>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!
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
Does anyone use Clozemaster here? How long goes it take to "master" a word
Charles Flores
bump
Kayden Myers
Not exactly sure if it's really a /lang/ topic, but have any of you guys tried to change/suppress your accent? I got the semi french/German one and I'm getting really tired of it. Would talking to a lot of Oxford-fags help?
Zachary Bennett
vocaroo yourself? I want to hear this French/German accent
You can say > "The sovereign of this land ill comprehends the urgency of the danger it faces. This eve's empty pomp is ample proof. All gaiety, without a hint of real concern. I'll allow, 'tis well understandable. A people numbed by two generations of peace cannot be expected to know true resolve. 'Tis a lesson taught by fire and sacrifice. Pray, let His Grace learn before the fire takes all. ...But I ought not speak in such bold terms before His Grace.
Can't right now, but it's somewhat like that guy with more emphasis on th thones.
Luke Thompson
Mine changes depending on who else are around. So when I had a Canadian English teacher I started speaking more and more like him, then I got a teacher with British accent so I started adopting that more and more
Carson Gonzalez
>Post markers of progress regularly? >vocaroo yourself? Not actual questions.
Don't try learning accents with natives if they uptalk, Germany. Better sounding ESL than effeminate.
Caleb Sanders
Duolingo is pretty redditish, doesn't work well and forced many other language websites to close. Like that one where you teach your language, gain points and have someone teach his/hers.
Adam Scott
>it's another day of reading about languages instead of actually learning
Sebastian Sanchez
Do it for all the [insert desired language here] qts, user!
How would a more neutral accent make me effeminate? I'm not trying to become a pajeet, just less of a super obvious Urop as soon as I open my mouth...
Lincoln Murphy
Danke Freund
Ryder Williams
Nonono, you will only sound effeminate if you adopt certain speech patterns, like uptalking, vocal fry and certain expressions.
Canadians used to be bretty good at it, but lately it's a minefield. Example of a straight guy who speaks gay as fuck: youtube.com/watch?v=76kVjfyq-0w He obviously absorbed speech patterns from his mother/female teachers/peers/wife instead of males.
If you pick the right people to learn from, there is no problem going for a neutral accent, I have found voice-chatting with muricans actually helped me to lose some stiffness (although I didn't focus on accent). Guess it comes with practice and attentive listening for patterns. Be observant, most elders who speak with heavy accents even after 124381390 years living in a country do so because they never bothered to listen, they were just focused on the message.
David Johnson
Has anyone tried Duolingo for Japanese?
Cooper Bell
Thanks man. I appreciate that warning.
Luis Sanchez
>learned german as a child in germany >moved back to my native country >haven't spoken the language in 20 years >can perfectly understand and read it >can't write or speak it myself properly
What's the best way to balance it out? I am mostly struggling with proper grammar when forming sentences. I think I want to go through the grammar basics again, verb conjugation and similar. What's an okay resource for that?
Angel Nelson
Well, I found a book called Basic German (Routledge) and it seems to work, but I don't know how effective it is.
Ich denke ich muss halt nur mehr Deutsch sprechen und es sollte von alleine zurückkommen, ne? Wieso kann ich nicht im meinem schlaf sterben ;_;
Caleb Perez
>STILL falling for the Duolingo meme
Benjamin Sullivan
Native - Russian Can type without vocabularly - English, Polish (not always of course) Used to learn but dropped - French
But I hope that I will speak French someday
Robert Watson
Grammar is fine, your sentences are just really old fashioned.
Liam Evans
>old fashioned
Das habe ich auch bemerkt. Ich weiß (I had to look up the spelling of this) nicht ob es daran liegt dass (also when to use "das" or "dass") wir auf Sup Forums sind, aber ich habe so viele Schwierigkeiten den /deutsch/ faden zu verfolgen. Es liest sich so schwer, möglicherweise weil es alles nur memes sind mit denen ich nicht vertraut (had to look this up, was going to use "verwandt") bin. 2cool4me
I'm kind of nervous now, because I obviously can't look things up or take my time when speaking to other people.
Jeremiah Parker
dass
Best advice is talk to Germans as much as possible though. On the Internet Germans tend to jump straight into Du-form while still remaining a bit of letter formality which isn't exactly how people actually speak. Probably better to stick with current times Romans which emphasise more on talking than describing.
Also yes the Deutschlandfaden is mainly memes and shit posts, unfortunately r/de ist Better in that regard. As always the best would be to find a language partner and talk, talk, talk.
Aaron Russell
dass is a conjunction das is an article
Caleb Parker
Arabic vs persian lads?
Persian is infinitely easier and i suspect it has it has richer literary tradition.
The Arabic languages are more interesting and open what is a fairly opaque region but you are looking at a several year investment before you can start even basic conversations.
Xavier Stewart
This thread is for talking about language learning, not only for questions and answers.
Sebastian Green
>Do it for all the [insert desired language here] qts, user! >tfw no toki pona qts
Benjamin Cook
mi sona e pilin sina, jan pona mi o. mi jo e wile lili li wile taso e meli suwi pi toki pona.
