The Language Learning Thread - Interested in learning a new language? Already learning a language and wanna share your experiences? Need to find a partner to practice with? Come sperg here!

[Desu Mountain]

For anyone who wants Japanese A&N sperging, check out Jack Hikuma's あなたの知らないアメリカnews.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

My method is to set 3 focused languages only adding one when the other is at an intermediate level which in my case my proficient language is Spanish and my focused languages are Japanese, Russian and Finnish. (Finnish is just too awesome of a language).

 

[Electromagnetic Radiation]

I legitimately should return back to my learning routine of Russian and German since i've been procrastinating heavily. Technically, German is much easier for me given that English is something i concretely grasp, but Russian is just a much more fascinating language, so i'm prioritizing that first. I have switched ingame languages to Russian if they happen to be available, but i just question how i can be continuously dedicated instead of infinitely lazy. Perhaps i'll also look into a third language, but i haven't decided what that could be

 

[She Brings The Rain]

It's a long shot because all of you under the age of fucking sixty speak English, but any Swedes wanna help a (literal) knee-grow out? I studied Norwegian for long enough that it's interfering with my Swedish learning since I started like a week ago, but I'm planning on moving to Sweden in the next few years and don't want to be another brown person that can't speak the language. Plus, it's just a fun language and doesn't have a thousand dialects like Norwegian.

 

[Sooty Soot]

I've been learning Russian, the funny thing is I didn't start learning it intentionally: I gradually began learning the sounds for the Russian alphabet and the translations for a few isolated words, then I decided "Hey, I should learn this." I can read words just fine even if I don't know what their translation is, but I always get tripped up by the letter ы, I know it's meant to be silent-ish but I can swear it makes an 'I' sound in certain words. I also have some trouble with щ and ш purely because of how similar they sound. I'm gonna try focusing on learning the grammatical structure for now, maybe get a dictionary too so I can start expanding my vocabulary.

 

[Nick Obre]

Any of you lads are of the French persuasion and would be willing to help me with a phrase?

Even if it's only for a little while: Même si ce n'est que pour un petit moment

Even if it's only for a fleeting moment: Même si ce n'est que pour un instant fugace

Are these correct?

 

[The false copy of Sunder]

Just to let anyone who was considering playing with the Latin Duolingo know, literally read a textbook for 30 minutes and you will have a better understanding of the language than if you mastered every single module on Duolingo.

I know this because I have both mastered every single Latin module on Duolingo, and read a textbook for 30 minutes.

This isn't a comment to make you believe Duolingo is an extremely dogshit waste of time. It's simply the truth: you could drill the sentences with all those neat words you've learned for 10 hours total and you still will not have any idea about the difference between Amo and Amabo. Also it weirdly throws in words like "Velim" without even a hint of what a subjunctive is, merely because it google translates to "would like" and they wrote the sentence as "I would like" instead of "I want".

It's so frustrating because something like Wheelock could be gamified to fit the Duolingo model so well, but they just do it so poorly.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

This isn't a comment to make you believe Duolingo is an extremely dogshit waste of time. It's simply the truth

Just quit Duolingo after a year streak.

It’s unbelievably frustrating how they seem to actively avoid explaining why you do anything in a language.

 

[FedPostalService]

Just quit Duolingo after a year streak.

It’s unbelievably frustrating how they seem to actively avoid explaining why you do anything in a language.

If it doesthe language you are studying, try Busuu. Don't be a retard like me and rush it though.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

It’s unbelievably frustrating how they seem to actively avoid explaining why you do anything in a language.

You can't learn a language just by learning words and sentences. You have to know the rules and whys if you are to truly be fluent. You can't learn all that stuff, all that grammar from just learning sentences.