Breasts - Der Busen (Masculine! Boobs is masculine!)

Die Brust (some parents give milk from it)
!= Der Busen (sometimes the full upper torso front, the chest)
!= Das Euter (breast of milk giving animals)

I think each language has some trait that feels arbitrary, hard to learn. I think the purpose is, to be able to figure out foreigners who didn't "drink the language from mother's breast". I believe, historically/evolutionary, language speakers had to quickly sort out infiltrated traitors.

• how to speak written words in English
• articles among central European languages like French, German
• cases among eastern European languages
• when to say "sk" like "sh" in Swedish
• measure words in Mandarin

Overall, false friends are everywhere because our brain works in associations.

Dutch (probably applicable for a bunch of Germanic languages), the way a word at the end can modify the whole meaning of the sentence as I've already mentally parsed it.

I need a book Ik heb een boek nodig

I have a book need

So my brain has got to 'boek' and therefore already finished that part of the sentence as 'I have a book', only to have a new word thrown in. It feels like a kid saying "I like you........ NOT".

And time... Ugh... Half past seven = Half acht (eight) Twenty five past one = Vijf voor half twee (five before half two).

On the other hand, dutch swear words? Sublime. Gezellig? Amazing word. Swaffelen? Chef's kiss.

As a German I have to agree: Yes, the whole gender system of the language is nuts.

And false friends work in both ways.

My favorite:
bekommen - to get
become - werden

"I become a sausage!"

And you have to relearn the whole genders, if you start learning romance languages.

German, french, Italian:

Die Sonne (f), le soleil, il sole (m).

der Mond (m), la lune, la luna (f).

And lots more like that.

I've only learned Germanic and Romance languages before, so learning Finnish feels like repeatedly running against a wall, hoping the wall will give up.
It's incredibly frustrating.

I think Japanese writing is really stupid. Any given character has many potential pronunciations, and they for some reason tacked on multiple syllabaries instead of just doing their own thing like the Koreans did.

Some of their printed media has both kanji and also a furigana pronunciation key so that younger people can read it, which makes me ask why they don't just use one system that everyone can read.

Typing is a nightmare because you type what you're saying phonetically, but then you have to select which kanji you want for the correct meaning, and you also have to switch between which version of the syllabary you want. It's too many extra steps.

Chinese is similar, but I forgive them because hanzi is their own historical system instead of a messy version of someone else's, and I feel like the pronunciations and meanings are much more consistent. I can appreciate the historical value and artistry of it in a way I just can't with Japanese kanji.

As a polyglot person I've to say that his is the shit which makes me the most mad about the transgenders issue. Our languages evolved independently defining differently the gender of words based on how the different people "felt" about them. If we can accept that these "feelings" are valid and we teach them to students learning a new language why cannot we accept that a person feeling about its gender are valid as well? Unlogical shit, let me tell you