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Check the first few replies ITT for plenty of language ressources as well as some nice image guides.
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
forvo.com >Has pronunciation for lots of words in lots of languages
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.
So, guys, I don't have an uvula, does anyone know if it's possible for me to learn French without sounding like a retard?
I've heard that uvula takes a part in pronunciation of the guttural sounds in French and Hebrew.
Dominic Bennett
Where do I go after completing spanish on Duolingo?
Is there something for free or is it shekels now?
Oliver Myers
Currently learning German, I'm having a hard time with pronouns and genders, halp me Hans. Any German kids books that I can download?
Liam Gutierrez
What else have you done?
I'm learning Spanish and I'm using these tools concurrently, but at a slower rate obviously: Pimsleur Spanish Michel Thomas Duolingo Lingvist
Pimsleur is prioritized for now, and then Michel Thomas I listen to as time allows. Pimsleur isn't my favorite, but it works well in the car. Then at night I'll try to listen to Michel Thomas. Duolingo is alright but I consider it more of a supplement. Lingvist is great for vocab, but I've slowed using it because my vocab is way ahead of my grammar.
Justin Miller
how good are the resources for biblical greek and hebrew?
Jaxon Stewart
doesn't arabic have cases too? at least the MSA
Xavier Rodriguez
How did Duolingo work for you? What's your level now?
Bentley Collins
where's the german version?
Connor Torres
Yes but there are usually rules that help you guess the gender of a word, I'm fluent in French too and it has the same thing, but in German there aren't many
Luke Johnson
i don't have any, sorry there are some gender rules in german look them up
Isaiah Watson
there must be native French speakers who don't have uvulae so it's clearly possible.
Matthew Edwards
No one learning German attempted to make one.
Asher Wright
do you know if there is one for polish?
Liam Miller
So I'm going to boarding school for my junior year of high school this year and all the classes are college level
Technically I already have all the foreign language credits I need but I want to actually learn a language some.
I'm deciding between Spanish and Japanese, I think I'm gonna end up doing Spanish though. I leared hiragana and katakana through self-study a while back but I don't want to be in a class full of weebs
Go watch some tv in Spanish, listen to music and learn the lyrics, or read something. Just try to interact consisntently with the language as much as possible.
Just pick the one you like the most. If you learned to read and write in Japanese it's because you liked it, and who attends to that course shouldn't be a concern of yours.
Post it and clarify that it isn't complete yet, and that any kind of help would be helpful.
Chase Evans
Wow that's a lot. Thank you for your time.
Wyatt Diaz
Lafı mı olur canım benim.
Henry Morales
They're about 30 minute long audios that slowly work you up to an ok conversational level I guess. They have the "lesson 1" of a few languages on their youtube, eg this spanish one youtube.com/watch?v=_O9Rf02Lxnw
Zachary Rivera
>How does pimsleur work? It's a listen and repeat audio learning trainer. I'm not in love with it, but it has been working well as part of a more comprehensive learning package. I'm trying to keep my learning tools diversified.
>Post it and clarify that it isn't complete yet, and that any kind of help would be helpful. Hm okay. See attached.
Samuel Foster
that's unironically nice
why would you be shy to post that? I wish my fucking chart () was even half as aesthetic as yours
Asher Morales
Your guide looks good desu, please keep at it.
Jason Perez
Thank you. I wasn't shy about looks as much as giving advice when I'm still a beginner myself. But, I promise to keep updating it as I get better and find better ways to learn.
I'm also keeping track of my hours, which I think in the end might be useful to some people.
Gavin Rivera
>What language are you learning? Mandarin Chinese. I don't know where to start. I'm overwhelmed. This is a whole new ballgame compared to German.
Dominic Turner
Thank you. I will keep at it and publish updates as I get further along, maybe even fairly frequently, so I gave it a version number.
Samuel Campbell
Don't you mean "...in my case, due to sheer necessity." ?
I'm very confused by the Persian alphabet, it pretty clearly isn't a pure abjad because they write some vowels, but they're all represented with one of 2 symbols. How do I know what vowel is in a word?
Wyatt Hernandez
Just learned the Mari word for "thread" (as in a forum thread or a 4chinz thread)
I'm pleasantly surprised, I had assumed that for such a recent technical word they would have just used the Russian word or something similar.
William Morgan
YOU DON'T KNOW A THING ABOUT THE SQUAD
Logan Davis
Every fucking time I hear Portuguese I guess wrong. My brain keeps expecting something Spanish sounding but it sounds more like fucking Russian or something.
Cameron Gonzalez
No near. Meaning "It's almost a necessity"
I live in Miami and I have a workforce that almost solely speaks Spanish. I'd like to be able to communicate with them even though not a job requirement (I think it should be desu).
John Bennett
ya tú sabes, wey
Michael Collins
>one of the clips is in Quebec French top lel, I wonder if they did on purpose to pick a difficult/weird dialect or if it was an accident
Andrew Flores
Any recs for books/sites on Russian grammar? Duolingo is nice and all but I'm looking for something more focused. Also what does чe mean, is it slang for something?
for what I can remember, чë was like a short form of чтo.
Nathan Edwards
portuguese = drunk spanish
Parker Jones
I can't beat that language game because I can fuck all recognize any Indian language.
Benjamin Green
Alright thanks everyone
Ayden Wood
Have not really done much else desu senpai.
Was looking at but seems like it is latin american spanish.
Pretty well but I kept forgetting things as completing the tree took a long time for me. If you have time to go back and repeat stuff I guess it works well
Jackson Ortiz
any sites/resources for learning Yoruba? I keep trying to find stuff but there's nothing that goes beyond consonant/vowel sounds and numbers
Here's a PDF in English if you want to learn Basque.
There aren't very many resources online for learning Basque, it's rather difficult as a language and there's quite a bit of difference between spoken/colloquial and written Basque, but hopefully some of you get use out of it.
zorte on.
Levi Roberts
What word do they use? Russian borrows the word "thread" from English. There have been attempts to translate it as "нить" but they don't stick; at most it is sometimes used in thread titles to evoke I assume a formal feeling.
Juan Long
Hить or (((konac))) in croatian kek, it fucking awful in both languages
Zachary Peterson
"Чe" (pronounced "чo") replaces both "чтo" and "чeгo", but in a number of situations it is grammatically incorrect to replace these words with "чe" (learn them yourself by observation). Be very careful, this word marks a very informal or disrespectful type of speech. It's basically borderline profanity.
Jaxson Perez
Lmao, yeah. The Japanese say "thread" (almost) as well so that lent the borrowing some credence too. I'm 100% okay with saying тpeд.
Ryan Nguyen
>I've never heard that used in that way. It is more slang than proper english. I noticed necessity was spelled wrong too. Update attached.
Over time I'd like to remove the I's and make it a bit less casual maybe. I don't know what is easier for people to read.
Camden Wright
I feel like it maybe needs a big flag or something too so people can see what language it is as a thumbnail.
Joseph Sullivan
In general dutch, thread or topic is used, but here on Sup Forums we translate every english term literally. Thus, we have nederdraad, which in german would be NiederDraht
Caleb Long
>In general dutch, thread or topic is used Same. I think I never heard thread before imageboards became a thing, though.
>Thus, we have nederdraad, which in german would be NiederDraht There's no need for camel case, so just Niederdraht. I don't really care about /deutsch/ but they generally say Thread.
Russian is generally resistant to imported chan culture at this point so greentexting still hasn't become a thing beside crude attempts. I think it is so because it is unclear what verb tense to use whilst greentexting, as every variant sounds off including the infinitive, for some reason. So the greentexting I've seen is limited to lists of nouns.
Levi Morales
I've got a question. Is "thence" still used? I can't recall seeing it anywhere.
Angel Morales
And what about "tis' " and "whence"?
Hudson Thompson
Nope, I've never heard it used in normal speech before.
Carson Price
I don't think I've ever seen it outside of older books. Pretty rare. On the other hand, 'whence' is still slightly common in academic settings. "tis" is not used purposely. More of an accident when speaking fast I suppose.
Blake Lopez
Same for those as well.
Samuel Bennett
I want to learn jap to read a few book series that are never going to get translated to English. They're pretty complex and from what I can see have quite a bit of uncommon vocabulary and a lot of kanji, so how many years should I expect it to take to be able to read then without stopping every ten seconds to look something up? Let's assume I study one hour a day minimum and maybe more on the weekend. A ballpark estimate is fine.
Joshua Mitchell
>I'd like to be able to communicate with them even though not a job requirement (I think it should be desu).
Should be the other way around; the spics should use English.
Liam Wood
what books? if they're light novels then remember that young adults are supposed to be able to read them so like a year of two although if you're artistic enough less
Dylan Ross
"apшaш"
It has many different definitions, but one of them is "bunch, bundle, string", thus similar to "thread" in English.
Thomas Hughes
Also, I've only noticed a couple of examples of it being used like this, so it's quite possible that, much like the Russian "нить", it's only used by some people, whereas most people would simply use "тpeд". It's hard to find many examples of either word being used in the context of Mari.
Jack Campbell
Well, I agree they all should learn English. It is absolutely amazing that they can't, considering after a month of learning Spanish I can already speak more Spanish than many of them can speak English and many of them have been here for a decade or more.
The problem in Miami is you don't need to speak English, there is so much Spanish that English is really just not needed. You don't need it to shop, or go to the doctor, or talk to the police. They have their own little neighborhoods like Hialeah that are Spanish only and not even the store signs are in English.
I for sure have a problem with this attitude, but to make my life easier I'm just going to learn Spanish. I figure it is good for my brain and good for my productivity. Plus if I stay here in Miami it is probably good for my social life.
Landon Ramirez
I'm living in Buffalo and met a Cuban man who said exactly that. He got here in the US and was working in Miami for a while and decided he would get nowhere doing that, so he moved to Las Vegas and started driving cabs. Speaks English very well and probably lives better thanks to it.
Austin Collins
Crest/Banner of the Stars and Guin Saga. Had also wanted to read some classic nip poetry but after looking into it I learned that's basically another language so I'll settle for those two for the time being.