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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
Hello. I want to learn Spanish. I've been using Duolingo and then I stole Pimsleur. My problem is time, I only have the end of the day when I'm exhausted.
What are some reasonable goals I can set for myself?
Aaron Morales
yeah only the few free ones though
Connor Taylor
Post your charts /lang/
Parker Hernandez
Nice, thank you lads.
Blake Watson
so what if it's not shaded at all
what does that mean
qué significa eso
Oliver Brown
I wanna learn Russian and Arabic
Jordan Taylor
It means I might want to learn it in the future
Connor Gray
So, how does Anki work? Do you need to download custom card decks?
Henry Gomez
Original Russian Sup Forums chart creator here. I can create a Vietnamese one if you guys like, I would like to fill out the other languages in due time, but I obviously can only make charts for languages I'm learning or have learned. If I see other people making charts (as Turkbro did in previous thread), then I'll make a Viet chart.
He said he used Paint, I personally used an online flowchart creator. It looked like something Google would've made. It was pretty simple to use. Also, if I was going to add one thing to this Russian chart, it would be Lingvist - which compliments Duolingo very well.
Liam Morales
Italiano, and now I'm trying to learn some cyrillic as fast as I can because I'm going to Belarus
William Barnes
What languages do you know/learning?
William Davis
I am fluent in English. I am intermediate in Spanish and Russian. I am a beginner level in Viet. I am self-taught for all but Spanish, I took that for 4 years in school.
a нy-кa, дpyжoк ты мoй любeзный, paccкaжи, пoчeмy нe пpoчёл дo cих пop Гpaд Oбpeчeнный AБCoвcкий.
A eщe paccкaжи-кa, кaк пpaвильнee пepeвecти "paмcы пoпyтaл" нa инглиш
Owen Lewis
>intermediate in Russian NERERMIND
Thomas Morgan
Pls make a Vietnamese chart
Why did you start learning the language?
Cameron Harris
Gf's family, southern accent. I'll make a chart if I see some others made. Nice try. I'll have that much down by Christmas.
Dylan Lewis
don't listen to this poor sod's recommendations. You are seriously rather better server just watching familiar movied, dubbed in Russian with russian subtitles enabled.
Christopher Diaz
>server just watching familiar movied served by just watching familiar movies
Hunter Rivera
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Carson Wilson
yeah movies do a really good job teaching tenses and aspect thx
You're probably having problems with the intonation. Try listening while paying attention to that, and just practice. I found this vid that talks about it: youtube.com/watch?v=B8Hs3ktQXao
And I don't know if you're talking with an American r, but that will definitely make you sound retarded. If you want to post a recording I can check if I notice something else.
Anthony Sullivan
Are you still here? I could upload all of it for you if you want.
Dominic Anderson
So is it 600 hours to fluent? So if I want to learn Spanish from scratch, I should figure about two years to be fluent if I practice for about an hour a day? (I realize it's less for 600 hours, but figuring some fiddle room in there)
Owen Cox
Does Duolingo teach grammar concepts?
Carter Harris
Yes. The website that is.
Thomas Brooks
Thank you.
Aiden Long
Thanks Rusbro it'd be really useful if I had someone to talk to in Russian or at least explain some of the confusing shit to me. The cases are killing me.
Camden Brooks
Gonna upload both Turkish Teatime podcast and TurkishClass101, get them while it's hot. I'll delete it probably in the coming days. (in a few hours it will be uploaded)
Jason Stewart
>mom is Italian >spent many summers in Italy >understand ~90% spoken Italian >terrible at speaking myself >no grammar knowledge
How do I become fluent? I was thinking of just moving there for a while, assume that would work well but what can I do on my own? I can understand words but not think of the same ones when I wanna speak myself
Links will be probably dead in a couple of days so feel free to post them in the coming threads.
Grayson Rivera
I'm thinking about giving German a go. Typical anglo problem in that i can't stick to a language but i've never tried German.
Buy a grammar book and speak more.
Daniel Hughes
What do you think of Esperanto, /lang/?
Dominic Scott
Useless as fuck, only for people who are too afraid to learn a real language.
Julian Hernandez
I took classes in Latin and Spanish years ago and hated both. I thought I had forgotten everything about both languages but now that I am teaching myself Portuguese(which I am loving so far and am showing actual interest) some of the shit I learned a long time ago is coming back to me and is helping me with some of these Portuguese words/phrases.
Hudson Johnson
>Useless Everything apart from English could be called useless.
Joseph Morales
Come on, a conlang is really useless. Tell me how Interslav Lobjan and Folkspraak are doing.
Andrew Walker
Again with that word. If we go with the practicality (usefulness) logic, nobody should learn anything apart from English (or even that).
Ryan Morris
any romance language would provide the same advantage and also be more useful
esperanto is a meme
Owen Turner
I'm having a hard time finding media I like in German. At least with Spanish I had 20 other countries to pick if I didn't like one, and even with French and Russian I've managed to find music I like. Apart from a few German bands it seems most Germans like to listen to English music.
Jose Edwards
I spent a lot of time searching for bearable German music
Nah that's just to get to a proficient level. You actually need to spend time using the language of you want to have near native level fluency.
Nolan Evans
Trying to perfect my accent in Indonesian. Any tips?
Brandon Williams
Look up for music with more vocal like HipHop (like Fettes Brot, Blumentopf, etc.) or solo songwriter (eg. Götz Widmann, Rainald Grebe...)
Joshua Young
how do I deal with the fact that spoken French is undecipherable?
do you cunts even know what you're saying?
Justin Gutierrez
Try watching movies with French subtitles. Then as time passes you start learning all the things they do in spoken language. Like how they say things like "i'm'l'ont pas dit" but then the subtitles say "elles ne me l'ont pas dit" ('they didn't tell me').
Benjamin Rodriguez
日本語
Logan Jones
This French sounds like a continuous stream. No breakage in words. Let alone ignoring 90% of consonant and just leaving e u ou oi sounds.
Sebastian Kelly
HELP I am traveling to France in 10 days and I need to brush up on my High School French, any good programs I could use? is Duolingo the best?
Austin Murphy
None because languages barely come in handy when one has absolutely no friends to talk to.
Benjamin Brooks
try and make some then
Noah Miller
I have the same problem..
Jason Fisher
I like memrise better 2bh, but I've been using it for months not 10 days.
Levi Clark
How are your studies going btw, started to watch media by now?
Austin Perry
Hey /lang/ I used to write a blog on language resources, but stopped due to lack of time. It's basically massive lists of all resources on these languages (reading/listening/tv/courses/etc):
Arabic Finnish French German Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Persian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish
I kind of want to start it up again but there must be a more efficient format than just listing all recourses available. Any tips?
Aiden Edwards
Your site looks good desu, I don't think there is anything other than posting resources one should do imo, unless you had experience with learning that language that is then you may give pointers and other stuff to help in the process of learning that language.
Adrian Adams
Start off small, like 15-20 minutes a day, but everyday. At this point keeping consistent is the important thing and just add on time to revise old info as you go, alongside learning new things (which tends to be the exhausting part)
Easton Gray
Hey man, I'm kind of similar.
You have to look for smaller chunks of time spread out throughout your day, rather than on large chunk after work.
Whether it's when community to work, standing a queue, or whatever, you could listen to Pimsleur or do a bit of Duolingo for 5 minutes. That adds up.
Mason Edwards
Proficient. I read somewhere that every hour also includes like 2-3 hours of self-study (since those given hours are class hours).
Josiah Edwards
My aunt is in some "esperanto club" or something but the effort probably isn't worth it.
Isaac Cooper
Hey Deutsch-bro,
Can you tell me what level of understanding a native speaker would have if someone did not include the reflexive pronoun in a sentence?
Aside from a few instances, they are very hard to translate into a natural sense, and I worry that I will forget when to include them.
For example: Wir waschen uns die Hände mit Seife.
If I said 'Wir waschen die Hände mit Seife", would that imply I'm washing non-corporeal hands with soap?
Thomas Wright
where did English go so wrong? >all of the most common verbs describing basic human actions like eating, speaking, writing etc. are completely irregular >every vowel makes like 20 different sounds >two instances of the same letter can make different sounds within the same word >every "rule" is broken more often than it ever applies The more I learn about other languages the more sympathy I have for people who need to learn English as a second language
Charles Rivera
It was probably more regular before it got raped by French
English is so irregular that it would be better to learn it through context and sentences rather than learning the actual rules.
Jordan Robinson
Thanks for the advice, i am going to apply what you said
Caleb Price
Thanks, user! Will do!
John Lee
Perchè stai studiando l'italiano?
Jordan Butler
>You have to look for smaller chunks of time spread out throughout your day, rather than on large chunk after work. >Whether it's when community to work, standing a queue, or whatever, you could listen to Pimsleur or do a bit of Duolingo for 5 minutes. That adds up. Thank you. What I'm thinking of doing is 10min at lunch (I take a really short lunch break), then the rest at night, then maybe some more on the weekends.
Oh shit, so it's more like 1800 hours? Yikes. Oh well, better get moving. I might keep a bit of a log. I track my weight every day, might as well track my study hours too.
John Moore
>weeklylanguage.com just correct this: Come stai? / Come state? (polite) into this: Come stai? / Come sta? (polite)
Carson Hill
I think I will start doing this from the beginner.Starting from now, saved the picture. thank you man for making this
Aaron Young
Hello /lang/ new around here Is Duolingo enough to get the basics of a language before hopping on proper courses?
Bentley Wood
What language you had in mind?
Angel Wright
German I'm pretty good in English and know some Latin from high school, so I shouldn't have a hard time
Colton Flores
Seems like the general suggestion is to try a bunch of stuff and see what works for you. No one tool covers it all. That said, could certainly start with Duolingo.
Michael Stewart
Together with Memrise it's a good place to start
Further on Lingvist and Clozemaster are really good for more "realistic" or more natural sentences so you can learn things in context.
I especially like Lingvist's grammar explanations
Justin Hernandez
How's lingvist for Russian, do you know?
I've just been using duolingo and memrise but all I've really learned is vowels and verbs I can't really construct a sentence longer than three words yet.
Jacob Gomez
How is Memrise different than Duolingo?
I see it can be used offline, which is nice because I'm on airplanes a lot and too cheap to pay for the wifi.
Jeremiah King
What are some good resources for Polish?
Brody Sanders
>English is so irregular
William Cook
Duolingo's sentences can be a bit too simplistic so I mostly just use them like vocab flashcards
Memrise throws in a few sentences per "level" (not sure if it's in all courses) that give you a better glimpse of grammar structures. They also have have clips on the browser version where natives read them out.
As far as I've seen though (I'm doing German 7) Memrise doesn't seem to have a place that explains grammar at all? Duolingo at least does that in the browser version
Jack Peterson
What about Pimsleur? I stole that but haven't tinkered with it yet. I remember trying Rosetta Stone when I was younger and not having much success from it, but perhaps that was my motivation and not the software.
Adrian Baker
Honestly, just find a native speaker to practice with, Duolingo is a joke that is pushed mostly by retarded americans learning their first languages having absolutely no clue about linguistics in general.
Robert Martinez
Any tips for French? I use Duolingo but it's really simplistic. I want something to help me get used to how the language sounds.
Seems like movies, radio and tv would be a great way to learn how a langauge sounds.
Jason Nguyen
I haven't tried it yet but a couple of anons in the previous threads have recommended it for Russian, but it's one of the newer courses on Lingvist so there's still improvement going on
I haven't tried it sorry. I'm more of a visual learner so I never looked into using it.
I've looked through some reviews for you though and it's not a bad start to practice listening and speaking. Learning to speak under pressure is plenty handy, as with all languages, but especially with German
Wouldn't rely on it as the only tool though (as with any language learning tool really)
Luis Jones
Thanks. I'll watch that.
Jose Brooks
Also check out Blue is the Warmest Color and Améile. You might want to make a thread on Sup Forums asking for more recs in French. I'm not a regular there but, caught at the right time, Sup Forums has helped me find some nice things to watch.
Josiah Diaz
The faggot mods on Sup Forums will often just delete requests and tell you to fuck off to /r/
Jayden Parker
I've made threads that have lasted asking for recommendations of movies covering specific topics or genres and they've been fine with it. It's such a shitpost board that any reasonable attempt at a decent thread the mods seem to keep.
Lincoln Anderson
I've watched Blue is the Warmest Color. Such a garbage movie. I'll make sure to watch Amelie.
Colton Kelly
Reminder: Those who cannot speak Gaeilge will be executed once President Adams ascends to the Throne of the Union of the Irish Republic and the European Dependencies.
Camden Reed
Has duolingo changed something?
Joseph Wood
not really you can speak to locals, read literature, consume media with stupid useless conlangs you can't do that even
Anthony Collins
Hello again /lang/,
I'm from a Telegram community learning languages. Mostly it's Sup Forums related shitposting but we try to keep a focus on languages. If you'd like to join, here's the link:
