/lang/ - Language General

> native language
spanish
> what languages have you learned
english, some french
> how/why did you learn them
in school
> what languages do you wish to learn
german
> what method of language learning do you recommend to other anons
teach yourself books edited by leonard cutts german (in google drive resources)
> have you ever tried to make a conlang
i thought about it but havent really tried

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX55VFYZZ5I

> speak chinglish

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> native language
English
> what languages have you learned
German
> how/why did you learn them
books, duolingo, etc...
so, my self i guess?
> what languages do you wish to learn
french, russian, Northern Plains Cree
> what method of language learning do you recommend to other anons
i dunno, talking to yourself i guess? Also, try to find as many Native speakers and ask them questions on helping you out
> which language has the simplest and most complex grammar
simplest:
for English speakers, I think Frisian and Norwegian personally
complex:
Finnish.
anything in the Finno-Uralic family really
also, Eskimo-Aleut Languages
> have you ever tried to make a conlang
nah

>pic unrelated

>>64409408
I bet you're one of those people that likes talking about languages but never actually learns one.

Learning a language takes forever and it's only fun the first few weeks.

Learning mandarin for a little over a month
Just spamming vocabulary so far, and finally got through up through HSK4 (plus some other random shit). So I'm gonna start going through a bit of the "slow chinese" podcast following using the transcript

For the next two weeks I gotta slack a bit due to travel but then I'll come back in full force with 2+ hours a day

>>64411356
what resources do you use

>>64411100
> Northern Plains Cree
whats this

I'm not a cuck thanks

>>64411527
An Indigenous Language spoken from Alberta to Quebec
This dialect is in northern Alberta
I'm learning it so I can speak to my Nohkom and Mosom in Cree rather than English

It's basically spoken from Edmonton, northwards. Specifically, I'm tryna learn the Cree from Wabasca-Desmerais

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQiDZFiEqp4&list=PL63332F153B98FBFD
this is the only video I can find with a sample, but she speaks from somewhere down south abit from Ed. Sounds weird to me

Someone pls rate my vocaroos for Spanish & Korean >>64405181

> native language
English

> what languages have you learned
Spanish, Esperanto, American Sign Language (tfw have started forgetting ASL)

> how/why did you learn them
Spanish: Immersion, just learned from people around me, took a couple classes but didn't pay attention t b h
Esperanto: Out of curiosity. Used some books and websites to learn, then started chatting online.
ASL: Language credit in high school, was good at it at the time but rarely used it since and have started forgetting it. I feel confident that if exposed to it again I would re-learn pretty fast, I hope to do this one day.

> what languages do you wish to learn
Studying Korean right now. Want to learn several more in the future but I'll probably need one more year before Korean is solid enough in my brain to safely put the focus on something else.

> what method of language learning do you recommend to other anons
- Anki/Memrise/spaced repitition
- Tons of listening, constant input
- Immersion and conversation
- Reading and writing
- HiNative is a great app, try it out

>>64411481
Spoonfed Chinese (testing pure audio)
vocab deck (imported frequency order HSK lists from http://data.hskhsk.com/lists/, also adding words that come up in spoonfed chinese or random stuff I watch)
Watching random music videos to reinforce vocabulary

That's pretty much it. I read a bit about grammar but then got bored. I'll just look stuff up if it's too confusing.

>>64412033
HOOOOLYYY FUACKKKK
es tan hermoso
un anglo con perfect spanish

¡esto debe de ser el trabajo de un stand enemigo!

literally whats the point of speaking anything but english

give it 10 years and thats all the world will speak anyways u dummies

>>64412002

hows the grammar like

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>>64412472

>>64412750
viejos memes son los mejores
Oye como pronuncias memes en español?
aer si podi

>>64409408
> native language
French
> what languages have you learned
English, Spanish, German
> how/why did you learn them
English : dad is english, spanish : i've spent a year in spain, german : i just love the language
> what languages do you wish to learn
Hebrew,Swedish,Flemish,Russian,Arabic,Japanese, Chinese
> what method of language learning do you recommend to other anons
Immerse yourself in the culture
> which language has the simplest and most complex grammar
Lol dunno
> have you ever tried to make a conlang
I thought about it a lot, but it's just too much work

>>64412654
As from what I can tell
word order is very flexible.
For some reason I wanna say grammar [or syntax? idk] works KINDA like Finnish in a way (i'm saying this with a grain of salt) as in, it works by adding smaller words onto the 'main' word to form a nouns action.

There's four cases which are pretty easy desu. ACC, NOM, LOC and the other one I can't remember. Locative works almost like the Russian prepositional case too. So If you you already know how to work those cases together, It may be a little bit easier to learn

>>64412033
I always see people respond to these threads with Esperanto. Is it really that popular or is it a board meme?

>>64411100
>Finnish
>complex grammar
what the fug

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>>64412884
siempre digo maymays

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>>64413045
nuchnat is the true meme language

>>64413045
>Is it really that popular or is it a board meme?

I would say it's popular among language enthusiasts. If you're someone who learns languages as hobby then it's highly likely you have heard of it, and somewhat likely that you have read up on it a little bit.

imo it's pretty unpopular on 4chan, people are fairly hostile about it here. But I guess that is to be expected.

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>>64413128
> fairly hostile about it here
thats cus its a reddit lang

>>64413057
teach us sempai

>>64412536
Speaking foreign languages makes you more patrician

>>64412536
to speak with traditional qts

ayúdenme con el subjuntivo.

>>64413561
el qué cosa ahora?

>>64413683
Pues, por ejemplo, cuando quiero decir algo como : call when you want to pass by,
llámame cuando quieras pasar por aquí.
Está bien así?

>>64413950
call when you want to pass by
llama cuando quieras pasar por aqui

el llamame indica que te llamen a ti, entonces la frase originalmente diria "call me when..."

>>64414172
Gracias señor.

>>64414307
:v

>>64414942
Por que te llamé señor? No eres tan viejo.
Entonces, gracias, amigo.

>>64415010
tememos una palabra para referirnos a nuestros friends
Wena wn :u

>>64415097
Como lo uso? si también necesitas ayuda con el ingles, puedes ir a cum . Pero, creo que ya sabes como escribir y hablar en ingles.

>>64415351
soy literalmente THE BEST, en ingles.
por cierto, no puedes usar esa palabra, solo chilenos la pueden usar, si cualquier otro país lo intenta, les sale terriblemente mal

>>64412536
Plotting your murder with an accomplice while smiling at you

>>64415351
como -----> [ I ] eat
cómo -----> how

>>64415427
y es otaco una palabra chilena?

>>64415511
sólo la he visto aquí, supongo que si

will this be a daily thing

this died fast

How do I make myself go to a language class or get a tutor? I'm scared of embarrassing myself, I have difficulty communicating in English let alone in a second language.

>>64418197
ne be hetot bobol fa ït nuchnat ne

>>64418268
go on itaki or google how to find a language partner

>>64418197
You cannot do these threads at 8 oclock or 3 am euro and expect a lot of people. Int is not a or pol.

>>64418586
it just was a subtle bump without the bump

>>64418794
Oh I know, but still people usually create them too late.

I want to study a meme language like old English but without any practical use for it I'd probably be unsuccessful.

>>64418889
> I want to study a meme language
literally a language created for shitposting
http://pastebin.com/ADXBtcAA

>>64418889
learn Finnish my friend, one day you will be able to post on Finnish apustus threads

>>64419616
any resources

>>64409408
> native language
Finnish, french

> what languages have you learned
Swedish, english

> how/why did you learn them
Mandatory in school, media

> what languages do you wish to learn
German, russian

> what method of language learning do you recommend to other anons
Reading, I am reading Hesse in german ATM and also Tolstoy in russian

> which language has the simplest and most complex grammar
My native ones are simple
Everything else is complex
But seriously, the german word order is fucking weird

> have you ever tried to make a conlang
?

>>64412998
>it works by adding smaller words onto the 'main' word to form a nouns action
Do you mean to say that it's an agglutinative language?

I am fluent in Esperanto and I use it every day