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Has anybody here successfully taught themselves a second language?
Trying to learn French ATM. My resources are the internet, Rosetta Stone, a a native French speaker I've made friends with at university.
I've heard that immersion is the best way to learn. I'm trying to quiz myself at vocabulary, waiting for my skills to level up a bit until i start worrying about grammar.
So, anybody who's been in the same boat as me and came out on top, what are some learning paths you found useful? It doesn't have to be French.
I'm...
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I worked on learning German for a few months this summer. Got a lot of the grammar fundamentals down bc of 1337 teacher but my vocab is weak. I decided I didn't want to do German philosophy for a PhD so I gave up, but I could feel my grasp of the language coming. Probably if you spend a whole year going hardcore for a couple hours a day you will be conversational. But if you don't stick with it it fades, so I am wondering what is the point, other than 'looking good' on applications
Ehh i taught myself american sign language back when i was 13 and 14. my friend knew some so we had some convos in it. Eventually stopped using it and i literally forgot EVERYTHING. i cant even remember the alphabet. So i think you really need to study it a lot and use it as much as you can. Anyhow i'm trying to learn Russian now. Its a lot harder since its a whole knew alphabet. You can try duolingo if you haven't heard about it already
>>7397862
>My resources are the internet, Rosetta Stone, a a native French speaker I've made friends with at university.
>immersion is the best way to learn
>quiz myself at vocabulary
>until i start worrying about grammar.
HOW THE FUCK DID YOU MANAGE TO DO THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF EVERYTHING YOU SHOULD BE DOING
Do you think any non-human animals should be awarded personhood status?
dat sum peter singer?
No.
Damn that was easy. Pitch me another one OP.
>>7397844
Well, Peter Singer does believe some animals are persons, most notable chimps, I believe.
Casual reader here but i've been wanting to start writing my own short stories for leisure. I have an idea for a good memoir like story done in fiction but before starting and finishing something that will turn out a mess I was wondering if /lit/ had any sort of guide or book maybe they could recommend. Thanks
Start with the Greeks
>>7397804
This went right over my head friend.
I don't know what else really I could or am asking with this thread but okay.
Read tons of short stories. It's actually a great type of writing to be interested in because you can practice it much more easily than you can with novels.
Suggestions:
>Lorrie Moore - Like Life
>Tao Lin - Bed: Stories
>Tolstoy - Death of Ivan Ilych and other stories
>DFW - Oblivion
What are some books to read while high?
If they grip you, and have twists and turns, they're great for it.
>>7397666
War and Peace
This one, degenerate
http://www.amazon.com/No-Need-Weed-Understanding-Dependency/dp/095576260X
>>7397666
The Savage Detectives
What are the best translations of Dostoevsky's work in terms of their accuracy to the original Russian text?
>>7397590
McDuff or Avsey.
>>7397590
>translations
>>7397590
P&V is my go-to. As a Russian, you can usually make out what Dostoevsky wrote, although perfect translations are impossible.
Even the title Dream of a Ridiculous Man cannot be translated well because literally it would be "funny man". If you want true Dostoevksy, you gotta learn Russian.
Who /crawling-toward-the-finish-line/ here?
I have two 3000 word essays due next Friday (when classes end) I haven't started, a Latin quiz on Monday and a 1000 word philosophy paper all in the next week. Also I'm working 6 days next week because rent.
hold me bros
>>7397561
ok
ok
ok
>Also I'm working 6 days next week because rent.
Oh shit
Well anon... Time to add some bonus redbull in your coffee
me too OP. i work tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, but i'm miraculously keeping up on my homework although i'm dead inside and can't focus on reading what i want to read or writing anything creative
hurrah
>>7397561
UPDATE I finished first 3000 words in 5 hours I'm an absolute madman!
What are some flawed claims in pic related's Meditations? Are the there any? Why or why not?
Read Hume, you lazy motherfucker.
Jesus christ.
his statement on god being self evident and perception is thoroughly flawed, google it or some shit
meditation 3 is garbage
Hey /lit/. Spanish-fag here (from Spain).
I'd like to share with you this wonderful poem called "La Canción del Pirata" or "Pirate's Song". Everytime that I read it I start feeling.
>SPANISH (1/2):
Con diez cañones por banda,
viento en popa, a toda vela,
no corta el mar, sino vuela,
un velero bergantÃn.
Bajel pirata que llaman,
por su bravura, El Temido,
en todo mar conocido,
del uno al otro confÃn.
La luna en el mar riela,
en la lona gime el viento,
y alza en blando movimiento
olas de plata y azul;
y ve el capitán pirata,
cantando alegre en la popa,
Asia a un lado, al otro Europa,
y allá a su frente Estambul:
«Navega, velero mÃo,
sin temor,
que ni...
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>SPANISH (2/2):
A la voz de «¡barco viene!»
es de ver
como vira y se previene,
a todo trapo a escapar;
que yo soy el rey del mar,
y mi furia es de temer.
En las presas
yo divido
lo cogido
por igual;
sólo quiero
por riqueza
la belleza
sin rival.
Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
que es mi dios la libertad,
mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
mi única patria, la mar.
¡Sentenciado estoy a muerte!
Yo me rÃo;
no me abandone la suerte,
y al mismo que me condena,
colgaré de...
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>ENGLISH (1/2):
The breeze fair aft, all sails on high,
Ten guns on each side mounted seen,
She does not cut the sea, but fly,
A swiftly sailing brigantine;
A pirate bark, the "Dreaded" name,
For her surpassing boldness famed,
On every sea well-known and shore,
From side to side their boundaries o'er.
The moon in streaks the waves illumes
Hoarse groans the wind the rigging through;
In gentle motion raised assumes
The sea a silvery shade with blue;
Whilst singing gaily on the...
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Hello /lit/, I've been trying to study up on philosophy, and have been reading this Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Personal Identity (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/) and have found myself totally lost. What the fuck "The Ontology of Temporal Parts"? Most of the article seems like total jargon and nonsense without a single helpful or even any conclusion, it just ends on: You "could" be a fourth dimensional superbeing amalgamating various paradoxical transient states (?). Also, brute-physicality seems like reductionist nonsense...
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>>7397379Please, please, I beg you do not send me to that shithole which is /his/; this is for a really important interview
>>7397379
>Thoughts on personal identity?
it's a pointless subject to consider
>>7397390
Would you have any justifications behind that? I'm of mind to agree, but just so exhausted from wasting my time on a retarded pseduo-philosophical article that I really can't verbalize it.
Any good Budhist literature on the subject?
Dubliners > Finnegans > Ulysses = Portrait
lolno
>>7397337
Absolutely not.
And where the fuck are his lips?
>>7397337
joyce was a weirdo and his works are of invariable unimportance
but muh hipster so unique meme will try to prove me wrong
How often do you write by hand, /lit/?
What do you write with?
Do you know cursive? Is your handwriting dog shit?
>>7397277
>How often do you write by hand, /lit/?
p much every day
>What do you write with?
a pen. or a mechanical pencil.
>Do you know cursive?
it's what they taught in school.
> Is your handwriting dog shit?
i don't know. it's legible to me. i don't read other people's.
>>7397277
>How often do you write by hand, /lit/?
erryday
>What do you write with?
mechanical pencil
>Do you know cursive?
yes
>Is your handwriting dog shit?
Very. I've stopped lifting my pencil from the paper entirely when I print.
beautiful cursive coming thru
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of The Ancient Mariner". Read by Ian McKellen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1raSUYAr0s0
Enjoy it, guys.
Which is the best narrative poem about a ship crew, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner or The Hunting of the Snark?
>>7397203
Carroll was a pedo, ergo... Carroll.
Honestly? I don't know. Just enjoy both.
>My garments all were dank
professor greentext thread
>be me
>spend all semester working on antony and cleopatra paper
>be proud of it
>turn it to advisor
>in one margin scribbled is something about psychoanalysis being becheuse
>wtf
>i know french
>never heard of this
>look it up
>it's...
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>>7397165
lmao I'm french and have never heard of this word either.
gr8 post desu
>be me
>creative writing
>halfway through semester
>first short story assignment
>write story
>A+
>don't have to read it aloud b/c it's too sexual
>word gets around
>people start asking for it
>all the girls want to read it
>this...
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