Gabriella Haworth wrote: 30 Nov 2021, 17:09 I really want to learn Khmer, since I have a bunch of family in Cambodia. Apparently it has the largest alphabet in the world... 52 characters...

(alphabet as in a phonetic list of sounds, rather than Mandarin for example which has characters)

That's a lot! If you learn the language, I will forever credit you with that ability. Kudos to you and your family!

Wait, there's a British form of sign language?

I find it hard to write doing sign language-


Yes Ari, there's one for every country I believe-

for instance- the country Turkey, isn't signed like a (american) Q shaking back and forth under your chin... it's like a cresent moon with your hand against your forehead because of the moon on their flag I believe

I didn't know that. I only knew of French, American, and Brazilian sign language. And this one tribe of people who live somewhere around Indonesia that I researched for a project three years ago.

I honestly wish I could learn another language, but I find it really hard and I've recently realised I have a resilience level of 10% when it comes to things I find really hard. I thought about trying out Duolingo for a while but then I realises that it has some slightly questionable stuff on it. One of my friends uses it and she was asked to translate 'the police know where you shower' lol

he probably wouldn't have tbh @Henry knight because Cassie doesn't really use it apart from when she's around Berry, but if you wanted you could say that Cassie tried to teach him a few words while they were at Hogwarts for the Samhain ball

Oh yes! I guess it's a bit like accents @Ari Gwild

Yeah- I think its an ASL joke- though I don't like it as much- the sign for "French" or "France" is the same as "French Fries"

@Lucia Fox duolingo is ok as long as you read and study the explanations that come with each section instead of just doing the exercises and tests etc. If you just do that, it only teaches you vocab, whereas you have to make sure to read the grammar stuff as well. I'd recommend it though - I'm a substantial way through the German course on there and I started Norwegian too but that didn't go too far XD

I know a bit of asl ooc but I wish that I had motivation to learn bsl (British sign language) and I also know enough Chinese from school to hold a conversation.... slightly

True true @Lucia Fox there wouldn't be no reason to use it.... but you said I could.... I might say Charles asked Cassie to teach him so he had another way to talk about others without them knowing or to brag to the others about knowing another language...... sign counts after all

Too good! You speak many languages. I only know French.

I KNEW I SAW YOUR NAME BEFORE XD

Welcome @Zoe Grace

French is such a beautiful language.