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>Torrents with more resources than you'll ever need for 30+ languages.
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Beginning Norwegian today, anyone else learning or planning to learn?
Nolan Fisher
>he fell for the duolingo meme
Joseph Powell
It's a decent start for people that aren't very big into languages, if it advertised itself as a tool or introduction instead of full courses it would be much more passable
Wyatt Sanders
Pic of how to learn chink?
Cooper Peterson
Luck, although you do not need it, is a language very similar to English and more grammatically simple.
Owen Ortiz
The thing about Duolingo is it seems to assume some prior knowledge
Robert Turner
This application is VERY useful to become familiar with a language.
But for in-depth learning? Meh, never.
Easton Jones
god i hope i get my airborne linguist contract, that i get russian (maybe arabic) and that i ship before december
also that my german gets better and my german penpal loves me
Michael Peterson
don't have pic but this is what i would do (native speaker)
learn to speak, then memorize characters like crazy
use memrise to learn to speak, at a certain point start using memrise to drill vocab
Anthony Johnson
It just feels like it starts out with some assumption of knowledge and I've yet to come across proper grammar.
Connor Fisher
I use Mango for pronunciation, and a torrent for actual language information. Unless you try to learn from the beggining about gender/inflexion then it just ruins you later. Duolingo is just vocabulary. To learn English it's good because theres no inflexion or gender.
May I get some advice? I recently switched to an international affairs major and will eventually study international law at law school. I am currently taking Spanish 1001 and 1002 as a freshman and want to start learning a new language in addition to my Spanish. I'm stuck between French of Russian. I really don't know which one I should learn first. I know that I want to live and work in Europe but do I learn Russian (which would act as a gate way language for most of Eastern Europe) or French which would help me get a job in Western Europe. I already speak Serbo-Croatian so there's that to consider too. I like both languages equally.
Lucas Brooks
So, is there like, a place where we can talk about linguistics? I feel like some people might be interested in the field, but just nowhere to talk about it. Afterall, linguistics and language learning are essentially two different studies
Brandon Morales
This place did grow out of a linguistics general, except that all the original people seem to have left or gotten bored
Owen Gomez
Are you a Linguistics student? I am, and it'd be nice to have a thread to talk about it. /his/ has (very infrequent) /ling/ generals, but it's his, so they're pretty quickly overrun with bullshit.
James Ward
I'm not a linguistics student just yet. Right now I'm doing general studies, but that's what I' trying to get into as my goal. I never really go on /his/ t.bh f.am, so I wouldn't know about it
Robert Jenkins
I don't blame you, it's a shit board, but I'd be willing to make them if people would be interested. I'm not really sure which board makes sense for it though.
Definitely don't get into Linguistics if you care about money or success, but overall it's a dope field.
Ryder Harris
I think Russia n would give you more opportunities with your future jobs and you know another slavic language so the grammar won't be that difficult. Also French and Spanish are very closely related so it might confuse you
Carson Cruz
Is there any list for basic word requierd for a conversation in russian?Im too lazy to make one myself
Luke Murphy
I'm pretty genuinely interested in linguistics for the interest of it. Tryna get into algonquian linguistics. Actually, I'm trying to see the comparison of native north american language families with various siberian language families. I just don't know what that field would be called
Landon Johnson
I think since this place is dying, /lang/ and /ling/ should be one same thread on here, since they to tend to overlap, and it would help revive this thread a bit. Let's make this a Language Learning and Linguistics general (and try to find a catchy title containing a pun with 3 Ls in it or something, I don't know).
Sebastian Hughes
yo quiero con usted ser caballero
Elijah Lopez
>Where did you go yesterday? Where did you go? >¿a dónde fuiste ayer? ¿a dónde fue?
Only difference is fuiste is familiar, right?
This is a dumb question but wanted to bump the thread too.
Mason Taylor
that's very formal, say "a dónde fuiste" it's also valid and less formal
>fuiste >familiar ??
Kayden Martinez
I'm currently doing the Miracles of Human Language MOOC on coursera.
It's a bit underwhelming to be honest, i understand it's supposed to be an introduction but it's incredibly basic anyone who is interested in a linguistics course or learning languages will probably know/have heard of what is being taught.
