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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.
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What's the hardest part about the language you're learning?
Evan Nguyen
its all fucking consonants
Gabriel Hill
remembering the gender of each noun.
Luke Long
Just in the written language or in the spoken one too? also what language
Robert Foster
Conjugation and speech.
Brody Myers
Spanish verbs will be the end of me just how many endings can one word have?
Cooper Walker
what's the language bros? guessing is German but otherwise got no clue
Benjamin White
I'm learning French and have a pretty good grasp on it. I've even posted in /fr/ and /mena/ in French
Eli Williams
exactly.
Isaac Garcia
Why do nouns need gender anyways? One of the most useless parts of Euro languages.
Tyler Edwards
to organize them into declension classes a noun that ends with -ur (masculine) won't decline the same way as a noun that ends in -a (feminine)
also it can resolve ambiguity when referring to multiple objects using pronouns or adjectives and it adds redundancy which helps parsing sentences (or so one theory goes)
Lincoln Powell
I've never really had such a problem with it not being there in English though.
Aaron Evans
no English has no cases anymore so obviously there are no declension classes either
the other things aren't needed features but are nice extras
there are many redundant features in English as well, the indefinite article 'a/an' could easily be removed, English (and other Germanic languages) have a large amount of tenses where most languages do just fine with a lot fewer, having object forms of a few select pronouns is not needed at all, many languages see no need for plural forms, do-support serves no real purpose, etc. etc. etc. ultimately languages aren't designed or perfectly logical but native speakers find everything in their language completely natural and any other way either lacking in nuance or needlessly complex or some other feeling of it being off
Daniel Rivera
I suppose you're right. Hearing people say something like "a ant" just feels unnatural and that's why the status quo is maintained.
Carter Robinson
actually I meant just having an indefinite article at all it didn't exist in Old English, it didn't exist in Latin, it doesn't exist in Icelandic, and so on never missed it in Icelandic desu
Caleb King
We call that caveman talk over here. A lot of foreigners do it.
Noah Hill
Portuguese
Colton Thompson
The relatively limited resources. Relatively few people speak Yiddish anymore, and many of the living speakers are either old people or batshit insane Hasidim.
Oliver Torres
Why learn such a useless language? I get some people like to learn stuff like Latin or Ancient Greek to read old texts but Yiddish?
Chase Diaz
I just know them by heart, because I was terrible at studying them
In my case, being fluent in english is my current challenge. I'm rather fluent, but it depends on the day, the topic, and how much vocabulary and expressions I recall at a given moment.
Jose Wood
On the other hand, sounding spontaneous and remembering social gambits is terrible. Unless you don't mind sounding like Sheldon Cooper providing information to an existing conversation.
Connor Martinez
usefulness is relative. If they're learning it, they must have some use for it.
Carson Cox
Partially heritage, and partially because I like dead, obscure, or moribund cultures and languages. I also think that every organic language has a unique associated outlook and way of viewing the world. Yiddish's character is particularly colorful.
Joseph Young
hahahahah
t. learning Finnish
James Lewis
Oh, i've been waiting for such thread. I'm learning german and now i lack of speaking practice. Is here any german natives, learning russian? We could help to each other.
Jacob Taylor
Russian - Cases.
Matthew Torres
you could install HelloTalk
Connor Williams
>mfw you lose your +100 day streak in Duolingo
Jaxon Perry
Please don't tell me you're like those retards on their forum who care more about some stupid number that what you've actually learnt
Jason Sanchez
I will, thanks.
Ayden Ramirez
>Niggers can speak spanish. >Winterniggers no.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA THE WHITE POWER SENIOOOOOOREEES
James Martinez
Does anyone else have an irrational hatred of the Langfocus guy?
Brody Hughes
Making myself learn. Discipline in learning has always been hard for me. Deadline: spring next year when trip to Iran is
Gavin Murphy
>stupid number It was my motivation to keep on learning, and it gave me an insane amount of lingots
this
Andrew Reed
I'm on exchange to Lyon in just over a year, and although the courses I'm doing are all going to be in English I'd like to learn a bit of French before I go over there. Realistically, if I were to do 30-45 minutes of French each day how far would I get by the time I'd leave?
Asher Johnson
I'm doing some hobby studies in linguistics, while also refresh my french. I'm also reading a book about Nuxalk.
>xłp̓χʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ (xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ) - he had had in his possession a bunchberry plant
How the fuck are you supposed to pronounce that?
Lincoln King
Do you learn French?
Chase Hernandez
tones
Jeremiah Reyes
O-oui
Wyatt Brown
Pronunciation and remembering gender along with conjugations. Is there anything that could help me pronounce french better?
Christopher Phillips
>Is there anything that could help me pronounce french better?
shove a breadstick up your arse
Easton Thomas
english still retains a minimal amount of cases: nominative, accusative and genitive
Adam Green
I'm learning a language and recently have gotten to a point where I have developed a vocabulary for it, and it feels like now I can speak two languages now.
What's weird is looking at english now and being conscious of how I speak and write it.
Cameron Morales
You need to study with headphones on. Listen to recordings of words you are studying and repeat those words. For your Rs, put a pencil between your teeth, as far back there as it goes, and make sure it's over the back part of your tongue, then say a word with an r and you will have a good r.
Adam Wilson
Can I travel in Morocco just by using French and English?
Robert Rogers
Yes, in the north they speak Spanish but you they will understand basic French, also in the big cities everybody speaks French ; in the towns less people speaks French but it might be OK I guess
Jordan Brooks
This poor steppenigger also has issues with Spanish.
Chinks aren't meant to learn Indo-Euro languages
Hunter Wood
I'm here
Nolan Myers
Are you sure you aren't a Greek?
Colton Morales
Depends, but don't worry it's an easy language to learn for an English speaker and you'll learn it in no time when you'll be in the country. Don't stay in the south, go visit other places, Brittany, Normandy, Alsace, Aquitaine.. France is a very diverse country, I'm always baffled when i go down south (under the Loire river) as the language is the only thing I've got in common with the people ( and they don't even speak it properly).
Hunter Price
bump
Jack Long
toki!
Jaxson Johnson
It's not indoeuropean
Ian Robinson
给我一杯茶吧
Brody Cruz
>did not study for 1.5 days kill me
Dominic Allen
>when a person speaking a tonal language speaks English
Austin Barnes
Tonal languages are terrifying.
I can't even imagine having to speak one at a fast, conversational tempo.
Nathan Gomez
triggered
Charles Perez
It's true desu, it makes sense in Slavic languages but in German, for example, it's all messed up.
Jack Lopez
How so? Inb4 Mädchen
Ethan Ross
Vodka
Jack Turner
I mean, der Wodka.
Tyler Gonzalez
the accusative and dative merged into the English object case but only for a handful of pronouns the English genitive is not a true case as it's distinguished by a clitic and not a case ending
William Edwards
Genders in German correspond to declension patterns, Wodka is der Wodka because it declines as a typical masculine noun would
Nathaniel Brown
I know, it was a joke. Just sounds weird for the slavic ear. Our vodka is a female noun.
Nathaniel Reyes
I don't know, it's all weird to me. I guess Mädchen would be an example, it just doesn't have the same logic as in Slovene.
Brody Sanchez
hebrew
Thomas Richardson
I speak spanish , italian , swedish and english. I'm stuying dutch and russian. I know some hebrew and french (used to study it like years ago , still remember a lil ) and i'm planning to study aymara , romanian and czech one day.
However if someone wants to practice/talk with me i'd be glad. I'd prefer to talk to someone in dutch or russian.
My kik is Jocel_ne if someone is intressted
Lincoln Rodriguez
the ipa is right there it looks like.
Grayson Martin
added ;)
Brandon Gonzalez
Iceland-user here knows more about the English language than most native English speakers
Spanish: when to use subjunctive (most uses I understand, but some I still am not clear)
German: pronouncing the 'R' correct. I'm more used to the Spanish rolled 'R'
True. There are many but they follow patterns that are predictable. I guess it depends on your (in general) native language
Mason Ward
>Iceland-user here knows more about the English language than most native English speakers i'd reckon that's because most people aren't into historical linguistics
Parker Brown
i'm learning spanish since my family moved to cuba(hate it here, btw), and it's an easy language. hardest part: verb forms, there's like 30 ways to conjugate each verb easiest part: spelling and pretty much anything else cuban accent is also unintelligeble and sounds liek jiberrish
Jace Parker
Using a proxy?
Bentley Cox
I have about 3 months to learn japanese or I might lose my job. I can dedicate almost 100% of my time to this endeavor. Can I pull it off?
Christian James
Probably. I've heard of people studying a language multiple hours a day for a few months.
Brandon Perry
possible but Japanese is a very difficult language for most people so it's not going to be easy
Joshua Butler
Of course, but you have to start right now.
Isaac Butler
What's irrational is his fucking stupid teeth
Evan Ortiz
bump
Nicholas Cook
Genders like everyone else. The fucking alphabet too.
Tyler Thomas
>tfw mild speech impediment (can't roll my Rs) >Not a problem in English >But every other language uses it so I can't pronounce shit properly
Nicholas Watson
Final bump before ww3
Nicholas King
Anyone has experience with Thai?
Jeremiah Johnson
I've been trying to learn French for 4 years now Still on B1 I feel so incompetent Anything tips? I try to watch TV cinq at least once a week
Mason Taylor
>at least once a week that's not a lot. exposure is key. just find films you like, or programs that you'd like to follow, and watch something every day.
Caleb Wright
Japanese. My main practice is browsing 2channel and matome sites with rikaichan.
James Flores
The established number of hours of study needed for reaching the next level grows exponentially. A1 60h total A2 180h total B1 260h total B2 500h total ...
Ofc that's thats just the theory, you might need less hours; however all the courses and methods are created. So don't think in years but think in hours and if you really were giving your 100% Think that if you study only 45min every day, in a year you should be almost B2. And as my Dutch friend said, exposure is the key,that will make you progress much faster.