Hey /int/ what languages do you speak and how did you learn them? Helpful hints for learning French? I learned English as my first language and learned Spanish in the home as a child from my parents as a second language, then lived in Mexico with my grandparents for a few months to reach near fluent, then studied in Spain for a year to attain university proficiency. Have been studying french now for 4 months about an hour a day with Duolingo, Memrise, and a textbook from my school library. I watch my shows with Audio and english subtitles or english audio and french subtitles too to help grasp the nuances of the spoken part
>>61742104
Slovene as a mother tongue.
English because my mother started teaching me in kindergarten and I continued in primary school.
German because we started a second foreign language class in primary school and it continued in gymnasium.
Finnish as native
English mostly thanks to media, but also 9 years in school
Swedish, well, an attempt was made by the school system and I can somewhat read simple shit
Estonian because our languages are similar. Well I can't really speak or write, but I can make an educated quess of what something might mean based on what it sounds/looks like in Finnish.
>>61742446
I guess I could count Serbo-Croatian, too.
Native French.
Fluent in English, from school.
I have studied German as well, but lost it for want of practice.
I have several languages on my Wish List but still haven't found a learning routine that I can stick to.
>>61742104
>Helpful hints for learning French?
If you have specific questions, don't hesitate to ask /fr/.
Maybe not during the summer, because newfags, but we are usually benevolent and sometime helpful.
>>61743101
This will sound stupid but what chan do i find /fr/ on?
>>61743246
This very chan, on this very /int/, eg. >>61739652
We seem to have a low tolerance for idiots, though, so be sure to lurk moar before you post.
English native
Learned German from classes because my grandmother spoke it natively
Went to Duolingo for Polish once I realized I would never have a use for German
>>61745551
>once I realized I would never have a use for German
>Polish instead
funny guy
>>61745738
>not learning a language that won't soon be supplanted by Arabic
>>61742104
czech native
slovak 100% understand, its the same language as czech
english 10 years in school but mainly from tv shows and internet
german 13 years in school
english
>>61745784
I hope you don't actually believe this and learning Polish
>>61745942
Your hope is dashed
>>61742104
I speak the language of all children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVle4JrulgY
>>61745738
Just out of curiousity did I write this correctly? I have just been writing sentences for the sake of sharpening my structure ability but am incapable of proofreading my own grammar clearly. "je veux manger des pommes avec miel, et pour le boisson, lait s'il vous plait."
Polish as first language
English as second (more or less fluent)
German in 6 years of school (I couldn't carry out a decent conversation but I understand a few words)
Gonna start learning Spanish soon
>>61746458
...avec du miel, et pour la boisson, du lait s'il vous plaît.
I'd use "pour la boisson" if it were the beginning of the phrase. You can use "et comme boisson" too, which looks more natural here.
>>61742104
>Know. Produce and understand
Serbo-Croatian is my mother tongue
English for a total of 12 years, school and extra activities
>Learning
- Spanish, for three months now, so I am not comfortable to list it under languages I know
- Russian, for two weeks now. Going exceptionally and surprisingly good
- Slovene, a fun project to ease the mind from the other two
And there is a god nimber of languages I can understand, but counting then in any of the two categories would be vainglorious and absurd, since it is passive knowledge:
>Great understanding
Bulgarian, Macedonian, Portuguese
>Good understanding
Italian, French and Polish
