How are you preparing for the Catalan Century? Edition
>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!
>Learning resources Check """pastebin.com/ACEmVqua""" for plenty of language resources 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!
>Implying Catalonian is a full fledged language >Implying it has any bearing on any other languages in the world >Implying it can be spoken anywhere outside a small corner in a map
At least Basque is somewhat unique.
Chase Watson
¿Cuál es la diferencía?
Henry Price
Valencians have a more "spanish" accent. Doesn't sound as if they are forcing every possible phoneme out of the Spanish phonologic chart. Basically, it's easier to understand if you have a working knowledge of Spanish.
Jacob White
accent /phoenetics verb conjugation in some cases some vocabulary
kind of argentine/castilian
Gabriel Baker
Had a nice convo with a Japanese twitch streamer, he was speaking I was typing, went pretty well.
Tyler White
¿Pueden comprender los hablantes de español el idioma catalán?
Jose Cook
partially
Matthew Davis
What languages are you all learning?
Daniel Smith
Anyone learning schwyzertüütsch here? Anyone?
Please I'm so lonely ;_;
Angel Reyes
>schwyzertüütsch What the hell is this monstrosity
Liam Ramirez
I've been picking it up for years but still too insecure to use it in public ;~;
Matthew Stewart
schwyzertüütsch -> schweitzerdeutsch -> swiss german You're damn right when you call it a monstrosity though.
>years RIP me then. How have you been doing it?
Austin Allen
Trying to learn french. I am basically at the stage where I am deciding on which resources to use and in which order.
I will start with the FSI Phonology course starting tomorrow and start doing Duolingo classes.
Aiden Ortiz
Good luck user, keep us posted. Why are you learning French?
Christopher Green
Well I just wanted to learn a third language. I have failed at several things over the past few years, so self esteem is at an all time low.
So I went through the "learning how to learn course" by Barbara Oakley on coursera and it inspired me to learn another language(especially since she said said that research shows people who learn multiple languages have lesser chance of getting dementia at old age)
So I feel like learning another language will give me a sense accomplishment. Anyway my initial choices were French or Japanese but choice French because of relative ease.
Bentley Jackson
Duolingo is alright but it won't take you far beyond the very basics. What I recommend is trying to immerse yourself as much as possible, you could start with one of those sentence-reading methods like Glossika, then move on to reading news and stuff, watching captioned French videos on Youtube (Norman fait des vidéos, cyprien, joueur du grenier, etc, all of them have French captions available). When you comfortably understand those you can move on to YA literature and stuff like shows, France produces a lot of cartoons and the ones aimed at children usually have clear enunciation and easy to understand language.
Bonne chance.
Carson Adams
I have also planned doing these courses as well.
>FSI Phonology and Basic French >Paul Noble french course + Michel Thomas advanced+ Michel Thomas vocab + Michel Thomas builder. >Every French Assimil course in the torrent links in this thread.
I plan on spending 3 to 3.5 hours per day on french
How should I structure my learning and in which order should I learn these courses? All know is that the FSI phonology course should come first.
Luke Nguyen
Also lingvist and Coffee break French were also recommended to me on reddit and I want to use Glossika like you've said as well.
To be honest I want to go through all of these things but I can spend only 3 to 3.5 hours per day. If anyone can help me make schedule and order these things it would be helpful.
Jonathan Parker
Is Glossika any good for French? I heard it's not as good for European languages
Nathaniel Hernandez
Phonology is a good starting point, yeah, but try not to spend too much time stuck trying to sound perfect. French phonology is a bit weird and it'll take a while before you don't sound terrible. Which is something you can work on while learning vocab.
Also those methods you mentioned seem alright, as long as you're learning more sentences than words in isolation you should be good. Lingvist and Glossika are all about reading sentences, either of them will cover the same kind of stuff, there's no real order to learn one or the other, in fact doing both might be unnecessary.
btw we have a /lang/ Discord with a lot of French natives that could help you if you're interested: discord.gg/9EMAAef It's alright, but maybe more mature methods like Assimil are better, I'm really not sure as I have not tried most of them.
Liam Smith
I will join the discord once I go through a couple of these courses
Camden Miller
Learning Turkish at the moment, lots of fun with it so far. It's a lovely sounding language once you get past that initial 'alien' sounding barrier of all foreign languages.
Nolan Nguyen
Mostly just eavesdropping everywhere and talking to myself when alone. TV programs with High German subtitles are nice too. Took a beginner's course at Migros once but it didn't seem to help much, especially with the teacher speaking a different dialect than the locals.
Luke Myers
Alright my man, best of luck to you. Most of us in the Discord are complete beginners in our target langs though, so don't worry too much about that.
Godspeed.
Dominic Taylor
Thanks and Thanks for the advice as well.
Samuel Ramirez
nice triple double double get I'm also learning French, but have put it off for a while now for some reason. I really need to get back at it again.
Carter Moore
Nice dubs for you as well , checked.
Mason Martinez
>eavesdropping everywhere I try to do this but it mostly just feels in vain
>talking to myself when alone #relatable, I'll try and throw in whatever swiss german I know when I do this with high german
>TV programs with High German subtitles Where are these? Just on TV?
>Migros Course I need to look more carefully into this, because I'd love to take one of these but since i'm working like 9-6 idk if it's offered at a time that i could participate :c
John Taylor
Japanese or Korean? I already know Italian, and I want to learn something that's more "oriental."
Michael Phillips
Whichever one your autism draws you to
Dylan Hill
I literally had to stop myself from telling you Japanese, simply because that's what MY autism told me you should learn. Learn to tap into your own damn autism and stop using mine.
Gavin Smith
Japanese would probably be more useful? Bigger Japanese influence on the west than Korean. But other than that it's really just whatever floats your boat. I personally wouldn't care about that.
Logan Adams
Unless you have a deep interest Korean pop culture like K-drama,K-pop ot plastic surgery Japanese will always be the right answer.
John Williams
Fat arsed Korean grills > Jap grills, my dude. It's a tough one, but Korea wins this round. Learn their language.