/lang/ - language learning thread

>>73402431
op here.
for french learners
https://savoirs.rfi.fr
> a website with extracts from some articles of french newspapers. You will be able to listen to them too, so you will practice your listening skills, and then you can also answer a few question about the extract.

the last thread someone post this too
http://pastebin.com/JN01tWVF
>more sources that cannot fit into OP thread

>>73402431
It's dead Jim
All the resolutioners already gave up on learning a language

>>73404002
Sad! I clicked this randomly (not disappointed though) but I'm not sure there's much to ask about learning a language that hasn't been asked already, so it makes sense to me why this thread would die.

>>73404124
It doesn't really help that I created a discord and telegram group for /lang/ where people shitpost instead of here

Hello everyone. Any one learning Italian?

>>73402431
>radio.garden/
>>Listen to radio all around the world through an interactive globe

The white noise on this really pisses me off. For fucks sake just keep playing whatever station i was on until i find a new one.

How long does it take to go from reading retardedly slow to reading at a comfortable pace and what's the quickest way to improve? I'm learning Italian.

>>73409029
read and write things that interest you. I made a LOT of shitposts that broke a LOT of hate crime laws before I could read French fluently

Do we love Paul from Langfocus?

>>73409109
I did exactly this with Spanish

Todavía creo que los judíos están intentando destruir la civilización blanca.

>>73409932
He's pretty cool, but somewhat autistic. Typical foreigner in Japan.
>>73404452
post telegram group

>>73409932
His videos are cool but when he tries to be funny it's hella awkward.

>>73409932
I like him, but I still refuse to believe that English is his native language.

What is that fucking accent?!

>>73402567
Are you learning French?

>>73404452
Well if these threads are going to float on shitposts I would rather them die quickly fampai.

>>73406411
When you zoom to where radio station is at it centers selected station and after a few seconds white noise goes away.

How the fuck can I improve my writing and speaking um English?

I can read a textbook, but I'm horrible at writing and speaking.

Ameriguys halp

>>73412400

Just keep shitposting my dude

>>73412400
Obviously write and speak more.

здecь ктo-нибyдь изyчaeт pyccкий язык?

вaм хoчeтьcя гoвopить?

>>73412530
> вaм хoчeтьcя гoвopить?
тoлькo c qt grills :^)

it's хoчeтcя btw.

>>73412530
*хoтитe пoгoвopить is more correct

check this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDKokkJJa2M

How do I practice my oral comprehension from movies and radio if I don't know what they are saying?

I have films with french dub but not french subtitles so I can't look up the words I don't know to learn them

>>73412860

cпacибo мoй dude

>>73413162
I'm currently watching a Spanish show with closed captions
Whenever I find a word that I don't know, I just look it up in the dictionary

However, the chances are, if you're struggling at this point, either the pieces of audio you're listening is out of your league, or you're simply not ready yet and should study reading and writing more

>>73413361
I just find french particularly difficult because of all the liaison and it being very un-phonetic

Where do you get your shows, just on YouTube?

>>73413563
lol

I used to learn it, and now, mostly forgot, but it's still easier to me to understand french songs rather than english

>>73412860

y тeбя бoльшe pyccкoй мyзыки?

вce мyзыкa чтo я cлышaл дo cих пop былo yжacнo

>>73413162
...Just download the French subtitles ? They shouldn't be hard to find.

I used opensubtitles and it never failed yet

>>73413684
I find German and Spanish much easier to understand when listening than french

>>73413743
They never seem to be right, but I'll try opensubtitles

Has anyone successfully learned Cantonese without going to a language school?

I've been in Hong Kong almost a year and while I can get by fine, I think I could get more local pussy if I knew a bit more of the lingo.

Resources seem pretty scarce. I have the Pimsleur audio lessons but they aren't really intuitive.

>>73413689
мoжeшь cкинyть eщё тpeкoв нa pyccкoм?

пoкa чтo мнe ничeгo нe пoнpaвилocь

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vuTO5Mbkw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft-MpoygPBc

electro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjbQkiVS8p8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt0-SVaL0gs - but it has a crazy text even for us ;) very poetical

>>73413906
Did you try the torrent?

>>73414684

cдeлaeшь тaк, пoжaлyйcтa.

мнe oчeнь нpaвитcя mujuice

>>73402431

What character makes the "th" sound in Russian?

A friend recommended I try writing in English but using the Cyrillic alphabet to familiarize myself with it, but English is very th heavy and I can't find any th in Russian at all.

Official /lang/ Telegram™ group
https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAED3UIDNQ_5e6w5-Wg

>>73410026
Just 4 u senpai

>>73419763
How's the discord work? Got one for games but only used it for a few days before I got tired of talking to people about runescape.

>>73404002
no, m8. It's not dead. I'm currently learning a lot with this sources.

>>73412334
yes, I'm learning french. I post sometimes in /fr/. those guys have helped me a lot too.

>>73413563
if you like /x/, you will like this
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsJb7k5RELl7liVjNIUSiEw

if you like court- metrages you will like this too

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJruTcTs7Gn2Tk7YC-ENeHQ

some educative stuffs

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsOsDBQm1KDEvZeCW9C8-qg

>>73419503
idk russian I only took one lesson 3 years ago. But i found this
https://www.quora.com/Which-letter-in-Cyrillic-alphabet-represents-the-sound-th-%CE%B8
also ask him. Maybe he can help you
>>73414684

Watching a Chinese movie is a welcome change after their inhumanely fast news
I still don't understand half as much as I should, but at least I can keep up with the subtitles

another benefit is that I'm too focused on understanding them to care whether the show is shit or someone is brainwashing me

>>73412334
>When you zoom to where radio station is at it centers selected station and after a few seconds white noise goes away.

I know but i like jumping around and 'exploring' so i get the white noise often. I have no idea why they decided to add it the instant you move off a station. Drives me mad.

>>73419763
>Official /lang/ Telegram™ group
>https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAED3UIDNQ_5e6w5-Wg

The fuck does it need all those permissions for?

>be me
>study French for half a year
>lose interest and give up
>study Italian for another half year
>lose interest and give up
>realize that it is Spanish I'm truly interested in
>can't put together a coherent sentence that isn't one third french, one third italian, and one third spanish

vaffanculo

>>73415095
I didn't understand the question

>>73419503
З mostly, but it's about meme using words from the modern English at web

at past Ѳ and Ф about the serious words, but now only Ф

>>73420943
which movie

>>73425378
well, it turned out to be some TV series about Chinese Civil War, there was also some 西藏 subplot
but I didn't catch the name because it was in calligraphy and I can't read that

print('hello lang.')

>>73425652
very nice

>>73421650
why did you quit all those projects?
we can help you with spanish or french (I make some mistakes, but i will try to explain it to you). I will be in the telegram group
you can e-mail me to [email protected]
this is not my official e-mail, but any doubt you can ask

Listening is hard lads

>>73402431
I'm interested in spanish lately. sounds fantastic where should I start anon-sans?

>>73426294
This desu. I mishear almost every sentence on Duolingo.

>>73426717
well, being honest for me the most important subject of my language is tenses, how to use them and how to conjugate verbs by learning the most important verbs. I can help you with your doubts. Here my address
>>73425969

>>73426717
Hispachan

>>73413684
Can you understand this French song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MpnS4cv1wA

>>73412213
So you'll never consider Australians as Anglos...

>>73431378
no, pls. hispachan is a fucking cancer

I've gave up learning russian online. It's such a cunt to type on a virtual keyboard and having to switch between Russian/English. Pen and paper from now on (but not cursive, fuck cursive).

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How should I, as someone who already has a decent grasp on the written language, learn to speak French fluently? I took French immersion in school but I can only understand half of what's said on Radio-Canada at best. I just wanna be able to read French literature and not embarrass myself if I go to Quebec. Should I just keep watching TV in French?

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>>73402431
Russian or German

Which language is more future proof / better to learn?

>>73439402
middle low german desu

>>73412213
I don't think it is an accent, I think it's him trying to make it sound like he doesn't have one / trying to eliminate it to make videos easier to understand for foreigners, but it just ends up sounding unnatural.

>>73439402
difficult, you're american, so learn german. It has less cases of declention and a similar alphabet, and also a more info avaliable.
here a poem:

My destiny is in the Spanish language,
the bronze words of Francisco de Quevedo,
but in the long, slow progress of the night,
different, more intimate musics move me.
Some have been handed down to me by blood —
voices of Shakespeare, language of the Scriptures —
others by chance, which has been generous;
but you, gentle language of Germany,
I chose you, and I sought you out alone.
By way of grammar books and patient study,
through the thick undergrowth of the declensions,
the dictionary, which never puts its thumb on
the precise nuance, I kept moving closer.
My nights were full of overtones of Virgil,
I once said; but I could as well have named
Hölderlin, Angelus Silesius.
Heine lent me his lofty nightingales;
Goethe, the good fortune of late love,
at the same time both greedy and indulgent;
Keller, the rose which one hand leaves behind
in the closed fist of a dead man who adored it,
who will never know if it is white or red.
German language, you are your masterpiece:
love interwound in all your compound voices
and open vowels, sounds which accommodate
the studious hexameters of Greek
and undercurrents of jungles and of nights.
Once, I had you. Now, at the far extreme
of weary years, I feel you have become
as out of reach as algebra and the moon.