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What language are you learning, /int/? Come discuss with others, vocaroo, get advice, etc.
Currently learning Korean. One of my biggest problems right now is how slowly I talk. To me, it sounds like a normal talking speed, but Korean people tell me that I speak really slowly, and I can only understand Koreans when they talk very slowly. Any advice?
Also, should I dump some language learning infographics?
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>>60169336
I'm learning German. It isn't hard as people say.
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Is it true that movies, music and TV can help you learn a language? I've tried, but I can never understand a single word, they may as well be making fart noises.
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>>60170053

I started to properly understand English by watching TV shows and movies.
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>>60170053
>>60170110

PS: Start with subtitles in your language, and when you are able to read the language you are learning (watching movies/shows is a good method, but it need to be combined with other things like reading news and things of your interest), switch to subtitles in that language. Make sure that the transcription is literal (sometimes the words used in the subtitles are different from the spoken ones).
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>>60170279
what are some really good spanish shows? I don't want to watch a spanish-dubbed american show since it'll just be in the shitty mexican dialect
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>>60169512
same here mate
easier than I thought
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>>60170279
I believe what you're saying, but I don't understand how it works.
Here's a Korean kids show. I can read the subtitles and I can hear the words, but I don't know what they mean, except for a few words here and there. How does that help me learn the language?
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Ignore my flag. I'm only visiting Poland.

I'm an American unironically learning Hungarian. Discuss
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For Russian learners.
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>>60171271
https://mega.nz/#F!U8FmySxJ!B4JTRmz2mI4NCABeAYN-xg

MEGA folder link
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>>60171271
Holy shit, thank you.


Irish speaker here btw.
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>>60171325
Hey, I'm of Irish ancestry as well. I'm looking to learn Irish after Russian. Is there anything I should know about it? I'm not planning on speaking to people obviously, probably just read books
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>>60171538
That's a real general question.

Nualeargais.ie is excellent for grammar
Focloir.ie is an interactive dictionary

I'm not too sure about the duolingo course but I've heard it's okay.
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>>60171271
Wouldn't thos partly apply to every language?
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>>60170756

I do not tend to watch Spanish shows, but I've been told that Isabel is good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4cEc9uasrg

I know good movies, tho.
Amongst the surrealist ones, you got "El Milagro de P. Tinto": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIBEj8m5So

And "Amanece que no es poco": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVkOnINvIMA


A more normal movie is "No habrá paz para los malvados". You'll hear some latinamerican accents in this one, tho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3tj98HeBi4


Most well-known american/english shows have been dubbed in Spain. Those dubs will usually be listed as "Español Castellano" .
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Well I finished the German duolingo tree yesterday. Was strange. Anyhow I plan on continuing it and visiting Austria when I take my Euro trip in a few years. Probably will also try Norwegian in the future. Both are great(besides the immigrants) countries
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>>60171676
Sorry I wasn't specific, something else was on my mind. I meant in terms of if there was a specific dialect I should learn. Not extremely up to date with Irish.
>>60171744
Well yes to an extent but this has specific resources spelled out for people. Some people like that step-by-step instruction method, same for the /lit/ flowcharts I guess
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>>60171909
Nope, any dialect and you'll be grand. There may be issues with ulster, slightly. Besides that you're okay.
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>>60170053
Yes. I learned basic English from movies for the most part.

>>60171107
It might be more beneficial when you can understand the language a bit better. I'd imagine it's not that ideal as a total beginner.
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>>60171772
I speak Spanish and my girlfriend is learning it. Isabel is a great drama for anyone who is learning Spanish. The English subtitle files can be found online if you torrent the show, and more recent seasons are on that one drama website with a bunch of Korean dramas. I forget the name.
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>learning russian

you just dont
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>>60170756
If you like history,mainly medieval history,tve has great series for free. Mainly Isabel and Pedro el cruel,which are very interesting. If you like documentaries rtve has a great collection for free. Rtve.es is a pretty good page to find content in Spanish of any kind from shows, to movies and tv series.
If you like humour,I used to watch a program called ilustres ignorantes( totalmy free programs on youtube) that was quite fun. But you may not understand anything at first. If your level is goodish I would give it a try,because in humour programs you will find more coloquial speaking and new expressions. Good luck m8
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>>60170053
I know a bit of english, those helped me develop it
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>>60171107

Well, you need a basic understanding of the language. And as I said, you need to combine it. With a lot of reading (Try with wikipedia articles that you are interested in, of topics you know, for example).

Of course, with a language like Korean it's much harder.
Spanish and English, for example, are in the same language family, which allows a much more relaxed learning. And it's easier to learn by comparing and understading the differences and similarities between the two languages.
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>>60171972
If you liked Isabel you may like Pedro primero el cruel. Is older with crappy special effects,but the drama is subreal,as that king was half nuts. It is totally available for free in rtve.
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>>60172152
>Spanish and English, for example, are in the same language family

except Spanish is Romance and English is Germanic you dumb fuck
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>>60169336
French. I'm overjoyed with my progress. I couldn't speak a word of French, 5 months ago. A winter and a spring semester of French later and I'm about to finish reading my first book in French, I'm able to watch shows in French with relative ease, and can shitpost on /fr/ now. Speaking it is still very difficult though. Especially because I'm an autist who doesn't talk in class. I'm transferring this fall, so I probably won't be able to take another French course but I plan to continue studying it independently.
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>>60172152
>Spanish and English, for example, are in the same language family
Please tell me you're only pretending to be retarded
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>>60172202
>>60172314

Romance and Germanic are branches of the Indo-European family.


Go back to school, fucking gulag test tube babies. There's nothing worse than an arrogant ignorant.
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>>60172358
so is fucking Albanian you idiot

besides there was never no language called "Indo-European" it's a fucking spectrum
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>>60172358
That means fuck all.

Hindi and Farsi are also in the same language family as those two. Doesn't mean jack shit
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>>60172400

When did I say there was a language called "indo-european".
I said it's a language family. And I'm right.
Holy shit. You really are stupid.
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>>60172202
>>60172314
Indo-European, I mean he's not wrong but he's not the most precise. Plus English has a fuck ton of Latin loanwords
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>>60172454
and how does one learn fucking Albanian as an Icelander, huh?

these are IE languages after all it's so easy
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Please post the info graphics op.

I keep putting off starting Italian again. I just dont have the motivation at the late beginner stage where you have to start easy native materials.

I might try German on duolingo this month to see if that hooks me.
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>>60172488

Like any other person, you goddam floor-wiper.

The difference is that, even if the language are very different, the general structure will never be as ayy-lmaoish as Japanese, Korean...
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>>60172734
elaborate on those ayylmaoish features of japanese and korean
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>>60172734
if the languages*
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>>60172776

The topic marker, for example. And the phonetics.
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>>60169336
Well I started learning German but I can't continue it in college, and it would have to be self taught from here out, and it's a bitch to self teach a language nobody around you speaks.

I was thinking of going with an easier germanic language first, like Swedish or Dutch.
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>>60172966
ohoho you piece of shit didn't realise whom are you talking to I'm an actual phonetician

go on faggot amuse me with your armchair theories
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>>60169512
Wait until you get to Dativ case. It gets harder.

I thought the same thing when I started.
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I've tried to learn roman, german, and Japanese over the past 10 years and I fucking fail.

I can't read or write german but I can sing soldatenlieder and I'm fucking depressed.
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>>60173037
Latin* not Roman.

Sorry.
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>>60173037
Same man. Over the past 5 ish years I tried in this order

French (one year highschool)
Spanish (two year highschool)
German (1 year self teach, 1 year college)

And I can't even have a conversation in any of those languages that sounds even close to natural.
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>mfw Polish "intellectuals" itt
>>60172966
don't even try arguing, they're shit at linguistics
there's this one who keeps saying he's a phonetician but he doesn't know jackshit

Anyways, started learning Portuguese a few days ago, started quite well. Doing it at the same time as German, next year I can take some free Japanese courses so I'll take that too and likely give up on Portuguese if it doesn't go too well.
Anyone got tips for Portukek?
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>>60173102
>>60173037
I can't even speak English without stuttering and my only sole talent/skill is to type in english and I'm not even good enough at that so I should probably just kill myself
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>yfw your learn a shitton of things of which you knew nothing a year ago

progress feel great. Don't give up you will make it eventually whatever your goals are.
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>>60173219
oh look the bosnian stands on its hindlegs

good boy!
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>>60173278
haʊ əˈbaʊt juː fʌk ɒf, jɔː ˈbæntər Jz ʃJt
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>>60171271
Any Russian speaking opportunities in Tampa?
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>>60170756
There's a Spanish movie called La Piel Que Habito. It's really good, totally fucked up though.
El Aura is a great [spoiler]Argentinian[/spoiler] movie.
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>>60169336
just study everyday and listen to radio and speak with people, no other way around it

also speak something on vocaroo so i can hear your korean accent :>

t. learned korean
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>>60173336
>non-allophonic IPA

cute
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>>60173270
Fuck you faggots you're not allowed to learn things besides how the us won wwi-ii for you.
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>>60173262
Speaking English is the first step. Even with stuttering you can manage learning new languages. You likely have hidden potential you're not experiencing because you're shutting yourself out, I have Asperger's and I stutter alot as well, but it's manageable and especially so in other languages.
I recommend giving a simpler language a try, German for instance is a bit too complex
>>60173398
>phonetician trying to be important
you literally can't make this shit up
linguistics is useless as shit and you're at the bottom of the pile along with semanticists
It's not that I hate linguistics, it's my favourite science, but it's simply useless.
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>Please post the info graphics op.
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>>60173584
most sciences are useless including math
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>>60173669
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>>60173724
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>>60173037

I know how you feel. I just cant stick to a language and get past the beginner phase.
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>>60169336
I was studying French but I stopped for three years and forgot everything I learned. All that time studying was literally a waste.

Don't study a language if you're not going to use it every day. There aren't any French people who are smart enough to talk to and French media is trash.
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>>60173672
Depends.

Is that your view because you view the universe as a product of absurd or random reactions or that the visible universe and it's laws are just a hologram/can be easily manipulated? Those potentially make math and sciences as we know them today useless and meaningless.
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>>60173778
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>>60173378
There is a small Russian community near Tampa, as well as some restaurants in the Bay area. It's above average I guess in terms of speaking opportunities. Nothing super incredible though
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>>60173584
>simpler language than german

I can't even finish learning English I'm American I'm too fucking retarded or whatever.
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>>60173672
doesn't give you justifiction to look all smart, and besides, math can actually do something useful sometimes
either way you're still a dumbfuck
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>>60173896
just the opposite of you my friend
I've every reason in the world to learn Russian but i'm just not into it
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>>60173861
>I was studying French but I stopped for three years and forgot everything I learned. All that time studying was literally a waste.

It's like riding a bike. Start duolingo and it will all come flooding back.
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>>60173942
English is simple, true
but you can find easier languages desu
just find something that makes you feel easier when talking, Finnish works for me but I doubt I'll study it in the near future
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>>60174054
I don't have any friends to talk to.

But thank you for trying to help.
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>>60173942
C'mon partner, you got this. Americans manifested destiny, don't feel bad about yourself. "I think as I am" ergo know that you are great and you will be greater than you could ever imagine
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>>60173026
Lol if you find Dativ difficult then maybe you should just give up.
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>>60173943
>math can actually do something useful sometimes
>sometimes
>>60173672
>most sciences are useless including math

well, I guess you guys live in a shithole for a reason.


also,
Jag tallar inte Svenska
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I started learning swedish norwegian for whatever reason (and to have an easy time with swedish and danish afterwards).
Found a norwegian girl some years younger than me to talk about and extend my knowledge of norwegian (I also tried to teach her portuguese and spanish).
She insisted on coming here to fugg, but I had a gf. Cut my norwegian learning in half when I told her I was not interested ;_;
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>>60174168
I wish constant false hope did actually work because then I'd be the anime gods emperor of the universe.

But no I'm just a stupid shit no one will ever notice and I'll be very learn anything practical or useful.
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>>60174234
Alright.
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>>60174292
>swedish norwegian
For fucks sake. Norwegian.
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>>60174234
Fuck you cock learn to have some respect for the peope who let you win two world wars.
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>>60173943
you act as if spontaneous production of meaningful sound strings by exactly one (1) species on our planet was something as natural as moss growing upon rocks

imagine you could just replicate it or even stimulate the process of entirely new forms emerging in an instant

linguistics is crucial and you can only blame Comte for turning all intellectuals into anti-humanist drones entirely disinterested in anything between their ears (with the sole exceptions of medicine men, because even technocrats catch cold)
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>>60174668
it's not like you were even alive at either of those moments, bubba
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>the fucking klingon duolingo course is closer to being finished than the korean course
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>>60174783
Stfu stalin did your mother.
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>>60169336
Can't stand these meme infographics
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>>60175270
You know what they have in common? They're both useless and only nerds speak them.

t. a nerd
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>>60174292
On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate her?

Also, what was her age?
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>>60175270
I'm more pissed about how there is no Latin

>teach meme languages like irish
>ignore the most patrician language of all
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>>60175729
Well, we just need someone who is fluent in latin to create a latin course.
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I feel like calligraphy is often overlooked in the vein of language learning.

Let us suppose a scenario, it goes like this: You are cordially invited to a friend's or neighbor's for whatever pleasantries it is that takes your fingers to tickle, you are getting familiar with the surroundings as, say, this is your very first visit to this generous person's abode. After the odd rituals you're peculiar about - or indifferent, such as taking off your shoes, the hugs and kisses and the touching - it's quite natural for your host to tell you to feel around and make yourself comfortable and you might gladly apply yourself in that respect - to an extent that common sense or decency allots you, as you definitely would not touch that delicate vase, you certainly would not wipe snot off the loveseat pillow, you are no savage, you are no stranger to man.

Now, I am only comfortable saying I know two languages, Arabic being the other. A couple of years ago I decided to take up a penpal: an undergraduate in Arabic from Michigan, with high prospects of moving to Bethlehem to continue his studies in the Holy Land. The man's hilarious, he impersonated a Jew once to get into a synagogue but made the mistake of showing pictures of it to his cab driver from Ramallah, tough situation, but I digress. I never got as far as to ask how long he had been studying Arabic, but when I did receive his letters he was too shy to write in Arabic (presumably because my undisturbed stream of chicken-scribble does not twin to how he "stutters" midwriting). His Arabic looks like boxes, mangled almost.

The problem I see with students of Arabic, and I do not know if this is universal, is how mechanical their alphabet looks to the native, even reproachable. It behooves teachers to devote time in a language course to teach people how to tame their letters and make them seemly, like elementary students. I think if a student can find a comfortable way of writing, they no longer see the language as foreign.
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>>60176551
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Started "learning" (just downloaded an app) the Korean alphabet. Too many similar sounds, I got easily demotivated.
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>>60176551
rambling mess of a post
what the hell are you on about mate
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>>60177107
you probably did the right choice learning a foreign language is too much of an endeavor to suceed without motivation.
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>>60177064
>>60177237
Yeah, I just ramble.

Just wanted to see what people think about beginner's handwriting.
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What should I move onto after completing French duolingo and memrise courses.
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>>60169336
I'm learning Hebrew. I'm using Memrise and my textbooks, and the duolingo course should be coming out in 10 days which I'm really excited about .

The hardest part so far is a lack of free Hebrew TV shows and movies with english subtitles. Either that or I'm just not looking in the right places
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>>60177763
Tried Anki?
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>>60178433
bretty cool, soon you will be able to read any secret conspiration plan
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>>60178433
Look for Jewlingo hentai or something
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>>60177600
Nah. My problem is that I want to learn too many languages (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian and German). But I don't know which ones I should choose to learn fast. It took me several years to learn English so I really don't want to make the wrong decision.
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>>60178895
If you care about quantity and speed; the closest the fastest. You can probably reach fluency in spanish in 500 hours of study and 6-700 for French 900 for German 1400 hours for Russian and 2000 for chinese/japanese/korean.

That the benchmark given by to US speakers for foreign language (I took -200 for spanish cause you are brazilian). From personal experience I think its a pretty fair benchmark.

Based on the time you want to allow daily/ weekly you can plan ahead.
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>>60179209
What about learning 2 languages at the same time? Is it a bad idea?
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>>60179209
>>60179269
By the way, I'm not really serious about Spanish, I feel like I could become fluent after spending a month or two in Argentina.
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>>60179298
If you're learning one language from another, then yeah. Try learning one language from Spanish on Duolingo, and see if it works for you. Since falas portugues, it should be easy for you.
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>>60179707
No. I'm talking about learning Korean and Japanese or Japanese and Russian or Korean and French etc.
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>>60179269
Learning 2 languages iq slower and can be pretty confusing, but some people do.

The real goal is to reach fluency because after it's just ez mode; basically you you just have to consume media/ speak with people to edge your skills.

About spanish since it's very close language I would advice mass consumption of media at an early stage because you will be able to "pick up" right away since it so similar. (take 2 wakes to look the grammar and try to read newspapers/book and check important unknow words).

The further away the language the more studying you will have to do to start benefiting from using native stuff (for instance it would never work at an early stage with an Korean/ japanese because the grammar and vocab is far too different).
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>>60179995
lol shit typo Iam drunk anyway
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>>60179995
>>60180158
>because you will be able to "pick up"

What exactly do you mean by this? I pretty much understand everything said in Spanish, and can understand pretty much everything written. I just need to actually learn the grammar.

>The further away the language the more studying you will have to do to start benefiting from using native stuff (for instance it would never work at an early stage with an Korean/ japanese because the grammar and vocab is far too different).

Well, I've been consuming Japanese and Korean media a lot for a long time now. Though I don't think that will really make any difference in the beginning.

What I'm planning is to study 4 hours of Japanese and 3 hours of Korean every week. What do you think about my plan? I'm also planning on buying some textbooks and a cam to skype with natives.
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>>60169336
i wanna learn portuguese since its really close to latin
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>>60180333
What? I think that Spanish is closer.

Blanco = Branco

Esclavo = Escravo

Plata = Prata
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Learning is easy as fuck. It is recall and speaking I kind of fuck up in.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0XYcWi4VvEn
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Anyone know any good German shows/movies? WW2 focused is okay but I'd like some variety.
My listening comprehension is shit but I think I can read/write very well.
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>>60180630
The Silence is pretty good.
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>>60180603
How much do biology books cost there?
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>>60170053
Nigga I've been watching korean shows with my wife for over a year. We've watched cumulatively around 300 hours of Korean programming. This coupled with speaking with Korean friends and reading the news in Korean, and I still don't understand half the shit they say. It's a long process, and it just gets longer the more distant the language is from English. By this time in my Spanish studies I was already able to maintain a conversation for hours.
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>>60180813
Just keep going. You'll suddenly realize that you can understand everything. Unless Korean has a fucked up accent that is totally different from the variant you're learning.


t. someone who has a hard time understanding some British accents
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>>60180876
This. It takes fucking forever though.
German and Japanese are odd in that regard. I can't read/write in Japanese worth a damn but I can carry a conversation in it. Meanwhile, I read German novels and shitpost on deutsch just fine but I panic in actual conversations and need subtitles for all but German-dubbed Disney movies.

And don't worry, even I can't understand Scottish people and most British accents are hard to grasp
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>>60180804
Depends on date.
30 to 70 dollars to rent.
50 to 500 dollars depending on condtion, location and general other information. I never had a book over 200 for me, and I bought near new ones. It is a joke in this country on how our education has become a money making business. Often, professors make you buy the new editions to support their work in those books. Well, they do not tell you that.
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>>60180999
Can't you get it from the university library or something like that?
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>>60169336
I've been wanting to learn Romanian but I can't seem to find the right resources for it tbqh familia. Also learning Russian, which is very rewarding
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>>60174234
Dativ is actually the hardest one to learn, don't try to be a cock about it you fucking tit
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>>60181265
Romanian is being worked on for duolingo
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>>60181245
Hah, no. You can read it if the prof puts it on the shelf for reference. You can get it from the school bookstore for even worst prices.
Usually people download it off line or get the closest edition to the professors. Often, only a few things like page numbers for homework have changed. But one can get past that with someone with the correct edition.
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>>60181391
you can't find your books online? I haven't bought a book since my first year where most of them were in Norwegian. This is computer engineering and virtually all books I've ever had in English has been available on the web.
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>>60180329
>What exactly do you mean by this? I pretty much understand everything said in Spanish, and can understand pretty much everything written. I just need to actually learn the grammar.


You can't try to read all the rules and try to remember all by heart but it just doesn't stick and you will foreget some. In reality you just need to get the basic and then get back everytime you encounter something new in you reading. After that it's just a process of trial an error, try talking /writing with native and correct as it goes.
Doing that it took me 1 years to get fluent in spanish.

At the moment and for more than a year now I have doing japanese. And I got to the point where I can follow and discuss in the japanese thread, eventhough I still use dictionnary a lot.

My advice would be, if you plan to study 3h of japanese a week and 4h of japanese to just give up now because it's only 3h*52=156 and 4h*52=208 hours a year meaning it will take you 10 years to reach fluency (you would be bored long before that I guarantee you).

Beside both language share pretty much the same grammar so it will be confusing as fuck to learn both and will waste your efforts.

Otherwise, you could spend a minimum of 7 hours ( 40 min a day during the weekdays more 2h30/day for the weekend) on one of those language.
That way it would only take you five years (Tbh personnally Im not that patient and Im rather more on a 15 hours/week schedule).

Though it only work if you don't give up and displine yourself a minimum.
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>>60181600
Okay, thank you. Now I'll have to choose between Korean and Japanese. I really don't know which one I should choose. Fug.
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>>60181440
Yes, but I like reading and writing in them physically.
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>>60180876
Oi oi mate, how you doin lad?
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>>60169336
how hard is it to learn finnish? it sounds very cool and finland is pretty cool too
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>>60182189
Finnish is supposed to be extremely confusing. Doable but difficult. Very different from other common European languages
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>>60182189
It's not called the ultimate meme language for no reason m8.
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>>60182309
Seems like esperanto with all the word changes you can do to words with a suffix.
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>>60182378
Just as useless as well
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someone here could lend me a hand?
someone with Spanish as a mother language could lend me a hand for French? I need something like a crash course or at least something where I can recover all that i've lost after a whole year of not picking it.
in summary I'm at university and my French classes are destroying me/demoralizing me. I have to pass this subject, and I think I still have time to recover but not so much (like 1 month~ 2month)
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আমি দুটা মাসের জন্য বাংলা ভাষাকে সেখতে ফিলছি। আশাভাবে বিদেশে কাজ কাজ পায়ে হব।

লজ্জা করুনি
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>>60183867
Absolutely.
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>>60171772
I started watching it and I'm 15 minutes in but I can only understand a 1/4 of what they say since they talk so fast. Is that normal?
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>>60184257
You get used to it, it's important to understand key words rather than all of them
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If I told my Korean friends to talk to me only in Korean, not a word of English, would that help? I probably wouldn't understand what they were saying.
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>>60184793
it would definitely help since you'd be getting immersion from native speakers. of course it's only supplementary-you need to actually study the language to improve, but this will make you fluent more quickly assuming that.
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>tfw only 22% fluent in German on Duolingo

Fuck, I need to be able to hold conversations by the end of the year, is this achievable?

also, bump
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>>60186438
If you're asking people their names yes
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>>60186510
Yeah, that was pretty easy to pick up. I meant conversations such as telling people about my day, explaining things ect..actual conversations.

the first 20% on duolingo is literally explaining that "die katze trinkt milch" and "der hund frisst fleisch" I would've thought basic conversational skills would be more important.
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>>60186792
Upon completion of the Duolingo tree, I'd try looking into this website called "Cloze Master." It's really interesting. If you know a decent amount of vocabulary then you can use it now, I just don't know how much 20% on Duolingo corresponds with in terms of word knowledge
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>>60184793
It'd help if you were taking lessons by an actual teacher, but yeah, trying to speak to someone exclusively in Korean will improve your skills, provided you're trying your best. Don't blame us when you run out of Korean friends to guinea pig tho.

>>60186438
Sure. Conversational German isn't that difficult. The book you want is called "English grammar for students of German". Build flashcards etc from it, test yourself every day. You'll probably need to put in at least an hour and a half every day from now till January 1st if you really want to sharpen your German skills (considering you're only at 22% on Duolingo). It'd be difficult if you have less free time than this though.
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>>60186834
I'll give it a go, I know more German than it says on Duolingo (I've had a German gf for 6 years) I'm trying to properly learn it as a surprise
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Is French in Action course really so good?
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I'm learning German, the Dativ and Genetiv are giving me trouble.
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>>60187047
bump
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>>60173942
>>60174054
That is a very good point. German and French was my double minor in college and still to this day I make terrible mistakes. But there is that one language out there that will just come natural. Mine is Estonian. I did my masters degree there and I learned it so fast. No articles, gender, and future tense. There are a lot of cases, but honestly you just add an ending.
Afrikaans is basically simplified Dutch. Simpler grammar than English with a very hard "G". easy to learn.
>>60182189
At first not so bad....then well....it gets ridiculous.
If anybody loves grammar take Lithuanian. I took an A1 level and enjoyed it, but it might as well be Sanskrit.
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>>60186974
>>60186974
>>60186974
Hey, that's what I've been doing with Viet. I'm not sure if the FSI courses for German are any good or not, but for Viet they really fast-tracked my progress.

Sorry for late response, internet was having some problems.
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Do the French or Germans make any good TV?


Ive just watched a couple of Italian shows (Gomorrah, 1992) and they really helped with motivation.
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>>60178433
mako TV
movies: waltz with bashir, lebanon, yossi and jager, Footnotes
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>>60169336
>What language are you learning, /int/?
In my first year of a Russian Language major at uni. Easier than I thought in some ways
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>>60193046
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