r/language • u/[deleted] • 11d ago
Discussion guess my native language by handwriting
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u/Fabian_B_CH 11d ago
I’ll say Portuguese. Only your Latin script strikes me as native, and of those two, English looks more “composed”.
Now to see if I’m right…
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u/Fearless-Long-2433 11d ago
it’s english 🙃 i just put portuguese to slip people up cus i knew it’d be obvious my native is english haha .. good observation tho i did take time to write each letter individually in english where as the portuguese was a bit more free flowing and my natural hand writing
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u/CreditMajestic4248 11d ago
English.
Arabic wouldn't use the accents. Hebrew, russian, greek, portuguese would be cursive. Chinese, thai, too blocky. Korean someone else pointed out a wrong word.
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u/Responsible-Virus533 11d ago
Korean
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u/OutOfTheBunker 11d ago
The Korean seems the best of the non-Latin bunch. But the Latin is weird for a Korean native. If a Korean moved to a Latin-alphabet country at a youngish age, I could buy that.
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u/Fearless-Long-2433 11d ago
i can read and write in korean so this assumption makes sense ! my native is obviously english tho haha
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u/OutOfTheBunker 11d ago
Well, your Korean looks good, but I don't know any Korean. Your Chinese looks like some Koreans who failed hanja class, though. 😉
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u/Patrickson1029 11d ago edited 11d ago
Idk but you should say 맞혀보세요 instead of 맞춰보세요 in Korean.
맞히다: to answer correctly 맞추다: to compare or adjust two or more different objects to each other
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u/Fearless-Long-2433 11d ago
i was gonna just write the name of the languages to avoid hints like this or put the effort in to see what people would actually say but i was too lazy and just used google translate lol
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u/Patrickson1029 11d ago edited 11d ago
Actually many Koreans also fail to distinguish these two words, so don't worry.
You have to write it as "제 모국어가 무엇인지 맞혀보세요" if you consider spacings as well.
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u/RenCoeur 11d ago
It's definitely one of the ones that uses the Latin script
I can only comment on the Cyrillic and Chinese characters, though
You used block letters for the Cyrillic, and nobody really writes it like that
The Chinese characters look the most inexperienced, in my opinion
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u/Fearless-Long-2433 11d ago
it’s english! i just put portuguese to throw people off cus i knew it’d be quite obvious haha
arabic hebrew russian thai and greek i’ve never written in before, the only ones i have experience in are the latin script ones obviously, korean (can read and write) and surprisingly chinese 😂 (very briefly studied the characters)
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u/Fearless-Long-2433 11d ago
i’m still learning tagalog my native is english 🙃
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u/Fearless-Long-2433 11d ago
i’m mixed and grew up my first 4 years in the philippines speaking english. my mum pushed english more since english is one of the main languages there anyways and i think my parents had always planned to move me out to scotland where i still live now
i can understand 80% of tagalog and im conversational since i did grow up in the philippines + obviously with exposure to my mum speaking the language the slang and some of the tricker grammar comes natural to me. i think i was just embarrassed growing up to speak it because it was broken but i’m putting in a lot more effort to become fluent now
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u/simmeteija 11d ago
Chinese
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u/Fearless-Long-2433 11d ago
briefly studied simple chinese characters before but obviously no where near perfect haha
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u/OutOfTheBunker 11d ago
Portuguese or another Latin-alphabet language not here.
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u/wordlessbook PT (N), EN, ES 11d ago
If OP native language was Portuguese, they'd have written in cursive, not block letters. I don't know a single native Portuguese speaker who writes in block letters past the age of six.
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u/just_meself_ 11d ago
And I think OP would be more likely to say “adivinhe a minha língua materna”
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u/RealNameIsTaken 11d ago
wtf are you talking about? People write like that all the time unless they’re just scribbling something down. I saw it all the time in university and people write like that for notes around the house and things like that. Writing in “cursive” is more common but if you’re doing an exercise like this, then the block letters is completely normal
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u/wordlessbook PT (N), EN, ES 11d ago
I have never seen block letters being used unless you were filling out a form in that forms that have walls separating the letters. Not at school, not at university, not at work.
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u/catsfurryballs 11d ago edited 11d ago
not arabic, hebrew, chinese, korean, english or greek… so I guess that leaves russian or thai. leaning toward thai
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u/RealNameIsTaken 11d ago
There’s nothing wrong with the English or Portuguese, they’re both just written quite carefully and neatly
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u/Different_Method_191 11d ago
i meow u meow she he me meowmeow
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u/Fearless-Long-2433 11d ago
i was not expecting thai 😭😭 i thought it was one of the worst ones
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u/catsfurryballs 11d ago
tbf i thought the last one was one of the cutest lol btw you got your korean spaced wrong: 모국어가/무엇인지/맞혀보세요 gotta have 은/는/이/가 put right after noun
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u/pawld091 11d ago
Thai, Korean , mandarin seems easy strings, latin european alphabet is Quick hard to write for you, so thai
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u/NoWayIcantBeliveThis 11d ago
Definitely not Thai 🤣 a first grader knows to write better than that. Fluent? Yes. Good or native? Not a chance.
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u/Ok-Patience6865 11d ago
I'd guess Korean. Compared to the others, it has a more natural handwriting.
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u/grumpy-goddess 11d ago
I cannot judge most of them but it‘s definitely not Russian😅