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Wondering. For the IB curriculum, what languages did you pick and what do you think about doing French B and Spanish Ab Initio at the same time?
Dominic King
I just started learning German. It's honestly the easiest shit ever.
Dylan Brooks
>that feel when you can't be bothered to start learning Fuck this, once I start it's the easiest thing ever, but it's impossible for me to sit down and start
Hunter Scott
I've been brushing up on my :atin. I took just one uni class a few years ago and would like to surpass that level of Latin. I want to read De Bello Gallico next year. Anyone else have experience with dead languages?
Aiden Morris
>For the IB curriculum
what's this?
It's boring.
Just start. Stop being a retard, download or buy any decent grammar book and just start.
Don't have any, though I knew a guy from Ireland who was an expert at them.
Why did you choose Latin?
Carson Brown
english is difficult maybe can read it western game play is almost ok but my engurish is useable only for shitposting at western forum talking, hearing... i dont have gaijin friends
Gabriel Lewis
IB is like advanced class for smart people
IB Physics IB Music IB Languages IB Math etc
Benjamin Long
watch english tv shows and movies
Blake Hernandez
... an International Baccalaureate?
you need exposure. Go to Tokyo, lots of 外国人 there nowadays.
Parker Wright
It runs in the family I guess. My grandfather in particular was a Classics professor.
Jose Wilson
yes, that is what IB stands for
Adrian Kelly
>dat complicated entiren Easter Europe.
Xavier Howard
> crammatical cases
Alexander Lopez
English is too primitive to be considered a language.
Oliver Richardson
English is a language of conquest and like the Empire, a product of theft and appropriation.
Luke Diaz
Did you mean to say it stole the primitiveness from other languages? Are you a racist?
Jayden Ortiz
So.... Basques are our distant relatives?
It makes sense.
Aiden Wilson
Chiunque sta imparando italiano?
Dylan Lee
I really like Georgian language but because of my eternal laziness I only learned the alphabet.
Aaron Torres
>aiming for anything lower than B didn't even know A was a thing
Ethan Nelson
Aren't Basques more closely related to celts than to anyone else?
Cameron Long
I've been thinking about learning Arabic, but I should probably improve my Japanese first before I take up another language.
Christopher Clark
Not sure I get what you're saying...
Jackson Thomas
>this thread is dead these days because all the resolutioners have gave up.
>i've not even started my resolution because i can't pick a language
Fuck. :(
Cameron Garcia
For you.
Isaiah Parker
>this thread is dead these days because all the resolutioners have gave up.
No it's just that if you learn a language you spend 99.99% of time learning and 0.01% of discusing with other anons.
>i've not even started my resolution because i can't pick a language
Just pick some language that interests you, or better if you are interested in some culture, history, literature and/or art of some country, then learn that countries language.
Justin Stewart
>15 >18
Aaron Cruz
Which is easier, French or Spanish. My English is pretty close to fluent, I think.
Angel Sanders
Why even bother given only above 3 million people can speak it? Their women aren't gonna sleep with your trashy slav ass anyway.
Austin Thompson
Both are equally difficult (easy). Even if the former has somewhat more problematic spelling and pronunciation its grammar is way simpler than that of Spanish, thus each has its own peculiarities.
Ryan Morgan
For those who are interested: The official /lang/ Telegram group t.me/joinchat/AAAAAED3UID-nkic-jTm3g And the Discord: discord.gg/F7QrkAs Come and find partners to practice your target language with and share resources and tips
Julian Bailey
Thank you. I think I will go with French.
Mason Cook
Better to be fluent and motivated for one language than half assing two hard languages.
Kayden Bailey
>learn ancient greek in high school and college >first time to greece for vacation, think it's close enough >get treated like a literal autist
yeah
Hudson Cruz
> English > not 2 Shit map, friendo.
Isaac Nelson
Archaic constructions and words that are grandfathered in (pronouns) don't count lad.
David Carter
> old words don't exist.
Jordan Diaz
They exist, but they're exceptions to the rule. Same reason irregular verbs are that, irregular, and not called "verb conjugation style 66 and counting"
Blake Kelly
However much foreigners would like to simplify English, proper, natural English is more complex than what they learn from English media.
Learning to master the declensions of 'who' and 'thou' indicate a fluency which some natives never get.
The 'rule' is that English has two cases, no matter how much foreigners like to simplify.
Whether a verb is 'irregular' or not is a matter of taste and classification. The verb 'to be' is entirely regular if one understands its etymology.
Connor Wilson
Learning Farsi bump.
Jaxson Morales
سلام دوست How long have you been learning now and how's that going? I've been going for a month now, and although I can generally read (even if I don't know what it says) now, it still feels very forced/painful. Also, what materials do you use? I use random bits on internet along with TEACH YOURSELF complete persian (modern persian/farsi)
Josiah Gray
Been thinking about learning German for a while now, couldn't decide whether or not I should pay for a few courses and try and learn that way, but now I'm thinking about getting textbooks used in elementary (grades 5-8) and high school 4 years and going through them in order.
Do you guys think that is a good idea?
Hudson Collins
High school education is just horrible. You'll be introduced to topics like a kid, and it will try to teach you like a kid to motivate you. If you are motivated, take adult books
Gavin Phillips
Hmm fair enough. Hard to find an adult book that's not "learn german in 30 days!!!" though. Any serious book that's generally agreed upon in these threads as good? Don't care if it's 1000 pages or whatever, I want to learn the grammar as best I can.
Aaron Russell
How close is modern Italian to classical Latin?
Brandon Sanders
FSI can definatively make you fluent or almost fluent. Lots of drills but incredibly boring. What I love is the direct method, based on Lingua Latina per se Illustrata. There are german versions of it aswell. Google the direct method
Camden Jackson
Celts are Indo-Europeans and Basques aren't Close as any Romance language, I think
Matthew Powell
Which cases does english have?
Robert Johnson
Plural and singular The "s" in "John's dog"
Dylan Powell
>plural and singular
Justin Jenkins
Still learning the alphabet. How did you learn the alphabet, im currently using easypersian.com but it feels a bit slow learning 3/4 letters a lesson?
Jonathan Watson
That's called a possessive clitic, and it's not a case.
Because you can say:
"The king of England's dog", but if it were a genitive case, you would say something "The king's of England dog", but you don't.
Clitics are attached to noun phrases, cases are marked for nouns.
Cases in English only exist in pronouns: he - nominative him - oblique (accusative + dative, so you say "to him", "for him", "I saw him") his - genitive/possessive
Elijah Mitchell
>you would say something like*
Anthony Barnes
>4
Camden Lopez
I'm trying to learn greek on duolingo, but I'm having trouble with the alpha-bet
What is a good way to memorize characters/letters?
Lincoln Garcia
greek alphabet is extremely easy, just practice. there are no tricks the language itself is MUCH MUCH harder
the fact that the latin, cyrillic, and greek alphabets are all so similar and work almost exactly the same, makes it very easy to learn, compared to some other scripts, like e.g devanagari
Joseph Murphy
Alphabetically, and then in the groups of "similars" (see also wiki page of persian alphabet) Basically >alef/be/pe/te/se >jim/che/he(-ye jimi)/khe >dal/zal/re/ze/zhe >sin/shin/sad/zad/ta/za >eyn/geyn/fe/qaf/gaf >lam/mim/nun/vav/he(-ye-docheshm)
As for how I learned them, I just occasionaly write stuff in farsi script. Stuff like people's names, write the "transliterated" word above something in a newspaper, whatever works for you. Just write, a few times a day. Doesn't have to be long, 3 times 5 minutes even works. And it can be hard, but the script is the first hurdle you have to overcome in learning a language that doesn't use latin script.
Practice. Transliterate. Same basically as I did for farsi, but with greek letters.
Levi Hernandez
on the topic of scripts, you can learn to read korean in a day, it's extremely simple writing is such a small part of language, and is a part which is artificial, so both native and non-native speakers have to learn it so, mistakes are more excusable and commonplace (which is why native english speakers often confuse "they're" and "their", they're not literally thinking "this is they are house" when they write "this is they're house"
Noah Williams
have you got a hot mom
invite me over and I'll hang out with you both
Joshua Reyes
bump
Elijah Morales
because thats like speaking latin in fucking Italy,
Carter Lopez
You're minding your business in turkey when a random greek kids shows up out of nowhere and reads pic related to you out loud. Would you think that is a sane person?
Of course you got treated like an autist, you are one.
Camden Butler
Greece had a written standard that was close to Ancient Greek until very recently (Katharevousa was phased out in 1982)
So speaking Latin in Italy is a bit worse.
Logan Sanchez
Does anyone else translate a sentence into English to understand it, or do you simply understand the text without thinking about English?
Or am I retarded
Asher Foster
For me, I can read (some) Russian without thinking about translating. But for individual words, I translate them to Estonian, or sometimes English first.
Carson Moore
bump
Christian Wright
Very close in written form, spoken Italian is a bit harder to understand.
