/adv/ — how to deanglicize myself?

>>34614907 (OP)
where from?

>>34614952
arabic speaking country, is this enough? i hope you're not asking just to tell me that it's actually a good thing i'm like this if im from a nationality/ethnicity you don't like. so i will keep it vague

i'd like to at least get the method and apply to whatever situation without deanonymisation

yes im muslim, yes through this anglicization i know some trivial things about christianity(also it's not like christians don't live with us, there's a sizeable christian minority here and i have some catholic friends)

bump

>>34614907 (OP)
Stop using the internet, western clothes and technology, and immerse yourself in whatever your native culture is

>>34615031
>immerse yourself in your local culture
how? i barely know how to speak in my mother tongue sadly

>stop using the internet
do you mean the internet as a whole or the english speaking internet, both of which i am tethered to because i've befriended people who speak english and use it to educate myself

>western technology
how in any way will this get me ahead in

>western clothes
believe it or not this anglicisation has already happened and people here wear pants and flannels and shirts and coats and watches, etc.

wouldn't i look like a fool wearing a folk costume everywhere, refusing to engage with any car(not locally produced), phone(only landlines have been installed), computer system(not programmed or produced here), anything on the internet(in the end i'll only be able to comfortably read anything written in english)?

these are pretty extreme for anywhere, believe it or not, due to something called globalisation which causes every country to only locally produce part or none of its resources. i'm not asking to forget and ignore the 'western world' but rather to be able to interact with locals comfortably pls(impossible to cut myself away from these people whom i am from and love and befriend and feel indebted to)

please suggest practical methods, and all thanks in advance :-)

>learn your local language
>be with old-school family
>partake in local traditions
That's it

>>34615092
how long would it take given that i know the pronunciation but grammar and vocabulary is minimal?

i really wonder if there are other cases of people like this now or in history and how they coped with this

>>34614907 (OP)
How do you lose your native language lol
Are you from an expat family or something? You never went to school?

>>34615111
taught in a kind of english school where arabic is a second language and exceptionally picked up english so much so that i have arrested (linguistic) development

yes i also know it's a strange and embarrassing situation but the only way forward is through; this or the flood. so please try to help instead of ridicule, lest you be overcome with a strange fate of your own :-)

>>34615147
international school*, sorry

>>34615147
And your family doesn't speak Arabic? And all your friends are foreigners, or maybe you're a richfag neet that doesn't even have to buy his own food or talk to people ever? Just take Arabic lessons desu then you can just join the local fun gangs

>>34615224
they do, i'm just quite timid in that regard

it's not like I lost everything, I can understand what is being said in standard and in my dialect, and have ok-ish reading skills but I have difficulties in speaking or writing on my own. i'd assume that even if not to take arabic lessons i should probably go into studying grammar and reading in arabic more since my goal is to better my literacy(nobody can study dialect)

>>34615363
I mean if you understand it and live in an arabic speaking country you just have to go outside and practice, join hobby groups or whatever
But you're on 4chan so this might be more difficult than it seems lol

>>34615409
thanks for replying

most of my friends are from similar backgrounds(also tck, cross cultural) so i guess at the very least i could just switch our conversations from english to arabic and see if we could 'improve' together!

>you're on 4chan, so this might be more difficult than it seems
Yes, I'm an introvert. Yes I've now resorted to going to 4chan. Yes, I'm a fool in most social situations. Yes, I'm coddled. Despite all this, I still want to enter the world of people --- I wasn't born to be a monk