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Reply to @desea@snug.moe
Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd@koakuma@uwu.social (2026-09-08 21:24:58)
@desea Exactly!
Personally I don't dare to call myself "competent" in a newly-learned language unless I can maintain a roughly-similar levels of standards of living in it the way I can with the languages I already know
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Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd@koakuma@uwu.social (2026-09-08 21:51:30)
@desea
> call myself "competent"
Or, in more colloquial language, say that I "speak" it

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desea@desea@snug.moe (2026-09-08 21:58:02)
@koakuma culture is so chock full of unadressed shorthands, theres souch nuance to a language based on its cultural context too, speaking it is well and good but theres more meat there than just the visible skin layer