>Learning resources
Check """pastebin.com
/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!
Torrents with more resources than you'll ever need for 30+ languages:
Google Drive folder with books for all kinds of languages:
drive.google.com
>link to /deutsch/ group in telegram
QotT (Question of the Thread): What are you currently learning and how are you going about it?
burrito
Intermediate croissant, tips?
I know a fair bit of Arabic and I'm a beginner in Dutch. For the former I curse myself for not practicing more, for the latter I'm currently doing a piss poor effort with Duolingo and nothing else. I'll probably learn the language in about 20 years*, by which time I'll also have forgotten Arabic completely
* If I don't kill myself before then
Is out there any popular chan or forum from France so I can lurk it?
Arab is Category V, don't be so harsh with yourself phagget
>phagget
wow rude
>Arab is Category V, don't be so harsh with yourself
But that is exactly why I'm harsh with myself, it took me three years of intensive effort to get to a semi-advanced conversational level, and then I don't use it. It's pissing me off that I keep sabotaging myself like that...
Mandarin. Started learning the traditional textbook way (greetings -> pronouns -> family -> numbers, that sort of shit), quickly realized it's retarded for chingchong. Started over by grinding radicals, then moving through simple and complex characters. The downside is that I learn random and obscure vocab useless at this stage, the huge upside is that it's way, way easier to remember a word as x+y+z as opposed to 15 different strokes.
I feel like simplified Chinese is anything but as far as learning is concerned. It's faster to write, but they've completely butchered the logic and pictography of so many characters.
What is the difference between traditional and simplified Chinese really? I get the impression that simplified = something the commies introduced
Honnêtement je n'en connais aucun, mais j'aimerais savoir. Si tu en trouves, poste-le. Comment a fais tu pour apprendre français?
u aan az John dade
u aan az u dade
sib az u daarim
sib qermeze
sibe Johne
aayaa sib quermeze?
This is just the left hand column, can someone correct my answers? I'm sure most of these are wrong.
Fucking A, there's a Routledge Essential Grammar for Northern Sami available, I had no idea. I want to learn Sami for meme reasons, so this was fun news.
routledge.com
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Honnêtement je n'ai pas fait beaucoup de progrès ce mois dernier et dernièrement je n'ai pas beaucoup de temps, les vieilles ressources m'ennuient et je ne sais pas quoi utiliser pour le trouver ce ressources drôle, et toi colombiANON?
Like the guy said, it's less strokes, but the meanings get erased/distorted. Makes it easier for natives, harder for learners.
aren't there dozens of sami dialects?
10 or something I believe, but Northern Sami is one of those. It's the largest both of the Sami languages in total and in Norway.
Kiel fartas vi, Sup Forums?
Anyone try Michel Thomas for Mandarin? I'm getting so tired of pimsleur
>Michel Thomas
I find it better for French than Pimsleur
Doesn't know for Mandarin
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4chanint.wikia.com
for everyone learning languages: please take the time to contribute to the wiki.
This link should be posted in every OP just for visibility and to encourage contributions to it.
Hi all.
I learn English lang and want to read English text/magazzines/newspapers. Anons, can your give me some links on that?
After I finish Berliner Platz 2, I think I want to try to learn German more passively (ie. through movies and tv and such). The grammar grind has been absolutely draining lately, so i wanna give myself a break before moving on the BP 3. Maybe I'll switch to grinding Anki as well, because lately i've been doing it only every few day.
At the same time, I think I might start the grammar grind for Italian. That's sort of got 2nd priority right now, but I since I'm going to Italy in like 3 weeks I wanna get a foundation laid asap as possible
AHH!! HUNGARIAN!!
When they use numbers to describe multiple trees, like 52 trees, they don't say "52 trees." They say "52 tree"
> not ötvenkét fák
but
> ötvenkét fa
but sometimes the number 2 isn't even consistent
in this exam, 52 uses the "két" 2
but 72 uses the "kettő" 2
> 52: ötvenkét
> 72: hetvenkettő
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
why Hungarian
why u do this???
English is everywhere ........
simple wikipedia
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Thank you.
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What's the name of this language exchange site/app with the sentence correction?
Bone
reeee go back to facebook normieshit
Tell me the name and i'll leave
HelloTalk
The autism
Good morning lads! What's your study plans for today? I just downloaded Learning With Texts and I'm gonna be playing around with it.
This seems way too complicated.
I wish other languages had simple wiki
simplefr fucking never
will leaf through the articles later
Japanese, in Duolingo.
I already learnt Hiragana and Katakana beforehand, and read that Tim or Kim something grammar guide, but I got lazy + i'm busy with uni stuff. Duolingo provides me with daily motivation for short units of learning, which is better than nothing.
I want to learn Arabic too. But only to understand it, not to speak it. I will never SPEAK Arabic, ever. That would be admitting defeat. But I want to be able to understand what they say.
Material for native children isn't the same as for adult learners.
Li donas ĝin al Ĝono
Ŝi donas ĝin al li
Ni donas al li la pomon
La pomo(j) estas ruĝa
Ĝi estas la poma de Ĝono
Ĉu la pomo estas ruĝa?
Mi donas la pomon al Ĝono
Mi devas doni ĝin al li
Mi manĝis la pomon
Mi ne povas manĝi la pomon
Mi volas doni ĝin al ŝi
Mi scios morgaŭ
just pretend really hard you're a native child
You fags seriously use duolingo?
Sometimes native childrens resources are the best desu. I used some children's resources when learning Japanese Kanji and it worked really well for me.
Why wouldn't someone use Duolingo? It's more effective than Rosetta Stone by quite a bit. About equivalent to doing 1 semester in class. It's a good starting point. And of all the apps available it's probably the best.
I do
I used it, it's a nice introduction to the language if nothing else
Don't most people use it at the start? It's usually a good intro resource. Outside of that it's okay as a side gig, somewhere to give new vocab context.
How do you guys stay motivated to learn your languages when you seldom reach noticeable milestones? Tfw learning Spanish, which should be easy, but have had trouble with motivation over the past month or so. My routine is mostly just studying grammar from a website + my school textbook + duolingo + reading Spanish articles and meme pages. I may be studying abroad in Chile next year, and I want to learn as much as I can before going.
Google pictures of cute Chilean girls and use them as your motivation.
None of the results were cute.
Maybe try cute boys. Or Google cute girls and pretend they speak Spanish.
>82400121
My suggestion would be to read whatever books you like in English in Spanish. There's no reaosn anything should be a drag, if you don't like something dump it.
>tfw too much of a brainlet for trilled r
I feel like a fucking retard when I try it.
I go around by writing the following
Goals & Motivation
Intrinsic motivation
Extrinsic motivation
Setting short, mid, and long term goals
All these will remind you why the fuck you're studying a language.
And as the user said, trying to think what may happen to you if you keep going, like for example how a graduate student might keep a note in his workspace about what his starting salary is for his degree.
I got most of this from this image, especially the "A Mind for Numbers" book. Don't be fooled, it's for any learner not only math.
> How do you guys stay motivated to learn your languages when you seldom reach noticeable milestones?
> I may be studying abroad in Chile next year
How do normies function? The terror of conversing to people in Spanish halfway across the world would keep me in constant studying panic mode
This desu. How is your motivation not the very fact that you could be going to a country where your target lang is spoken??
No, I mean, I get anxiety by talking to people in my native language, in my home city.
It's simply terror, terror, to do that in another language, far away
The Jehovah's witness language app is pretty cool. You can see a sentence and then you can change the noun, verb, tense, etc to see how that changes the sentence.
give me one reason I should and shouldn't learn Nepali
please
Shouldn't: You will become at least one foot shorter
Should: Gurkha stronk
Recentement je n'ai pas fait de progrès. Mais je lis des livres, j'ai bien du mal à les lire, car je n'ai pas du temps. Je crois que ça aidera à améliorer mon français.
There are multiple Nepali languages I think?
Yes! I'm 70% done with the Memrise companion for Duolingo Hungarian
I'm doing this to push my boundaries, because whenever I place myself in uncomfortable situations, I realize that I am infinitely more capable than my anxiety would have me believe. It is truly the only way to become more functioning, IMHO. I have extreme anxiety, but I've been pushing it to its limit as of late in an effort to improve myself, and live life free of the shackles of those feelings.
Appreciate the infographic, senpai.
I'm afilled with fear?
I missed that thanks!
what language has the most empathetic women who have low standards and are willing to date someone not just because they're an American?
so yeah I'm asking about qts
Get your hipster language outta here.
You use két when it's attributive like an adjective, standing next to the noun it qualifies. 'ötvenkét fa'. But if it stands on its own with no noun its kettő. 'Nem két fa van ott hanem ötvenkettő'
what is the benefit of doing the duolingo course on memrise vs on duolingo?
Memrise is just the flash cards I think, not the sentence translations. It also lacks the (sometimes sparse) grammar notes on Duolingo.
what university user?
Should: Sounds cool, spoken by a fairly large amount of people
Shouldn't: Useless and irrelevant unless you have a personal reason to learn it
what is the app?
why the sora no woto pic anyway
Same here. I just fake my way through them and move on. Hoping it just clicks one day.
We'll make it someday
Just prrrractice my dudes.
>The Jehovah's witness language app
search "JW Language"
How do you stay motivated?
Duolingo has a "streak" function. You have to practice every day to maintain the streak
I know it's a meme but it forces me to at least do a little bit every day.
This. I have a 200 day streak in Dutch now, even though my main motivation for learning the language (studying there) no longer applies, I still do it everyday to maintain my streak.
You really have a 1142 day streak though? That's dedication bro. What language?
Deutsch
I'm also a germanyaboo. That helps a little bit with motivation.
Duo's streak does nothing for me. It's all you can do to keep lessons gold and even if you forgo strengthening skills you don't learn much. The only reason my duo streak isn't dead is because I compulsively buy double or nothing and don't want to lose those useless shekels.
the lessons stay gold longer if you get more questions "correct"
If you type an answer and it's correct, then it stays gold for a long time
If you type an answer and it's wrong, then it will lose its gold rapidly
If you hover over a word to get a hint, then it will also lose its gold rapidly
it also stays gold the more times you "gold" it
if you gold it once, it stays gold for maybe 5 days
if you gold it after that, it stays gold for 10 days
after that, 20 days, etc
I don't know how well Duolingo explains it but 'ötvenkét fá' has to come immediately before the verb because it's the part of the sentence that's in focus.
>If you type an answer and it's wrong, then it will lose its gold rapidly
>If you hover over a word to get a hint, then it will also lose its gold rapidly
FUGGGGG
Well, that explains it.
that's awesome.
I'm feeling quite proud. about to reach 50 days with German. but that streak is insane. what languages?
My streak is also with German
>mousing over the words to get hints takes away learning value
>the hints are wrong half the time anyway
Wow.
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Fuck yeah this is the shit I like to hear. Self improvement is what I live for. Keep on doing what your doing homie, keep pushing through. It's hard but worth it
alles, aber besonders "normale" Kultur in ihre Fernsehsendungen. Finde ich die meme lederhosen/dirndl/pol muh Hitler langweilig.
Nach zu viele Jahre Deutsch lernen, ich habe gefunden, dass ich deutsche TV untertitelen oder ünterstützen könnte.
ahja ich verstehe das. Das Alltagsleben ist normalerweise interesstanter als die meme Dinge. Wie andere Menschen sozialisieren, sich fühlen, feiern, wie sie eigentlich leben. Ich war gleich für japanisch
ich hoffe zu bald detusche/schweize TV shauen und von ihm viel lernen. Lernen vom Lernbuch hat neulich langweilig geworden
Almost ... done with adessive cases in Hungarian
thanks guys
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Looking at cute girls that speak Spanish
