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memrise.com/ >Free resource to learn vocabulary, nice flash cards.
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I wanna learn French. I finished the duolingo course, so I suppose that now I have a basic (very basic) vocabulary, but I don't know where to go now. What do you recommend me?
Carter Cruz
Look for the Michel Thomas course. That's a good one.
Ayden Sanchez
The Michel Thomas course annoyed me because you have 2 other students. Paul noble is pretty similar but you don't have to listen to 2 other students. Michel also has quite a strong accent so he doesn't pronounce everything perfectly. On the Paul noble course they have a native speaker pronounce most of it.
Nicholas King
I have portuguese origins so I'd like to learn it someday
Alexander Ross
I was surprised to hear how different Brazilian Portuguese is from the original, it doesn't sound at all similar.
I've made a serious attempt at all these and gave up. I occasionally pick one of them up again but it rarely lasts long.
Blake Jenkins
Stick with somethin mufugga
Luke Peterson
I've tried but i don't have a reason to learn any language so when it gets grindy i tend to fizzle out.
Nicholas Lopez
Finnish, Catalan I also studied French in school and forgot it
Jace Mitchell
I guess Italian, but we were forced to learn it in primary school, and as soon as I got to high school, I never used it again. Not really sure if that counts.
Also, I started Vietnamese but realised I had to stop because I'm too busy with other languages. I fully plan on getting back to it when I have the time tho. Normally people here are learning because it's a hobby (see: Autistic hobbies).
Ryan Mitchell
Here's a translation challenge for you all: translate favourite song lyrics into the language you're learning
Noah Gomez
Learning Afrikaans atm, the problem is the lack of good learning material. anyone else here learning useless languages?
Julian Russell
>Spanish >Mandarin Chinese >Japanese >Russian >Dutch >Levant Arabic
Currently trying French. Wish me luck lads.
Jeremiah Harris
I know that feel with Croatian. Expect it's worse for me because Croatian has much more complex grammar than Afrikaans It's so fucking annoying. Compared to languages like German, Spanish, French, English and Japanese, which all have mountains of resources, lesser known languages have shit-all resources. Have you checked The Pile? There's 4 Afrikaans books in there
Ooh, not a bad idea. I'll give it a go and post results
William Thomas
What, since when is Italian taught in primary schools downunder. And why..
Wyatt Davis
The Afrikaans grammar i luckily like a easy German/Dutch grammar, so that stuff is easy. I already got a learning book in English, but compared to my German one it makes everything more difficult to learn it via English due to the lingual differences. Biggest problem is the vocabulary, loads of false friends here
Zachary Taylor
>What, since when is Italian taught in primary schools downunder Started in my area around the 1950s. However it became a bit more predominant in the 1970s. >And why.. Large Italian speaking population. My area is a bit different to the rest of Australia because Italians started moving here immediately after WW1. Then after WW2 there was a massive wave of Italians, and so it became more popular across different schools. Nowadays it just depends if you live in an area with a high Italian population or not. I remember when I was a kid, I always thought Italian was a super-popular global language that everyone learned. I didn't realise until I was like 15 that this wasn't the case.
Cameron Green
Why learn Afrikaans btw? Autistic hobby, plan to move to Africa or travel there for other reasons, or another reason entirely?
Eli Wilson
I plan one day to try and learn a language via another language. I think it would be interesting.
Yeah, false friends can be a prick. Plenty in English-Spanish
I plan on learning Afrikaans in the future, hopefully I'll have an easier time
Leo Stewart
Autism, my girlfriend, impressing in-laws and holidays
>I plan one day to try and learn a language via another language. It's kinda intersting. In my German book most parts of the grammar are just mentioned under "stuff you don't need to learn because it's just the same" but in the english book it needs to be explained because it's something that is uncommon to the English language. I think it would be a good way to learn a roman language though another one if you are good at it.
Andrew Lee
>I think it would be a good way to learn a roman language though another one if you are good at it.
Yeah, I was considering learning Portuguese next year because I'll have finished my Spanish course, meaning I'll be at B2. I will probably learn it via Spanish rather than through English, because things will make more sense.
>my girlfriend, tfw no qt afrikaans gf who I saved from the savages
Blake Martin
Go and safe one there's a handful of them left. Afrikaner cuties are objectively the most superior cuties. They will never be vegetarians, they love to braai(BBQ), they love to cook and take care of you, they don't oppose hunting and physically match all attributes you'd expect from a proper white girl
Tyler Reed
I've already got a gf. Not afrikaans, but her father is from Rhodesia. So I guess that's close enough.
>mfw I'm a language autist >mfw my gf is monolingual
the eternal Anglo strikes again
Hudson Parker
>the eternal Anglo strikes again I'm quite sure that not learning a second and third language in school keeps most anglos from developing an interest in learning other languages, besides the fact that it is objectively useless. English is the only language you really need if you aren't doing anything with physics or engineering
Brayden Ramirez
>I'm quite sure that not learning a second and third language in school keeps most anglos from developing an interest in learning other languages
You must study a 2nd language for all of primary school, and then for 3 years in high school. I did Italian in primary school and then Japanese for 5 years of high school.
All of us study languages here in school. In some ways, I think that's what off-puts most people. They hate having to learn other languages. I just think anglos lack the mental capacity for it. >English is the only language you really need this is a huge factor. Not to mention here in Australia, we're on an island cut off from the rest of the world. Perhaps if there was as much of a cluster of separate languages in a small area like Europe, it would be different
Xavier Martin
Want to get dive into French but I don't know where to start. How about Paul Noble?
Carter Bailey
>Normally people here are learning because it's a hobby (see: Autistic hobbies).
That's the thing, i enjoy language learning but when it starts getting grindy/when i start reading native materials and it takes half an hour to read a page, other languages start looking more fun/useful/interesting/etc.
Jayden Powell
>You must study a 2nd language for all of primary school, and then for 3 years in high school. Oh, the Eternal Anglo is less ignorant than I thought
