>What language are you learning?
>Share language learning experiences!
>Help people who want to learn a new language!
>Find people to train your language with!
Check the first few replies ITT for plenty of language ressources as well as some nice image guides. /lang/ is currently short on those image guides, so if you can pitch in to help create one for a given language, don't hesitate to do so!
Other urls found in this thread:
4chanint.wikia.com
duolingo.com
drive.google.com
fsi-languages.yojik.eu
memrise.com
lingvist.com
clozemaster.com
tatoeba.org
forvo.com
effectivelanguagelearning.com
lexicity.com
cosmogyros.tumblr.com
dliflc.edu
en.childrenslibrary.org
hellotalk.com
italki.com
mylanguageexchange.com
interpals.net
gospeaky.net
speaky.com
polyglotclub.com
lang-8.com
goethe-verlag.com
languagetransfer.org
babadum.com
context.reverso.net
imgur.com
youtube.com
twitter.com
1st for Esperanto
>Language learning resources:
4chanint.wikia.com
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.
drive.google.com
>Google Drive folder with books for all kinds of languages.
fsi-languages.yojik.eu
>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
>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
>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
effectivelanguagelearning.com
>Check out information about languages and their difficulties
lexicity.com
>An invaluable resource for comparative language study as well as those interested in ancient languages
cosmogyros.tumblr.com
>A very extensive language learning collection for 90+ languages.
dliflc.edu
>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
>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.
italki.com
mylanguageexchange.com
interpals.net
gospeaky.net
speaky.com
polyglotclub.com
lang-8.com
>Few more language exchange communities like Hellotalk:
goethe-verlag.com
>A mostly free site which offers audio and drill like exercises for 40+ languages.
languagetransfer.org
>A free resource with recordings to learn a language.
babadum.com
>Flash card game with a focus on vocabulary.
context.reverso.net
>A website like Tatoeba (also has a Firefox extension!)
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>Get into junior/senior boarding school
>placetest into college level Spanish III
The syllabus says the teacher speaks in Spanish at all times and you must respond likewise. I had Spanish III at my old high school and it wasn't nearly as intense. Additionally it seems like the class will mostly be seniors because people tend to place in a 101 or 202 class at best, so they've already had a year of full immersion to adjust to this.
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Puedes pedir que te cambien? En mi uni teníamos que tomar mínimo un semestre de otro idioma, muchos se cambiaron de idiomas y niveles en la primer semana
Yeah, this week is add/drop, but I'm afraid of him BTFOing me
Take this week and change levels on Friday I guess
If it's really 100% Spanish I doubt you'll make it since you couldn't reply to me in Spanish
Besides, if you're in a lower level, you'll meet people who will graduate around the same time you do
How do I learn dutch if I hate speaking to people and hate serious study?
You can't. Any alternative would take longer and you'd probably just give up half way through.
thred ded
I can't find a torrent for pimsleur and I can't even find the books "essential German". Anyone have a link or a better alternative?
thread won't die
I'm learning English, It's pretty easy to write, but so fucking hard to pronounce. All the words looks like they are french but they are actually pronounced differently plus the "TH" sound.
Oh my god, the "TH" sound.
Besides that, I love English; Sounds cool and It's funny to speak it.
what's wrong with the th sound
It just doesn't exist in french. It's very hard to pronounce it, I always end to say it like an "s" or a "z", and It's ridiculous. Then I heard english people quietly pronouncing it perfectly.
It's frustrating. I envy you.
There are two "th" sounds. Voiced and unvoiced. For example, "thorough" is unvoiced, but "then" is voiced. Unvoiced is easy, you just put your tongue between your top and bottom teeth and blow air, and you kinda do the same with voiced as well.
I never understood why the French pronounce it as "z", it sounds awful. If you need to say it differently, at least use "d" or "f", depending on the word.
"The" as "duh" sounds a lot better than as "zuh".
Same goes for "bath" as "baf" instead of "baz"
thanks for these btw
I will never gain the motivation to truly learn Japanese
Tbqh I don't really even have a use for it except searching for Japanese porn (which i know enough for), the handful of untranslated vidya, and I guess non-anime Japanese TV shows
TFW three comes out as tree or twee.
>I will never gain the motivation to truly learn Japanese
Definetally not with that attitude.
HOW THE FUCK DO I LEARN THIS NIGGER-TIER LANGUAGE??
Anybody got a guide like the Spanish or Turkish ones here?
With that attitude?
sssh nobody learns Dutch to speak to the Dutch.
Belgium is the future.
Then you should learn Flemish.
if i learn german how well will I be able to understand Austrian German? Also is it correct to pronounce ich as 'ish' I hear some people do it
>some people
Were they white?
>if i learn german how well will I be able to understand Austrian German?
very well
>Also is it correct to pronounce ich as 'ish' I hear some people do it
no!
no they were french
So not white; don't trust them they are the evil.
"Sch" is standard around here (Hesse).
Why is this thread struggling so much?
im trying to learn french but i cant understand anything when its spoken. someone recommend me french tv shows or movies
It's Monday, I imagine most people are either just now going to work or about to get off of it, depending on time zones.
>tfw too dumb to progress every day on Pimsleur
It takes me on average 2-3 days to learn each lesson, and that's listening twice per day and do some flashcards.
I wish I wasn't such a retard.
doing*
...also..
>just learned something new
>practicing
>get opportunity to say it
>can't get the words out / can't think of how to say it
which language famalam
Spanish. It's one of the easiest, if not the easiest, for an English speaker to learn and it's going to take me forever since I'm retarded.
Yo también estoy aprendiendo español. ¿Has probado el método de Michel Thomas?
>out of all languages I took an interest in japanese
how do I make myself study a useful language instead? I feel guilty
english is the only useful language
just pick one you like and make a use for it
Sí, escucho a Michel Thomas por la noche. Michel Thomas es más mejor. Aprendo más rapido con Michel Thomas. Pero Pimsleur es un poco más bien en la coche porque no necesito detener. (Michel Thomas there aren't any pauses, so I have to do it at home, versus Pimsleur leaves some space so in the car it's easier).
>english the only useful language
That's just wrong, spoken like a true amurrican
just being honest
I mean he's not wrong. If you can speak English you're good. The rest are just for fun outside of special circumstances
I really don't understand the draw to Japanese here. Is it because of your anime hobby? Their culture is so uninviting and unhelpful to a learner. They don't like you.
I mean I kind of wanted to learn French after Spanish, but the French (mostly) hate Americans so probably not worth learning since they won't help or be pleasant to speak to as a whole. Sure there are exceptions, but probably better to put energy into a friendlier group.
Do you know Spanish? Do you know German? Those are two I'd be way more interested in before speaking Japanese.
No sé qué decirte.
Plus the French will be speaking Arabic soon anyways.
How is English the only useful language to learn? Even in America, Spanish is extremely useful in many parts.
I'm not a weeb, have never been to japan and probably will never go there, but I think the language is very interesting due to its complexity. I should really just stop this madness, it's completely pointless
Bueno, todavía estoy estudiando ambos. I guess it is what it is. If I'm retarded I'm retarded, it will just take me longer. Pimsleur does have lots of useful sayings to learn, so, it's not like it's bad. It also might be that I'm too much of a perfectionist and people move on to the next lesson before getting as much correct.
I'm looking for a desktop equivalent of Pleco so I don't have to keep going to my phone for character look-ups.
Would rather use a program that can save characters etc over using an online dictionary.
Anyone know of something like this - For Chinese?
Well then learn it! Even if you don't use it, it's good for your brain. It's wasteful in a way, but, it's not like you're sitting around fucking off on video games or watching tv. You're doing something productive. I wish you'd learn something that you could use more, but, it's painful to learn something you don't like.
Anyone learning swahili?
Sí, escucho Michel Thomas por la noche. Michel Thomas es mejor. Aprendo más rapido con Michel Thomas. Pero Pimsleur es un poco mejor en la coche porque no necesito detenerme.
(better = mejor)(this is an exception)
You say "verb + a" when the action falls on a person or something you have like a emotional bond with.
Veo a mi hermana. > I see my sister.
Veo el árbol. > I see the tree.
Acaricio a mi perro > I caress my pet
Or living beings in general too.
>that warm feeling you feel when you stumble across a random text in your target language and are able to understand it all
And also, "en el coche".
Mari user?
seems pretty neat
>hear some tourists at the supermarket speaking your target language but it would seem too weird to strike up a conversation
yep
>You love the Mari nation, but you're teaching your child Russian?
>You don't really love it, you're just destroying it...
Obviously from a lexical and grammatical perspective it's rather basic, but still, I'm happy that I've gotten used to the vastly different grammar enough to the point where I'm starting to be able to understand things at a glance, rather than having to "reconstruct" the sentence in my head.
Welsh grammar guides, got this from reddit
I just want to say I always enjoy reading about your language endeavors.
Thanks!!!
>(better = mejor)(this is an exception)
What do you mean? Normally mejor wouldn't be used? mayor is more typical?
Ah okay. I debated back and forth about "por la" and "en la"
>the French (mostly) hate Americans
Stop believing memes please. That's absolutely false.
>Plus the French will be speaking Arabic soon anyways.
Well, I do hate you now. But only you. Not the other Americans.
y-you too
You're the Turkish-learning user, right?
Yes
My oh my portuguese really makes spanish cake once I master pt I will speak Spanish in a matter of months.
>Stop believing memes please. That's absolutely false.
Not really false. I've travelled to France a number of times, and it's by far the least American friendly place in Europe. And that's before Sup Forums starts with the caliphate jokes. Spain, Italy and Germany are extremely friendly, France you end up with some lecture by a bartender about how Americans don't learn their language or how they butcher it when they come and try to speak it (gee, wonder why they don't learn it well), or some foreign policy scolding as if I'm some ambassador.
Sure I'm speaking generally, there are Germans in Germany that hate America, and there are people in France that love America, but I'm talking total overall shake-it-up-in-the-bag results: French people don't like us.
"mejor" se usa en vez de *"más bueno"/"más bien"
Turkish also has highly flexible word order with verb-final constructions, along with heavy use of inflections and suffixes, right?
If so, how long did it take you before you were able to understand things more "naturally"? Do you still sometimes struggle with it?
Does anyone know an online dictionary that has one of the Serbo-Croatian dialects?
Ah, bueno. gracias.
As far as I know yes, the final verb and those word building blocks.
It's something which is not easy at first, but the concept is slowly starting to form in my mind.
I just listened to some radio ad and to my surprise I felt like it totally clicked in my mind.
Both the radio station's website and the newspaper's websites are back online.
>strike up a conversation with exchange students from your target country while shitfaced
pls answer
Are there any sites with some french grammar exercises that have an auto-check? Or any good books available in pdf format with the key included?
did you get a response on your letter to the radio station site thingy?
youre keeping me on the edge of my seat marianon
look up normie youtubers
theyre bound to have captions if theyre popular enough
watch it with subs and then without until you can catch words on the fly
sift through the french learning pack i guess
youre bound to find something
You're the guy who made the guide for turkish, yeah? Teşekkürler, never would have found the podcasts without it.
If you enjoy comedies, then you should watch OSS 117 movies, they're classics
no response, but the site is back
Considering buying an Assmil French course set. Heard it is very good and can make you practically fluent if you do all the lessons.
Any experience?
rica ederim
I am learning German and honestly most Germans I have to work with speak passable english. American ears are used to mangled, fucked up grammar, incorrect nouns so even if the english is bad its still effective.
However some Germans do not speak english and so I am learning German.
I just need to communicate basic ideas.
Anyways I want to eliminate german articles from my things to learn. How am I supposed to know a turnip is a she but a baby girl is an it?
I want to say das for everything but others say to use die. Which should O use as the default if I do not know the gender of the object I am referring to?