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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
dliflc.edu/resources/products/ >Similar to FSI, drill-based courses with text and audio issued by the US government.These courses were made for millitary personel in mind unlike FSI.
en.childrenslibrary.org >Lots of childrens books in various languages, categories 3-5yo, 6-9yo, 10-13yo.
hellotalk.com/#en >The app is basically whatsapp, but only connects you with people who are native in the language you are trying to learn. It also has a facebook type section where you can share pics and stuff too.
French feels very discouraging. A language with a vocabulary this familiar (knowing English and Spanish) shouldn't be this hard to understand in it's spoken form.
Thomas Cook
Portuguese but being lazy and dumb keeps the progress slow.
Michael Carter
You don't have to be smart, languages mainly require time and immersion.
Zachary Russell
French phonetics are a bit fucked up senpai
Adrian Carter
Bump. Guys don't let the thread die
Owen Jones
For Japanese learners is Genki1 & Genki2 good to get a solid base for the language that can be expanded on?
Angel Edwards
This, except Italian instead.
Jonathan Phillips
This, except Spanish.
I keep hearing that, but, I'm pretty stupid.
Matthew Howard
Being lazy is your detriment bro not because you are dumb
t.dumbo
Brody Myers
Estou a aprender portugués I am learning Portuguese
Gabriel Green
What's a good source of introductory grammar for Russian?
I've been using Duolingo and Memrise but they really only seem good for vocab. Perhaps I'm mistaken but I feel like grammar should come before vocab. What's the point in knowing hundreds of words if I can't actually form a sentence with them? I mean, outside of the basic sentences I memorize from Duolingo not because I understand grammar rules but because of repetition.
Michael Ross
I am learning German
Can someone help me find a cartoon? It is in Germany, and it is about these tin soldiers or a tin army. They look like a puppet show
Brody Ramirez
je te reconnais des fils /fr/
est-ce que t'es un americain en grece ou quoi?
meme pour moi en tant que ricain il est vraiment difficile de comprendre les francais lorsqu'ils parlent dans la vie reelle
Colton Cooper
I really wanna go ape and do 6 hours a day for a week, but have to finish this other course first.
Lincoln Baker
which language?
Nathaniel Cook
esperanto the master language
Nicholas Mitchell
reddit, pls go
Samuel Lewis
Mind telling me why I should actually bother picking up any new language in general and for what purpose? Finding a native speaker that would be willing to practice with someone as much autistic as myself is barely doable.
you need to be a weeabo about a new language. making new friends is stupid
if you like animu, be weeaboo if you like german heute show, be germanaboo if you like soap opera, be spanishaboo
Luis Rivera
Is this excerpt correct ? If not, could someone please correct me ?
"Sto imparando anche l'italiano. Non sono sicuro di essere pronto per parlare con altra gente, ma apprezzerei il suo aiuto e in cambio, mi farebbe felice di aiutarsi!"
Josiah Bell
>interpals.net/ (Do people use this to learn langauges?)
What is the best way to meet a native speaker willing to practice with you?
Dominic King
>I keep hearing that, but, I'm pretty stupid. What's your biggest struggle when learning? Something specific.
Carter Brooks
>Mind telling me why I should actually bother picking up any new language in general and for what purpose? it's not about "should", it's about "want".
Dylan Watson
Using apps and language exchange meetings, besides meeting people irl are the ones that first comes to mind.
Ayden Brown
>meeting people irl
Blake Gonzalez
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOT REAL LIFE FRIENDS NOOOO
Brandon Reed
where should i start to improve my english grammar?, i need to stop feeling insecure whenever trying to type
Xavier Flores
tried out duolingo with their new Japanese course complete fucking garbage, no idea why anyone recommends the site
hard to take such a comment coming from a speaker of one of the ugliest fucking languages ever spoken
Aiden Phillips
...
Logan Sanders
Grammar. Knowing when to use alli versus ahi like that other guy, hacer, what the fuck vosotros is, sois, etc.
Vocab. I'll be told a new word, try to memorize it, and immediately forget it.
I'm using Pimsleur, Duo, Lingvist, and Memrise.
Jaxson Phillips
you only need to learn english, all the other languages are completely redundant
Blake Turner
The Japanese one is known to be the worst they have
And about French, what I said it's true. Regardless of your opinion on Dutch
Austin Jenkins
Practice: read more, write more, review it, then search for the specific rule.
Adrian Smith
not true
Caleb Martinez
remind me when more than 5% Americans will be able to actually speak a language other than their own
Kevin Wilson
Languages carry a lot of social implications in every country, this means power relationships, intimacy, social adaptability and many other things. Not speaking a specific language in a specific location and culture can and will be seen as a disrespectful attitude, causing uncooperative behaviors and even offenses from the cultural group.
Connor Wright
shut up Erasmus
I'm glad President Trump will stop giving gibs to those shitty muh study abroad faggots
Carter Lewis
I have no interest in living in your shit country with your shit ideologies and shit costumes, I'd rather keep risking my life in Brazil until I can go somewhere decent.
Connor Ward
"allí" and "ahí", which btw, both go with an accent on the letter "i", are adverbs of place, used to indicate different degrees of proximity to the speaker or the present.
>allí means "en aquel lugar" and it's used to designate an indeterminate place. In certain occasions, it can mean "entonces, en tal ocasión" >Aquí hay rosas, allí hay claveles. >Allí hicieron la obra.
>ahí Means "en ese lugar o a ese lugar" and also "en esto, o en eso", "esto o eso" >Dejó los libros ahí. >Ahí está la dificultad >Por ahí puede conocerse la verdad.
TL;DR In order of closeness to the speaker they go like this: aquí > ahí > allí
aquí=este lugar [close] ahí=ese lugar [meh] allí=aquel lugar [far away]
Los lugares que designan aquí (este lugar), ahí (ese lugar) y allí (aquel lugar) están muy relacionados con la situación del hablante y su percepción de la distancia: aquí indica el lugar en el que está el que habla; ahí, un lugar algo alejado, y allí, un lugar más alejado.
I'm pretty sure my post is very confusing, sorry, I'm a bit busy right now
I can speak hebrew and french as fluent (i'm native in french), and english as a level intermadiate.
Jackson Nguyen
Thank you
Jaxon Bennett
>I really wanna go ape and do 6 hours a day for a week, but have to finish this other course first.
I've tried in the past but unless you are already fairly high level (high A2-B1), it's hard to find enough stuff to do without simply spinning your wheels to eat up time in my experience.
Oliver Green
Is it safe to say that the amount of valuable practice time increases as you get more advanced? Like to start you have to take it a bit slower (less hours per day) than once intermediate?
Nathan Butler
It's about having fun. If you're looking for practicality, you're set with only English. You could still post in x language forums and whatnot and communicate with natives in that way.
Jonathan Adams
Swedish.
Not an issue for me, already know a bit.
Noah Turner
well said.
Benjamin Wood
Non, je suis grec. Le problème plus grand pour moi c'est que la plupart du temps quand j'écoute des mots que je ne connais pas, je peux pas trouver comment ils sont écrits. Ça n'est pas un problème avec l'espagnol (mais avec l'anglais si parfois).
vosotros = you plural (you guys) vosotros sois = you are plural (you guys are) (only in Spain)
It's more of a problem with English not having a plural you, a lot of other languages have it. Honestly since you live in the US you shouldn't even bother with properly learning this form just be aware that it exists.
Juan Watson
>It's more of a problem with English not having a plural you
Southern US dialect has y'all
just sayin
Daniel Price
I've learned a tiny bit of Russian.
Am about to take a course in Mandarin. Not out of love for the Chinese, but for a job. I hear the Chinese are pretty fucking dodgy, so it sounds like fun.
Once I've mastered Mandarin, I may learn Cantonese, or finish learning Russian. But I don't intend to stop there.
Jason White
Fuck off we are full
Jayden Rogers
I wouldn't live anywhere else from here, also
kys
Colton Clark
That's their loss, not ours.
There're also brain health benefits for those who can speak fluently at least two languages, being bilingual is very good for you, specially on the long run.
Hudson Parker
I'm going to become fluent in a dozen of them. That's my goal.
Nathan Torres
very well said and articulated
Evan Wood
You're welcome, if you come up with more doubts or anything just post them in the thread
Nicholas Stewart
>brain health benefits are those bigger if the third language is finnish? or does one become a spurdo?
John Hall
Probably yes, because the more difficult the language is for you, the more brain gains
Isaac Rogers
Really? I'd have assumed the opposite, the lower your level the more you have to learn and practice. The higher your level the less you're "learning" and more you are "polishing" what you know, isn't it?
Nicholas Gutierrez
I've found that when you're a beginner, you have a ton of content you could learn and there is a lot available for beginners. As a more advanced learner, the resources become scarcer and you become confused on what to learn next. Structure is more difficult to achieve.
As a very advanced learner, it becomes easy again. You can just use native content to polish up everything.
It's the intermediate stage that's the worst, and probably why most people give up.
Sebastian Myers
>vosotros = you plural (you guys) >vosotros sois = you are plural (you guys are) >(only in Spain) >It's more of a problem with English not having a plural you, a lot of other languages have it. Thank you.
>Honestly since you live in the US you shouldn't even bother with properly learning this form just be aware that it exists. I moved to Miami (hence wanting to learn Spanish) so there is a hodgepodge of culture and language, but the primary one is Cuban. My friend from Spain warned me that if I learn to speak exactly like the Cubans, if I travel I'll come off as very ghetto-improper. He used the analogy of someone speaking English who is from the hood. I want to speak Spanish that is respectful if I travel or speak to someone from Spain. I thought it was just in the slang, which would be easier to be careful of, but my friend from Spain implied it was wider than that. So really not sure what to do. I'll take your advice and just be aware of it, but a lot of the practice material like Lingvist has it.
Lucas Perez
>remind me when more than 5% Americans will be able to actually speak a language other than their own I'm not completely defending my fellow Burgers, but, some of this is due to geography. I lived in Germany for a short while and the time it takes me to get out of my state by car, in Germany I could be in another country speaking another language. We also get lazy, even as international business people, because so many people speak English. It is sort of a default for conducting business. If that wasn't the case, I think a lot more of us would be more motivated to learn other languages.
That said, I know quite a few people - including myself - who are eager to learn new languages.
I took Spanish in high school, and I wanted to learn it. But, where I lived there was literally no one to practice with without really seeking them out. I'm a bit older too so the Internet wasn't quite as developed. But I just didn't see any benefit to practicing or keeping up with it as I had no real life opportunities to speak it or have it benefit. Big mistake, as now here I am trying to learn again and I've forgotten everything.
Zachary Thomas
Hmmm, I see, thanks for your input.
Nathaniel Smith
Which ones?
Zachary Ward
What's your level, Sup Forums?
Elijah Wilson
>English C2 I got the C1 maybe 10-11 years ago and I'm thinking of C2 maybe this year. I have no use for it, but it'd be cool to have it. >German B1 I hope to reach a comfortable B2 by next spring.
Also I've fooled around with several different languages just for fun, so they're probably A1, but that's just, you know, nothing.
Nicholas Ross
does lingvist teach European Spanish?
Christian Ward
Is there a difference between imperfect subjunctive 1 and 2?
I mean are 'fuera' and 'fuese' different?
Chase Brooks
No but fuese is used less often
Jason King
C2 in Dutch and English, B2 in >Esperanto, B1 in Swedish, and A2 in Japanese and Italian. I really should stop spreading out my learning over so much languages
Brayden James
>C2 in Dutch >flag Hmmm
Luke Sanders
tenks
Jackson Long
Not learning Jap myself but almost everywhere Genki is recommended.
Oliver Rodriguez
If you are a native speaker doesn't that count as C2?
Joseph Ross
>tfw brainlet who can't trill r's
Is there a worse feel?
Adam Harris
A2 Finnish
Lincoln Reed
onu diyor zaten
genelde anadilini bu sıralamalara katmazsın diye biliyorum
Matthew Jenkins
nope
Parker Morgan
does it not? I assumed it did. I'm 15/16 parts Dutch anyway, and Dutch is my mother tongue
Hudson Perez
That A1-C2 classification is for foreign languages. Your native language is just "native", it's presumed you're speaking it at C2 level.
Michael Cruz
Yo nederlanders can you help me? I'm looking for the poetic and prose eddas in nederlands. I already found the prose bol.com/nl/p/edda/1001004010970833/ , however I would also like the poetic edda. Amazon is preferred site. bij voorbaat bedankt
Aiden Cook
actually it doesn't even have to be a site, just a good translation for namesake is fine.
Bentley Reyes
So you don't count them in, I see.
Kayden Anderson
it's not necessarily a brainlet thing, I was born with a palate problem and I can't do them either >tfw I have that in my surname >tfw they're important for my first language and the language I'm learning now (finnish)
Grayson Wilson
I don't know a version of the prose edda in Dutch, but you can find the poetic edda on wikisource nl.wikisource.org/wiki/Edda
Cooper Gonzalez
as a note, there's some pretty archaic word usage in there, but you probably expected that
Chase Baker
New York has you guys as effectively a singular pronoun.
Jaxson Robinson
Of course, and yeah I always forget wikisource
Jaxon Rodriguez
Anyone needs help with Russian?
Jack Watson
Any of you experience with immense exposure to a language without learning it?
Samuel Flores
I don't know man
But I know for sure I like rolling my R, I always have, ever since I was a kid, and even today I'd randomly roll my r and change the speed to hear the different sounds
Austin Lewis
>tfw learning Esperanto just so I can claim to be trilingual
Nathan Bell
Hmmm... What exactly are you on about? Expat in the Netherlands that doesn't know Dutch?
