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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.
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
Wow. All the new years resolution "I will learn Russian like Trump's best friend Putin!" people are gone
Grayson Roberts
I'm bored and indecisive, where do I roll to decide which language to learn for a month or so?
Brandon Wright
random.org
Dominic Brown
Where can one find the corresponding languages?
Ethan Roberts
retard here. I don't even know language structure related words like auxiliary, reflexive etc... where's a good place to conceptually learn that stuff? no bully
Nolan Morgan
didn't you learn this in foreign language class in school? you learned French?
Henry Kelly
assign languages to a number on your own and then roll
Adam Hall
Come on, don't we just have a picture somewhere or something?
Logan Green
i really don't
Parker Davis
Useless to learn this crap, it'll come naturally when you're just learning to speak a language
Sebastian Perry
French was mandatory up until early highschool but we essentially learned nothing besides conjugation and how to order at a restaurant. Teachers didn't care and the students were too disruptive, and most of the time we just watched subtitled stuff.
And English classes were just as shitty desu. I think I'm missing some education when reading the duolingo notes.
Yeah a lot of rules are coming naturally for me but I still feel like a dummy when I have to look up some words in the dictionary.
Look, you're talking about something that is going to take many many hours of your life, your only life, so really approaching it like "durr pick a language for me plz!!" is absolutely ridiculous (luckily I think the actual retention rate of people who decide that way is not long any way). If learning a language is not (and will not be) a necessity in your life, by geography or by business, or you don't have some strong interest in a language by way of its media, culture, or whatever, then why even bother? It almost seems like such people are approaching being bilingual as some prerequisite to I don't even know, being civilized? I feel like it's just some finger-wagging loud-mouth Europeans and maybe some elite third worlders projecting this illusion of necessity/criteria that they have had to face learning English, and the rest of the English speaking world that feels needlessly ashamed of just knowing the most important language in the world right now.
tl;dr: nobody likes a pussy-footing fuddy duddy so stop it
Levi Barnes
I'm learning French right now, I think Duolingo and flash cards are working very well. I'm thinking about learning Hebrew next because my mom taught me some Hebrew when I was younger. I'm not sure how long French will take though.
Camden Barnes
Is your French better or worse then these peoples?
type in whichever languages you are interested in.
Charles Long
I just realized you asked if my French was better or worse, not just better. My bad.
Nathaniel Campbell
reminder it's declension and not declination
Nathan Taylor
unfortunately the german word "Deklination" means declination and declension
Evan Hernandez
Anyone learning/learned italian? Already at lvl 13 in duolingo and I read from time to time the Italia general here but I'd like to add something more related to grammar. Any recommendations?
Connor Gomez
Who /languageblock/ here?
I'm scared of talking to people in the language I'm learning thinking that they'll bully me for making too many mistakes.
Bentley Roberts
and this applies to everything even generals
Ryder Jenkins
Hey man, don't worry. Typically you will earn respect in other countries if you at least try to speak properly. That is what seperates you from the vacation tourists.
Nicholas Anderson
Bumped for victory
Samuel Sanchez
bmp
Wyatt Jackson
Why can't I become fluent in German???
Everyday I do > Duolingo > Memrise > Clozemaster > watch Let's Plays in German > try to translate German TV shows like Hart Aber Fair > try to write German sentences
but I feel like my German is still so shitty
Brayden Price
it's time to get a german bud
Owen Butler
Listen to German radio as much as you can, when you're commuting, when you're at home...
Jaxson Williams
A real German person to talk to?
I... I don't think my autism can handle that
I'm also not white, so I would like like a loser shitskin at the local German club
Michael Morales
force yourself to not be like yourself and do it anyway
Benjamin Johnson
you mean, download Let's Plays onto my phone and listen to them as I'm driving?
Elijah James
I'm learning Italian
I don't know what that is I'm saying you need to be exposed to the language and listening to the radio is one of the best ways to do it (according to myself
Jason Wright
look at all those people in my city's German club
I am only imagining myself in a group setting and I feel nervous
Adrian Peterson
it would be good for you
Jason Clark
look at them, they look so normie and happy
aren't you feeling sweaty and nervous, imagining yourself in that social situation?
Chase Kelly
I.. I don't know. I don't think I can make myself go to a social situation like this.
I think I'll listen to Sven over there and listen to German radio
Brayden Mitchell
I could help. Get on Skype or so and have Chats in German!
Connor Hall
w-what is your skype name?
Luke Davis
youres first! but I'll add you!
Nathaniel Sanchez
ok, give me few minutes to make a Skype account
Sebastian Miller
ok, it is registering account
Evan Nguyen
my skype is open; addname will be something with der or dea depends what skype shows
Christopher Taylor
how do I know my Skype username? I signed in with my telephone number?
Camden Sanchez
there should be a nickname or so?
Tyler Jackson
live:164440b588c24870
??
Noah Garcia
or you could search me in the directory
First name: German last name: Aboo
sorry, I'm new to Skype
Cooper Cox
>and the rest of the English speaking world that feels needlessly ashamed of just knowing the most important language in the world right now. The rest of your post is spot on too, but this is probably the main thing. It's mostly Americans who come in these threads and ask "What language should I learn guys?!" with the idea that "Oh yeah, just choose for me and I will learn it, I guess" mentality, which doesn't really get them anywhere past the first 2 months (albeit, I KNOW this isn't the case for everyone).
Get better at your broken Mexican-Spanish with a thick American accent and then decide if you really want to spend another 2 years getting fluent in a language.
Dylan Nguyen
When listening to audio content, such as podcasts or radio, should I be trying to translate what they're saying in my head or just try to absorb some vocab? Basically, what should I be actively trying to do when learning with this kind of resource? I take the train every day to work and listen to my German radio, but I honestly feel like I'm doing it wrong.
James Wilson
japanese is the worst language
Mason Richardson
Nope Vietnamese is the worst language.
Cooper Cox
At least there are weeaboos who love anime
No one is a vietaboo
Noah Anderson
Force yourself to think in the language. Thinking in the language is an important step to make towards fluency, because otherwise you'll always have at least 1 more step to make in conversation/writing/whatever: you have to translate. Forcing yourself to think in it should help with just "knowing" the words, instead of thinking "oh right, he said blabla bla, which translates to blabla bla"
Brody Gutierrez
i'm planning to learn faroese how is it?
Jackson King
Not while French and Spanish still exist.
Nolan Jones
>German TV shows ekelhaft
Dylan Russell
Neither are Bavarians nowadays
Henry Walker
I'm black and I've been to german loads of times to visit my russian girlfriend studying there. They are pretty nice. a little bit boring and pragmatic though. >tfw gf wants you to learn russian >Tfw you only get as far as cyrillic before giving up and going back to my comfy spanish language learning
Nicholas Turner
Been learning Japanese. Picked up Genki 1 and I'm about a quarter of the way through it. I know it will get harder, but so far so good. No problems remembering it so far and it seems to make pretty logical sense to me.
My only looming concern is learning Kanji. I picked up a couple books for it, but l'm not really impressed. I learned the "meaning" of about 250 kanji using the books, but I still can't read more than a handful of them... =/ Aggrivating.
Jacob Gomez
I'm interested in Slavic languages
I make some paradigm pictures from other pics to clarify some aspects of a language and to remember them
For example, Old Church Slavic(Old Bulgarian) pic. for noun inflections
is anyone even making progress and this thread or just blog posting or coming here to ask what language they should go just not to do it?
Kevin Morgan
Why do black people make such exaggerated expressions.
Thomas Phillips
How do show that you've made progress? I'm actually kind of interested in an objective measurement of progress that can be updated monthly
Adrian Hall
The level of your ability to speak about any topic in your target language can be a good guide for you. Everyday on discord I notice I speak more and more about whatever I want and for however long I want to speak about it. Another way I guess you can measure it is by the amount of grammatical mistakes or how much of a book can you read without looking up words.
Oliver Rogers
I prefer to spend my time worrying about which language to learn rather than actually learning a language.
Ryan Perry
Why are slavic languages so hard?
Owen Flores
kek Is it not because of their grammar systems?
Wyatt Reed
Because they're needlessly complicated
Nathaniel Mitchell
Interesting, all right
Lucas Martinez
>too scared of actually starting to learn >cant decide between Japanese, Chinese, Korean >spend all my time reading on how to learn
Jacob Smith
> Ultimate weeb Your anime waifu will love you no matter which language you pick
Connor Foster
Probably like Icelandic and Danish?
Zachary Reyes
B-but I don't even like anime and manga. Just interested in the history, culture and music. And movies in Koreas case.
Xavier White
>cant decide between Japanese, Chinese, Korean Choose 2 numbers from 1 to 6 for each one and toss a die.
Isaiah Fisher
Chinese is the only useful one, but Korean is the easiest
Ian Cooper
Yeah for the future Chinese seems the most fruitful, but all those characters and tones. On the upside the grammar is easy from what I've read. Korean is the easiest but is less useful.
Oh well 1-3 Korean 4-7 Japanese 8-0 Chinese
David Jenkins
Has anyone met someone who couldn't speak their parents' mother language? Like an Asian who can't speak Chinese, or Swede who can't speak Swedish, or a Hungarian who can't speak Hungarian
For example, the elder Trump children can't speak Czech, even though their mother is a native Czech. How does that even happen
Liam Gomez
Yes, a Thai-Swedish girl who despite living in Sweden didn't speak Swedish She went to a school where she spoke English and spoke English at home too
Carson Ward
Could her parents speak Swedish or Thai? Were they expats?
Oliver Brown
Her dad is Swedish It's beyond me why they didn't teach or make her study Swedish, considering you need it if you want to study here, it's a requirement
Aaron Anderson
What you're looking for are the parts of speech/syntactic categories.
You generally learn what those are in your native language classes, but everyone tends to forget after a while. I understand, I was like that too. I actually became better in English by learning French since it made me go over a lot of the things that I forgot over the years.
Your best bet is to gloss over everything related to syntax. You stated in your examples that you don't know what auxiliaries and reflexives are, they're both types of verbs, so I'll provide you with a link that only goes over the parts of speech. This guide won't go over things like clauses, prepositional phrases, noun phrases, basically none of the phrasal categories.
It'll take a while to go over this stuff, but do take your time. It's also a good idea to take some notes.
