/lang/ - Language Learning thread

>>75910386

https://pastebin.com/ZrY22qe0
>Few more resources that didn't fit into OP

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How's going guys?

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>>75910450
I'm learning French like I learned English, with porn and memes

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>>75910450
Studied 25 hours this last 20 days.Bannig myself from 4chan really helped me with time management.

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And that's as far as I will get

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estudiatz la lenga romana

Why don't Slavs like prepositions?

JESUS WHY DO DUOLINGO LESSONS DECAY SO OFTEN
If you are close to complete your course you need to grind 2 hours per day

Italiano

>>75921112
I've given up on trying to keep all golden

>y тибя ecть
Why do you do this to me russia? Why does your word for "there is" sound like "eat"?
How is y different from я?

>>75922119
It sounds like eat in 'my' language too, which isn't Slavic so it may be common.

Bum bum

>>75922233
German?

>>75923491
No.

>>75910560
My man

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#hustlin #gridin #pimpin

>>75927202
why are you learning swedish of all languages?

>>75931776
It was the only lang which I had resources to access at the time so I went with it, now I'm too deep to pull out basically.

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I'm ready for my next trip to Germany guys

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Written portuguese is so easy...
why does spoken portuguese have to be so complicated

Bumperoni

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Russian or Geman lads help pls

>>75936399
If I were you I'd go either for Spanish or Russian. I don't see why anyone would choose German over Russian.

>>75910386
>What language are you learning?
I want to learn Korean

>Help people who want to learn a new language!
I can help people with Spanish, writing/reading/speaking -I'm not Dutch-

>>75932676
heheh

>>75938145
>I can help people with sex, sucking/jearking/fugging -I'm a Spanish Gypsy-
Thanks, I'm good.

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>>75938251

>>75938251
Well, I didn't see that coming.

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>>75936399
>tfw no Russian or German to help with language studies

>>75936399
Unless you have a specific reason to learn German, or if you lived in the EU, Russian is better.

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>>75932296
>too deep to pull out

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been trying to learn cantonese and a professor of linguistics at cambridge just told me to give up

going to continue anyway but dont feel too good about it now

bleeeeehhh

>>75932296
Look up the sunken cost fallacy

>>75947124
Balls deep bruh

>>75947508
Your professor sounds like an asshole desu.You can definetally learn it if you keep at it.

>>75947519
Well obviously it's not the only reason, I grew to like the language and it's easy to learn so that helps.

>>75920541
come again?

>>75910386
I am currently learning Bulgarian. I'm leaving to Bulgaria on Thursday for training.

>>75947519
That barely applies to his reasoning. If anything "I'm too deep to pull out" basically concedes that it's an emotional and habitual decision at this point.

>>75932733
Odio vuestra jota

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>>75949765
La jota es la jota

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My Esperanto streak in Duolingo is at 51 days now. Been putting 5-10 minutes into it per day and downloaded Anki a few days ago. Can't really converse yet but I'm getting there.

Mi ŝatas katojn kaj katidojn, sed mi ankaŭ ŝatas hundojn kaj hundidojn.

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This should be the next edition

>>75950621
¿Hay una foto similar a esto para la lengua de español?

>>75922119
y roughly means 'at'. it is used here in a special grammatical construction showing possesion. я means 'I'.
if you meant pronunciation and not meaning, y is pronounced as 'oo', and я is 'ya'
this is pretty basic shit though. are you using a grammar book at all?

>>75950900
No.

>>75951595
Mierda.

>>75947508
>a professor of linguistics at cambridge just told me to give up
why would he do that?

>>75952506
well i think what he was trying to do was make me drop my current degree, Physics

he basically just said that Cantonese is impossible to learn on the side and that i need to either drop Physics to learn Cantonese or just give up

so i did sort of take him out of context for effect :P

>>75910386
>What language are you learning?
I estimate my Spanish to be B2, maybe B1 on a very good day, but it's been on hiatus for years now so I probably won't improve further.

I estimate my German to be A2 (or even less), but that too has been on hiatus for years now so I probably won't improve further.

I want to learn Estonian, and I have sufficient material for it, but I probably will never have the discipline to do it. Instead, I'll continue being a lazy fuck who accomplishes nothing, and then probably at some point I'll kill myself. Pic related is how I feel when I think about my own laziness.

>Help people who want to learn a new language!
If anybody is trying to learn French and has any questions, I'd be glad to help out. I can also maybe help with some Spanish stuff.

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>>75953141
forgot pic

Some one pick a language for me.

>>75956340
since you dont sound that dedicated, French

its quite easy and super useful in Europe

>>75956340
if you need somebody to pick a language for you, chances are you won't be that motivated to be successful. follow your heart, abdul

>>75956340
urdu

>>75956340
Hindi

I have to keep learning Spanish because I'm taking classes in it, but I'm barely interested in it anymore, and German seems way more appealing. What do?

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>>75921112
>>75921797
You have to re gold. Each time you re-gold and get answers correct, they stay golden longer

>tfw you're learning a language that's fun to know but less than a couple million speak it and some of them are batshit crazy

>tfw going to learn a meme-language like Finnish because that's what I'm genuinely interested in.

Has anyone paid for Turkish Tea-Time's lessons? Their podcasts are great, but I'm not sure I want to pay for a subscription until I know what the content is like.

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Language learning is frustrating, hard to find native speakers willing to speak to me in German.
And grammar keeps fucking me up.

What do, /int/?

>>75962621
Why don't you learn Chinese? There are so many Chinese speakers in your country

Learning German and tending my Chinese.

Apparently these are two of the most common languages to learn as a second language and so now I feel kind of basic.

Someday in the future I want to learn an oddball language that might get me some extra traveling mobility.

I was thinking Armenian. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Buongiorno /lang/, è buon vedervi, non vi ho visto da lungo tempo. Ho finito Duolingo ed Assimil in italiano, dove vado ora? So che dei programmi non sono il solo metodo da imparare, ma non sono pronto di parlare con altre gente ancora. Non capisco completamente tutti i tempi - come ricordargli tutto? Grazie mille in anticipo (se qualcuno mi risponde hehe).

Mi scusate per i miei errori.

>>75950621
Pic saved. This worth gold. Thanks for your contribution!

>>75910386
>What language are you learning?
English and Russian
>>Help people who want to learn a new language
I could help people who want to learn Spanish

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If more people spoke Turkish I'd totally learn it. Wish it wasn't a meme language.

Learning German. Just recently crossed into my third year of self-study. I feel really good about myself.

Tell me your practice routine, /lang/! I pretty much just read books and that gets me all kinds of vocab, formal and informal aspects of speech, and varying types of sentence construction. BUT despite reading nearly fluently I talk and write like a caveman since I know literally no one who speaks German and I'm an awkward loser who won't find anyone.

Are there good resources besides grammar books (which I loathe with a passion) to beef up my written skills? I venture into /deutsch/ threads sometimes but they're not too helpful (it's just shitposting) and that interpals website seems like Tinder International edition so useless for someone like me.

Improving my English when I have time.

>>75964388
Пoчeмy-тo вce yчaт pyccкий "paди литepaтypы", нo я нe cлышaл, чтoбы paди нee yчили китaйcкий и apaбcкий, пo кpaйнeй мepe, здecь их oбычнo нe yпoминaют.

I am learning Greek, thinking of tackling Latin or Hebrew later

>>75964455
Well, I want to learn Russian because I want to read the research of Russia and his space program, literature is an extra but not important, of course read the works of the theoretical physicist Landau will be interesting

>>75964498
modern, koine or attic?

>>75964455

Russian is honestly pretty comfy
Fuck Chinese lel

I literally dream of getting a qt like Иpa Cмeлaя kek

>>75964744
modern, with modern you can basically read koine and study easier for reading attic later. Also it's easier to shitpost lol

I want to learn Tsakonian Greek/dialect but there are only a few resources available.

>>75960971
I do it but at times it lasts for a day. How many times do I have to regold?

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fuck you duolingo

>>75965435
the earlier lessons can stay gold for a few months

I think it's like
> first gold: gold for 2 days
> second gold: gold for 4 days
> then 8

I think the maximum is 64, but I'm only guessing, based on how often I regold

>>75965610
hello weeaboo

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>>75965610
part 2

>>75965625
America is not a country, it's a continent.

What are some good Russian movies? Preferably ones with heavy sarcasm. I watched Inadequate People yesterday and every line was hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViFqE-m28UQ

>>75965610
Japanese isn't a language that you can get anywhere with without studying it seriously and duolingo is shit for studying anything seriously.

So why are you using duolingo at all

>>75965947
>So why are you using duolingo at all
duolingo makes you feel like you're actually doing something because it's gameified

>>75965973
so is anki just look at your stats every day while basking in the suffering

Thinking of learning Russian. As a Bulgarian speaker will it be easy?

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No one ever wants to learn 'my' language. It's one of the few living languages that people openly treat as a dead language. What a shame.

>>75965947
for fun. I've lived in Japan as an exchange student so my Japanese is already okay.

I gotta tell you though, going through duolingo Japanese as someone that already kind of knows it, it's making me reconsider using duolingo at all, for any language.

>>75964844
well i took koine class and ... maybe it's like 70%(or less) and you have to add the acussative case and the attic is more weird but you can read much materials

>>75966067
if people can learn Hebrew, they can learn your Semitic language

Go make a Youtube channel teaching your language

>>75962246
Are you using anything else to learn right now?

>>75964422
Well you don't need hundreds of millions of speakers to learn a language, I'm going to learn Serbo-Croat for example and they allegedly don't even have 25 million speakers.Just find what interests you and stick to it, be it Turkish or anything else.

>>75966205
I may very well do that some time.

>>75966297
Yeah, I've got a tutor I see weekly but I do an hour of textbook/ student grammar and around an hour of memrise most days.

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>>75966391
Plox deliver, here is something if you are serious about doing it.

http://lexicity.com/language/syriac/

>>75966456
İyi şanslar yavrum.

>>75966553
Sağ ol arkadaşım
İyi şanslar de Sırpçan için

Anyone here know Vietnamese? How hard it is?

>>75966856
bumping for this

My tongue's retarded. Why did the Russian Empire have to conquer all the interesting places in the world (caucasus' and central asia)?

>>75966856
I tried the Vietnamese course in Duolingo and I gave up after the first lesson. The only thing I know in Vietname is
>Tấn công!

>>75956340
Castillian

>>75968710
>gave up after the first lesson
Is it that hard?

>>75968729
Seems pretty hard, listen to these noises these people make

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr6UyXe9QmA

>>75968855
How the hell does anyone wrap their tongues around that? My grandpa had it down, but I never asked him about it.

>>75968729
I'm essentially tone-deaf and it's a tonal language so yeah, kinda.

>>75968903
Fugg, how about Finnish?

>>75968925
Finnish is pretty monotone. Think Japanese but a few more sounds. The only """difficult""" sound in Finnish is the R. Ä and Ö sounds exist in English (Ä in hat and the vowel in fur sounds kinda like Ö) so those shouldn't be difficult.

>>75968996
That doesn't sound too bad. Was it hard for you to learn English?

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>>75969018
>Was it hard for you to learn English?
No. Your pronunciation is utterly retarded, though, but you get used to it when most of your your entertainment (movies, tv series, music, games, the internet) is in English. I tried reading pic related last night and it was horrible.

Finnish also doesn't use the consonants Q, W, Z, X, C.
B, F, G are used in loanwords.

>>75969018
my only gripe with english was being native in a language with vowel harmony and having to get used to breaking the harmony for example mispronouncing words like automatic because it has both front and back vowels. its extremely counterintuitive for a beginner.

>>75966093
How so?

Also the Japanese course is one the worst ones there because Duo was in a rush to release it. It's not even done for computer users yet.

>>75969134
That picture is agonizing to read for me, so Godspeed to you for even trying, Finnbro.

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>>75969235
>automatic because it has both front and back vowels
hä
>a, u, o <- back vowels
>i <- neutral vowel

But yes, you're right about breaking vowel harmony in other words.

>>75969278
I can record an attempt in 10 minutes after I finish this episode of Star Trek.

>>75964437
What was your rutine at the beginning??
What did you do?

>>75969134
hmm english is a bit fucked isn't it

>>75969333
automätic

>>75964437
Dude try Tandem. Plenty of people to talk to in your target language and it's not Tinderish.

>>75969339
Yes.

>>75969373
Oh right, didn't consider the pronunciation.

Give me a language to learn /int/.

Native: English, Bulgarian
Fluent(ish): Russian, Korean
Intermediate: Spanish

Don't want to go near the romance or Scandinavian languages.

It'd be nice if there's a lot of media for that language.

>>75966856
Me. Grammar it's easy easy, pronunciation: don't let the tones fool you, the most difficult thing is consonants, dipthrongs and tripthrongs.

There's an American that can speak it fluently. :')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoQb4T8qC7Q

>>75969553
Thanks Vietbro. Is there a lot of foreign business demand for English speakers there?

who else /esperanto/ here? is this actually useful and where can i talk to esperantists?

>>75969591
Maybe some. But we need Vietnamese that can speak English more (i don't think we should expect foreigners to speak Vietnamese).

>>75969633
Hej amiko!
>>75969637
Good to know. Cảm ơn bạn

>>75950439
i achieved A1-A2 (borderline) in Esperanto in like a week because i wanted to learn it, then for some reason i stopped and want to continue again

>>75969505
why don't you improve your Spanish first?

Also, how and when did you learn Korean? Tips? Rutine?

How do you guys practice speaking? I'm fine reading and writing now, but although I can pronounce the words perfectly fine in my head I really struggle to get them out properly when talking.

>>75969278
Oki doki, here. It's from the beginning to
>Friend and fiend, alive and live.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0n9pnvQqDHW

Say if I pronounced anything terribly wrong. Also no idea what the rhythm of the poem is supposed to be so don't pay attention to that.

>>75969844
Damn good job, your pronunciation is excellent for a non-native speaker. The only screwup I heard was you saying BRITain like BritAIN

>>75969844
that was actually decent
I didn't listen too closely, but I think you only mispronounced Britain, aisles and vicars. They set you up to mispronounce Britain though by putting it with retain. It's more like brit-in

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>>75969904
Thanks. I'll try to continue it in a bit. Can't record the whole thing at once anyways since vocaroo's upload limit is 50MB and that alone was 35MB.

Does anyone have tips for learning german? Maybe recommend me german books, albums and films

>>75969927
>vicars
Oh right, just checked it.

>>75969660
saluton.
what resourses do you use? i've heard that there is a catalogue of people all round the globe who want to accept you as a guest if you speak with them in esperanto

>>75970019
>i've heard that there is a catalogue of people all round the globe who want to accept you as a guest if you speak with them in esperanto
I'd have no idea about that, but Duolingo has been a pretty good starting point for me. It's where I started learning French, Spanish, and Japanese.

>>75969959
> flag
fuck off they are full

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>>75970093
dont worry my dude i wont colonize them. i am just interested in the language

How does one go about learning Turkish. I want to colonise Turkish qts

>>75969505

Hindi.

>>75969816

Pay someone. I found it really helped me get over the nerves that i was wasting their time or ruining the conversation when i was paying for a 'lesson'.

>>75970444
Start with Pimsleur.

>>75970597
although i'm inherently ancap, if one of you guys wants to practice Russian I can help you for free

>>75970671
Thanks güzel :3

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>>75969904
>>75969927
Ok, this one is from
>Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
to
>Senator, spectator, mayor
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1UmofclZ4Vh

>mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge
>mfw

I am aware that I mispronounced mirage, but did I fuck up anything else?

And here's the pic again >>75969134

>>75968996
Why is R difficult?

>>75970967
I l-like your voice

>>75971193
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1nkeVTaYssq

>>75971193
difficult for English-speakers, i guess. it's not silent R like in English, but R like in Russian or Spanish

>>75971219
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0maSDa53Gy9

>>75970967
Enamour is pronounced En-AM-our, deafer sounds like deffer, but otherwise good job

>>75971272
i'd fucc you if this is not some furry shit

>>75971331
k

Thanks.

>>75971297
no homo tho
i'm helicoptergender

>>75971349
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0zkqHDhvnpQ

>>75971349
also that's a strange request, but can you say "Njet, Molotov" with the most Finnish accent ever?

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>>75971386

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>>75971437
t-thanks
you too

>>75971386
that's strange but I can actually hear how white you are
have you noticed that niggers (with rare exception) always have some strange accent/manner of speaking no matter how educated they are?

>>75971272
>>75971296
Oh, it's the rolled R. I'm studying Italian, so it's pretty easy for me. Also Greek has the similar flapped and trilled R.

>>75971435
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1258OB2hQhG

Is that satisfactory?

>>75971547
I'd say there is definitely a difference in tone which is probably due to different vocal cords etc, but some black guys at my school were raised in Canada and have fucking hilarious Canadian accents. It's more physiology imo

>>75971548
I think Finnish pronunciating is easy, the most difficult part is their fucked up grammar with thousand cases and endings.
also, compared to Finnish, German has short words

>>75971574
thst's what I wanted
thanks, finnbro

>>75971548
Vietnamese has Anglo r but somehow i can also do the rolled r pretty easily.

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>>75971628

>>75971584
yes, this is what I meant, some specific tone
like, Europeans or even Slavs and Latinos can speak English with just accent, but blacks always speak with that Nigger Tone even if it's their native language

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Anyone else here learning Norwegian?

How would you guys start with learning a new language? What would you do first? And what sort of courses would you suggest doing?

For French or Spanish btw

t. Anglo

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>>75971737
Same thing applies for people from Asia or South America too.

Anyways,

http://vocaroo.com/i/s08opcb3cnPT

enjoy my autism

>>75971751

Just hop on Duolingo, everytime I got a new word I put it into my Anki deck. It's a pretty solid combo

>>75971737
Think it depends. If they live in African neighbourhoods then yes. But where I live it's predominantly white so any black people speak like everyone else other than inner city FOB blacks who sound African

>>75971748
I want to.
Bokmål or nunorsk?

>>75971594
Yeah, I know that but I would like to learn it some time.
>>75971639
Do other ASEAN languages use English R?

>>75971803
good night, amebro

>>75971811
Bokmål, been doing it for just over two years now, almost exclusively on Duolingo but I'm starting to watch a bit of Norwegian tv ylvis, skam etc

Learning English lads. How can I become truly elite?

>>75971839
you too

>>75971737
I'm not sure

I knew a white guy from Trinidad who spoke just like the black Trinidadians did.

>>75971853
Just make the emigration over here already lad. Then you'll become elite

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>>75971594
>the most difficult part is their fucked up grammar with thousand cases and endings.
They are mostly the same as prepositions in English. Out of the 12 commonly used cases, or endings, 6 deal with location.

I'll give examples of the 6 dealing with location using the word talo (house).
>taloon (into a house) -> talossa (in a house) -> talosta (from a house)
>talolle (to the vicinity of the house) -> talolla (in the vicinity of the house) -> talolta (from the vicinity of the house)

The first three are used for indoor places and the second three for outdoor places. Let's do that again with the word puisto (park).
>puistoon -> puistossa -> puistosta
>puistolle -> puistolla -> puistolta

It's not """fucked up""" if you familiarize yourself with it a bit.

May just learn Frisian desu lads

>>75971751
i google "learn x online" and pick several good resources, then use them for practicing/studying different aspects of language, altering between several resources helps not to get used to one or miss something

>>75971934
Smh desu senpai

>>75971938
Thanks brah

>>75971835
Tagalog and Thai do.

>>75971894
where can i register the Nigger Tone phenomena? it works in reverse, e.g. when white grows in exclusively black surrounding he can get that nigger tone, and if black grows with whites only he can avoid it

>>75971957
Why?

Need to know a European language so I can get my EU citzenship

>>75963926
>There are so many Chinese speakers in your country
Not really, and unless you live within certain city suburbs you may not be able to find someone to speak with.
Younger people tend not to like speaking the language of their parents if it isn't English, as they find it embarrassing for some reason.

>>75972002
Anywhere where black minorities collect

>>75971993
Pretty interesting

>>75971993
Vietnam bro I coming to nam next month. Anywhere you would recommend other than like the major places? Going from HCM all way up to Hanoi.

Also any customs I should be aware of?

>>75972028
you're getting memed

>>75971907
fucked up is a grotesque term, what I wanted to state is that all these cases and endings are very specific and it does take time to learn how to use them properly

>>75972051
I spent a couple months travelling up Nam, how long are you staying?

I hate Duolingo sometimes. I to take the Gernan course in English and the Catalan course in Spanish but I have to re-add the language each time just to switch around.

>>75972096
3 weeks. Plan is ATM just from Saigon make our way up to Hanoi stopping off in Hoi an, hue, nha trang etc

>>75965610
>>75965625
Marking those translations as wrong without at least noting why, is deeply flawed. There really isn't anything fundamentally incorrect with them.
Do you use that program as your main daily Japanese study/review?

>>75965873
In respect to the sentence anon was prompted to translate, that isn't relevant information.

>>75965624
Fucking kill yourself.

>>75972096
Anything you would recommend or anything I should expect?

>>75972032
by "register" i meant "patent", wrong word
someone said it depends on psysiology and i strongly agree here, so now i'm curious if you can hear the speaker's race, because different races have different vocal cords and if there are some traits in pronouncing which are specific for certain races

>>75971907
Most Europeans are used to prepositions and they are completely unfamiliar with noun cases, that's why they find Finnish terrifying.

>>75972065
the cases are rather straightforward and have no exceptions, the hard part is memorizing root word morphemes for all base words and those can be pretty random.

>>75972171
yes. even I find that amount of specific noun cases and endings difficult to operate with, and my language has 6 cases, but also prepositions.
finno-hungarian languages are interesting and i tried to learn Estonian, but gave up and picked Icelandic

>>75972129
>>75972153
Absolutely hit up Cam Ranh Bay, Hue, Ha Long Bay, the Marble Mountains near Da Nang, My Khe beach also near Da Nang, and the Cham Islands if possible. If you're riding a motorcycle, then try driving up in the Central Highlands and the mountains of Cao Bang province. Other than that, do your best to explore, since there is so so much off the grid stuff in Vietnam. I'm jealous of you.

>>75972051
Provincial cities:
Đà Nẵng is nice, the best city i could offer in Central Vietnam. In the south, Cần Thờ, Biên Hòa and Vũng Tàu are biggest cities and probably the best out of southern Vietnam. The North, i can only think of Hải Phòng, but maybe you could try Hải Dương and Ninh Bình, i don't know much about them.

Islands:
Phú Quốc is our biggest island, it's in the ongoing development, so there're a lot contructions there. Côn Đảo is smaller, but i think it's more peaceful.

Nature:
Check the northernmost, it's our minorities zone (Nungs and Hmongs and shietz), there's mountains and jungles everywhere.

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>>75972065
>all these cases and endings are very specific and it does take time to learn how to use them properly
True. Finnish is like a triangle when it comes to learning the language. In the beginning you need to study a lot of grammar in order to construct sentences that make sense, but once you get those basics down there isn't that much left besides plain vocabulary. English, on the other hand, is the opposite. You can start stringing words together quite quickly but it takes a long time to master the language.

For example the sentence "I like you" in English is just three words in their basic form put together. In Finnish the same sentence would be "Minä pidän sinusta", where "pidän" is an inflected form of the word "pitää" (=to like) and "sinusta" is an inflected form of the word "sinä".

Finnish has a relatively small core vocabulary, though, since we use a lot of derivatives and compound words. For example the Finnish word for "employee" is "työntekijä", which is a compound word formed from the words työn (of work, työ = work) and tekijä (doer, or one who does). Kirja (book) is used to derive a lot of words like kirjasto (library), kirjain (a letter of the alphabet), kirjaimisto (the alphabet), kirjailija (an author, someone who writes books), kirje (a letter), kirjasin (font), kirjata (to log/register/document, whatever) and probably a dozen others.

>>75972223
That's why I'm studying Romance languages, it's like easy mode.

>>75972299
>>75972235
Cheers lads. I am hyped. I will be coaching it but take it you'd recommend hiring a bike and just going out into it?

>>75972378
>you'd recommend hiring a bike and just going out into it
Absolutely this. A good bike in Saigon cost me around 900$, and I resold it in Hanoi for 700$. Make absolutely certain you know how to ride before you go though, Vietnamese roads are no joke

>>75972412
Yea, only ever used a geared bike once. So guess I'll just get a moped and go out a bit. Would love to do a bike tour of SEA one day as well

>>75972357
I've just had a strange Esperanto flashback at
> has a relatively small core vocabulary, though, since we use a lot of derivatives and compound words.
But anyway I think that's why average IQ in Finland is pretty high. Contructing complex words requires more intellectual work than just using lots of short words

>>75972482
Fucking do it m8

>>75972412
Also going to Cambodia. Did you happen to go there by any chance?

>>75971904
Nah, I completely agree with the xenofobia in the uk

>>75972517
>Contructing complex words requires more intellectual work than just using lots of short words
Might be true. That would also explain why China, Japan, etc countries have higher IQ than European countries since they have to decipher their moonrunes all the time.

>>75972537
Only breezed through Phnom Penh on a one day layover, good food but didn't get to see much

>>75972589
Ah okay. Cambodia looks crazy as well. Kind of want to shoot an M16 there kek as never tasted freedom

>>75972547
> emigrate to UK
> constant surveillance so that you won't make racist comments on FB
> have to register your butterknife
> die in a terrorist attack because a fat sjw ate you alive after you said "fuck muslims" while laying on the floor

maybe I'm exaggerating, but this is how UK is portraited by media

>>75972632
Why stop at M16s? I've heard you can RPG cows for dirt cheap

>>75972665
Ahahahah because it's like $400 to shoot and RPG and I don't know how much the cow costs.

https://youtu.be/O4irXQhgMqg this and a M16 with a smoke

>>75972637
That's the US too, but less muslims I think

>>75972637
Uhm butter knives were banned recently with the passing of the dangerous weapons act 234. Also sjw doesn't eat you, the local Turk sells your body parts n the black market

Thinking about learning Hindi/Urdu seeing as the West is stagnating and Mandarin is too much of a pain to learn.

Convince me I shouldn't.

>>75972570
yes. complicated language has impact on your intelligence, but it's not 100% necessary, just take a look at these Muslim countries full of Arabic-speakers

but if someone is significantly illiterate, I can say that there is a 99% chance he/she isn't really smart, e.g. the majority of degenerate "putin-is-emperor" Russians are also the ones who can't speak their native language properly

>>75972726
Come down to the southwest friend. It's white british mixed in with a few east euros. I had an eastern euro taxi driver offer to kill my friend for £20. My friend was doing a fake russian accent (he was very drunk). We were apologising and the guy goes "you don't know what it was like to grow up in Russia" then we asked how much he'd kill our friend for "£20"

>>75972830
20 pounds is like a month's food here lmao

>>75972765
Because turkish is more useful when arguing with the local kebab shop owner

>>75972855
We gave him a £4 tip for the trouble. Even though he slammed my friends head into the dashboard 3 times kek.

>Friend took seat belt off
>"Put your FUCKING SEAT BELT ON"
>accelerates to 40mph
>Slams breaks on
>Friends head smashes into dashboard
>"YOU FUCKING IDIOT. PUT SEATBELT ON"
>repeats this 3 times
>Friend is in a daze
>

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>>75972755
pfft stop there please
are you telling me that "butterknives are banned" is NOT a joke or satire? and you really have to register it if you want to own one?

pic related is my butter knife from Finland, I always carry it with myself in case of unexpected butter

>>75965947
This. Daily reminder to everyone that Duolingo is shit and you will NOT learn how to speak a language. Use a proper course like Assimil/Teach Yourself/Colloquial and learn sentences on Anki or Memrise.

>>75972912
Of course. Butter knives are dangerous.

Nah knives aren't banned. We have loads of knives in my house. I can walk down to local camping shop and buy a machete etc. Guns are also available just need license

>>75968996
Japanese isn't monotone. It features a lot of pitch accents and various intonations, similar to Italian.

>>75972900
lmao holy shit that man sounds extreme

>>75972859
I never eat kebab or other junk food.

>>75973000
Sorry, that's just what I read somewhere and repeated it without actually verifying it.

>>75969134
This picture is based on British English so it would be slightly harder for Americans and Candarians. Maybe not Aussies and Kiwis so much though

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>>75972985
what about this?

I'm learning chinese

>>75973085
you can talk to qt Chinese girls. they are always proud when someone learnx their language

>>75973128
>qt Chinese girl
is there a such thing

>>75973058
Yea you need a good reason. Why else do you need to carry a large knife? So if you are doing gardening or camping that is a good reason to have a large knife.. or if diving that is a good reason to have a diving knife

>>75972912
that is a carving knife and its not suitable for stabbing, next time buy one with curved tip and blood track for efficient stabbing.

>>75973161
i was talking about "can't sell a knife to anyone under 18" part.

What in your mind is the best language to learn after English?

>>75973217
finnbro, I said that it's for that case when someone on the street needs to spread some butter but doesn't have a butterknife.
Why would I stab someone if the criminal would probably have a gun and my govt wants me to die unarmed UwU

>>75973573
Spanish if you are interested in Latin America or Spain
probably German or French for Europe

>>75973619
What about Russian?

I was thinking about picking up Mandarin. Does anyone know a good way to practice tones?

>>75973573
Reconstructed proto chinese

>>75973707
uhh if you are into Russia and CIS, I guess? In Ukraine, Belarus, Kazahstan all people speak Russian, and about half of citizens speak Russian in Latvia and Estonia

Interesting question: What are the fastest growing languages? Might be interesting for someone who wants to learn useful languages.

Number 1 would definitely be English, but we all speak English here so that's irrelevant.

Otherwise you have French which will explode in Africa.

Other than that, looking at birthrates, Persian will grow because of the sky-high Afghan birth rates. However Iran has incredibly low birth rates, surprisingly enough.

Arabic will grow steadily, especially through the Iraqi birth rate and countries like Egypt, Jordan and Yemen.

Spanish, Turkic languages and Hindi/Urdu will experience moderate growth too.

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>>75953141
>If anybody is trying to learn French and has any questions
H-hi, which social media, news websites, music, videogames, literature, poems or youtubers who speak and work in French would you recommend?

>>75974133
Finnish would be the fastest growing language if everyone I told to learn it actually did so.

Start learning Finnish.

>>75971811
I doubt it's possible to start with nynorsk for learners, I would be surprised if you found any resources for it.

>>75974209
would rather kill myself no offence bro :^)

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>>75974240

>>75972547
phobia is spelt with a ph
I'm only pointing it out because you said you're learning English, I'm not trying to be an ass

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>>75974372
English should undergo simplification 2bh

>>75974414
juu miin adopt finniš speling?

>>75974372
kek i have no idea how i messed that up

>>75974509
Jes, iksäktli. Vans vii tiits it tu evrivan, der vill nou longer bii eni speling tifikultiis.

>>75974199

>social media
/fr/, r/france, hardware.fr

>news
lemonde probably, don't know about easier news sites

>music
I don't like a lot of things outside of French hip hop, most things by Serge Gainsbourg are good. Also check Yelle and La Femme.

>YouTube
Cyprien and SolangeTeParle are okay, more importantly they usually add French and English subs. (sometimes Spanish too)


For more stuff there's a list of resources from reddit.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OH8h0i2T4Is0R9S8uaZ4C18SQWkxItIW0KwLKnOJGSM/edit#gid=152017409

>>75969746
hey m8, I mainly use howtostudykorean.com. It's grammar heavy but I find is an awesome way to get a good grip on how the language works so you can actually understand it rather than recite random phrases. You really start to see progress at lesson 26+ when ~는 것 is introduced. Write out all you learn, you'll get better at the handwriting that way (the alphabet is piss easy).

Other than that, Memrise and watching a shit ton of dramas.

>Spanish
School ruined it for me, a year later and I'm still burned out

>>75970597
>Hindi
Why? Sounds cool actually, but I've read that it's impossible to learn proper Hindi because they randomly use English words in their speech which you can't replicate unless you live there and pick it up.

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>tfw Finnish is so irrelevant that the only people who want to learn it are mentally ill in some way

>>75974936
Nah people I know who are learning it (or want to), do it because it seems like an exotic and challenging language. Sounds pretty cool too. It's mostly because people are fascinated with the language rather how useful it is, which is a compliment to your language m8

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>>75975053
>Sounds pretty cool too.
Do you like Indica?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmwY4SlCm2U

>>75973574
i didnt tell you to stab a person. self defense against the butter menace is not a joke.

>>75974936
I'm Spanish and started studying Finnish when I lived in Spain. There were WAY more people attending the Finnish course than Danish (which I also studied).

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>>75974716
Thanks Greek anon, i'll check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqyqu6P8XZw

>>75975127
I haven't delved too deep into Finnish stuff, I'm trying to avoid it because I know I'll just get wanderlust and want to learn it and I'm already learning enough languages already.

Sounds like a soft, cute language. My cousin met a few Finnish exchange students and apparently it sounds like "people telling campfire stories gently".

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>want to lear Karelian but it's not even an official language

>>75975323
I'd say go for it but I don't know where you'll find stuff to learn it from.

>>75975387
Well that's the problem.

I should start by learning Finnish

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>>75975136
Cool.

>>75975246
>My cousin met a few Finnish exchange students and apparently it sounds like "people telling campfire stories gently".
Interesting.

http://www.finlandforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8479
>It still sounds a bit monotonous to me, and my boyfriend quite often sounds like he is informing people that someone has died when he talks on the telephone. Just the other day, I thought he was really sad about something and it turns out he was calling his family to tell them about our wedding plans :( I guess the excitement was so great it got stuck in his throat and didn't make it all the way out :?

>>75972726

Not even. I can go buy an AR-15 from the store down the street without a holding period or background check.

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>>75971748
I recently started

>>75975583
lel, I can see how it can sound like that, it just sounds so soft that it can seem almost ...apologetic?

>>75971748
Why are so many people learning Norwegian? It's not spoken by many, and doesn't have a ton of media like Japan or Korea

>>75975708
Because there are articles saying it's the easiest language for English speakers and Norway is a rich country.

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>>75975675
>it just sounds so soft that it can seem almost ...apologetic?
I was going to vocaroo myself swearing but it sounded embarrassing.

>>75971639
>>75971835

English/Anglo R is rather vague when that sound could be an Alveolar Approximant, Retroflex Approximant, Alveolar Trill, Retroflex Flap, or Alveolar Flap depending on where you are.

Post examples of Finnish. Fins post vocaroo of "I am a true norse warrior. I am descendent of Thor and ragnorak is coming"

>ctrl+f farsi
>no results
>ctrl+f persian
>1 result talking about the language's growth
Feelsbadman

>>75965625
How are you using the Japanese course on Duolingo?

>>75975943
>"I am a true norse warrior. I am descendent of Thor and ragnorak is coming"
Thor and Ragnarök is Norwegian though so not going to do that.

What do you want me to read? Just something random?

>>75975846
Hmm, might pick it up next then

>>75975895
Go ahead anon!

>>75975948
Here's some resources m8
http://www.weeklylanguage.com/2016/08/persian.html

I want to learn it too, wish there were more resources. PersianDee and Chai&Conversation are pretty good

>>75975995
The mobile course is already available.

>>75976043
Yes anything please

>>75976071
That's breddy gud. Thanks, anon.

Is the T in Japanese always sharp like in English?

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>>75976092
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1pOhOfxjDpa
It's the first part of this article from the title to "mutta muitakin käännöksiä on esitetty."
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k

>>75976051
>Go ahead anon!
I tried to sound as angry as possible but it was hard.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1afcSbVfAwf

>>75976502
that's qt as fuck anon
No, now I want to learn Finnish

>look at pretty Japanese handwriting
i should learn it
>hear french
i should learn it
>watch kdrama
i should learn it
>find out i'm 25% greek
i should learn it
>norwegian learners post
i should learn it
>dad puts on russian movie
i should learn it

fUck.MY.SHIT.up

>>75976663
Are you fluent in any of the mentioned languages or have you gotten past the beginner stage?

>>75976502
no homo, but i liked that perkele
also Finnish sounds so relaxing, as if you were reading some kind of mantra, not a wikipedia article

>>75976663
I hate this shit, I think I'll have to stop listening to Russian music for that reason. I might be autistic.

>>75976663
same shit, anon
> euskara is a unique language
gotta learn it
> icelandic is spoken by less than 400.000 people
gotta learn it
> they speak greenlandic in greenland
gotta learn it
> rare/exotic language
gotta learn it

>>75976663
Are you me?

>>75976803
>also Finnish sounds so relaxing, as if you were reading some kind of mantra, not a wikipedia article
It has probably more to do with the way one speaks than the language. A middle aged woman nagging about some inane shit is probably never pleasant to the ears, no matter the language.

Language learning lifelong challenge: learn ALL UN languages

>Arabic
>Chinese
>English
>French
>Russian
>Spanish

>>75976961
this but without Arabic.
2/5

>>75976961

>Japanese
>Chinese
>German
>Italian
Only here. Maybe Russian cuz I like its literature, but don't think that's enough to make me learn.

>>75977096
>without Arabic

kys

>>75976742
Korean, been studying for ~10 months, an hour a day, around A2 level.

Russian, through books and Lingvist, A2 writing/speaking, B1 listening, B2 reading.

>>75976875
drop some recs anon

>>75976886
I see you like rare languages

>hear language on bus
>what is this, i need to learn it, maybe i should ask them where they're from

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>>75977186
>an hour a day
I guess that's doable if you have motivation and/or a good reason. I started learning Esperanto about two months ago and I barely manage 5-15 minutes a day. Then again I don't really have a good reason to learn it besides the fact that it's the only productive thing I do daily.

>>75977165
هل تتكلم العربية ومنذ متى بدأت دروسها وهل هي لغتك الأم؟

>>75977354
Esperanto is pretty unmotivating because although it's easy, it has no culture or history you can immerse yourself in. I can watch kdramas like the biggest koreaboo all day. I love how the language sounds.

Pick a language you can immerse yourself in

honestly better off learning a programming language

let's say you learn a moderately difficult language at B2-C1 level, spend about 1500 hours on it (just a guess, have no clue how long it'd take).

If you had spent all of that 1500 hours slaving away at Java, you'd be able to land a great job earning a good living

no language offers that
>>75977354
not really productive considering nobody speaks it

>>75977105
>but don't think that's enough to make me learn.
doubt you'll ever learn it to the level where you can read russian literature, otherwise that's absolutely irrelevant language

>>75977441
programming jobs are hell on earth
enjoy your bruised ass from sitting all day, the shit company culture, open office hell, and monotonous work

>>75977476
sounds like every well-paying job

>>75977441
But will it get you a foreign qt?

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>>75977428
>Pick a language you can immerse yourself in
Too much effort 2bh, immersing myself in a new thing that is. I'd much rather just post here and record vocaroos and complain about my lack of motivation.

>>75977441
>not really productive considering nobody speaks it
I guess.

>>75977513
earning a good living is much more likely to land you a foreign qt than speaking her language shittily

>>75977507
get a job good enough to pay your bills and start saving anything you can. invest in real estate with it.

don't be miserable for the sake of money.

>>75977578
a qt that likes you for your hard work in attempting her languages > a qt who likes your money

>>75977583
>>75977621
two of the dumbest posts ever

hope it's not the same poster so the stupidity is spread among two people

>>75977578
But that foreign qt will only like you for your money

How can you connect with her on a
deeper and emotional level without even attempting to speak her language
And speaking her language shittily opens you up for cute language and cultural exchange situations

>>75977186
B2 reading? fuck, that's impressive. what do you usually read?

New thread?

>>75978069
I'm Bulgarian so Russian is very easy for me, reading is the easiest since I can guess stuff from context. I read random stuff I find like articles or have text conversations with Russian people. I just had to learn a few of the most common words and the understanding went up drastically