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>tfw there's no relevant literature in your native language
>tfw you had to master foreign languages to enjoy quality literature at all
>tfw you don't even use them in ordinary life

>> No.6617347

Dante knew that feeling too, you know. So did Chaucer. They did something about it.

>> No.6617363
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6617363

>tfw English
>tfw I am not a pig-ignorant American who cannot understand other English dialogues
>tfw I can watch Trainspotting without subtitles

>> No.6617367

>>6617333
Dutch? Swedish? Norgewian? Finnish? Some asian shithole?

>> No.6617404

>>6617363
>>tfw I can watch Trainspotting without subtitles
I came from a rural Irish village, and it took me a very long time learn ebonics and Southern American language. Unfortunately, there are no English subtitles when watching American films. Something like, "Mah dawg here be makin mad stacks slingin, yo," won't be rendered into something intelligible.

>> No.6617415

>>6617404
D'ya like dags?

>> No.6617459

>>6617333
>native language
WHICH WHAT, HALF-SATAN ?

>> No.6617471

>>6617367
I'm american

>> No.6617563
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6617563

>tfw native Serbo-Croatian speaker

>> No.6617586

>>6617333
What language

>>6617563
>Language has 2 nations

>> No.6617589

>>6617367
>Dutch?
Wow, rude.

>> No.6617594

>>6617563
You've got Ivo Andric at least.

>> No.6617601

>>6617586
It's just serbian, but they need to say serbo-croatian for croatian autism.

>> No.6617606

>>6617367
>Dutch? Swedish? Norgewian?

All of those have great literature though you fucking pleb.

>> No.6617630

>>6617606
No. 2 or 3 good writers is not great literature.

>> No.6617633

>>6617606
What is in your opinion great Swedish literature? I'm curious because that is my mother tongue, but I have mainly read stuff in English lately

>> No.6617744

>>6617404
What village did you come from? Or just the general area? I'm rural Ireland too.

>> No.6617749

>>6617606
Name all your 'great' Dutch writers then.

>> No.6618199

>>6617606
>>6617367
>Dissing Finnish literature
You will never know the ecstasy of reading Volter Kilpi in Finnish. Or Waltari at that.

>> No.6618441

>>6617404
>>6617744
What parts you fellas from? I'm from up north in County Down.

>> No.6618457

Who here is majoring in a foreign language or study? What has your experience been like, and what do you hope for the future?

>> No.6618478

>tfw living in a cultureless post-soviet shithole

>> No.6618573

>>6617563
Look at this nigger. We have a solid amount of good lit. Hektorović, Lucić (poetry) and Držić are great.

>>6617601
Ma crkni, smrdsko smeće jebo ti bog mater izrode sa kompleksom infetiornosti koji mora lagati, fabricirati povijest i izvoditi mentalnu gimnastiku da se uvjeri da je njegova irelevantna država ipak malo relevantnija.