Language Learning / Bilingual / Polyglot Thread

[The 3rd Hooligan]

Eangleash isnt my mom tounge. Im so nice in it.

 

[pierce your heart]

I'm fluent in Greek and English and I know some basic, low level French.
As for what I want to learn: French, Japanese maybe German and Russian. I should probably stop saying I want to learn these languages and actually start brushing up on my French and learning Hiragana and Katakana.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

Better Off Dead - Language Lessons

youtu.be

 

[Your mom96]

Ich den Strang gern.

 

[Teadrinkr]

Know: English
Good at: German
Shit at: Chinese, Japanese.

I'm taking lessons in Chinese and German. Japanese is just me learning the kana and kanji pronunciation. No real grammar outside of simple sentences (my name is, i am a student, how are you, etc.)

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

"це було як електричне, і я як мул, можу з'їсти 20,000 міліграм синтетичного героїну і жити було так, як коли ти вкладаєш цю річ у так чи тобі. ви отримаєте eлектричний струм, ви можете відчути електрику у своєму тілі і начтупного дня" -Josh, in Ukraine 2019
also, I'm learning Ukrainian

 

[Kill All Kiwis]

I speak English almost all the time. I understand a lot of Spanish and speak a little but that’s because I live in a Spanish household in a Spanish neighborhood, but I never really learned it. I wanna speak French, but I don’t know where to begin. I think I have to do some combination of learning grammar and doing some comprehensive input but gathering all of these resources is kinda tedious. I’m not really motivated to learn French because I don’t live in an environment where I can use what I learn in real life (use or lose it).

I have other things to learn so it’s tough to focus on language learning.

 

[Ligoskj]

So far, I use only two languages for engagement and messaging with people: Russian and English. The first is my native language and the second I had been learning literally since my very early childhood. Eventually, it became my second more or less fluent language by 1993 (when I was already living in Spokane). I have some plans to start learning German and Serbo-Croatian, even though I'm not sure if I will really need them in the future. I also understand most of the Polish and Ukrainian words, and Belorussian is the only foreign language I 100% understand (apart of English, ofc, but that doesn't count), but sadly not the one I speak.

 

[Lumin]

Jeg er Amerikansk og snakker/skriver/leser Norsk og lærer Finsk.

Puhun vain vähän suomea.

I can understand some Swedish and Danish from knowing Norwegian, much more so in the written form than spoken as the differences are usually bigger when spoken.

Edit: Err, without meaning to powerlevel, also Middle English and am learning Old English, but it's very difficult with there being so little resources. Yes, I know I'm weird.

Spoiler: Dansk

@Benzo Samurai

I just spent the last 40 minutes uploading this with my 56k connection, after more errors than I cared to count, one of which was at 98 percent.

 

[Coffee Druid]

I've been trying to learn some Irish lately. I'm still a beginner. People say English is hard to pronounce? Ha.

I took four years of German in school but I've forgotten a lot of grammar and tense stuff. Spanish would be useful to learn I guess.

 

[Benzo Samurai]

Jeg er Amerikansk og snakker/skriver/leser Norsk og lærer Finsk.

Puhun vain vähän suomea.

I can understand some Swedish and Danish from knowing Norwegian, much more so in the written form than spoken as the differences are usually bigger when spoken.

Edit: Err, without meaning to powerlevel, also Middle English and am learning Old English, but it's very difficult with there being so little resources. Yes, I know I'm weird.

Jøss, rimelig artig at folk gidder å lære språket vårt, kamerat, also learning finnish seems very based.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

What's people's opinion on duolingo or the other free language apps? I was thinking about starting either russian or polish, but I'm not sure if those apps are worth the effort.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

What's people's opinion on duolingo or the other free language apps? I was thinking about starting either russian or polish, but I'm not sure if those apps are worth the effort.

they say that it can only get you to 60% fluency, I'd say do it to begin with, but branch out later on because that website is not the be all and end all

 

[Picklechu]

I took three years of Spanish in high school, and two semesters of Japanese in college. I remember virtually nothing from either.

A lot of history PhD programs require a foreign language, but mine doesn't since my area is American political history. One of the programs I looked at apparently would have still required me to take a foreign language, so I'm not sure what they would have wanted me to do then.

If I had infinite time, I'd like to re-learn some Japanese and at least become conversationally fluent, and maybe Chinese, Korean, Farsi, or some other language that would help me charge the federal government thousands and thousands of dollars for my services.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

I had 5 years of German throughout the schools I went to. Fucking hated that language, and it wasn't useful, so nothing much remains of that.
The 7 years of English were much better, and since the language is useful I also had an incentive to want to learn it. One downside is that the 3 teachers I had for that were like UK English -> American English -> UK English again, so that's one of the things I keep fucking up. Not to mention a lot of the on-my-own learning was from other ESL retards on the Internet, so passing as a non-retarded native is unpossible.
Also have varying knowledge of some languages that are similar to my own.

If I could become less of a lazy retard, I'd finally go and learn Russian.

 

[Dick Justice]

What's people's opinion on duolingo or the other free language apps? I was thinking about starting either russian or polish, but I'm not sure if those apps are worth the effort.

In my experience it's a lot like Rosetta Stone. Are you learning a romance and/or germanic language and one where you already fully understrand the grammatical quanta? If Y, it's pretty good. If N, it's anywhere from decent learning aid to worth less than your time depending on how far from English the language is. I find it best for repetition practice and building study habits. If you don't already have a good anchor ensuring you do it EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. duolingo can be an alright one.

If you're using it as your primary resource for any slavlang you're going to have a bad time.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

I had 5 years of German throughout the schools I went to. Fucking hated that language, and it wasn't useful, so nothing much remains of that.

German is so easy, you just need to learn the four cases, and one of them is basically obsolete in common language today. And then you need to learn word order (not in that order) and all the little intricacies of the language, like in English we say "it's five o'clock" but in german they say "es ist funf uhr." and then you need to learn the vocabulary, which shouldn't be difficult if you're not lazy and forgetful like me

If I could become less of a lazy retard, I'd finally go and learn Russian.

Russian is a ball ache, they have seven cases, no articles, and confusing word order. Or at least that's what I've heard from those who tried.

 

[Justtocheck]

Eeewwwww, learning German. Who in their right mind would want to speak with Germans?

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

I only know English but I'd like to learn another language. Spanish is what is pushed but I am also told the Spanish you get taught in school is much different than the Spanish that is commonly spoken in the US.

Japanese sounds REALLY complicated, as does German.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

German is so easy, you just need to learn the four cases, and one of them is basically obsolete in common language today. And then you need to learn word order (not in that order) and all the little intricacies of the language, like in English we say "it's five o'clock" but in german they say "es ist funf uhr." and then you need to learn the vocabulary, which shouldn't be difficult if you're not lazy and forgetful like me

Russian is a ball ache, they have seven cases, no articles, and confusing word order. Or at least that's what I've heard from those who tried.

Yea but I already speak a language from the same family, so Russian word order and cases all make sense to me. The obstacle is purely the laziness.