What language are you learning?

I'm learning French and German because inshallah I will live in Switzerland one day.

It isn´t that hard - simply learn the rules that apply most of the time and you´ll get it.

Understanding French people when they speak.. that´s very hard.

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>>69976951
I'm learning Chinese
>1. Why are you learning it?
I speak pretty good Japanese but never really made any Japanese friends once I left. The only people that speak Japanese in America are sweaty weebs. I like studying and drawing the kanji and there are Chinese speakers all over where I live in DC, so I'm learning Mandarin.
>2. What's the most difficult thing about it?
Hearing it. Surprisingly it's not the tones, it's just hearing the syllables, I have trouble hearing the difference between zhang, shang, jang, jiang, shiang, liang....in different accents, of which there are plenty in a country as large as China, it can be really hard to hear. But usually you can bullshit your way through with context and other syllables.

>I work at the UN
Proof? Oh well, I suppose I'll help you along on your role playing adventure and ask you, "Hey you work at the UN? What do you do?"

>>69976951
Im learning japanese because where the fuck do you think you are?

The hardest things are 1) the embeded + context grammar 2) the random readings of chinese character 3) the ridiculous number of homonym and synomyms

>>69978043
I am an analyst at the UN Population Fund, where my concentration is in strategic planning.

>>69976951
What do you use to learn my man

>>69979432
Duolingo as an introduction

private classes but I skip like half of them because work keeps me late

I also like watching my favorite netflix shows using French dubbing (House of Cards, etc.)

ive tried exploring /fr/ but I get too scared :(

>>69976951
French
1. I want to be a diplomat and apart of other competences, you have to know English, French and Spanish.
2. Verbal regency, which verbs demands which preposition. About this, having a cousin language as your native make matters worse because sometimes they're completely different and I try to make a literal translation from Portuguese.
I'm also looking for ways to augment my vocabulary (I'm currently reading jornal and books).
I haven't had too many problems understanding spoken French ever since I started using radio.garden. It's a site that lets you tune in radios around the world, it's quite neat

I'm learning French. The most difficult thing for me is knowing when to use the subjunctive mood (I know it's for wishes, hypothetical/dubious things, and before certain phrases, but I still don't completely comprehend it), when to use ce que vs. ce qui (I know they serve different purposes, but once again I leave it to my gut instinct when I use them), oh yeah, and getting used to spoken French car ces gens le parlent assez vite et personne ne veut m'engager à part des Nordafricains.

I still have a long way to go but I have confidence I will make big strides this year.

>>69979651
>duolingo
try lingvist

download assimil pdf good book

>>69979651
also
le chat est noir,
le garçon en la fille