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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

But what if I'm quadrilingual?

beeg braine

[–] stoy 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Still dumb enough to smoke...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Smart is when only healthy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's clearly a bripe. Dude is getting his coffee on

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

You become the gigachad who realizes that most of school education is probably not worth the attention, you skip through classes and master things you really enjoy doing in the meantime.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Then in college realizes that they have the attention span of a 5 year old and have zero discipline to do prep reading before class. Fails the first year and becomes a drop out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No that's not how my story continues. I didn't buy the "pessimist guide" I bought the "personal resource management" book.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Not really, I don't have the discipline to learn web development. My attention span is very low, and I have a bias towards software libraries. I waste most of my time playing around with cool open-source projects. This is why I'm still jobless. Then there's also shitty, low paying IT jobs, recession and entry-level positions looking for 5+ years of experience.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This study considers me monolingual since I never learned my second language in a classroom and. I learned it as an adult. So…I guess fluency doesn’t count. Que grosero.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you want to really sound like a spanish speaker say it like hijueputas. In english I'd transcibe it like ee-hway-POO-tahs. It sounds way more rude like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I am a native spanish speaker, thank you.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

a natively bilingual brain is different from a c2 level l2 brain

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I speak two languages and my brain is still filled with irrelevant information about trains

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For me it's usually plants, and I still manage to suck at them. I do know some fun facts though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'll take one!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago