oh, i seem to have forgotten, can you refresh my mind?
Butt Nationalists! Posterior P O S ‘s! Rear reich!
Now that’s a good memonic.
This convinced me to learn latvian
Indrys
Not me: Remembering basic vocabulary
Me: Maxima XXX is not what you think it is. Get your mind out of the gutter
I also like “šitas”, more casual version of “šis (this)”. It is actually a word we Latvians use often and it literally sounds like “shit ass”. I’ve actually cought myself saying it out loud while on holidays in different countries haha.
Ass nazis is very usefull, you can cut yourself with neass nazis.
I speak English and the only thing I consistently remember is *nākamā pietura*, smh. I heard it so many times on the bus that even the vocal tone is embedded in my mind.
Would it help to remember that potato is “car too police” and onion is “sea poles”?
Also, beans sounds a bit like “poo penis” English speakers claim. And of course, half is “pussy”
So you can make some sort of a story where kartupelis un sīpols redz kā ass nazis sagriež pupiņas uz pusēm
Aside from what the people already said in the comments, imagine my portuguese-speaking ass when the pizza is written as “pica” (informal way of saying d*ck), king is “karalis” (another informal way of saying d*ck), the gas stations are called “viada” (quite an offensive way of saying queer) and there are pharmacies called “drogas” (which just means drugs, but it sounds like you’re going to buy crack), not to mention another handful of words that just sound weird.
Names as well, “Biruta”, is a name you can find in Latvian, in portuguese it is a childish way of saying “crazy”, “Janta” in Latvian is a name, in portuguese it means dinner.
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oh, i seem to have forgotten, can you refresh my mind?
Butt Nationalists! Posterior P O S ‘s! Rear reich!
Now that’s a good memonic.
This convinced me to learn latvian
Indrys
Not me: Remembering basic vocabulary
Me: Maxima XXX is not what you think it is. Get your mind out of the gutter
I also like “šitas”, more casual version of “šis (this)”. It is actually a word we Latvians use often and it literally sounds like “shit ass”. I’ve actually cought myself saying it out loud while on holidays in different countries haha.
Ass nazis is very usefull, you can cut yourself with neass nazis.
I speak English and the only thing I consistently remember is *nākamā pietura*, smh. I heard it so many times on the bus that even the vocal tone is embedded in my mind.
Would it help to remember that potato is “car too police” and onion is “sea poles”?
Also, beans sounds a bit like “poo penis” English speakers claim. And of course, half is “pussy”
So you can make some sort of a story where kartupelis un sīpols redz kā ass nazis sagriež pupiņas uz pusēm
Aside from what the people already said in the comments, imagine my portuguese-speaking ass when the pizza is written as “pica” (informal way of saying d*ck), king is “karalis” (another informal way of saying d*ck), the gas stations are called “viada” (quite an offensive way of saying queer) and there are pharmacies called “drogas” (which just means drugs, but it sounds like you’re going to buy crack), not to mention another handful of words that just sound weird.
Names as well, “Biruta”, is a name you can find in Latvian, in portuguese it is a childish way of saying “crazy”, “Janta” in Latvian is a name, in portuguese it means dinner.
So yeah, I don’t have the maturity to live here.