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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Having degree 1 autism means having been a child/teen with a model behavior (always quiet, straight A's at school), and then growing into a non-functional adult with great difficulties to achieve things that are taken as a given to other people

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I have heard a lot about the Spanish-Turkish brotherhood trend going on these days on X, but I totally didn't expect to get this message today on Tandem

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Politics talk: I never thought I'd say this, as I was quite skeptical of Pedro Sánchez when he first became president. But God, has he stood his ground against NATO, Isr*el and Tr*mp. This guy has earned my full respect. Gracias, Pedro 🙌🙌🙌

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Wow, your selection looks great too! And reading 'War and Peace' in Russian sounds like a great achievement to me 😄

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Oh, are we actually learning the same languages? That's cool! 😃 Aaand yes, I happen to have that book at home, although I haven't read it yet 😁

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Persian: interest in the history of ancient Persia and also the situation in modern-day Iran Italian: I love Italian art and food + love how it sounds too As you can see, history plays a big role in my language interests 😅

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Haha, thank you! I'll try to sum it up here: Russian: interest in Russian literature and history Turkish: I love how it sounds 😍 + been to Istanbul a couple times (okay, Turkish dramas may also have played a part in that)

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Yeah, I know! Apparently there are some similarities in gramnar structure in these languages. Still, when it comes to phonetics they are very different from each other... I actually think this pronunciation pattern I found was just pure coincidence, haha 😅

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Languages I'm learning in 2026: Russian🇷🇺, Turkish🇹🇷, Persian🇮🇷 and Italian🇮🇹 How about you, #langsky #langtwt?

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Came back here after some time and it seems that #langsky is still a thing! 😃 Who is onboard?

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Still wandering around here, but not as often as I used to. Unfortunately, it seems this platform has not bevone as popular as (I think) it had the potential to be

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Yeay, being afraid of sounding silly is the worst. And definitely, I think letting go of your mother tongue is a very important step if you want to really be fluent in a new language 💯

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

That's a very good point indeed! Yes, I think many people (unfortunately) feel lame or awkward when changing their natural/native way of pronouncing things 😟

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Wow, Arabic sounds like an incredibly hard language in terms of pronunciation 😅 Did you take lessons with a teacher/tutor or did you learn by yourself?

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Hey #langtwt #langsky! In your opinion, what majes some people particularly good with pronunciation in foreign languages?

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A bit like Catalan and Valencian, I guess

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Do Serbians and Croatians claim to speak different languages?

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The bottom line is that the more languages you know, the easier it is to learn new ones, even if they are seemingly unrelated. #langtwt #langsky

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Are Korean and Turkish related? No that I know of, apart from both being agglutinative languages. Turkish has vowel harmony, Korean doesn't. And yet, I can find a similarity in consonant change rules between both languages. 😁

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Some years ago, I tried to learn Korean but gave up very quickly. Pronunciation and spelling made no sense to me and I couldn't retain vocabulary. Now, after learning Turkish, something has clicked, and Korean pronunciation rules seem slightly more logical.

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Exactly! Even if Urdu has a heavier influence from Persian, people claiming they are two separate languages has more to do with politics and religion than with actual linguistic differences

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Probably my hottest take related to languages is that Hindi and Urdu are dialects of one and the same language, and I will die on that hill. #langtwt #langsky

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

That's great! Keep going! 👏👏👏

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

That sounds great! Sounds like you have a very good Japanese level, is that right?

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

That sounds good! Practicing handwriting is super relaxing ☺️

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Hey #langtwt #langsky! How is everyone's summer going? Any (language) plans you want to share? 🌞😎

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Hey #langsky! Do you like listening to podcasts in your target languages? If so, what languages/topics do you like to listen about?

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

HI: 'crazy in love' and 'someone who shares your pain'. Both super poetic 🥰 TR: it just means 'goodbye', but in a more literal sense it means 'keep smiling' IT: 'brushed', I just think it sounds funny FA: same as in Hindi (actually, it seems the word हमदर्द/همدرد is originally Persian) 😀

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

EN: 'so beautiful that it takes away your breath', so poetic CA: 'caress', I think both the meaning and the sound are so sweet ES: it's a fancy way on saying 'stupid, I just think it's funny RU: 'destined' or 'meant to be', very representative of the Russian culture 👇

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

EN: breathtaking CA: moixaina ES: mentecato RU: суждено HI: दीवाना, हमदर्द TR: güle güle IT: spazzolato FA: I don't know the language well enough, but I'd say همدرد (hamdard), same as in Hindi!

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Wow, that's so many languages! Adding the #langsky hashtag to spread it through the community 😊

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

That's so cool! 😊 I feel these two are such underrated languages, especially Hindi!

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

🇫🇮 Spent some months in Finland on an Erasmus exchange 🇮🇹 Loved the sound of it (first self-taught language) 🇮🇳 Liked Bollywood movies 🇰🇷 Had seen some Korean movies and series (gave up very quickly as I found it too hard 😅) 🇹🇷 Loved the sound of it 🇮🇷 Was curious about the Persian influence on Hindi

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

List of languages that I have learned or tried to learn throughout my life: 🇦🇩 Mother tongue, spoken at home 🇪🇦 At school, with friends or out there 🇬🇧🇺🇲 Subject at school 🇲🇫 Optional subject in high school 🇷🇺 Chose it as my second foreign language in uni 👇

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Interesting! I might want to look more into the topic 🤔

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

That spund really cool! 😃 And I myself had not heard about language grief before 🤔

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

About the thesis topic 😅 But well, about the MA too 😛

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Ha sortit "Mistborn" (Fills de la boira) en català i, com a bona amant de la literatura fantàstica, no m'he pogut estar de comprar-lo 🥰 Visca les editorials com @maimes.bsky.social que aposten per la fantasia en català 🫶

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Thank you for the detailed explanation 😊 It's always interesting to know more about any language!

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I see so many people rooting for Basque 😀

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Oh, yes, Tagalog would be a great addition too! So many Asian languages are missing 😅

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Interesting! Just out of curiosity, in what ways is Malay different from Indonesian? I thought they were actually the same language 😅

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Tara's Thoughts @tarasthoughts.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Ahhh, I thought they had Thai already, turns out they don't 🙁

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