I don't have any motivation to learn languages other than English.
Jeremiah Kelly
Won't it be a mistake if I redouble subject in a sentence?
To yam to dek be mashot - Both you and me are sitting
Dominic Collins
Nah, your example sounds natural, at least if you're asking about the english one.
Bentley Young
five 五
;-; only two, i'm still trying to figure out if i should try learning a third language [but doing it alongside chinese would probably be disastrous]
Gavin Cruz
五、伍、5、ご、ゴ
Colton Watson
what languages are these last two?
Jace Rogers
Nipponese.
Lincoln Watson
Those are all (used in) the same language 伍 is pronounced "ooh" though because it's stolen from chinks
Kayden Wright
I speak russian and belarussian (native) Italian (more or less good) polish (good enough) english (so-so) No, I'm not a language-learning freak, nor foreign languages student (I'm engineer actually). I've developed a set of techniques for myself, which allows me to start talking some language pretty quickly without learning lot of grammar etc.
Easton Hughes
are they just contextual differences?
or is it different writing form?
Samuel Hill
Question about mandarin; do i have to say third tone as falling-rising or can i just say it as a flat low tone for words like wo3?
Camden Peterson
have you tried yoyochinese? they explain a lot of this stuff
all the characters are pronounced "go". it's just different writing form, but 伍 is often used for money related things to prevent fabrication. you can make 五 (5) by adding 2 lines to 三 (3).
Isaac Ortiz
日汝誤我, 已吾之見
-重網
Colton Garcia
Why is arabic script so fucking cool, bros?
Christian Powell
syriac script is cooler
John Russell
Drawing was considered bad . so people with talent focused on mastering the arabic scrpits
jan seme lon ni li kama sona e toki pona? tan seme la sina kama sona e ona? mi wile kama sona e oni, taso mi wile toki e ale pi pali mi. mi ken ala pali e ni tan ni: nimi pi toki pona li mute ala.
Ethan Nelson
sorry i don't speak korean
Alexander Walker
TOKI!
Jason Murphy
post your favorite foreign language memes
Elijah Rogers
i wish more people studied chinese here :(
Connor Carter
> be last few weeks > go on Sup Forums > rarely find threads discussing languages > be this week > /lang/ and conlang threads are up all day what happened here
Isaac Green
i want to learn chinese
Alexander Gray
we caught autism
Dylan Nguyen
I'm finding it not as hard as people make it out to be. I think many languages have a few aspects of them that are objectively very hard, whereas Mandarin isn't like that. Instead of being a mix of easy and hard things, it is consistently somewhere in the middle.
I just think that Mandarin has a steep learning curve right out of the gate because you need to learn a lot of characters before you can start attempting to read anything, and it can take people relatively more time to get used to hearing/listening to the language.
Owen Edwards
i hear its easy once you get use to the tones is it true
Lincoln Cruz
I can't tell if you're serious or not.
sina sona ala sona e toki mi?
Carson Scott
enlightenment
Matthew Gray
reddit.com/r/tokipona
Cooper Stewart
...
Christian Green
"len monsi jaki"?
Evan James
That is one aspect of it. When you learn the language, especially early on, lots of the audio you listen to might be a bit slower than conversational pace, and it will be evident what tone is being used.
At an actual conversational pace the tones aren't strongly enunciated, so as a rookie it might sound like jibberish, but once you hear the different tones so many times you begin to recognize them.
Adrian Miller
I'm entirely serious.
also why aren't you writing in hangeul?
Joseph Hill
fil català
Landon White
fil français
Aaron Hernandez
No se puede aprender una lengua.
Jaxon Long
et toi tu ne dois pas sécouer tes enfants
Camden Russell
What is the worst romance language and why is it french? Really, it sucks so much it isn't even funny.
Justin Mitchell
Interlingua?
Jaxson Adams
what is the best romance language and why is it catalan?
Adam Turner
why does it suck though? even if you have qualms with the spoken language, you've gotta admit the written form is aesthetic as shit, yo.
Anthony Rogers
Because I'm not speaking Korean.
Ian Myers
>catalan Poortuguese already fulfills the role of being the dank meme version of spanish, no need for more. >you've gotta admit the written form is aesthetic as shit That would depends on how many baguettes you can stick in your ass.
Hunter Murphy
Other cultures have calligraphy too.
Hunter Jenkins
not your mom
Jacob Gomez
Question to all you Russkies out there, do you typically write in print or cursive? The teaching thing I'm using is very adamant on teaching the cursive, and I just would like to know if it's worth anything
Cameron Clark
any tips for studying?
Ryan Powell
i used to write in cursive but switched to print later
Just stick with it and make sure to review stuff you've already learned (Anki can be good for this). When using Anki try having cards that will show just the characters, then guess what the English is. For the same phrase, also have a card that will show the English, then the hanzi + pinyin on the other side. The latter will be a lot more difficult, and actually gets you thinking about what you're trying to say.
I use a combination of ChineseSkill, a massive deck on Anki, and one of the links that gets posted in the OP of the Chinese Language general (learnnc.org/lp/pages/6427). Obviously start with book one and work your way through the lessons.
I don't have much of an interest in learning how to write, but I do find that writing out characters/sentences helps me memorize them much more quickly.
Connor Richardson
Start with cursive, that's what I did and then I took some of the radical forms like the cursive "д" and write is as a "g" in my normal English handwriting plus a few improvisations.
Speaking of handwriting, what's your favorite script, Sup Forums? I really like Tibetan.
Daniel Hughes
How easy is the grammar and vocab for someone only interested in the spoken aspects of the language? I just want to watch some chink shows and maybe listen to audiobooks, not anything beyond that.
Samuel Allen
how to translate into English the phrase without losing the meaning:нaхyя дoхyя нaхyяpили? pacхyячивaйтe нaхyй.
No, I created the original back in late June. Was expecting others to potentially make more for others.
Tyler Powell
New autism thread pls come it's fun
Jaxson Cook
Are there any more of these?
Nicholas Stewart
How the hell do you tell which one is indefinite or definite? We don't have "the/a/an" here, so I'm a bit confused with that.
Thomas Thompson
I would like to start learning a language but I can't decide which one. Norwegian, Swedish or Danish?
Living in Denmark would probably be great since it's close to Germany and it's very cheap there, but I've heard Danes are some of the least nice people out of those countries. Norwegian would allow me to make a lot of money and it's said it's right in the middle, like speaking Norwegian you can understand Swedish and written Danish. And it has the easiest grammar. But then Swedish has the biggest population and influence.
Anything more I should have in mind? Norwegian wins so far, but I don't want to realize after a year it's not exactly the language I need
Daniel Rodriguez
It all depends. Norwegian have weird dialects if you are not living in the south-east. So South-east you can get away with learning that Norwegian dialect and understand Swedish, maybe even read Swedish. But you might never understand spoken Danish that's in Copenhagen. I don't understand the Danes when they talk, you get the weird feeling that it feels similar but also an alien language.
So learn something that floats your boat and what seems easier to pronounce.
Chase Williams
I made a thread but got no replies and didn't see this so. >How did you learn Chinese Sup Forums? I have a taiwanese friend who teaches me every week but I want to study by myself too. I find youtube videos quite worthless as every single one of them pronounces something diferently from the other and my friend. He teaches me using zhuyin and a bit of writing now and them but mostly how to pronounce shit. As I learned Zhuyin pinyin is easy too. I'm iliterate and can understand only basic shit. I have trouble pronouncing things (the dammed second tone) but I can diferentiate tones and similar sounds. I had only 7 classes to this day. >>
Gabriel Richardson
If you dont mind mild aspergers this guy has a very interesting language log.
Around half way down the page he explains his process but the entire log is interesting if you have the time.
Dominic Brooks
>Pimsleur Fug. I have no monies that is why I use a chinese slave to teach .>tfw you will never receive autismbux
Jaxon Cox
Learning a new language is actually quite fun, senpai.
Luke Diaz
Vietnom, a friend of mine spent a time working on southeast asia, he saw chinks being rude on temples, tourist places and spitting everywhere. You people only lile eacother when you hate japanese together?
Leo Hall
Explain
Adam Ortiz
انت استعملت ترجمة الجوجل حق,انت جلبت هذا نفسك سوف اقتلك و اغتصب نساءك
And don't even think about using google translate.
Jayden Ortiz
For the most of the part pretty easy. There are some odd grammatical constructs (e.g. 把), but the grammar is logical and a lot of the vocab is just compound words.
Carson Barnes
How big is text on arabic computers?
That looks so small its near unreadable on my screen.
Isaiah Williams
You mean this shit? Cuz I just got to it today and it definitely seems weird. Honestly dude learning to read is probably easier in the long run, since the hanzi serve as queues for pronunciations. You could just do what I'm doing and make the spoonfed chinese cards into listening cards though.
Jaxson Carter
it can be as big as you want it to be m8. but every site has it's own size, حبيبي that's Sup Forums size it's pretty normal and i can read it just fine.
Austin Gomez
Definite article is the on that is used for a know quantity of an object or that specific object. Like give me the pen on the desk. Indefinite is used when it is not specifically known in location or amount of what the speaker needs,ex., give me a pen( no amount is know except that one, no location, they want a pen from anywhere.) And indefinite article can start with a for any letters except a e i o u, and an is for vowels. This is done only to help allow the language to sound better versus having an overlap of vowels. Ex. She gave me an apple. She gave me a car.
Robert Bennett
>tfw you want to study french but its the language of internatonal cucks now Should I just give up and go for spanish?
Robert Stewart
The only constructed language that is actually worthy of people's time is Interslavic because it has an actual use among non-autists. Prove me wrong.
Elijah Howard
Spanish is the language of Radfems
Nathan Adams
You use spoonfed as well? I'm finding it to be pretty good so far. Do you think it's helped you a lot?
Aaron Brown
I'm starting Korean today and I don't have any experience learning a new alphabet?
Any recommendations or tips?
Kevin Clark
It's pretty awesome for sure, especially for a language like chinese where listening is so important. I'm only ~700 cards in though since i haven't been studying for long.
Grayson Rogers
Hey Sup Forums new poster here. Can anyone tell me what this hat says?
Christian Campbell
شباب, it literally means, (guys dudes lads or m8s) or any word you use to call your group of friends, it's the most overused word in the arabic world i'm so sick of it.
P.S: don't trust google translate.
Owen Gray
>hanzi serve as queues for pronunciations Could you explain what you mean by this? If you mean that hanzi aids in pronunciation, doesn't Chinese actually have a set of phonetic characters, so only a few matter?
I'm actually not too concerned with Chinese tones as I'm a Vietnamese speaker, so I'm assuming it shouldn't be too hard to pick up.
Noah Gray
I mean if you know 学生 and 出去 then you can immediately read 出生 even if you don't know the meaning, which means it takes very little effort to learn it. Basically it's like word roots in English except more useful because all words are made of them instead of just a fraction that happened to come from latin/greek
Samuel Young
isn't it an absolute bitch to learn all those characters and the tones? I'll never even attempt to learn chinese because of that.