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3rd for study for at least 3 hours 5-6 days a week
Aiden Taylor
german speaking anons, could you see if this translation was correct?
Jose Walker
I wish I had time to study for three hours. I can maybe squeeze in an hour and a half but on most days I can only get 40 minutes between classes and work. Anki, Duolingo and other apps like those have been a great help in supplementing those 40 minutes with quick practice sessions here and there.
Brody Foster
can you afford to split the three hours up into segments at different times? i take 15-30 min breaks between each hour so i can have some rest and do other stuff
Landon Cooper
>Without love, it can not be seen. >Ohne die Liebe kann es nicht gesehen. Ohne Liebe kann es nicht gesehen werden. >I assume that if I were to say "Without love, it WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN seen", I would have to say "Ohne die Liebe wurde es nicht gesehen." Nope. Ohne Liebe wäre es nicht gesehen worden.
>The single element that makes up the world is Love. >Das einzige Element, das der Welt besteht aus, ist Liebe. Das einzige Element, aus dem die Welt besteht, ist Liebe.
>"Zwoelf Eier werden aus ein Dutzend bestehen." einEM Dutzend. Your sentence is just simple future though, meaning "Twelve eggs will consist of a dozen." The passive voice requires the participle ii of bestehen, which is bestanden BUT
you can't use intransitive verbs like bestehen aus in the passive voice. bestehen aus is always intransitive because it lacks an object.
bestehen without aus can also mean "to pass, to overcome", so that is a transitive verb because it can use an object, so you could say Die Prüfung wurde bestanden., "the exam was passed" but bestehen aus can never be used in the passive voice.
Mason Flores
Thank you.
Lincoln Powell
How to learn German?
Julian Rogers
how to learn anything
Grayson Sanders
halp
Sebastian Murphy
TRANSLATION CHALLENGE >The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been. -Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Moss Roberts translation
Alexander Ross
Do you know anything about persian at all senpai? I can help you/give you some resources, but I need to know what you do or don't know already
Blake Long
« L'Empire longtemps divisé doit s'unir ; longtemps uni, doit se diviser. Il en a toujours été ainsi. »
Am I doin' it right?
Josiah Scott
شاهنشاهی, طولانی تقسیم شده, باید متحد بشود. طولانی متحد شده, باید تقسیم بشود. همیشه چنان بوده است . Transliteration >Shahanshahi, tulani taqsim shode, bayad motahed beshavad. >Tulani motahed shode, bayad taqsim beshavad >Hamishe chonan bude ast
Joseph Ortiz
El imperio, hay mucho dividido, debe unirse; hay mucho tiempo unido, debe dividirse. Como él siempre fue Unless you're learning french... The idea is to translate to your target language
Hudson Russell
teikoku, nagai wakareteiru, awanakya; nagai atteiru, wakarenakaya. zutto kore desu japanese
Kayden Price
>romaji
Luis Hughes
>ローマ字
Cooper Reed
Ist das nicht meine Freundin von der Bushaltestelle? Gehörst du auch dazu?
Samuel Torres
biump
David Sanders
Hace mucho dividido Hace mucho unido Como siempre ha sido "hace mucho" implies time so you don't have to include tiempo unless you want to give it a more serious tone imo
Gavin Myers
where in the world would you like to go and live, taking advantage of your foreign language skills?
Logan Butler
>tfw you keep spelling fucking everything wrong and are putting words in the wrong order and forgetting the words altogether and becoming very fucking annoyed and getting very fed up and not feeling nice >And also your handwriting is so shit that the natives you ask for help can't correct any of your work All in all its going well
Jaxon Ramirez
No where because I'm a beginner So how's everyone progressing?
Wyatt Fisher
don't forget to do the right stroke order when writing so your letters look better
Cameron Carter
I'm in a kind of indecision stasis where every day i worry about doing something but never get around to doing anything.
Caleb Murphy
How much free time do you have?
Robert Butler
Too much, i'm NEET.
Samuel Taylor
Nigga i only go outside to go grocery shopping and go to the gym
Robert Butler
Het rijk, lang verdeeld, moet verenigen. Lang verenigd, moet verdelen. Dus is het ooit geweest
James Thomas
I wrote a few sentences in Norwegian and German
Dominic Howard
Anyone learning Russian? Thinking about learning it and I'm looking for good resources, I'm downloading all the Russian stuff and I have this as reference, I'd like some more recommendations and stuff.
Brody Turner
Shyo me the meaning of despair!
Zachary Morales
An Argentian posted asking the same thing, check old threads
Brody Powell
Cheers senpai, I'll check it out
Jeremiah Bennett
Give me a good site to practice reading in Finnish or Mandarin
Noah Watson
Anyone got any resources for leaning Dutch or Afrikaans?
Colton Roberts
Really can't recommend Turkish Tea Time enough for anyone learning Turkish. Even two years after the last podcast was made, the creator will respond to questions on the site, usually within a day.
Angel Flores
Livelingua.com has shit
Logan Cox
How is Duolingo's Greek course?
Wyatt Clark
Is this just a discipline thing? I really "want" to learn a language, but I can't seem to get into it. Is it just me being a piece of shit bitch?
Jeremiah Nelson
Yes, it's mostly discipline. And I feel you man, it's tough. I was trying to make myself learn Japanese for almost a year after I quit my job but I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't make myself start reading. I think it's a comfort zone thing. However, once you start doing it it'll get a little bit easier. If you keep it up day after day you'll get fully into it and it'll be easy. Now I'm learning japanese 4-8 hours a day.
Isaac Nguyen
Set a time every day to study then. It'll naturally become a habit after a while. That's the hardest part desu, once you sit down it's smooth sailing.
Hunter Garcia
How are you finding nippish? Are you learning just because of anime and Vidya ?
James Peterson
>habit this form habits
Elijah Carter
I also find that telling your normie friends and setting up a normie blog if some sort that tracks your progress, like Facebook or whatever, keeps you motivated
You don't want to lose face
Lincoln Sullivan
Thanks user. I guess I just need to push through to get started.
Connor Richardson
>normie-ness what no user just motivate yourself, you do not need external validation to succeed
Camden Cooper
The normies are (not always) the enemy
Embrace them! Behold the power of social media and the occasional question of > teehee user, what have you done in [language] so far? Can I see your progress? :3
Cameron Davis
It's precisely that. Just do 30 mins a day.
Are you NEET or something?
Parker Johnson
Someone respond.
Hunter Davis
I don't know about Finnish, rare language, but Mandarin speakers are everywhere. They're the most common speaker in the world. You could probably go outside and find some Chinese people
Isaac Russell
youtube.com/watch?v=IgQEVIOtZ8o >13 year old Japanese girl learns English just by reading a fuckton of books, doesn't even use a dictionary So this is the true power of COMPELLING CONTENT
Dylan Hernandez
No, fuck off. Nobody wants you here
Jonathan Russell
There are chinese people literally living next door, but I'm not gonna start up a conversation with them out of nowhere because I'm not a fucking lunatic. Besides, I just want to practice reading. Say that to my face irl, cunt.
Cooper Young
I'll do my best tomorrow. For sure.
Nicholas Green
Learning 87words for a translation test, shows up to the test, none of the word seen during lectures, super hard text, have to learn five other text for Friday I'm so done, I want to die REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Parker King
desu that's how I learned English too, just change books for vidya
Liam Price
could use some help. In korean and ran into 사람들이었다 I understand that 사람들 means people but I don't get the end part.
Alexander Carter
It's 이다 = to be but at the past tense
Brandon Butler
so "they were people" ?
Jeremiah Turner
Yes, if it seems weird to you give the full context of the sentence
Jace James
it's the very first sentence, just started. 프리벳 가 4번지에 사는 더즐리 부부는 자신들이 정성적이라 는 것을 아주 자랑스럽게 예기는 사람들이었다.
Ryan Ramirez
I live for the most part off the money I've made when I was working, so I don't think I qualify as NEET.
David Wilson
It's the very first sentence of what ? It doesn't look like a beginner sentence at all
Samuel Perez
of harry potter
Oliver Hill
neet just means you aren't in school, training or employed. doesn't mean you are poor or are getting government funding.
Oliver Lee
I see, I wouldn't read foreign literature in Korean personally
Henry Carter
Why not? I read a bunch of posts of people learning languages by reading HP in the target language.
Eli Williams
How hard are the following for an Anglophone and Hispanophone? >N*rwegian >Italian >Est*nian >*rabic >Portuguese >Irish
Which should I learn? Also, which are the most useful?
My desire to learn these are in the same order they are listed above.
Xavier Rivera
From easiest to hardest for you >Shitalian/Portuguese >Norwegian >Estonian >Arabic Why the fuck would you learn Irish, even they don't speak it
Usefulness depends on whether you want to communicate with actual humans are literal monkeys playing Dota 2
Nolan Peterson
or literal monkeys*
Ryan Russell
Also for learning I'd recommend Norwegian. Personally I'd say German, maybe Dutch or Sw*dish if they were on the list
Daniel Lee
Yes but Korean is an Asian language which means it has dramatically different sentence structures and ways to express things. Of course the translation isn't "false" but that's a translation of something that was written with a western language, which means that it's steal heavily influenced by the way of thinking and the sentence building of it's native language. Reading something more typically Korean would give you more, in term of cultural aspects, and sentence building, for example one thing, Koreans rarely write long descriptive sentences. Asian philosophy books are very short, that's of course part of their philosophy but because the language suits better this form of writing. You also won't have Korean expressions, typical Korean sentences etc...
Luke Scott
I stopped watching anime when I was 21 or so, though I can occasionally read a manga or a novel. Japanese segment of the internet holds much bigger allure. But the main thing is, I'm a fighting game player and I want to move to Japan to pursue my passion (and also because fuck Russia). So Vidya I guess. Japanese is pretty fun, though difficult. I was able to learn english simply by reading books and watching movies and stuff, but with Japanese it's simply impossible. I have to use anki and other programs to help with kanji. I've heard that it takes average person 7-8 years to learn kanji to the level of an average Japanese adult, and that figure is kinda demoralizing, but I think I'll get it to at least acceptable level for living in Japan in a year or two.
Jaxon Green
Thanks, bro. I just thought it'd be fun to learn Irish, but I guess you're right. Even an Irish dude in college said the same thing.
Liam Baker
Isn't Dutch just drunk German, or is that a top level meme?
Carter Morris
i’m a languagelet, pls help
“Dommage” translated to English is “Pity”, but isn’t Pity itself a french word? When you translate “Pity” back to french it comes out as “Pitié”
Wyatt Jackson
You're going to want something you'll actually get use out of (not Irish and probably not Estonian) and something that's not going to be absurdly hard to learn (Arabic) if we're being honest. It's sort of a halfway point between German and English; the grammar in general and case system is a fair bit easier to learn and they basically combined the masculine/feminine gender into one. Pronunciation is harder though. Take what I say with a grain of salt because my Dutch is at a beginner level whereas my German's somewhere on the upper end of intermediate
Kevin Kelly
While I don't like people bragging about impossible, or super ambitious goals, 8years is really a lot unless you want to be as good as a native speaker, between 3 and 5 year is an honest goal I believe
It means "too bad"
Liam Howard
Ahhh that makes sense, i guess it’s no different than saying just “Pity” really. Thanks friend
Jacob Hill
If harry potter isn't good, should I just look for a book that originates from korea instead? I'd really like to be able to read a fantasy/sci fi novel.
Matthew Torres
next semester I'll probably have time to study a language, dubs decide which language
pls learn irish. Bump before bed, uni in the morn boys.
Kayden Taylor
Welsh
Asher Cox
Klingon
Dylan Ward
Farsi
Luis Hernandez
With an english and spanish background, Norwegian and Italian will be good. Spanish helps Italian more than English helps norwegian, though.
Like personally like Dutch. Currently working on it and it's comfy for an english speaking I think. Thinking Norwegian next.
Levi Wilson
pls don't die again
Bentley Sanchez
Stop posting shitty posts crying about how you haven't studied for a week with frog and feel pictures 10 times every fucking thread then.
Cameron Garcia
how do you enjoy/learn from any media in a different language at 0 level?
Adam Wilson
Subs or being content with not understanding said media
Owen Rogers
Das Reich, lange geteilt, muss sich vereinen, lange vereint, muss einteilen. Es war immer so.
Even in English that last sentence is awkward. Also reposted because I forgot part of it
Alexander Gray
muss sich einteilen* I always forget reflexive verbs. Can a German tell me why translations are saying to use teilen when to my knowledge it means to share?
Jace Cooper
>Can a German tell me why translations are saying to use teilen when to my knowledge it means to share?
You do realize words can have, like, several meanings, right? "muss sich teilen" is correct. "einteilen" means "to ration".