Trying to speak your target language with native speakers is absolutely terrifying in general lol but it's also a necessary step if you want to become proficient in a language. Plus it's all in your head anyway. The people you're talking to are more likely to be impressed than judge you. And even if they do judge you who cares, learning a new language is hard, nobody just wakes up one morning having become fluent in a new language.I know French as a second language and was too self-conscious to speak it when I went to Paris lol (I once bought a roast chicken and the bewildered shopkeeper asked me where I was from after I switched to my Canadian English to talk to my brother... anyway). I would genuinely like her to try, it'd probably be good for her to give it a go
Paris is a rough place though. People will genuinely judge you for every. thing. you do. I have relatives and friends there and from my experience, most parisians feel extremely entitled just because they live there. Teenage girls are the worst, I wish I couldn’t understand them sometimes. As a non-parisian in Paris, your confidence will probably goI know French as a second language and was too self-conscious to speak it when I went to Paris lol (I once bought a roast chicken and the bewildered shopkeeper asked me where I was from after I switched to my Canadian English to talk to my brother... anyway). I would genuinely like her to try, it'd probably be good for her to give it a go
I thought it was nice (this girl actually seems to do stuff with actual friends, work on her writing, and Roobee was just a brief mention in a busy day - like actually busy, not just busywork busy).
I'm not even sure if this video is related to the thread because I've not watched it but I saw her name and had to share it with you guys!
This is so true, I struggled for a longggg time with these thoughts when I was speaking my second language, but the worst thing that has ever happened when I messed up a word or sentence was the person I was speaking to laughed, thought it was cute, corrected me and instantly moved on lol. Plus, I’ve spoken to plenty of people who could barely speak English and I’ve never once judged or looked down on anyone for butchering a word or sentence (apart from Ruby lmfaooo) so it’s pretty unlikely that anyone would do it to me, and if they do, they’re just ignorantTrying to speak your target language with native speakers is absolutely terrifying in general lol but it's also a necessary step if you want to become proficient in a language. Plus it's all in your head anyway. The people you're talking to are more likely to be impressed than judge you. And even if they do judge you who cares, learning a new language is hard, nobody just wakes up one morning having become fluent in a new language.
Seeing her imitate Ruby and her entire weird, fake Emma Watson vocal style down to a tee is really sad considering this girl seems to have far more going on in life and is undoubtedly much smarter. Hope she ditches Ruby like a bad habit and does her own thing.I thought it was nice (this girl actually seems to do stuff with actual friends, work on her writing, and Roobee was just a brief mention in a busy day - like actually busy, not just busywork busy).
The she said she was listening to Soff-John Stevensand it all went down the drain.
"Academic rivals."Lmao, the only thing that is honestly part of Roobee's ~*aEstHetic*~ is just her desperate, endless need for constnt academic validationView attachment 1469601
The thumbnail looks like someone pasted a colorized picture of their great aunt in October 1913 into a photo they took with their friend in summer 2022
I'm not even sure if this video is related to the thread because I've not watched it but I saw her name and had to share it with you guys!
I went to high school in England and did GCSE Spanish, although parts of the course were modified/cut out because it was during lockdown, and the government said we didn’t have to do the official exams. Personally in my class, learning a whole paragraph by heart was seen by teachers as the desperate option, and it wasn’t encouraged. In Year 9 (students around 14 yrs old i think) we did a year of Spanish to get a feel for the language if we wanted to do it at GCSE, but we still had to do a Spanish end of year exam, so people who weren’t going to study it further would try and memorise a paragraph just to make ends meet and get a decent grade from the exam. However, what I also remember is my friend memorising a generic paragraph that she thought would work, only for the exam question to be different which basically ruined her answer because it had nothing to do with the question, and she couldn’t salvage it because she had no actual knowledge of the language. So based on that I’d also say that learning a paragraph just to get a good grade is risky because you can never guarantee the question in the exam, and as far as I’m aware in GCSEs and A-Levels the exam boards make up new questions for every yearDon’t know if this is an England thing but why would you learn a whole paragraph by heart (if that’s what she was doing, already forgot tbh). It seems highly ineffective so it’s absolutely something I could see Ruby come up with. When I was learning languages in school (in Germany) we were doing those transfer kinda exercises and spontaneous speaking so we could adapt to unexpected scenarios. Feel like what Ruby is doing there gets you good grades but nothing beyond it
I grew up speaking Spanish and I could not understand one word she saidHahahahahah it’s this video, she speaks a bit in it
She seems nice, and a her video is a lot more watchable than Ruby's, but have you noticed how many of these studytubers/vloggers seem really privileged and middle-class? That's not a dig at anyone. I just think it's noticeable. (Yes, I am making an assumption about this person's life lol).
I'm not even sure if this video is related to the thread because I've not watched it but I saw her name and had to share it with you guys!
legitimate video or just body checking?View attachment 1469701
Does anyone get vibes from Chopin’s The Awakening from this?
Yeah but also, Paris.Trying to speak your target language with native speakers is absolutely terrifying in general lol but it's also a necessary step if you want to become proficient in a language. Plus it's all in your head anyway. The people you're talking to are more likely to be impressed than judge you. And even if they do judge you who cares, learning a new language is hard, nobody just wakes up one morning having become fluent in a new language.
Sometimes I think that her accent lets her get away with writing like this bc if I, an American, read this out loud I would get dragged by everyone in the comments lmao“Not tepid, still cold. Cold like lemonade, not too intense…….in a necessary sort of way” - Ruby Granger, the brightest writer of her generation.
the real accent or her fake Hermione accent?Sometimes I think that her accent lets her get away with writing like this bc if I, an American, read this out loud I would get dragged by everyone in the comments lmao
the fake Hermione one of coursethe real accent or her fake Hermione accent?
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