was thrown off by the spelling of ‘otage.’ I would’ve expected something like ‘hôtage.’ #langsky please explain.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Magpapakain sana ako kanina, pero yung mga papakainin ko e nakakain na pala, kaya kinain ko na lang nang mag-isa yung ipapakain ko, nag-aalala na ang hindi ko makain sa huli ay kailangang kong ipakain na lang sa kahit sinong gustong kumain ng mga tirang hindi nakain ng ibang tao.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

At a Dutch restaurant in Jakarta, and I wondered: Imagine you’re an alien visiting Earth. You land in Indonesia and discover the local cuisine, realizing spicy food isn’t for you. You stumble into a Dutch restaurant, and you cautiously ask if the food is spicy. The way I would laugh as the waiter…

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hehe Tagalog is an L1. Now that I think about it, maybe it’s just the gossiping itself that’s fun, regardless of the language…

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Tagalog gossip sesh I just had with a friend felt soooo good.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

One of my favorite things to do in Spanish is playing with word order. Like I’m just dragging the subject around because it feels right.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I liked one reel on Instagram from some telenovela, and now the algorithm thinks I love them. It is not wrong.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I think that’s exactly how it works with certain languages if their language machine or whatever doesn’t have direct links between two languages

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It’s just Jerbear, a common nickname for Jeremies (Jeremy’s?), but in Spanish 💃🏽 When I first created it on Twitter, I meant for it to be an account for me to practice my Spanish. I never actually used it though. Then I discovered langtwt and then repurposed it for just general language tomfoolery.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Today, during a meeting where some colleagues where speaking in Indonesian, I recognized one particular word that I had studied that helped me follow the conversation even though I wasn’t understanding every word. It made me really happy because it was a clear indicator that I was making progress.

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I too was at Bumpbanana!

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

You went to Slampole, Thailand?

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Jerbear @jer-oso.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Meanwhile, I had to use the following Indonesian terms: ‘percobaan,’ ‘ledakan,’ and ‘yang dimaksud’: Jepang mau lakukan percobaan untuk ngebom suatu tempat tanpa ledakan. Percobaan yang dimaksud menurut negara lain bodoh.

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