/lang/ - Language Learning

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>Language learning resources:
http://4chanint.wikia.com/wiki/The_Official_/int/_How_to_Learn_A_Foreign_Language_Guide_Wiki

http://www.duolingo.com/
>Duolingo is a free language-learning platform that includes a language-learning website and app, as well as a digital language proficiency assessment exam. Duolingo offers all its language courses free of charge.

>>>/t/746368
>Torrents with more resources than you'll ever need for 30+ languages.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9QDHej9UGAdcDhWVEllMzJBSEk#
>Google Drive folder with books for all kinds of languages.

https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/oldfsi/index.html
>Drill based courses with text and audio.The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is the United States federal government's primary training institution for employees of the U.S. foreign affairs community.These courses are all in public domain and free to download.Site may go down sometimes but you can search for fsi on google and easily find a mirror.

https://www.memrise.com/
>Free resource to learn vocabulary, nice flash cards.

https://lingvist.com/
>It's kinda like Clozemaster in the sense that you get a sentence and have to fill in the missing word, also has nice statistics about your progress, grammar tips and more information about a word (noun gender, verb aspects for Russian, etc.)

ankisrs.net/
>A flash card program

https://www.clozemaster.com/languages
>Clozemaster is language learning gamification through mass exposure to vocabulary in context.Can be a great supplementary tool, not recommended for absolute beginners.

https://tatoeba.org/eng/
>Tatoeba is a collection of sentences and translations with over 300 hundred languages to chose from.

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

https://forvo.com
>Has pronunciation for lots of words in lots of languages

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>>78449393
first for stop posting shitty memes

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http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty
>Check out information about languages and their difficulties

http://lexicity.com/
>An invaluable resource for comparative language study as well as those interested in ancient languages

http://cosmogyros.tumblr.com/post/108962232110/huge-new-language-learning-collection
>A very extensive language learning collection for 90+ languages.

http://www.dliflc.edu/resources/products/
>Similar to FSI, drill-based courses with text and audio issued by the US government.These courses were made for millitary personel in mind unlike FSI.

http://en.childrenslibrary.org
>Lots of childrens books in various languages, categories 3-5yo, 6-9yo, 10-13yo.

https://www.hellotalk.com/#en
>The app is basically whatsapp, but only connects you with people who are native in the language you are trying to learn. It also has a facebook type section where you can share pics and stuff too.

https://www.italki.com/
https://www.mylanguageexchange.com/
https://www.interpals.net/
http://www.gospeaky.net/
https://www.speaky.com/
https://polyglotclub.com/
http://lang-8.com/
>Few more language exchange communities like Hellotalk:

http://www.goethe-verlag.com/
>A mostly free site which offers audio and drill like exercises for 40+ languages.

http://www.languagetransfer.org/
>A free resource with recordings to learn a language.

https://babadum.com
>Flash card game with a focus on vocabulary.

http://context.reverso.net/translation/
>A website like Tatoeba (also has a Firefox extension!)

Buenos días /lang/!

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>>78449393
>esperanto
>chad

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>>78450252
>tfw actually named chad
>robot
>languagelet
life plays some cruel jokes

Me ha dicho is "he told me"
Me han dicho is "I've been told" but it implies that multiple people (ustedes) told me, right?

I'm kinda getting it better this morning (I think), thanks to you all helping. :o)

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Missing a few images, OP

>>78450780
>a few

>>78450209
Buenos días mi amigo americano

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>>78450802
A fuckton and I'm on mobile right now so this might take awhile.

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>>78450846
But I think I saved them all last time so hopefully I don't miss any.

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>>78450888

>>78450888
>>78450846
>>78450780
just make an imgur album since this pozzed-up cuckchan doesn't allow more than one image per post

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>>78450925

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>>78450940
Not a bad idea. I think I'm almost done with these for now but I'll get an album together after

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>>78451000

>>78450940
>>78451000
Stupid question, but, what happens when they get updated/added to? Just make a new album?

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>>78451047

>>78451055
I'm pretty sure you can edit everything if you make it while logged in. Just don't click "share to community"

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>>78451055
Hm that's true. I think you might be able to edit an album if it's private but I'm not sure.

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>>78451140
Last one I think. Hope I didn't forget anything.

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>>78449393

>>78451127
>>78451140
Worst comes to worst can make a new album when one gets too outdated. Not like it takes very long anyways if you already have the images, then just paste a new one in the OP

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>The Polyglot
>Paul and Moses' lovechild

I can't make up my mind on what language I want to learn.

On one hand, I'd like to know Spanish because it's useful, but I really dislike the way it looks and sounds, and I don't like any of the cultures surrounding it.

On the other hand, Iran really interests me. The history and culture are fascinating, and the language sounds beautiful to me.

>>78450725
Yeah. Remember that the plural for verbs in the 2nd and 3rd person have the same conjugation, so "Me han dicho" can refer to either ustedes or ellos

>>78452627
Native French and English speaker btw so Spanish would be pretty easy for me, vocabulary-wise. I also live in Louisiana and we got lots of Mexicans here so I'd have lots of people to speak with.

>>78452672
Although most of the times when we refer to the 2nd person in plural we will include the ustedes: Ustedes me han dicho. So the "Me han dicho" would normally imply the third person: Ellos

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How do I find motivation to learn a language instead of shitposting on 4bong?

>>78452672
>>78452784
Thank you. Another thing I saw was adding "a ellos" or "a ustedes" after to clarify. Something like "Me han dicho a ellos" or "Me han dicho a ustedes" Is that correct also?

>>78452855
Stick with very slow boards and threads, keep only a few going. I just try to limit the breadth of my shitposting.

>>78452906
No, if you want to specify then add it before
Ellos me han dicho/Ustedes me han dicho

>>78453029
Thanks. What about something like "Lo ha dicho a él"/He told him" where I'm not sure if it's him, her or it?

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>>78452956
A'ight will try and do that bud.

>>78450252
Esperanto is the Chad conlang
Lojban is the virgin conlang

>>78451169
>>78450846
>>78449454
>>78449405
Where is spanish language learning picture?

>>78454289
here
>>78451140
and
>>78451047

>>78450385
>tfw actually named chad
kek SUP CHADWICK

>>78454401
Thank you friend.

>>78452705
cajun != french

>>78452627
>On the other hand, Iran really interests me. The history and culture are fascinating, and the language sounds beautiful to me.

If you are interested in history Persian is crazy good. It's been used as the literary language throughout the muslim world and on top of that (apparently) you can understand the written language going back 1000+ years which is insane.

How similar is creole to french?

>>78452627
we need more /farsiboys/ in this thread desu. I have to disagree with you about spanish though, it's the first language I learned and it's one of the best sounding languages out there.

>>78454567
My goal is to be able to read the Shahnameh in the next year.

>>78455642
Yeah I like the sound of spanish also. I think the culture part he has something on though, I mean the options are you go to Spain which hates tourists and has actual protests not wanting them, or you go south of America and get killed or kidnapped.

>>78455035
which creole? creole isn't a single language

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Do any of you know any resources for serbo-croatian and/or slovenian?

>>78455035
Assuming you're talking about Haitian creole, it really depends. Sometimes it's almost identical to French if you cherrypick the right dialects and sentences, other times it's not even slightly mutually intelligible.

>>78455035
french creole from the antilles and guyane is like autistic, simplified french. A bit hard to understand sometimes

>>78455736
Outside of the Mediterranean coast of Spain you're fine, and even in those areas if you're respectful and not a brit. Latin America is safe if you're not stupid and don't put yourself in dangerous situations.

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>>78455845
Not that anon, but, I wanted to go to Spain recently and decided against it. They don't seem to want tourists.

It's amazing a country with nearly 20% unemployment, and nearly 50% unemployment in the youth - doesn't want tourism money. I live in a tourist spot so I understand the pain of it though. I understand how expensive it makes things, how crazy housing gets, the traffic, but overall my city depends on it so I put up with it. I guess they've just had enough.

Yesterday I tried to write a paragraph in German, I know it's autistic retard Pepe tier but please let me know if I made mistakes and correct if needed

Am Dienstag, um Zwei Uhr, Jack hat ein Auto Unfall auf den Autobahn. Er fühlt sehr schlecht.

Er fahrt im ein Ambulanz zu den Krankenhaus. Im die Krankenhaus er geht zu den Notaufnahme. Dort, der Artzt hilft ihm.

Jetzt, eine Woche später, Jack fülht besser und besser.

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Any big studying plans for the weekend, /lang/?

>>78457671
My plan is 2 Pimsleur German lessons, an hour or so on Duolingo, and to try and watch some tv/movies in German to work on listening and getting a feel for how it sounds.

I also have the German For Dummies book and I want to read the grammar sections. Anyone have recommendations on a good German grammar text to work from?

Self-study is difficult.

>>78457762
2 Pimsleur lessons and 1 hr Duolingo a day, I meant. Not sleeping on a good schedule keeps catching up with me...

>>78457671
Going out of town for a concert this weekend so I'm trying to put together some study material to take with me

>>78457671
I guess I should answer also:
Nothing to do this weekend, housework is pretty much caught up so...
-The rest of Michel Thomas Spanish Foundation (5 hours left, so, 2.5 hours per day of that).
-Pimsleur Saturday, Pimsleur Sunday. Add associated flashcards.
-Daily Duolingo.
-Usual Quizlet Long Term Learning sessions.

>>78457762
>>78457800
So a Pimsleur on Saturday and another on Sunday, plus an hour of Duolingo each day? I get tempted to do a bunch of Duolingo but I feel like I could complete it and learn nothing if I'm not careful to internalize each piece.

I'm sorry I don't know any German resources.

>>78457927
Nice. Driving or flying? Both have lots of study time potential.

>>78458061
Driving but I'll be the one driving the whole way and I'll have passengers. Can't really do much with audio because of that so I'll just have to cram in some book study before or after I drive.

>>78458243
Oh yeah I forgot some people have friends.

>>78458391
Chin up, you'll have friends one day!

Which should I learn, French or Japanese? On a side note, I'm very much interested in Japan and everything connected with it, but when it comes to literature, French seems to stand out as a more reasonable choice.

>>78459469
French would probably be easier and possibly more useful in life.
But if you're more passionate about Japanese then learn it. Passion is probably the must useful thing to have when learning a language

>>78459469
Uzbek
Mari
Farsi

>>78459976
>leddit meems

>>78460320
>He doesn't go on r/languagelearning

>>78449393
>chicken soup

>>78456119
Depends on how much you want to be spoonfed.

None of those sentences save the last require commas. Unlike English, the rules for comma placement in German are rigid and clearly defined so they have to be learned formally. A misplaced German comma is an error.

Most (though not all) of your articles are random. Check every word in a dictionary and see how they are really used. If there is a preposition like "in" or "zu", look at which case it governs. Prepositions always take a certain case regardless of whether the case appears to have any semantic significance. "In" is somewhat of an exception though as it governs two different cases, but you can make sense of that.

German employs a word order in which the verb can only be first, second or last in a sentence. In most of your sentences the verb comes third, which is one hundred percent wrong. It cannot come third.

Fühlen implies feeling something in particular. If there's nothing in particular that is being felt and only the way of feeling is described (ill, well), then you use the reflexive particle "sich" (look up how it changes for person). In archaic English you would say "I feel me well" for "Ich fühle mich gut", where "me" is the reflexive particle, but not anymore.

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>>78460402
>he doesn't go on every major language learning forum on the internet
>he doesn't know hundreds of different resources and opinions on various languages and their uses
>he doesn't have 6 billion bookmarks full of random obscure trivia about different language
>he hasn't spent more time learning how to learn languages than he has learning languages
BTW the ultimate meme "gem" underrated language is Farsi.

>>78460795
How did you know I was Farsi anon?
Also since when is Farsi a meme?

>>78456119
Not a native and fairly low level but

>zu den Krankenhaus. Im die Krankenhaus
>Den / die

Ist ist das Krankenhaus? Also Lack of cohérence

>>78452855
You literly just start open up duolingo or something and just start

what language should I learn that doesn't feel like a waste of time?
can kind of read some Russian, but it was a rando bit of studying because it felt easier.

I'm going to move to the UK in a month or so, so that's also making me less interested in learning anything, since I already know English.

But it's Glasgow, so heavy accented English with lots of ""Scots"" words.

IIRC brits learn some French as a foreign language in school?

>>78449393
hello, /lang/ I'm new here. I m already fluennt in english without a hazzle.

I'm learning German, I took two semesters at college, to the point where I can now learn by myself.

What do you recommend to bet better at it? what are the most effective methods? can anyone recommend some good TV series or movies to watch in german with english or spanish subtitles? thanks in advance.

>>78457671
Just going through new penguin russian course. Sounding like a Ruski is hard af. I wonder if my half brit tongue can even move like that. Rolling 'p' is impossible thus far.

>>78461565
spanish is cool because you can communicate fully with just the basics.with baby speach you can cover 90% of the conversations. (just use infinitive and ignore all the conjugations)

>>78449393
kek

>>78461800
I recently got this book, is it hard? What are your experiences with using it, and what other resources help with Russian?

Thank you!

>>78462063
It's hard but that's the reality of learning Russian. It's a very good book. For other resources I would supplement it with voice lessons to ensure your pronunciations are correct. That's the hardest part for me so far. I've been using Google to play individual words aloud, I haven't been able to find a better tool yet. I try to spend more time studying than researching so I don't fall for the researching meme.

Is Thai, Vietnamese, Hindi, Polish, or Nepali worth learning?
I'm starting to lose motivation in the language I'm learning because of the fact that I'm more than likely to never use it and want to learn something practical to compensate.
Or should I try learning Mandarin again?

>>78462928
Stick with the one you're learning, if you give up so easily, where's the guarantee that you'll learn another one?

>>78462928
The only truly worthwhile asian language is Japanese.

>>78462928
Do what you like and are passionate about, not what may be useful.

>>78461792
Why watch in spanish subtitles? You're supposed to build off of your second language onto your third. Also watch Downfall, there's english subs for it and its easily found online.

>>78464334
My second language is almost as good as my first. I have no need to ge better at english. Is there an actaul benefit to build from your second to your third? Or just to practice both at the same time?

>>78464520
Not to shit on your accomplishments but you are making a whole lot of typos.

>>78462928
keep going m8, we got your back

>>78465100
dumb phoneposting

>>78455706
How long have you been learning for now?

>>78452627
The problem with Iran is that unless the situation between your countries improves well, traveling there will always be annoying at the very least too. (Unless you've got a dual citizenship with something not-US/CAN/UK)

>>78466197
A little more than a week, I'm gonna start a Persian course in the spring semester.

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>"tá olhando o que, branquelo?"

Really wish there was such a thing as being done with Japanese so that I could move onto the next language.

>your mother didn't teach you your mother tongue while you were still young
feels bad man

>>78469453

why would you want to know spanish?

>>78469503
Maybe he's a native American or one of those left over Frenchies

>>78469503
I'm japanese, I only recognize a handful of phrases

>>78469693

your mother did good 2bh

if you knew japanese you could be drawn to weeb degeneracy and be lost forever

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>>78449393
oh, i'm the language learner, i have more than 300 gb of resources(i barely used any of them), my parents speaks 3 language each one (i recently learn english(b2)), created a language in my youth(never used it), i learned the ipa alphabet (but i cant pronounced it), too shy to speak any language with anyone, etc
>why op, why you do this to me!

>>78468848
You cant realy be ever done with any language since you are always loosing knowlage.Also why even learn japanese if you arent even in Japan

>>78469693
Did they beat the Japanese out of your family at Manzanar

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>>78449393
Are Musical Notes fitting for /lang/?

I mean it is considered a language so is it allowed to talk and learn things about it here?

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>>78469996

>.Also why even learn japanese if you arent even in Japan

anime

>>78470031
I think it's more fitted for /mu/

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>>78449393
>never practiced speaking because of shyness

Oh come one

>>78449393
Hey /lang/ im recently startet to learn russian and i am confused with the pronounciation of й and ё since online i read that its pronunced like j and jo but my coworker is native russian (kazak to be accurate) and says its sounds like the letters e and i in the latin alphabet.Can anyone help me out?

>>78455796
You could try hr4eu, i personally didn't like it. But it's free so it's worth a shot.

>>78469926
>>78470185
>>78460412
>>78449430
>>78461873

Thanks for all the (you)s for my OC, guys.

>>78470425
like й - yyyes and ё - yo))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7fCKuPLtB4

Wie gehts /int/?

>>78471709
gut und dir?
wie gehts mir dem lernen vorran?

>>78471564
Thank you is is contet that is meant for kids usefull if you are new to a language or can it give you a false start?

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I really want to go to some spanish or french institute / course but I'm afraid that normies will slow me down, am literally 2 fast 4 them

>>78471932
Kek
I think you can just put words with й and ё into google translate and listen it.

>>78471856
Ich lernte Deutsch in mein Schule bis B2, aber sie haben mich nicht gelehrt Genitiv. Nach Genitiv, was soll ich lernen? (Please check this sentence, it's been a while)

>>78472137
>Ich lernte Deutsch in mein Schule bis B2
meiner weil Schule weiblich ist und Vergangenheit.

>aber sie haben mich nicht gelehrt Genitiv.
Benutz "mir" und wechsle Genitiv mit gelehrt.

Womit du weitermachen kannst damit kann ich dir leider nicht helfen Kumpel.

>>78472110
I cant realy convince myself to trust google desu and does the pronounciation of o and a change depending on the word or is it just like in latin?

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>>78472490
try forvo.com

>>78472576
>Mari has more pronounved words than Persian
lmao #rekt

>>78472576
Thanks Dutchbro

>>78472576
>Tatar above Turkish
Excellent.

Incidentally, I wonder if this is understandable to Turkish anons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwUQlkAUQDI

>>78471179
great OC friend

>>78469453
>both of my parents speak spanish and they didn't bother teaching me
life is suffering, gotta learn spanish the hard way now but i'll get there

>>78472758
>Tatar above Turkish
It's mostly thanks to a single user who's done 339,817 of the 392,895 total pronounciations for Tatar.

That same guy is also responsible for 9,497 pronunciations in Mari, 15,129 pronunciations in Bashkir, and another 7 pronounciations in some other language(s), presumably Russian.

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Duolingo seems to be having an outage. I can't start a lesson.

>>78472758
only remotely, mostly no

>>78472998
same, i was on a roll too... back to anki

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>>78472490
why are you lerning russian, nemec

reasons to learn volapük

1. fuck with esperantists
2. it sounds great
3. it is the best suited for international talk
4. if you learn it you'll get money and stuff

reasons to not

>>78472967
Thought so, but still.

Has anyone here ever used Forvo's eLearning tool? It's supposed to be for picking up vocabulary, if it's good it could be useful for people learning French, Spanish or even English.

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>>78473371
forgot pic

>>78472490
Moscovite scum will tell you sometimes o is pronounced like a and some other vowel shifts

Tengo una pregunta para ustedes. ¿Cómo determinan el género de "lo que" en una frase? Por ejemplo, a veces puedo ver cosas como "el que" y "la que" cuando estoy leyendo las noticas en mi tableta. Entiendo mucho del idoma español, pero esto me hace muy confundio. Si uno de ustedes me ayuden, me gustaría mucho. Gracias.

how do I meet Germans to talk to?

interpals and mylanguageexchange haven't worked out at all

>>78473792
En general cuando "lo" es para cosas más abstractas, es lo más parecido que tiene el español a un género neutro

>>78473895
Ah, vale. Gracias por tu ayuda.

>>78473803
Just put a picture of a hot bitch as your profile image and you will be flooded with people wanting to talk to you and help you with your language learning. Ez.

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>>78473039
It's working for me now.

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>>78473803
>>78474300
Actually not a bad idea. Can't make it look too polished though, has to be candid looking.

>>78449393
DESPACITO

>>78474670
>tfw have to pretend to be girl to be able to talk to others
I just want friends man...

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Help me /lang/
I right now torn between learning French and German.

The thing is, I like Germany and the German language much more than French, but French would be more useful for me professionally and academically (International Law grad student here).

So help me guise, should I give up learning the language of the country I like the most (to visit, maybe live, get to know better and all that shit) and that I find most fun studying, only to take a more utilitarian approach and just learn the language that's just going to be more useful for me, even if I don't like it so much?

I'm a Portuguese native speaker btw, so French would also be easier for me.

>>78474670
>you learn a language this way
>you unconsciously start talking femininely in real life
>everyone thinks you're gay

>>78474846
Who fucking cares about what's most "useful", you're not going to stick with a language or give much of a fuck about it if you don't enjoy the process when learning it. You plan to even someday go to germany even, maybe even live there. Not to be gay, but follow your heart dude. Learn German. Don't waste time with shit that you don't care about.

>>78474935
this

>>78474846
>>78474935
And to add to what I am saying:
German
>you look forward to studying when you get home from wage slaving/school
>you can't wait to be able to watch that favorite german movie of yours without subtitles
>or finally read that books that's never been translated for some reason
French
>it would be a somewhat small advantage to your career but you could get by just fine without it
>you won't care about studying it at all
>eventually studying gets tedious
>it's very easy for you to give up on this language
I think the choice here is very obvious anon. Language learning is supposed to be fun and something you look forward to, not a chore or something you HAVE to do.

>>78474846
You'll find that you absorb a language more easily if you're interested in a culture and its people.
This manifests itself in effort.
You'll find more interesting resources to practice the language with.
You'll make a conscious effort to practice the language at any time of day.

If you want to learn French, try to find some aspect of French culture that you enjoy and keep looking for written and graphical material about it.

I tried learning German, but realized that there wasn't really anything interesting about Germany and German products, and that it's apparently somewhat difficult to find interesting comics or television to translate.

With Japanese, it was completely different. There's already a massive English-Japanese consumer entertainment base, which makes it easy to find something that you enjoy and get consistent practice.

Anybody in the position where you feel somewhat comfortable with reading and listening but you have a limited vocabulary and when you're greeted with opportunities to speak and/or write the language you're studying, you freeze up and struggle to say anything? Whenever I've tried to write posts in my language of choice in those generals it takes me forever because I've got to look up words and make sure I'm using them correctly and it feels like I'm walking on pins and needles the whole time because I'm going to surely be roasted if I make even the slightest fuck-up.

Dunno man

>>78475186
Getting roasted is a pretty easy way to learn instead of stressing yourself. It's a pretty basic online rule to just post the wrong thing when you need help, as some pedant will correct you.

>>78475186
>and make sure I'm using them correctly
I literally don't worry about this
dictionary definition is usually good enough.
Languages these days always have some way of figuring out the intent of the word.
With Japanese, you have kanji which offer their own meaning.
English has roots in almost every European language. Most of it is Germanic, while loaning from Latin, French, and Spanish. You can use those roots to determine the actual meaning and usage of a word.

Even supposing you couldn't figure out a word based on its definition, you could use websites like alc.co.jp to see example sentences a word is used in.

>>78472669
Just another battle in the war for top meme language

>>78475599
>war for top meme language
One strong contender for such a title might be the Altai language.

After all, they have a song with over four million views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lnxs_DMUDk

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>>78474784
>>78474906

>>78475994
I feel like I've heard this song before without the lyrics. I wonder who ripped it off.

>>78474846
If you are interested in their culture it makes the process of learning that language that much fun and easier.I would go with German.

Not sure if this is in one of those pictures, but to anyone learning German, the University of Helsinki has a free site, deutsche virtuelle grammatik, which is available in Swedish, English and German in addition to Finnish.
http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/DVG/index.htm

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Fluent in English here.

Why is it that people say "I've got a question" when they want to ask a question?

I mean, why do they use "I've got" ?
I have got a question? How long have they had that question for or what?
Why don't they just say "I have a question"

"I've got to tell you something" > "I have to tell you something"
"I've got to hurry" > "I have to hurry"

The rule for the past participle is like
"I have been well."
"I have taken care of it."
And the participle of Get is Gotten, not Got

So what the fuck is "I have got" ?

>>78479478
>So what the fuck is "I have got" ?
an idiomatic phrase.

Is there anything like Rikaisama for French or other Romance languages? That is, an addon that lets you hover over words to see the definition?

>>78479536
not really
>>78479478
"I've got a question" -> "I have a question"
Same thing. Adding or removing a 'got' makes no difference.

"I've got to tell you something": "got to" -> "need to"

>>78469996
Losing knowledge of kanji is an ouchie.

>>78469996
Why learn any language if you aren't in that country?
You know, the internet was invented to connect people from far away.
There's no reason to apply arbitrary borders based on geographical location.

>>78451273
El ratto

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>>78452855
lingots

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I have to read two books for my language course

>>78473051
I was always intrested in slavic languages and want to travel to the north after finishing school.

>>78472490
Needed me voraroo or what?

>>78473501
Yea i noticed.Is it a big deal or is it just a dialect?

>>78473803
I dont know man depends where you search.Have you tried asking people from this board?

>>78482027
We have no dialects here, Klaus.

>>78474846
Realy depends on what you intend to do later on.If you want to move to Germany go ahead learn German but stick with french if you want to stay in Birtain.

how is it that I pronounce deutsch? I've been saying 'doy-tch'

>>78480933
Well you dont run the risk of forgetting if you use it on a regular basis but if you are realy just a weeaboo then just stop.

>>78480961
I can understand learning a language if you intent to work with it or live an environment where its applied but just having it because it has some niche usages kinda seems like wasted effort.

>>78481445
If you care about learning that is not a problem.If you dont care then just drop it.

>>78482138
>doy-tch
Well, that's the closest English phonetics will get you, but you're gonna have an accent if you just say the English "oi". If you are relying on phonetical notation then consult the IPA for German.

>>78482026
Would appriciate it desu but where are you from?

>>78482064
Thats realy hard to belive in a country as huge as Russia.

>>78482138
Just listin to some native pronouncing it but dont go for Bavarians or Saxons.

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>>78482258
>Would appriciate it desu but where are you from?
What's the difference? Saint Petersburg.

>>78482290
Thats what im asking.From what i have heard russian dialects have quite the diffrences.

>>78482342
There are no dialects, only small differences in pronunciation

>>78482342
Nah, don't take in head.

>>78482342
There is only one correct russian language and "dialect" - literary language.

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I get the word order wrong in 90% of my Chinese sentences and people still say "Your Chinese is great".
Is Chinese the easiest language to impress natives with your low level skills?

Would a French or German be impressed by shit French or German like a Chinese person is impressed by shit Chinese?

>>78481047
>tfw they got switched to gems

>>78483219
>would a French be impressed
They hate you and pretend to not understand you even when you're almost perfect

>>78482342
Russians dialects have been standardized out of existence following mass literacy. There's no more variety than in American English. There's basically one highly distinctive manner of speaking and that's in the south.

>>78483219
As German i wouldnt maybe a "your not so bad" just to be polite.

>>78454401
Yo, got a Dutch one?

>>78487027
No.