/lang/ - Language learning thread

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>watching non-English porn
>can now start understanding some of the words
>pic related

Anyone else experienced this?

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parlay vo fransay

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>>69972792
>tfw I can relate

Any good Spanish cartoons to watch for beginners in Spanish?

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merhaba

>>69973771
Not sure how easy it's four a beginner, but there's "El Chavo animado", otherwise watch any dub from before ~2008 that's when we used to do good dubs

>>69972792

>apri sa bocca

fucking brazil fart porn.

>>69973771
Just watch popular anime dubbed

Dragon "Onda Vital" Ball springs to mind

>>What language are you learning?
German
>>Share language learning experiences!
Speak from day one is the best advice I could give
>>Help people who want to learn a new language!
If anyone is in need of English speakers for practice I'd be glad to volunteer
>>Find people to train your language with!
Looking for German speaker so gib dat contact info

Hmu if you need something

Share some nice German movies lads, no boring Nazi propaganda films, give me some good kino that teaches me some words. I'm a beginner in language learning.

>>69975438
Yes, German learner, tell me how you practice, what you learn, how you learned it, what's your level now and how long did it take you to get there. Thanks.

>>69975517
Letztes Jahr hatte ich in Deutschland gelebt. Ich hatte an einer Akademie Deutsch studiert aber nur für ein paar Monate. Jetzt lerne ich nicht so oft mit meinem Computer, zum Bespiel mit Duolingo, und geht mein Niveau runter, weil ich jetzt kaum Deutsch spreche. Als ich an der Akademie war, war ich in einer B2 Klasse. Jetzt denke ich, dass ich vielleicht B1 oder so bin. Ich finde es viel besser, wenn man mit Muttersprachler spricht. Im Moment kenne ich keine Muttersprachler, also kann ich nicht so gut üben.

Wie lange lernst du Deutsch und wie gut kennst du die Sprache?

>>69973771
El Taco Hombre

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I'm trying to use the HelloTalk app. But I'm too shy to fucking do anything.

>>69977173
do it cunt

>>69977173
You are a native English speaker. You are the most valuable asset of any language exchange website, fucking act like it and just message various people you like and ignore and delete those that you don't like.

>>69977634
The babby steps are: saying hello/how are you, ask about for how long they have been learning/ their reasons for learning, whether they've been to your country and abroad in general and all the other generic personal stuff.

Is it a waste of time to learn German?
Seems so many Germans already know English, but I find the language interesting.

Maybe Russian would be better for the future?

>>69978310
It's not a waste if your heart is in it and you plan on using it. The choice is yours.

What do you guys think about making a group for students of a particular language?
I've seen that there are several learners of Russian and French who post here, what if we made a group on telegram/discord and invited some native speakers to practise together. If I'm not mistaken Telegram can even maintain anonimity. Thoughts?

bum

>>69980780
I'm already a member of a few language learning groups. But the group is from Tumblr (I got invited by a friend, I don't actually use it).
But the group is autistic as fuck. About 33% are random arabs and Iranians sharing links to various extremist groups, and if you question why there are so many muslims in the group, you get banned.

Telegram is good. You can remain anonymous. You do have to sign up via your phone number, but no one can actually see it.

Might be a dumb question but is it worth it to read a dictionary like a book? Just read through a French-English, German-English, etc dictionary all the way just so to start sewing the seeds of vocabulary in my brain? My biggest problem with language learning has always been in building vocab, my vocab sucks big time and I never understood how people can develop a strong vocabulary because when I would actively study I'd almost always run into a string of words that I just don't know.

>>69981783
Not a good idea IMO. A dictionary is good for expanding vocab and searching terms you don't understand, but I thinki trying to read an actual book in a foreign language is better. Just read, try to piece things together with what you already know. I also think keeping in contact and using your vocab regularly, doing flashcards, will help (I've picked up quite a bit just by loitering around foreigners.)

Best of luck, anon.

>>69981876
Thanks for the advice. Which languages do you study?

>>69972548
Who /eternalbeginner/ here?

Kiu /eternakomencanto/ ĉi tie?

>>69983768
nah

Does anyone else find it crazy that the guy who made pinyin lived to a hundred and eleven?

>>69974253
Merhaba kardeş.

>>69985174
wanted to make sure you checked them trips

Bump

el bumpo

le bump

der Bump

>>69983768
Mi.

Mi ne scias kiom daŭrigi. Nun mi legas Greda Malaperis, kaj provas legi simplajn tekstojn, sed mi sentas ke mi ne iras antaŭen.

already know spanish/english and know dutch at a basic level
what are some braindead dutch films i can watch and test myself with

>>69975994
Ich lerne vor Dezember Deutsch, ich verstehe die zentrale Punkte von ein Text aber ich kenne nicht so viel Wörter und meine Syntax scheiße ist.

Ich verstehe einfach dein Text, ich glaube dass mein Niveau ist um A2? Ich möchte mehr lernen und bekomme Goethe Zerifikat für Niveau B1.

>>69981783
holy crap dude just use anki

I am learning tupi

>>69986390
bir dil öğreniyor musun?

>>69988076
Kalimera. Chairomai pou vlepo afto to nima ksana.
Tha ithela na mathaino ti elliniki, alla thelo kapoios pou echi ti ypomoni me "apolyto MIDEN"
Ematha i archaia elliniki, etsi anakatefo to ola

Efharisto

>>69988951
Didn't meant to quote: >>69988076

Started learning french a while ago, now I'm dropping it in favour of sign language because it's more fun to learn.

>>69989168
Pretty interesting, that's a first I've seen on here. What's your reasoning? Don't you feel like you're kind of restricting yourself?

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>tupi nhe'enga n'oîkuabi

>>69989284
poranga kuñãtã'ĩ
That is all I know

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>>69989374
>poranga kuñãtã'ĩ

>>69989602
Sorry, the only thing I know about Brasil are the existence of Tupi, Guarani, Chico Science, Ronaldo, Sepultura, the Amazon, gauchos, Pedro II and Pedro Cabral

>>69989374
>porunga kunata
what a wonderful phrase

>>69989772
hahaha you sick cunt

I want to learn Mandarin. Where do I start?

>>69989871
Best honest, are you trying to get a Chinese wife?

What's the most future-proof language to learn?

>>69991081
Mandarin

>>69989871
Browse taiwanese imageboards.

>>69994107
But I am browsing a taiwanese woodcarving forum as we speak

>>69989895
I am just planning to visit China in about a year and want to learn some basic Chinese
Wouldn't mind a chinese qt to bounce on my dick though

>>69991081
You're speaking it

>>69991081
Portuguese. People speak it on space colonies. I read a book so it must be true.

Are there any Hungarian learners/speakers here?

Arabic

>>69995849
But... also Russian on space colonies... and Jamaican Patois... and Farsi and Mandarin all through the galaxy!

Are books lying to me?

Anyone here learning Persian?

>>69988076
Yes, Swedish.

Anyone learning a language that isnt european or east asian?

I've been learning American Sign Language on and off for the past three or so years, but I haven't made much headway because I haven't been able to find anyone that I can regularly practice it with.

On screen keyboard for Russian duolingo works well. Very easy to flip between that and english

learning slovenian

>>69999819
Finnish here

>>70000942
That's both though.

>>69995952
Yep, tell me if you have questions
I'm a native

>>70000000

>>69985174
that's pretty fucking amazing for anyone, let alone someone who lived in China for almost all of his life

>>69989871
>>>/int/sino/

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Abandoned: French, Russian
On hold: Japanese
Learning: Portuguese
Want to learn: Italian
Could learn for eventual gf: Serbocroatian, farsi, hindi

>>70003790
>Portuguese
Which one? European?

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>>70003857
Não, a bonita variante (brasileiro)

Started to learn Russian with Duolingo recently. Doesn't seem that hard. It's similar to Lithuanian and has similar words.
Started to learn it because it'd be really useful. There's a bunch of information in Russian. Also it'd be good to be able to read and understand placards in Russian armored vehicles and such if the need arises

>>70003790
>Portuguese
How about learning an actually useful language?

>>70004218
You see only the tip of the iceberg

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>>70004126
É isso aí, boa escolha.

>>70004126
Legal, boa sorte :3
>>70004262
He already knows English, let the guy have some fun

>>70004299
How hard can it be? Your language looks similar to ours but you have a third gender(non gender or something)

>>69999819
Sanskrit here.

A literal lifetime of work. Quite easily the most difficult IE language ever.

>>70004510
The third floor, accents, double meanings of words, many exceptions from the rules, and a combo of negations. For example, yes no maybe - frequently used phrase that is difficult to understand learners. But I never studied lithuanian, so it can at its base is really not that difficult.

>>70004953
Floor...shit. I mean gender.

>double meanings of words
>a combo of negations. For example, yes no maybe
>many exceptions from the rules
Those are fundamental things that exist in any natural language.

>>70005139
I speak in french, japanese and latin. There, these parts do not go out of control to such a degree.

>>70004262
Rude, I like luso countries and women

>>70004383
É. Qual é sua dialeta favorita no Brasil?

>>70004454
'brigado anão. :3 Aqui, toma esta banana

>>70005599
>>70004383
any resources for brasilian portuguese?

>>70005660
I went to a language school in Brazil and it was great. Other than that I don't know really except for immersion. But I speak spanish since before so there wasn't that much difficulty or new things to learn.

>>70005599
>dialeta
Dialeto/sotaque? Sou capixaba (Espírito Santo) e para falar a verdade gosto muito do nosso sotaque porque ele é bem "neutro".
E você? De qual gosta?

>>70005975
really? no textbooks or anything?

>>70006043
Eu gosto do baiano psh :3

>>70007403
The school had made their own textbooks for us, nothing by an official publisher, so idk. There are probably some out there.

>>70008263
Ôxi, sotaque baiano é?
É um sotaque bem divertido, falam quase como se estivessem cantando.

>>70007403
Found this site with a resource list: http://hackingportuguese.com/where-to-begin/
You could start with Pimsleur, I guess.

>>70002007
Zing

>>69974253
Why are u talking about a group of sheep?

>>69973771
Dubbed shows are your friends.

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I'm looking for a German to converse with. In exchange I offer Spanish skills.

Anyone want some help learning maltese? Native speaker here, noone has actually ever asked for help though ;-;

>>70010467
I wonder why

>>70003790
>>70003790
Alri'
>Abandoned: French
>On hold: Russian
>Learning: Greek (renewed interest)
>Want to learn: French (God damn it), Farsi
>Could learn for eventual gf: None

Anyone willing to help me with Greek, or willing to tolerate my broken French? I have good "roots" and a grasp of general Romance language concepts (solid Latin knowledge) so I pick them up fast, pronunciation and grammar wise. It would be a speed course, basically (just can't be arsed all alone). Someone to whip me everyday, relentlessly pushing onwards in conversation, occasional check-ups and such. A pedagogue-type of person, essentially

Also willing to help folk here improve their spoken English/English in general, and/or learn Serbo-Croatian and Latin

What's the best official certification for French?

I'm looking for someone to speak German with me. Anyone interested?

>>69973771
dora the explorer

>>70013279
Everyone is getting DELF-DALF diplomas in Croatia...
Maybe?

>>70013512
Meant for: >>70012909

>>69972548
>What language are you learning?
Swedish
>Share language learning experiences!
Im a lazy fuck and dont find time throughout my day to start doing stuff
>Help people who want to learn a new language!
Sure hmu anon!

>>70012586
Of the Balkan languages, which one has more resources? I've been wanting to study one.

>>70003790
>>70012586

Abandoned: Danish
On hold: Italian
Learning: Russian but struggling
Want to learn: Chinese, Arabic, French, Farsi, Hindi
Could learn for eventual gf: I'd love a solid reason to learn any language to be honest.

>>70013936
Serbo-Croatian. It also has circa 17 million speakers (not counting the diaspora)
If you need, I am willing to help

Take your pick from the OP link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9QDHej9UGAdNWpOaFBYYjBSZGc

>>70014054
thanks friendo

>>69972548
>What language are you learning?
German and French

>Share language learning experiences!
sometimes I just want to end my misery... but I have learned that you just have to take 5 min, relax and try again

>Help people who want to learn a new language!
I hope this can be usefull for somebody, conjugation of verbs for French, English, Spanish, German, Italian and You-ish
>http://konjugator.reverso.net/konjugation-deutsch.html

>Ask for help!
I need a youtube channel or website with videos with german audio and german subtitles please; same with french if possible

>>69975477
Goodbye, Lenin is pretty good

>>70014198
>German and French
Are you doing both at the same time? Did you start them at the same time? If so, do you recommend it?

>>70014009
>Russian, struggling
I can help you, John

How do I get myself out of the comfort zone that is learning Italian to make some actual progress on Russian ?

>>70013279
Yes. What's your level

>>70014268
Dankeschön mein Russisch Freund

>>70014353
I started with German, but when I got bugged with freaking cases I changed to French (just to distract me and keep going with the learning proces); then I tried to do both at the same time but is nonsence unless you're some kind of savant; so I finished the duolingo course for german and now I'm doing Doulingo for French while reviewing German

recomendation:
don't start both at the same time, but once you get SOLID bases of both, then you can start to mix out your time for each

>>70014581
Пoмoги, opeлe!

>>70014822
I see. Thanks, anon!

Why should I learn another language when I already speak English?

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>>69977173
HelloTalk is amazing, met a French girl there last July and we're still talking.
By the way, if there's any native french speaker here I'm in desperate need of all the talking practice I can get

>>70003790
>>70012586
>>70014009
Abandoned: Japanese
On hold: Spanish
Learning: German
Want to learn: Dutch
Could learn for eventual gf: French

>>69977173
>>70014981

>HelloTalk

Is Hello talk a face to face (webcam/camera phone) thing or a text thing?

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>>69975477
There are no good German movies that aren't historical dramas depicting either WWII or East Germany during the cold war.

>>70015294
Text + Voice messages and a bunch of other useless shit but the community is great and the app is very well done

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>>70003857
What are the major differences? Is it similar to the difference in European Spanish and Latin American Spanish, where it's simpler and there's none of that retarded lisp shit.

>>70015262
>Abandoned: Japanese
Why my friend? Brazillians and Japanese people have a great connection.

>>70015352
I'm just saying I don't want those propaganda films like Triumph des Willens or whatever the fucknazis made.

>>70014268
THIS. The Edukators and Lola Rennt are pretty nice also.

>>70014981
What can I do for you ?

>>70015496
That's why I felt like learning it, but I've slowly lost interest in Japanese culture in general and consequently got demotivated. I'm not of Japanese descent and where I lived there were not many of them. Also, two things piss me off: Kanji and other japanese learners: 90% of them are massive weeaboos which is really annoying. But I still would like to visit Japan someday, I respect the country a lot.

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>>70015608
We can talk from time to time, like on skype or something, I just need to practice my speaking

Yeah no problem tell me your ID and I'll send you an invitation

>>70015453
Pronunciation is quite different, and there are some minor grammar differences too (use of tenses, pronoun placement). Vocab is essentially the same.

>>70016644
Meant to
>>70016544

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>>70016644
>>70016707
Great, it's [email protected]

>>70016824
Is your profile picture a Roman wojak ?

>>70016099
諦める前に漢字はどれくらい習ったのか?

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>>70016910
No, it's weird, I can't find myself on skype either, but that's all I have as an ID

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>>70017204
Search either Gustave Choutri
Or lordoftempests
The profile pic is pic related

>>70014054
same person as
>>70013936
>>70014126
Some of the books listed under Serbo-Croatian are strictly Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian. How much of a difference is there between those? I don't want to get confused too much by dialectical differences.

I also haven't committed to learning a specific language and am open to any other suggestions by anybody reading this.
Tried: German, Spanish, Dutch

Can Assimil really bring you to a B2 level?

>>70017718
Strictly or not, you will have excellent mutual intelligibility with other nationalities using Serbo-Croatian

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>6 month into russian
>can't read properly
>can says only few basic phrases
>still don't understand when and why the "o" is prononce a
>don't understand what the fuck is hard sound and soft
>i don"t get the rule of this languague even i read them several time
>im never gonna make it

who too dumb to learn ?

>>70018825
Describe your learning process for the past six months, what did you use to learn? Did you practice consistently?

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>>70018825
that's how it feels to be an American learning any language fäm
at least you know French

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>>70018865
>what did you use to learn?
duolingo, michel thomas method, various youtube video

>Did you practice consistently?
3/4 per week

>>70010259
what

>>70018865
> practice
'Practice' as a verb is an Americanism, matey.

>>70019823
how do you say "Did you practice consistently?" then?

>>70019959
Practise.

>>70019823
Well maybe he's fucking American, how do you know? And in any case, stuff your prescriptivist shit up your ass tbqhwylad

>>70018825
Similar settis, chef, except I can understand it okay (written down). I'm not even sure if it's due to actually learning French or speaking Spanish and English at a decent level already, which could give me a basic understanding of French by osmosis.

>>70019823
autism

dfn ingen danske venner

>duolingo
>flashcards
>talking with fucking NORMIES

you guys are plebs
only 800 pages grammar book and obscure arthouse movies for me

>>70020601
I am reading a 20th century book on comparative French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese grammar to breeze through French

I am reading a 19th century book on the languages of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Slavonic and Lithuanian, to breeze through Greek (Katharevousa)

Send help, please

>>70020601
you learned your first language by talking with normies

>>70021281
>to breeze through Greek (Katharevousa)
>Katharevousa

Out of all the questions that I have now, let's start with where the hell do you intend to find a textbook?

>>70021381
Katharevousa is a part of that book. As for physical copies, I wouldn't want to go through the trouble of searching for a book on Katharevousa when I have the real deal: ancient Greek textbooks

>>70021471
Good fucking luck you absolute madman|

Coincidentally, I just started Modern Greek a few days ago, seems like a cool ass language with just the right amount of batshit

>>70021564
>Coincidentally, I just started Modern Greek a few days ago
Did you now...
I am this madman: >>70012586
>>69988951

Send help, Bohdane brate

>>70021281
>Send help

why? you are on the right path

>>70021782
I hope your people elect Bolsonaro to power

>>69975994
Dein Deutsch ist echt gut Nigger

>>69987485
Deine ist eher Scheiße Nigger

>>70021648
Latin? Is it the Interpals "I'm fluent" or are you for real? Because that language is a serious bitch to master. I had two semesters of it in university (not enough for even very basic texts desu), and relatively recently went to semi-private classes but couldn't really afford it and dropped it very quickly.

>>70019823
TIL
is it the same with
advice/advise
defence/defense
licence/license

>>70021882
can you share a website with movies in german, it doesn't matter if they aren't german movies, I just want the dubbing and the subtitles; maybe a youtube channel with the same features

Portuguese question here.
Does the "d" at the end of verdade sound like a "ch" or a "d"? The woman's accent on Duo made it sound like a "ch" and I'm not sure if it's a regional thing or just the language.

>>70022059
I am, at least I believe so, much more serious than the Interpals people who knows "inter", "ego" and "moneo, monere, monui, monitum"
I learned it for six years, and that was two years ago. I just need to stir the noggin with some conversation and a copy of Bellum Iugurthinum and I'll be ready to kil...talk about Latin

Do you want to learn Greek together?
Thelis na mathenis tin elliniki glossa mazi?

>>70022108
Left is a noun, the right is a verb, except the "defence/defense" bit. It's just a different way to spell the same word, though you don't want to be a sleazy Amerispeak and use "defence"

Use the patrician way of spelling:
Colour, not color
Honour, not honor
Defense, not defence
Centre, not center
Theatre, not theater
recognize, apologize, organize....recognise, apologise, organise

>>70022174
It sounds like a "j" in "jell-o"

>>70022174
http://vocaroo.com/i/s01iHdmYapie

>>70022174
Brazilians pronounce it sort of like "-ji" (the most mainstream accents at least), Peninsular Portuguese pronounces it roughly like the th-sound in "this" (and they drop the -e often, in fact they drop the e all over the damn place).

>>70022273
I-I think you're way ahead of me already m8, I've only done a few lesson so far (reading rules, definite and indefinite articles, spotting genders correctly, that's pretty much it). Do you have any advice on decent learning tools? Filoglossia's site is an affront to my eyeballs and awkward to use, so I dl'd the FSI course but didn't use it yet.

>>70022396
>>70022414
>>70022527
Thanks! Much appreciated

>>70022527
>I-I think you're way ahead of me already m8,
It absolutely doesn't matter. Recapitulating the old, starting the new. That's the way it should go. I have patience

I use this website:
http://www.greekgrammar.eu/
You can download the PDFs. And I listen to podcasts with decreased speed on my phone. Just to train my ear. The reason I don't use much material is because I learned ancient Greek in high school so it's a lot of "aha!" for me, rather than completely new, alien elements...I suck balls at the moment, but as time goes, the improvement will come, mashallah

Give me a contact I can use to reach you. We can do text chats, voice, whichever you like

>>70022733
Y-you first

>I learned ancient Greek in high school

Jesus fucking Christ you don't fuck around do you

Does anyone use italki or paid online lessons with a teacher? I've been thinking of doing it with French once I get to a B2 level.

>>70022803
I don't have any, so I'm bluffing. I'll need to make a Skype, those talkie-talkie things, discord...
What application do you usually use? I need to orient

>Jesus fucking Christ you don't fuck around do you
I also learned Farsi and have a decent grasp on Russian. We can use it in communication
I'm a fucking NEET man, lighten up

what's the difference between all the courses on the fsi page? programmatic vs basic vs whatever else

>>70015294
Hello Talk has it all.
These days I mostly do voice chats, though.

>>70023135
Programmatic courses usually involve less guidance by the teacher/professor and more focus on the book. It's much more dry than basic courses, which utilise speech more. Think of it as programmatic being a technical manual and a basic course being a history subject book
People usually start with the basic course first and then use the programmatic one as a supplement

>>70023245
I was thinking that I should go with programmatic because it's more self study oriented, and I thought basic was more designed with having an instructor in mind. And obviously I don't have an instructor.
but I guess that's wrong then idk

>>70013366
Underrated

>>70023354
I'd recommend going for a programmatic course if your language is not phonetic
If it's Spanish, for example, then the basic course will suffice as a starter. You can easily turn a basic course exercise into a written one. Hearing is really self-explanatory in Spanish, while it definitely isn't so in, let's say French
Depends on your course

The Ukrainian disappeared into thin air, not leaving any contact information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2N_uvnvGbI

>>70023619
he's probably intimidated 2bh

>>69987277
Eble sekve oni devus pligrandigi sian vortliston. Mi pensas ke mi komencu kurson ĉe Memrise.

>shitpost on hellotalk about the pierogis I had for dinner
>get like 15 likes and multiple comments within 5 minutes

すごいですね。

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>you are now ten percent fluent in German

>>70027327
At least you know more than a refugee.

>>70022360
-ize and defense are burger spelling you fucktard

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s0mVNgnb8rHC

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>>70027914
Cute.

>>70022114
try kinox.to or movie4k.to for streaming

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learn Icelandic

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>Use the patrician way of spelling:
Colour, not color
Honour, not honor
Defense, not defence
Centre, not center
Theatre, not theater
recognize, apologize, organize....recognise, apologise, organise

Use whatever type of spelling you want because English spelling is fucking retarded.

>>70028151
This.

Caulor, Honer, Diffens, Saner, Theeder.
Reconeyes, Apolojazz, Organice.

>>70014957
för att bli en bättre man

>>70020304
ta ikkje på det danske språket
i den här väg fick du en brent tunge

>>70021882
>Dein Deutsch ist echt gut Nigger
Ich danke dir

>>70028125
lær meg

>>70028215
>Apolojazz
We're going to be a hit.

>>70028412
I declines ég (nominative), mig (accusative), mér (dative), mín (genitive)
teach = kenna
imperative for weak verbs is root + tu/du/ðu

teach someone (dat.) something (acc.)
so it's kenndu mér [íslensku]

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>>70028000
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1JPQaOJcLeA

>>70028475
Apolojive if you don't like your vowels changed. But then it'll sound like you've got the lisp.

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.i .iiru'e ko mi sidju

>>69987370
>>69975517
Gay Niggers From Outer Space.

>>70028494
kenndu mér íslensku

>>70028546
autism

What are some good apps on the ipod for learning languages for beginners ? Might as well get some use out of the thing.

>>70028546
What do you use those periods at the beginnings of sentences for in Lojiban? Do they represent sounds?

>>70028749
Memrise
Duolingo
absolute shit for actually learning anything but Memrise is good for remembering vocabulary

>>70028749
Duolingo and Memrise are both available on the app store. I would recommend those if they are available for your target language.

don't talk shit about Duolingo

>>70028769
They just represent glottal stops.

How do you @ people on hellotalk, I always get greyed out text and the link never pops up.

>>70028830
What the fuck? Why does it seem like every sentence begins with a glottal stop?

>>70028861
Words that start with vowels start with glottal stops. It works like that in most languages, only Lojban actually represents it with a symbol.

>>70028819
>Translate "The blue square eats paint chips on Thursdays"
>You're now 90% fluent in Esperanto!

>>70028908
Are you sure that it's actually like that in most languages? I'm not sure if I've ever come into contact with one that does. Why doesn't Lojiban use the apostrophe like many languages?

>>70028960
*Lojban
I've been consistently spelling it wrong

>>70028713
standard weak masculine nouns decline
singular: -i (nominative) -a (acc.) -a (dat.) -a (gen.)
plural: -ar (nom.) -a (acc.) -um (dat.) -a (gen.)

weak feminine nouns decline
singular: -a, -u, -u, -u
plural: -ur, -ur, -um, -a

weak neuters decline:
-a. -a, -a, -a
-u, -u, -um, -(n)a

consonants between vowels lose aspiration if applicable (api->abi, aka->aga, etc.)
consonants before other consonants generally get devoiced (allt means l is voiceless, blaðka means ð is voiceless, etc.)
Icelandic has 32 letters in the alphabet and the accents on vowels do not mark length but different sounds altogether, often diphthongs (a = ah, á = ow, o = aw, ó = oa, etc.)

you're pretty much fluent now rite

>>70028960
Yeah. A glottal stop is just when you cut off sound with your throat. If you say the vowels "a e i o u" one after another, you use a glottal stop to separate the sounds.

Lojban has the apostrophe, but it represents the [h] sound.

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>>70028125
I'd learn Icelandic with pleasure but I highly doubt that there are any actual icelanders willing to practice the language with me so I kind of see no point in even trying to get through all the mess connected with language learning process to become at least conversational in the first place.

@thread
I've been learning british English and Norwegian for a fair amount of time but I still haven't suceeded finding anyone to practice speaking with - so ironically the problem is the same as it'd be in case of Icelandic ;_;.

>>70029007
já er það nú það
I've read a little bit of "Colloquial Icelandic" but I remember very little. I can read Old Norse better than Icelandic at this point. Thank you for teaching me a little.

>>70029066
>British English

Aw hell no, man. Lemme teach you proper English!

>>70029066
hei hei
jeg lærer norsk

>>70029066
i'm sure there are plenty of english speakers trying to learn polish m8 that would be willing to exchange tips

fun fact, Icelandic has a similar passive-but not really passive construction as Polish where an impersonal pseudo subject is inserted (it was told (to) me that... it was kicked my ass...) but this is a really recent development first attested a few decades ago and considered very improper Icelandic

>>70029123
the grammar rules I mentioned still apply to ON but not the phonological rules although there is some evidence already in ON á became rounded to an o and that consonants between to vowels became voiced

>>70029192
Isn't that called the medio-passive or something, like some kind of weird middle voice?

>>70029137
Not really intrested in american English, sorry pal.
>>70029149
Så kult at det er flere av oss

>>70029148
Bonega memeo, amiko.

>>70029223
no Icelandic also has a morphological middle voice by adding -st to the end of the noun (ég klæðist = I get dressed, kakan bakast = the cake is getting baked, bíllin sést = the car is visible etc.) this is proper Icelandic and a feature conserved Old Norse

this has the same function as a passive voice but has this pseudo-active construction
það var sagt mér = I was told
it was said (to) me

það var sigrað hann = he was beaten
it was beaten him

this is a completely new grammatical construction that seems to have been created out of nowhere only a few decades ago and is now standard vernacular for young people

>>70029350
-st at the end of the verb* I mean

>>70029192
>>70029350
>>70029398
>tfw no þ or ð
normans ree

>>70029504
english is one of ðe languages ðat could use þorn and eð the most desu
ðere are so many words ðat have eiðer the voiced eð sound (see: ðis comment) or ðe unvoiced þorn (þick, boþ, baþ, cloþ, þink, þing, etc.) and ðe th-s don't distinguish between ðem and are ugly to top it off

>>70029615
þorn and eð are pretty and whoever thought "who cares i'll just use y" should've been gassed

>>70029657
problem was all ðe printers were imported from germany at least to begin wiþ and since german doesn't have ðe letters ðey made do wiþ what ðey had

>>70029686
ðe eternal kraut strikes again

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I'm considering to begin teaching myself Spanish and French. I have some semi-success with teaching myself German as I've tested for B2 from 1 year of purely on and off self studying so I know it's not impossible.

Does anyone have any experience with French and Spanish? How are the languages and how difficult are they for an English speaker to pick up? Do you prefer one over another? Are both of them doable at the same time? Any Spanish/French speakers out there that would like a new friend in exchange for helping me get over that initial beginner's plateau? Cheers

>>70029754
I did 4 years of Spanish in HS and it's not that bad. The more common verbs can be really fucked up though
>ir
>voy
>fue
>iba
J U S T

>>70029754
French learner here. I can't speak for Spanish, but French Is piss easy to pick up, as I imagine (and have heard) all Romance languages are. Just don't expect to be fluent in a day, it'll take time.

>>69987370
Black Book.

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>>70028930
>esperanto

I currently know 6 languages but have a lingering feeling that I'm losing proficiency in some. Is there a quick way to see how my level is? (The languages in question are German, French and Italian especially in the written form and less so in the oral one)
Also if anyone wants a talking partner in those three languages+ Luxembourgish and Portuguese, I'd be glad to assist.

>>70030196
You can't expect to keep 6 languages fluent forever. I'd say juggling 3 of them is a doable task. If you can keep the other ones at least at conversational level, you can catch up in a matter of a few months when you actually need it sharp.

>>70029754
Where did you take that test?

And how did you get to B2? I'm struggling getting to a decent A2.

>>70021882
Ich weiß Niqqa! Das Universum ist Schmerz und Chaos.

TraurigesGeschicht.jpg

>>70030196
You literally have to be one of those people who spends all their time doing multiple language related things if you want to keep more than 3 languages strong.

Professional polyglots are not in very high demand, unfortunately.

Ich lerne Deustch on Duolingo. I've reached 30% fluency. I think I understand most of the grammar structure. The way pronouns change in accusative is still fucking my shit. So is the position of nicht and kein and stuff like that. It's also very interesting how much is implied in German where it would just make sense naturally for a native speaker. But I'm trying and I'm excited to be learning and understanding more. I'm also going to be taking German classes at uni. I want to be able to hold a basic conversation in German and then go on to learn Italian.

>>70027327
According to duolingo I am 50% fluent in english, which is my first language.

Spent 4 hours today trying to talk to Japs on Hellotalk in addition to my usual hour of flash cards (for Japanese and French). Feel like my brain is fucking fried lads.

>>70031581
Well that's typical for an American.
Did you do a backwards course for your chosen language? Was it helpful?

>>70031688
Take it easy, you'll burn yourself out and consequently resent learning a language by overdoing it.

>>70029321
I cringe every time I see something written in this language

Well anons probably creating a Telegram chat would be useful for you?
I'm ready to volunteer as a Russian tutor and would like to join in French/German learning chat

How well are Americans learning your language?

> German
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owCNNTEm_dU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE-us_USft0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIOn50t1YuE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkvH5wVz5kw

> French
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdpe6ADG1Uc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzmFuSFjbkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg5ZXuoZ8b0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1515m4p-PLQ

> Spanish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwdVhGRrnMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC1lZjSv-LE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wrJQmjRv8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wrJQmjRv8M

> Italian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZlXmuNkuxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2HeN-R32Xs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7pI3muz4GI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Z-vDqoV3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHOp5rewBk

> Russian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZvLtlQOksI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3DEO_3cZ6s

>>70031806
Yeah. I definitely won't be doing this again for a while. Especially since it atill takes me several minutes to compose a couple simple sentences.

>>70032221
Hey don't worry this stuff takes time. I admit that I've been doing French off and on a couple of years, I could've been fluent by now but I stopped at one point. Anyhoo, I'm dedicated now and I hope to make good progress this year. In the end, it just takes time and dedication, but also heart. If you're not feeling it, don't continue (not trying to discourage you). Like they say, "Rome wasn't built in a day".

>>70032288
Hey, do you want to skype with me ?

>>70032288
Yeah. I have a lot of motivation to make my goals for this year (complete Core6K, learn all the common-use kanji, reach the conversational level in spoken Japanese, able to understand simpler anime dialogue easily without subtitles).

I want to win an exchange opportunity with my college and our sister school in Kyoto this fall and then I want to tackle the N1 next fall if I'm able to.

Bonne chance avec ton travaillement(?) en francais, anon. Thanks for the kind words!

>>70032087
this

This place makes me feel like russian is too common of a language to learn.

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>>70036580
>too common of a language to learn
yeah, they """learn""" it very well

my conversation with an American:
>-I started learning Russian 3 months ago!
>-So how is it going
>-Almost learned an alphabet!
>mfw

>>70036580
Here maybe, but not for normies

>>70028930
To be fair that's probably enough for Esperanto.

>>70032087
Singing in for a French group in telegram

>>70032087
I'm interested

>>70032087
I'd like that, but is there any alternative to Telegram ?

I don't want to get arrested for terrorism.

>>70032087
other french anon, let's do it
guys im proud of what we're doing with the learning thread, i never thought something useful will be done in this board

If someone posts his Telegram username I can start the group and post a link here

>>70039406
@hbalkanicus

Completed the spanish duolingo course back in the late summer time and then gave up on it.

i'm going through it again and although my vocab is still good my grasp of the grammar has all but disappeared ;_;

>>70039421
Anyone can add me, by the way. Doesn't matter which language you're learning, if you don't consider talking about languages in general as a waste of time, I'm willing to learns bits from everything
All sorts of linguists welcome as well

>>70033269
>>70037821
>>70038823
>>70038951
>>70039205
Woah I didn't expect anybody to agree
So if any of you is still here, for unknown reason I can't initiate talking in pm in Telegram, so here is me @random_nickname
Text me so we could create a chat and start

>>70039772
>>70039804
Can you text me too please? I'm interested but unable to start, eh

>>70004953
Lithuanian is thebmost conservative IE language so it probably retained more of that stuff than Russian did.

Anyone learning Slovak or Czech? I realize it is not useful to learn them unless you have a GF there or something, but I am willing to help.

>>70036683
I am shit in Russian but even I learned cyrilic in a day.

>>70040031
Add: >>70039421

Not learning, but talking to fellow Slavs is always interesting. Comparing notes, so to speak

are we creating a big group where everyone can practise or several, depending of the language?

>>70039847
Add me here:
https://t.me/hbalkanicus

>>70040600
It should be one large group of people with multiple interests.

>>70040741
Yeah, I sent a message to the Russianbro. I think he is waiting for more people to show up to create it
Come on lads let's do it.
>>70038951
Kek I think he suggested Telegram simply because we can keep our anonymity

https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAED3UIA8Fczdptm1RA
Telegram group. For lads only

I keep giving up on Japanese after a few weeks, help

>>70010259
Me. Hiya gharibah ilaa al-lughat al-3arabiyyah sah?

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>>70041405
Sorry meant as a reply for >>70010467

>>70041405
Suomianon, join our chat! Link above
I tried Arabic too so we can do smth together :3

bump for >>70041197

>>69973771
Dubbed simpsons

Sad bump

>>70033211
>Yeah. I have a lot of motivation to make my goals for this year (complete Core6K, learn all the common-use kanji, reach the conversational level in spoken Japanese, able to understand simpler anime dialogue easily without subtitles).
What is your routine? My goal for 2016 was to learn Core6k and my goal for 2017 is finishing Joyo and getting conversational.

Core6k teaches you 1600 kanji in 10 months (if you do the default 20 cards a day).
Then you'd have to do a minimum of 600 more cards if you keep 1 new kanji per card coming, which is a bit too packed.
In any way, that'd give you a 35 day wiggling space at best.

If you rack up the number of cards and don't go for Core10k (which teaches about 500 of the 600 remaining joyo at a very sparse rhythm), maybe you can do it within one year. Are you doing kanji study somewhere other than Anki? Like in RTK?

>>70041197
bump

>>70041197
aand bump

What exactly is Telegram? Is it just text messaging? What information does it share? Brit learning French here potentially interested in joning

>>70046894
Messenger with additional features
You can also create channels there, not only chats
Channel is when admin(s) are posting and subscribers are reading

>>70047159
> channels
i downloaded app some weeks ago and i really like it
it's the best antisocial network ever

>>70047358
Yeah I had the same feeling
It has a huge amount of interesting stuff

>>70046894
Are you interested in learning French ?
Search
>>70017379
We are making a group for learning and improving French on Skype

>>70028908
>>70029047
Nah, not in every language. By the way, this is one of the ways Czech differs from Slovak - in Czech words beginning with vowels start with a glottal stop, while in Slovak (and moravian Czech) they do not.

I'm trying to learn norwegian but I'm really garbage at it

norgefags please help

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How about a platform that doesn't ask me for my non-existent phone number? How about that?

Got fucking dammit I hate the 3.0 web.

Guys, stop hogging Duolingo. It's breaking every day.

I apologize for leaving Telegram suddenly, but phone died on me and I have no charger nearby.

>>70046894
It's anonymous what's up

>>70047969
Join the chat https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAED3UIA8Fczdptm1RA

>>70048124
Oh 3rd world and their wifi-only (and probably stolen/black market) phones

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Ask me anything about Old Norse

>>70052670
bli med på chatten norronanon
https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAED3UIA8Fczdptm1RA

>>70052670
why do Scandinavians think Loke, T(h)or, Odi/en is more accurate than the Marvel names when they're not?

>>70052945
þau eru réttari

>>70052990
alls ekki
það er sér skandinavísk uppfinning að breyta i-um og a-um í e og enska hefur réttari framburð á nöfnunum líka þar sem þorn og eð hljóðin eru horfin úr skandinavísku

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>>70053078
>enska hefur réttari framburð
Englendingarnir *léðu* nöfnin... við sem búum í Norðurlöndunum þurfum ekki að ljá ný (gömul) nöfn úr fornnorrænu eða íslensku vegna þess að við eigum þau allmennt í okkar nútímamáli.

Englendingarnir geta eiginlega sagt "Woden" og "Thunor/Þunor"; en flestir þeirra velja heldur að nota fornnorræn nöfn af því að nöfnin eru orðin ó-allmenn í þeirra nútímamáli

>>70053597
>við eigum þau allmennt í okkar nútímamáli
lágþýska á lítið skylt við Norrænu

en annars gleymdust Þór (Þunor) og félagar í Englandi ansi lengi og voru enduruppgötvaðir í gegnum Skandínava sem er ástæðan fyrir því að þeir nota okkar nöfn en ekki sín eigin

>>70053597
ikke ignorer meg ;_;

>>70053750
przepraszam... nie mam telegrama

>>70053709
já

þeir segja samt "wedenesday" (þ.e. Óðinsdagur) að minnsta kosti

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>>70053994
zaloz anon, jedyne czego potrzebujesz to numer telefonu (nikt go nie widzi) - bardzo fajna grupa, zapraszam :3

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>>70054110
beklager, jeg lagde mat... jeg husker ikke hva nummeret mitt er. kanskje jeg blir med hvis jeg finner det noe sted.