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To clarify, the posts I put up here involving the culture and/or the language usage never come without a purpose or translations below (especially in the latter case). I may use the tongue in occasional posts & even in the hashtags combined with other elements, but it remains in conscious efforts to help others learn about the culture & history as well hopefully to reach out to the titular people & others regardless to better understand the cultures through time & space. Any hashtags you see here in the language will of course include a translation in similar hopes of reaching out. Iyayraykere.

Outsiders are not not saving a language by learning it.

While I’m personally grateful services like Tribalingual exist, creating some academic access to Indigenous languages, particularly for Indigenous diaspora (if they can afford it), I’m extremely dubious of the notion that a outsiders learning an Indigenous language is somehow “saving” it. There was a testimonial from some white American girl learning Ainu itak, and she spoke of it as if she were collecting some rare Pokemon card before it went out of print or something, framing it in typical dying Native rhetoric. What is she going to do with Ainu itak, except as some obscure lingual trophy?

If you want to save a language, save the people.

Language means nothing without history and culture breathing life into it, and in turn we are disconnected from our history and ancestors without it. Support Indigenous quality of life, ACCESS to quality education, quality health services (mental and physical), land and subsistence rights, CLEAN DRINKING WATER, advocate against police brutality and state violence, DEMAND ACTION FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN.

Damn, if you really want to “save the language” pay for an Indigenous person’s classes for them to reconnect to their mother tongues. I’m not saying outsiders shouldn’t learn languages they’re invited to learn, but don’t pretend like you learning conversational Ainu itak is saving it from extinction.

Attraction placements

Attracted to foreigners

Sagittarius/Aquarius/Aries/Gemini/Pisces Venus.

Jupiter/Uranus in the 7th house.

Aries/Sagittarius/Air signs/Pisces in the cusp of the 7th house.

Venus/Mars in the 9th/11th house.

Venus/Mars in any aspect to Uranus/Jupiter.

Attracted to older people

Capricorn/Libra Venus/Moon/Mars.

Saturn in the 7th house.

Capricorn/Libra in the cusp of the 7th house.

Venus/Mars in the 10th house.

Venus/Mars in any aspect to Saturn.

Attracted to intelligence

Air signs/Virgo/Capricorn/Sagittarius Venus/Moon/Mars.

Mercury/Uranus/Jupiter in the 7th house.

The air signs/Virgo/Sagittarius in the cusp of the 7th house.

Venus/Mars in the 3rd/6th house.

Venus/Mars in any aspect to Mercury/Uranus/Jupiter.

Me: *reading, speaking

Also Me: How is it to think in other language?

Still Me: *try thinking in english

Now this is why foreigners have problems with english. I can understand.

I don’t have that problem. I’m german. But still.

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Trust me. This is not the only thing we are worrying about. Lol

British English and American English. The difference between their use of words. That’s the real struggle

I wonder what it’s like learning English as a non-native language and having to learn that double negatives are a major grammatical no-no, but simultaneously are an extremely important and useful social indicator used by most native speakers.