/lang/ - Language learning thread

>What language are you learning?
>Share language learning experiences!
>Help people who want to learn a new language!
>Find people to train your language with!


>Language learning resources:
4chanint.wikia.com/wiki/The_Official_Sup Forums_How_to_Learn_A_Foreign_Language_Guide_Wiki

duolingo.com/
>Duolingo is a free language-learning platform that includes a language-learning website and app, as well as a digital language proficiency assessment exam. Duolingo offers all its language courses free of charge.

>Torrents with more resources than you'll ever need for 30+ languages.

drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9QDHej9UGAdcDhWVEllMzJBSEk#
>Google Drive folder with books for all kinds of languages.

fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/oldfsi/index.html
>Drill based courses with text and audio.The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is the United States federal government's primary training institution for employees of the U.S. foreign affairs community.These courses are all in public domain and free to download.Site may go down sometimes but you can search for fsi on google and easily find a mirror.

memrise.com/
>Free resource to learn vocabulary, nice flash cards.

lingvist.com/
>It's kinda like Clozemaster in the sense that you get a sentence and have to fill in the missing word, also has nice statistics about your progress, grammar tips and more information about a word (noun gender, verb aspects for Russian, etc.)

ankisrs.net/
>A flash card program

clozemaster.com/languages
>Clozemaster is language learning gamification through mass exposure to vocabulary in context.Can be a great supplementary tool, not recommended for absolute beginners.

tatoeba.org/eng/
>Tatoeba is a collection of sentences and translations with over 300 hundred languages to chose from.

radio.garden/
>Listen to radio all around the world through an interactive globe

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>watching non-English porn
>can now start understanding some of the words
>pic related

Anyone else experienced this?

parlay vo fransay

>tfw I can relate

Any good Spanish cartoons to watch for beginners in Spanish?

merhaba

Not sure how easy it's four a beginner, but there's "El Chavo animado", otherwise watch any dub from before ~2008 that's when we used to do good dubs

>apri sa bocca

fucking brazil fart porn.

Just watch popular anime dubbed

Dragon "Onda Vital" Ball springs to mind

>>What language are you learning?
German
>>Share language learning experiences!
Speak from day one is the best advice I could give
>>Help people who want to learn a new language!
If anyone is in need of English speakers for practice I'd be glad to volunteer
>>Find people to train your language with!
Looking for German speaker so gib dat contact info

Hmu if you need something

Share some nice German movies lads, no boring Nazi propaganda films, give me some good kino that teaches me some words. I'm a beginner in language learning.

Yes, German learner, tell me how you practice, what you learn, how you learned it, what's your level now and how long did it take you to get there. Thanks.

Letztes Jahr hatte ich in Deutschland gelebt. Ich hatte an einer Akademie Deutsch studiert aber nur für ein paar Monate. Jetzt lerne ich nicht so oft mit meinem Computer, zum Bespiel mit Duolingo, und geht mein Niveau runter, weil ich jetzt kaum Deutsch spreche. Als ich an der Akademie war, war ich in einer B2 Klasse. Jetzt denke ich, dass ich vielleicht B1 oder so bin. Ich finde es viel besser, wenn man mit Muttersprachler spricht. Im Moment kenne ich keine Muttersprachler, also kann ich nicht so gut üben.

Wie lange lernst du Deutsch und wie gut kennst du die Sprache?

El Taco Hombre

I'm trying to use the HelloTalk app. But I'm too shy to fucking do anything.

do it cunt

You are a native English speaker. You are the most valuable asset of any language exchange website, fucking act like it and just message various people you like and ignore and delete those that you don't like.

The babby steps are: saying hello/how are you, ask about for how long they have been learning/ their reasons for learning, whether they've been to your country and abroad in general and all the other generic personal stuff.

Is it a waste of time to learn German?
Seems so many Germans already know English, but I find the language interesting.

Maybe Russian would be better for the future?

It's not a waste if your heart is in it and you plan on using it. The choice is yours.

What do you guys think about making a group for students of a particular language?
I've seen that there are several learners of Russian and French who post here, what if we made a group on telegram/discord and invited some native speakers to practise together. If I'm not mistaken Telegram can even maintain anonimity. Thoughts?

bum

I'm already a member of a few language learning groups. But the group is from Tumblr (I got invited by a friend, I don't actually use it).
But the group is autistic as fuck. About 33% are random arabs and Iranians sharing links to various extremist groups, and if you question why there are so many muslims in the group, you get banned.

Telegram is good. You can remain anonymous. You do have to sign up via your phone number, but no one can actually see it.

Might be a dumb question but is it worth it to read a dictionary like a book? Just read through a French-English, German-English, etc dictionary all the way just so to start sewing the seeds of vocabulary in my brain? My biggest problem with language learning has always been in building vocab, my vocab sucks big time and I never understood how people can develop a strong vocabulary because when I would actively study I'd almost always run into a string of words that I just don't know.

Not a good idea IMO. A dictionary is good for expanding vocab and searching terms you don't understand, but I thinki trying to read an actual book in a foreign language is better. Just read, try to piece things together with what you already know. I also think keeping in contact and using your vocab regularly, doing flashcards, will help (I've picked up quite a bit just by loitering around foreigners.)

Best of luck, user.

Thanks for the advice. Which languages do you study?

Who /eternalbeginner/ here?

Kiu /eternakomencanto/ ĉi tie?

nah

Does anyone else find it crazy that the guy who made pinyin lived to a hundred and eleven?

Merhaba kardeş.

wanted to make sure you checked them trips

Bump

el bumpo

le bump

der Bump

Mi.

Mi ne scias kiom daŭrigi. Nun mi legas Greda Malaperis, kaj provas legi simplajn tekstojn, sed mi sentas ke mi ne iras antaŭen.

already know spanish/english and know dutch at a basic level
what are some braindead dutch films i can watch and test myself with

Ich lerne vor Dezember Deutsch, ich verstehe die zentrale Punkte von ein Text aber ich kenne nicht so viel Wörter und meine Syntax scheiße ist.

Ich verstehe einfach dein Text, ich glaube dass mein Niveau ist um A2? Ich möchte mehr lernen und bekomme Goethe Zerifikat für Niveau B1.

holy crap dude just use anki

I am learning tupi

bir dil öğreniyor musun?

Kalimera. Chairomai pou vlepo afto to nima ksana.
Tha ithela na mathaino ti elliniki, alla thelo kapoios pou echi ti ypomoni me "apolyto MIDEN"
Ematha i archaia elliniki, etsi anakatefo to ola

Efharisto

Didn't meant to quote:

Started learning french a while ago, now I'm dropping it in favour of sign language because it's more fun to learn.

Pretty interesting, that's a first I've seen on here. What's your reasoning? Don't you feel like you're kind of restricting yourself?

>tupi nhe'enga n'oîkuabi

poranga kuñãtã'ĩ
That is all I know

>poranga kuñãtã'ĩ

Sorry, the only thing I know about Brasil are the existence of Tupi, Guarani, Chico Science, Ronaldo, Sepultura, the Amazon, gauchos, Pedro II and Pedro Cabral

>porunga kunata
what a wonderful phrase

hahaha you sick cunt

I want to learn Mandarin. Where do I start?

Best honest, are you trying to get a Chinese wife?

What's the most future-proof language to learn?

Mandarin

Browse taiwanese imageboards.

But I am browsing a taiwanese woodcarving forum as we speak

I am just planning to visit China in about a year and want to learn some basic Chinese
Wouldn't mind a chinese qt to bounce on my dick though

You're speaking it

Portuguese. People speak it on space colonies. I read a book so it must be true.

Are there any Hungarian learners/speakers here?

Arabic

But... also Russian on space colonies... and Jamaican Patois... and Farsi and Mandarin all through the galaxy!

Are books lying to me?

Anyone here learning Persian?

Yes, Swedish.

Anyone learning a language that isnt european or east asian?

I've been learning American Sign Language on and off for the past three or so years, but I haven't made much headway because I haven't been able to find anyone that I can regularly practice it with.

On screen keyboard for Russian duolingo works well. Very easy to flip between that and english

learning slovenian

Finnish here

That's both though.

Yep, tell me if you have questions
I'm a native

...

that's pretty fucking amazing for anyone, let alone someone who lived in China for almost all of his life

...

Abandoned: French, Russian
On hold: Japanese
Learning: Portuguese
Want to learn: Italian
Could learn for eventual gf: Serbocroatian, farsi, hindi

>Portuguese
Which one? European?

Não, a bonita variante (brasileiro)

Started to learn Russian with Duolingo recently. Doesn't seem that hard. It's similar to Lithuanian and has similar words.
Started to learn it because it'd be really useful. There's a bunch of information in Russian. Also it'd be good to be able to read and understand placards in Russian armored vehicles and such if the need arises

>Portuguese
How about learning an actually useful language?

You see only the tip of the iceberg

É isso aí, boa escolha.

Legal, boa sorte :3
He already knows English, let the guy have some fun

How hard can it be? Your language looks similar to ours but you have a third gender(non gender or something)

Sanskrit here.

A literal lifetime of work. Quite easily the most difficult IE language ever.

The third floor, accents, double meanings of words, many exceptions from the rules, and a combo of negations. For example, yes no maybe - frequently used phrase that is difficult to understand learners. But I never studied lithuanian, so it can at its base is really not that difficult.

Floor...shit. I mean gender.

>double meanings of words
>a combo of negations. For example, yes no maybe
>many exceptions from the rules
Those are fundamental things that exist in any natural language.

I speak in french, japanese and latin. There, these parts do not go out of control to such a degree.

Rude, I like luso countries and women

É. Qual é sua dialeta favorita no Brasil?

'brigado anão. :3 Aqui, toma esta banana

any resources for brasilian portuguese?

I went to a language school in Brazil and it was great. Other than that I don't know really except for immersion. But I speak spanish since before so there wasn't that much difficulty or new things to learn.

>dialeta
Dialeto/sotaque? Sou capixaba (Espírito Santo) e para falar a verdade gosto muito do nosso sotaque porque ele é bem "neutro".
E você? De qual gosta?

really? no textbooks or anything?

Eu gosto do baiano psh :3

The school had made their own textbooks for us, nothing by an official publisher, so idk. There are probably some out there.

Ôxi, sotaque baiano é?
É um sotaque bem divertido, falam quase como se estivessem cantando.

Found this site with a resource list: hackingportuguese.com/where-to-begin/
You could start with Pimsleur, I guess.

Zing

Why are u talking about a group of sheep?

Dubbed shows are your friends.

I'm looking for a German to converse with. In exchange I offer Spanish skills.

Anyone want some help learning maltese? Native speaker here, noone has actually ever asked for help though ;-;

I wonder why

Alri'
>Abandoned: French
>On hold: Russian
>Learning: Greek (renewed interest)
>Want to learn: French (God damn it), Farsi
>Could learn for eventual gf: None

Anyone willing to help me with Greek, or willing to tolerate my broken French? I have good "roots" and a grasp of general Romance language concepts (solid Latin knowledge) so I pick them up fast, pronunciation and grammar wise. It would be a speed course, basically (just can't be arsed all alone). Someone to whip me everyday, relentlessly pushing onwards in conversation, occasional check-ups and such. A pedagogue-type of person, essentially

Also willing to help folk here improve their spoken English/English in general, and/or learn Serbo-Croatian and Latin