/learning/ a language

>>39641072
>>Age:
20
>Language:
Japanese
>Time spent learning:
around 6 months
>Why you started learning language:
interested in learning Japanese
>How proficient are you in language:
so far I would say around a little less than N5
I learned kana, basic grammar structures, some kanji

>>39641072

>24

>Spanish

>20 minutes a day on average

>Testing out theory on neuroplasticity

>Can read non-translated comics, but can't capture majority of words if spoken too quickly

>>39641092
Fuck off we're fulllll

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>>39641111
teach me japanese bitch

>>39641072
20

Trying to learn mandarin

A week

Because am asian

Shit

I speak english and spanish
Studied Japanese for about a year by myself some years ago, can safely say I'm in an intermediate level.
Also intermediate in German.
Started learning Dutch sporadically some months ago for a trip to the Netherlands in December, but that shit is kind of hard, but if I apply myslef I'll get the hang of it.

I'm 23

>>39641092

>Interested in Japanese

You mean anime right?

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>21
>Spanish, Latin, Russian
>4 years, 3 years, and 4 years
>I like books and reading translations is for brainlets
>Can fluently read/write all, speak Spanish, still working on Russian (I can read Latin aloud well, but we don't really have any records of accurate Latin speech)

>>39641072
>Age:
23
>Language:
German
Time spent learning:
about a year
Why you started learning language:
My friends and I would make fun of ridiculous German words and I started learning it because I thought it sounds ridiculous. It started off super easy due to its similarities to English but that was before all the retarded grammar rules came into play. Now I keep learning it because its good to have a second language, and it seems like everyone who has a second languae speaks Spanish or French, so its something different.
How proficient are you in language:
Pretty rudimentary, I have the basics down.

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>>39641072
>Age:
26
>Language:
Japanese
>Time spent learning:
Rougly 3 months so far
>Why you started learning language:
I started learning Japanese because I hate the fact that most Americans are monolingual and ignorant. Also, hobbies and the satisfaction of learning.
>How proficient are you in language:
Not much, but can read basic things at this point

>>39641072
>age
20

>lanuage
Korean

>time spent learning
like 3-4 weeks

>why did you start
want to travel to korea for 1 year of study

>how proficient
I know the alphabet, thats about it

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What's the point of learning another language?

Learning Japanese so I can tell cute girls I want to eat their ass and pussy

>>39641519
>What's the point of learning another language?
what's the point of doing anything? do you just live to work?

It's fulfilling. Learn for the joy of learning. Learn to open up a whole new world of content which was previously inaccessible to you.

>>39641532
So it's pointless, got it.

>>39641555
t. brainlet

riginal

age:24
lang:japanese
time:1 week
why:friend asked me to learn with him
how:i memorized hiragana and katakana down pat, but thats about it

kanji issu a mountain offu worku desu

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>>39641615
Okay, now get Anki and start learning vocabulary and download the Genki pdf for grammar.

21

Japanese

A little over a year

I've always loved Japanese history, plus being able to read Jap porn untranslated

Intermediate I guess
>>39641615
they get a lot easier once you've gotten the hang of Kanji, especially once you're able to recognize radicals easily.

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>>39641653
>Genki
Tae Kim, Japanese the Manga Way is what's up for beginners
Genki is way to slow and has useless exercises and vocabulary lists.

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>>39641679
Your chart looks better than mine. I use Japanese the Manga Way too.

How many new words a day do you learn?

>21
>Chinese
>on and off for two years
>To make big deals then break gook legs when they inevitably lie and cheat the western companies I work for
>Can still barely understand shit, can speak the basics very well and could survive in China I guess

>Age:
30
>Language:
Russian
>Time spent learning:
10+ years
>Why you started learning language:
It's my mother tongue but I neglected it for ages, so I am relearning it so that I can communicate with people and be able to read books and websites
>How proficient are you in language:
I can speak it, but I mince up words and sometimes it takes me a while to think up the things I want to say

>>39641702
what an extremely attractive anime character

>>39641679
Genki's basically designed for a school course where you get the grammar down but aren't overloading them with vocab for tests and shit.

>>39641724
Jabami Yumeko is very attractive.

>>39641072
>all these goddamn plebs in this thread
you cant learn japanese, save yourself the trouble and drop it
>21
>Japanese
>2 1/2 years
>anime and video games
>conversational

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>>39641702
>15/day for the first year
>20/day for two months
>burn out and just do reviews for awhile
>slowly ease back into 10/day
something like that; the average is 9/day.

>Age:
21
>Language:
Japanese
>Time:
Too fucking long
>Why:
Wanted to read untranslated vns
>Proficiency:
Can watch anime no problem, still can't read for shit

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>>39641765
Here's mine, I did 30/day for first month, now I'm doing 20/day.

This a monthly chart.

>19

>Russian

>2 months

>I want to convince people I'm a Russian spy due to my computer science knowledge and knowing russian

>not bad. Still can't talk it at normal speeds but reading is fine.

>>39641072
19
German; mandarin
1 year; 6 months
Because momma told me to; because there are a lot of Chinese tourists in my city and I find the hieroglyphic writing system interesting.
Able to read software documentation and participate in simple conversations; MANDARIN IS SO FUCKING HARD I CAN BARELY UNDERSTAND IT

I wish I wasn't a brainlet
I wanted to learn Japanese and German
Also programming

>>39641799
>totally fucked up grammar which even natives often fail at

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>>39641791
Nice; ganbare, anon-kun. I'm a little jealous of your ability to study throughout the day. 20 per day is a good pace if you don't mind and hour or so of Anki each day.

>>39641809
I mean you're not wrong. Hardest part for me so far is local dialects. When every letter has a sound, you expect it to make that sound unless influenced by hard or soft signs.

But no, half of Russians say it completely differently from how it's spelled, so when they say it that way, which I is not how I learned it, I don't know what they mean until I remember the different dialects or I ask them what it means.

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>>39641072
Age:
>23
Language:
>English
>Japanese
Time spent learning:
>English: never really studied English but I've had daily contact with it for around 4 years
>Japanese: around 6 months
Why you started learning language:
>English: Lots of important things in English, not knowing this language is condemning yourself to be a brainlet
>Japanese: muh jap girls and JAV
How proficient are you in language:
>English: enough to understand everything and talk to anyone
>Japanese: exactly like this dude: >>39641092

>>39641856
Wut? There are no regional differences in pronunciation.

>>39641072
>>Age:
20
>Language:
Russian
>Time spent:
About 1,5 years of serious study
>Why
It's my uni degree
>Proficiency
Can read pretty much anything, can hold my own in pretty much any conversation without any grammar mistakes, pronunciation also on point for the most part. Only thing I have to do now is grind vocabulary.
>Others:
English is technically my first foreign language, followed by French and German. I'm fluent in the first, the other two I can reactivate when necessary.

>>39641923
There are major differences in pronunciation in the north and south of the country + regional dialectical variations and dialects abroad. In addition, most Russians have their own quirky way of pronouncing certain words, so there's that.

>>39642001
Holy fuck, I'm learning Russian.

Is it a good idea to go for a career in translating Russian? Because that's what I'm after.

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>>39641072
>Age: too old
>Language: Japanese sign language
>Time spent learning: just a few minutes here and there since two or so months ago
>Why you started learning language: saw it in several dramas and I was able to pick up some of it just by observing
>How proficient are you in language: not at all - I can only sign set phrases, but I'm working on it

>>39642024
Yeah, it's a fairly good job if you can start up your own translation company. You will need some pretty sharp business acumen and top of the line language skills to compete with the natives who came to the West after '91 though. You can also go work for the EU (which pays about 500-600 Euro's a week for simultaneous translation) but it's a harrowing job and might not match your political opinions.

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>>39641072
>open thread
>ctrl+f japanese
>22 results

You retarded faggots

>>39642574
And what language are you learning, anon?

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>>39642615
Japanese
roblox

>>39642615
He's learning thelanguage of faggotry. He's quite proficient at it, as you can see.

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>>39642631
Never give up, tomod8.

Age: 26

Language: Latin

Time spent learning: ~1hr so far

Why you started learning language: To delve deeper into the roots of western civilization

How proficient are you in language: DEUS VULT

>Age:
21
>Language:
Spanish
>Time spent learning:
Whole life but mostly put in work during and after high school. Nowadays I'll set games to Spanish text or read things in Spanish whenever the chance comes up.
>Why you started learning language:
It's my mother tongue but since I live in the U.S. there was hardly a reason to keep with it instead of learning English. Now I can speak English perfectly fine, even though I didn't have my parents ever speak it to me growing up, but can only read and listen to Spanish in any decent capacity. Talking and writing takes ages for me to do and I fumble to figure out what words I'm trying to think of.
>How proficient are you in language:
As said above. If someone were to talk to me in Spanish I could maintain a conversation by responding in English, but that's it. Also can't roll my r's and realizing how I threw away an easy opportunity to be perfectly bilingual due to growing up in a household that mocked me for speaking Spanish like a gringo makes me want to kill myself.

>>39642727
The declensions can be a pain to learn, but it's a beautiful and fascinating language. Best of luck.

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>>39641072
>Age:
28
>Language:
Japanese
>Time spent learning:
2 years (half-assed) at uni
Why you started learning language:
basic reasons, being a robot, etc.
How proficient are you in language:
[non-ASCII text is not allowed]
pic related (translation: well, a little bit)

Going to make a start on Russian soon I think

>>39641072
>Any robots here learning a language? If so,
>Age:
18
>Language:
German
>Time spent learning:
1 month off and on
>Why you started learning language:
German is cool
>How proficient are you in language:
Not at all

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>>39641072
23
Korean
Probably like... 30 hours, not very dedicated :C
I can read the writing and can recognize a word in every 3 to 4 sentances.

22/Chinese/2 months
My girlfriend said I had to so we could move to china .

>>39641711
Sounds like me, what materials are you using to learn chinese?
Theres a decent discord for it

>>39641799
What kind of comp sci knowledge do you have

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>>39641072

>Age: 27

>Language:
Japanese

>Time spent learning:
6 years

>Why you started learning language:
To be a translator

>How proficient are you in language:
Fluent

>>39642878
Are you a professional translator now? Have you pursued that goal?

>>39642889
Doing it part time right now while living in Japan. Gonna pursue it full time once I go back to the US.

>>39642912
What kinds of things do you translate?

>>39642574
>open thread
>start reading
>so much russian
>ctrl+f gives 12
Whats wrong with these people?
But I understand it's kind of cool to learn russian for a variety of reasons if you don't live here. It's just the fact that I want to gtfo of Russia so bad and get away from that culture that makes me surprised that there are people who want to know this better.

>age
19
>which one, for how long and why
I've been learning english for 13 years now and I consider myself fairly good reader, listener and writer. Though I can't speak really well because I've been getting much less practice last 2 years and expressing my thoughts sometimes can take a while.

Also, none of you mentioned this. Do you ever think in other language? I can't measure it but I'm almost sure that if I didn't studily in russian I'd think in english 90% of the time. (Now it's maybe around 50/50)

>>39642855
I'm doing a minor in mandarin with my university course. I could use a discord like that but chances are I'll hate everyone and leave.

>>39641072
>Age:
23
>Language:
Japanese
>Time spent learning:
Three years, on and off. Recently started making considerable progress with kanji. I didn't want to brute-force it, but there's no better way. With the Ultimate Kanji Course on Memrise, I've learned 600 words in a month.
>Why you started learning language:
I started recognizing some bits in anime, so I figured I could spend my time as a NEET at least somewhat productively and learn the whole language. Multilingualism is good for your brain.
>How proficient are you in language:
Absolutely dogshit. I still sound like a kawaii sugoi weeb. I can read some of it, but still not enough to read Baby's First NHK, not even with the help of Rikai-chan. I could probably write a proper sentence with an IME, but not by hand.
Oh well, just keep swimming, I guess.

>>39642970
Whatever my company gives me, but lately it's been train station signs/notices/announcments, etc. I've also done things like menus and corporate speeches.

>Age
19
>Language
Japanese
German
Finnish
>Time Spent Learning
3 times a week for an hour for the past 5 years
Couple of months
A few finn threads on /int/
>Why you started learning Language
For business when I start wageslaving, but also for hobbies/anime and manga
Helps me laugh when Europe gets fucked over by mama Merkel's immigration policies, saving me have to find translations everywhere
Memes
>Proficiency
Know all Hiragana, most Katakana ( some still give me trouble), know about 20 Kanji extremely well but the others I either have a rough idea of what they look like but can't draw exactly, or don't know at all.
Can hold a few basic conversations
Perkele :DD

>>39642861
A masters

And I've done a lot of ((hacker)) research work

>>39643263
Did you just go looking for a company that wanted English translators, or did you get referred or something like that?

>>39643298
> 3 hours a week for 5 years
> know 20 kanji
Guess I'm not doing so bad after all.

>>39643399
A guy I knew worked there and was leaving, so he recommended me for his position. I think it's probably easier to find work as a translator here than in the US, but the salary is way less here.

>>39641072
>Age
20
>Language
English, Japanese, Italian
>Time spent learning
English - Most of my life I guess
Japanese - A little less than a year
Italian - 3 years
>Why
English - well, everyone speaks english
Japanese - didn't get into an italian course in uni and I was always a bit weeby so I figured why not
Italian - took it up in high school to avoid learning german, also I travel to Rome every year
>How proficient
English - fluent
Japanese - I know the kanji from first 2 grades and most of the basic grammar, if I had to guess I'd put myself a little over N4 level
Italian - at this point I have forgotten most of the vocabulary and grammar so I can't even form sentences but I can usually understand (as in, get the context) what people are saying

>>39641848
You actually think its nice? There is so much red, it feels bad.

>>39643465
Ahh, I see. I've been thinking of doing some simple translating on the side like you, but I wouldn't know where to look. It doesn't help that I live out in the middle of nowhere. I assume you live in or near a city? Or do you work from home?

>>39643555
I do confidential work at the office, and they send some things through e-mail. A lot of translation companies in the US and Japan send work to translators remotely. Almost all of the other non-Japanese translators my company hires are from other countries. So there's definitely work out there. Try searching craiglist pages of major cities for companies that are hiring remote translators, Here's one company I know of for sure that does:

http://ykservices.com/english/contact/application/

>>39643018
Why do Russians always take such a long time to learn foreign languages? Do you see them as long term projects or is the education that bad?

>>39643613
That's good. It sounds like a very reasonable system. Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely look to see what's out there.

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>Age:
25
>Language:
japanese
>Time spent learning:
since i was 10 years old
actual hardcore learning since 2 years ago
>Why you started learning language:
I had a famicom when i was little and i wanna understand dialogs, dont care about anything else but vidya
>How proficient are you in language:
I can read around 1500 kanjis
I can read yotsuba without dictionary
I beat few games in nihongo and can navigate menus

Cant understand youtubers
Barely understand anime
Cant form a simple sentence or even write in kana

>>39641072
>25

>norwegian

>bout 4 months?

>i like the norwegian nature and black metal and plan to travel there regularly

>well, i got the basics down i guess, but still miss a lot of words and i am not good at speaking it

>>39644829
What materials are you using? Are they solely digital?

>>39644885
mostly duolingo, i think its quite nice. also i look up lyrics and try to read them, using a translator for the words i don't know.

on the long run, once i am good enough to hold a more or less fluent conversation i try to find some norwegian people and speak to them, using english as a backup for things i can't express yet. its not that hard to meet people when solo-travelling through norway.

>>39644941
That's pretty neat. I'd like to learn a Scandinavian language, but they seem difficult to pronounce convincingly.

>>39644965
yes you are right. i think its pretty easy to learn to read/write it when you know german and english already, but the pronounciation is a whole different thing. but well the only thing to get used to that is talking to such people i guess and pick it up from them.

>>39641072
1. 20
2. English
3. 13 years
4. Had it at school
5. Don't know. Good enough to talk to y'all fucks, I guess

>>39643683
No, it's just that I've been learning it since I was 6 and I was taught it in school throughout all 11 grades. (These were special english classes, they don't teach like that in every school, and public schools are usually really bad at teaching english.)
Then I have an english course in university and thats why I say that I've been studying it for 13 years. It's just that there is always place for improvement in english.
It's just the fact that I wasn't really interested in english culture (or international internet segment) until I was 15 in 9th grade.

But looks like many people being uninterested in it and very basic teaching in school results in the fact that it takes so long for some russians to learn the language.

Besides, it's not like there is a point where you can say thay you've learned a language. There is alwas space for some improvement.

>>39641072

> 18
> German
> School
> I can read it and speak it but my writing is shit