I thought of using an app but then just said 'eh' *shrugs shoulders*

I don't think there's an app for learning Taiwanese, which is what I'm trying to learn.

how do you not know that, don't you live there?

It's a dialect, but since no one in the family speaks it, I never got around to learning it. When other people speak it around me it just sounds like gibberish. I only understand a few phrases.

man that must suck

Oh I can as it's more like Cajun. It's a dialect of the French language. It's a shame you didn't understand it from when you were little.

oh that's really interesting!! that reminds me of when Cuban people speak Spanish to me, it sounds SO DIFFERENT.

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Originally Posted by ghostPastry

oh that's really interesting!! that reminds me of when Cuban people speak Spanish to me, it sounds SO DIFFERENT.

yeah it's like the King's English and ours
still speaking English but I don't get most of it

@Kirin: Yeah, it does suck. So many people use it as a form of 'close speech' (like if they want you to buy something they'll use that dialect as a form of talking like if you're friends and not strangers) for many situations I'm always left awkwardly explaining that I don't understand it and they'll all stare at my like I'm weird. It's also annoying because I don't understand it and yet people keep expecting me to and then continue to speak it around me despite knowing that I don't understand a word of it.

@Hummy: They sound almost completely different so it's hard for me to translate them from one to another.

I can understand that.
using military lingo
is the same way

Adapting to a new set of lingo is hard too...I guess I just suck at languages because it always takes me a while before I get them.

yeah, when you have to think too hard
it kind of ruins the language for me

Yeah. I guess my dislike of Taiwanese doesn't help, I don't know why but I just don't like the language so it's interfering with my trying to learn it when I'm instinctively repulsed by it.

oh that's funny

And very frustrating for me. I'm like annoyed whenever I hear it but at the same time I have to listen to it in order to try and make sense of what they're saying.

I'm sure you have picked up more than you think

I hope so, it's all still gibberish whenever I hear people speaking it. I only understand snippets like when they're saying 'okay' or are cussing.

lol. the swearing is always what I seem to learn as well

Yeah they always seem to be the easiest things to learn in a language for some reason

probably because you seem to hear them more often

And they just leave more of an impression I guess.

and like for me, I look for them

I don't really look for them, but I just pick them up faster.

I look for them