/lang/ - Languages

Well, I'm still around.

8ch is a niche imageboard and language acquisition is a nich interest.

8ch's /int/ was a failed experiment that has been lastingly damaged and foreigners who aren't actively learning foreign languages won't lurk on a /lang/ board.

>>1023

>8ch is a niche imageboard and language acquisition is a nich interest.

Sure, but look at >>>/his/ (I'm from there), it's not fast but lively, even though history isn't exactly mainstream. This will never be a top board, but dunno, it looks promising to me. If it weren't completely dead some shilling could do wonders IMO. And it made it to 1000+ posts. It's a bit depressing.

>8ch's /int/ was a failed experiment that has been lastingly damaged

wew, what do you mean?

>>1023

I think the main reason a board like /lang/ won't get popular is that teaching yourself a new language tends to be a solitary endeavour. At least it is for me. After I've memorised the grammar and done the exercises, maybe read some content in the target language… all that's left to do is to practice it, but I'm too lazy for that.

>8ch's /int/ was a failed experiment that has been lastingly damaged and foreigners who aren't actively learning foreign languages won't lurk on a /lang/ board.

Maybe we could start advertising /lang/ as both a place to learn new languages and a general international board?

>>1024

History provides a lot of room for discussion. People who've never opened a history book in their life can stop by and start a thread like "hey guys is Atlantis real??"

Historical revisionism is also a favourite hobby of a good portion of 8ch's userbase, so there's an audience.

>>1026

>History provides a lot of room for discussion.

In my experience, so do foreign languages. I've spent thousands of chat messages discussing similarities and differences between Italian and English/Lithuanian/whatever.

>Maybe we could start advertising /lang/ as both a place to learn new languages and a general international board?

A board about languages (both learning and discussing/comparing them) would inevitably include /int/ernational debate, but I don't think being a direct competitor is a good idea.

>>1024

>wew, what do you mean?

Well, the whole mod/memesters drama and the /intl/ shism.

>Maybe we could start advertising /lang/ as both a place to learn new languages and a general international board?

I don't agree with this as well. If the board owner wanted to do an alternative /int/ board that he wouldn't have named it /lang/.

/his/ is nice.

You don't have to be learning languages to be interested in linguistics though. There are little things in your language that might be interesting to other people. People may compare how cognate words in their languages work, or laugh at languages that don't have the same loanword for a thing as everyone else (>pineapple >klokan).

Also there could be translation request threads, but this wouldn't work unless the userbase gets big enough.

>>1037

>If the board owner wanted to do an alternative /int/ board that he wouldn't have named it /lang/.

True, but the original board owner left 8chan a long time ago, so I think we're free to disregard his opinion.

>>1055

>>1037

I own >>>/international/

Its a more serious /int/ alternative. Maybe I could cross-link it with this board or something

>>1076

I like what I see. We should definitely be sister boards.

>>1076

>>>/international/47

I've already proposed this in fucking march but whatever.

>>1077

cool, added (btw, why dont you have a sticky)?

now only if we could get a 3-way thing with /his/ going

>>1082

sorry about that, I was going to do that but forgot. I reread your post again a few days ago