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>what languages do you know?
>what language are you learning?
>how much do you know in that language?
>how long have you been learning it?
>what languages do you want to learn?
>any tips or resources for that language, or language learning in general?
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>what languages do you know?
Hungarian, English. Bit of German and French.
>what language are you learning?
Spanish!
>how much do you know in that language?
Not much tbqh. I find it difficult to get in the right mindset. Also, whenever I try to speak I constantly mistake French words for Spanish ones ,and shit gets mixed up into this horrid nonexistant language called Franish.
>how long have you been learning it?
3 months tops.
>what languages do you want to learn?
Nothing else. Even this is more trouble than it's worth. Fucking foreigners should just learn English goddamn it.
>any tips or resources for that language, or language learning in general?
Switch your OS, browser to your preferred language. Find a few decent books. Howl in frustration. Procrastinate. Eventually cave in and learn a bit. Hate your life. Give up. Start learning another language. Rinse and repeat.
>what languages do you know?
german, english
>what language are you learning?
japanese, french
>how much do you know in that language?
with french, reading is okay, but understanding the spoken language wnot that good
with japanese it's rather hard to say, I'm on some middle level I guess, it really fluctuates from understanding a lot to understanding nothing
>how long have you been learning it?
japanese, 5 years
french, 2 maybe
It's mostly just a hobby so don't judge me
>what languages do you want to learn?
maybe italian or russian some time in the future
>any tips or resources for that language, or language learning in general?
learn it as you please and at your own pace, if you don't have fun you won't be learning for too long
oh, why do you learn spanish?
>Also, whenever I try to speak I constantly mistake French words for Spanish ones
kek I hate this feel
what motivates you to learn?
what troubles you the most with japanese? the way they speak? kanji?
>learn it as you please and at your own pace, if you don't have fun you won't be learning for too long
this is good advice I think
iirc, if you aren't having fun or at least "needing" to study it then you wont remember much either
>>what languages do you know?
Serbo-Croatian, English and Spanish
>what language are you learning?
French
>how much do you know in that language?
Very "introductory"
>how long have you been learning it?
Around 20 days
>what languages do you want to learn?
Every language
>any tips or resources for that language, or language learning in general?
Flashcards, flashcards and more flashcards. Pick the "funniest" podcast/audiobook possible, because you're more likely to remember a good deal of vocabulary if you also focus on the silly way or a speech impediment the narrator has. We're built of ridicule. Mimic. I can't stress this enough. Memrise/Duolingo are good for mimicking and ridicule, because the former has people recording it (bound to be repetitive and really crawl into your ear by sheer hypnotism) and the latter has the "Google translate" sounds (real hypnotic experience). If you're a beginner: mimic the native/narrator. Smash words up into syllables when you're learning vocabulary. The books you read also have this (in other scripts, Romanized versions have something like this: "Em-ma is drin-king wa-ter"). It's not for style. It's there for a reason. Conversational above bookish. Easy on the grammar in the beginning (unless you're really into it)
>what troubles you the most with japanese? the way they speak? kanji?
kanji are a bitch obviously, but also pretty interesting once you know them to some degree, for example you may know what the word is supposed to mean but don't know how it's pronounced
the kanji carry meaning on their own which gives the (written) language more depth
troublesome is that almost none of the original japanese words ressemble anything you know and sometimes literally are the same and only differ through their kanji spelling
with french it's not really hard to memorize words because most of the time they look like the english or german version
it's also hard that the japanese often leave out the subject of their sentences if it's clear from the context, which makes it hard to follow
>what languages do you know?
English and Mandarin.
>what language are you learning?
Ruskie.
>how much do you know in that language?
Not a lot, I can read cyrillic but my vocab is still very limited.
>how long have you been learning it?
A few weeks.
>what languages do you want to learn?
Spanish, and maybe Cantonese because a lot of people speak it here.
>any tips or resources for that language, or language learning in general?
Tip for learning Mandarin: Tones matter more than you think they do. Too many Mandarin learners disregard the tones and then sound like retards when they try to speak.
Tip for learning any language: Use pictorial flashcards rather than just putting the English translation, it helps a lot with memorizing vocab.
you are around C1/C2 in spanish do you think? what made you learn that?
my only problem with doing flashcards is it becomes a hassle to type in all the flashcards and then study them, as it becomes a bit boring
haven't done memrise but I think duolingo is great for starting out as well
can you help me about the podcasts? whenever I used to watch podcasts in whatever language I was doing, nothing really came to me and I still never understood what was being said and did not really pick anything up
do you need to know mostly what they are saying before watching so you can just pick up the individual words you don't understand?
>the kanji carry meaning on their own which gives the (written) language more depth
how so? are they made up with other "characters" so to speak that help reveal meaning? I don't know anything about it
kudos for sticking with it for 5 years!
what made you decide to learn mandarin? that's quite interesting that you did and to such a level
how long did it take you to get where you are?
>Ruskie.
you're in luck because I think russian is very fun
probably mostly because of memes and songs