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Anonymous08/29/25, 11:42No.2818087
Any language learners here?
Ive learned conversational Central Thai and Khmer in 5 years traveling the region but always have to go back home every 6 months to make money. During that time my language skills tank despite having friends I talk to pretty much daily. I try to also only watch native content but admittedly their media sucks balls. Is this decline inevitable or does anyone have tips to mitigate this?
My next language, Burmese, is going to be even harder and I'm thinking about just teaching English so I can stay in the country longer and master this language through exposure again. Unfortunately there is a war going on, though Yangon should be safe enough for at least a few more years. What's teaching English like? I'm ok with shit pay I just need enough to pay for rent and street food.
Sorry for rambling, was up late last night and my brain is scrammbllllled. Time for work.
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Anon08/29/25, 12:44No.2818104
You spent five years learning Central Thai and Khmer without a job in SEA and didn't look into English teaching at any point until now?
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Anon08/29/25, 13:34No.2818112
we don't have to learn the language to coom.
...or maybe we do and that's why we fail to coom.
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Anon08/29/25, 13:35No.2818114
You seriously considering long term residence in Burma?
I'm considering a month there but all the human trafficking into scam centers has me a bit spooked.
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Anon08/29/25, 23:58No.2818258
OP this place is for losers. No one here will have a good answer for you.
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Anon08/30/25, 01:13No.2818279
>go back home every 6 months to make mone
how do you do that?
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Anon08/30/25, 04:18No.2818311
I dont get GTO. Is there some deep meaning to it, or just a "watch it and forget" type of show?
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Anon08/30/25, 07:42No.2818335
How old are you?I enjoyed language learning in my 20s. I learned Korean to a conversational fluency pretty quickly at university and I still love surprising people with it.
But then I moved to Japan around when I turned 30 and learning Japanese has been way more of a drag, even though it's so similar to Korean grammatically. It's like my brain used to soak up language like a sponge even in my 20s, but now it's kinda given up and I have to force all information in there.
I kinda regret not learning Mandarin at some point. Yeah it sounds fucking disgusting but it unlocks so much shit, you can talk not only to the 20 billion chinks in China itself but also in all these other countries where there's another billion of them.
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Anon08/30/25, 11:28No.2818368
>Ive learned conversational Central Thai and Khmer
Why? I know people even learn bantu or other shit but why would anyone waste time to learn a completely useless meme languages on the level of african click noises NOBODY speaks with ZERO value and now wants to learn another click noise dialect that even less than nobody speaks?
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Anon09/01/25, 14:57No.2819062
People here are too lazy to learn languages
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Anon09/02/25, 18:25No.2819593
I'm learning Japanese for my trip in 3 months. I doubt I'll be able to speak much, but it's worth trying.
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Anon09/05/25, 22:50No.2820709
Based language learner
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Anon09/10/25, 00:39No.2822191
Immersion works both ways my dude and is just how our brains are wired up for language.
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Anon09/22/25, 17:36No.2826308
No I hate anything but English
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Anon10/07/25, 14:40No.2830535
any anon not knowing the local language is LAZY. you know native english and live in the time of high speed internet. literal silver spoondo you realize how many people have internet access, but can't read the internet. let alone read at all.shame on u bredren
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Anon10/16/25, 15:21No.2833104
That's pretty normal. You're not special faggot