I find that I’ve written quite a few jocular posts about language learning—here are some faves.
Most remarkably, how not to learn Japanese:
On Chinese:
- two classic stories from Paul Kratochvil (here and here), as well as
- struggling with some arcane pinyin, and
- Changing language
Intriguing shopfront https://stephenjones.blog/2017/09/10/shabi/
For swearing and Verlan in French:
On the limited French vocabulary of the English:
See also
And here David Sedaris covers various languages, including Japanese and German:
