Language Learning General

gingermilk · 2023-01-07T02:44:16+00:00

Hello sheeps! What is your native language? What language are you trying to learn? How many languages do you know already? This is a general thread for anyt...

Eugehi

What is your native language?

Italian. I don't care how biased I may sound, but I love Italian. So many great authors were Italian, it's astounding: Dante, Manzoni, Calvino, Eco... And don't even get me started on the sheer beauty of our dialects: Romanesco, Sicilian and Milanese, just to name a few.

What language are you trying to learn?

French. It's not like I am "trying" to learn it, because I already have. I can read Maupassant, Molière and Hugo in their original language for crying out loud. But conjugating French verbs is such a pain in the neck.
The French R is a problem too (even after three years of learning this language). I can pronounce it, but when talking to natives, I shid ma pants™ and panic switch to the rolled R used in Italian.

How many languages do you know already?

Three: English and the two above. I don't like English that much, to be fair. I have a C1 English language certificate, but reading novels or poems in English feels like a chore, not like entertainment. And Americans have bastardised this mediocre language making it unbearable to listen to. "Gotten"? "You was"? Do they even know how bad this sounds?
Ok, my rant is over. Scroll to the next post.

kurisu

gingermilk Native Basque speaker, I also speak Spanish and English.

I tried learning Japanese too, but I wasn't successful. I think I should try again but this time more seriously, using Anki flashcards and actual learning books. I'm still not too sure how Anki works though, but I've seen some success stories so I'll have to take a look.
I'm also planning on moving to another european country like Germany or The Netherlands for a job in a few years, so maybe learning a germanic language would probably be good for me.

The Gardener

I'm Natively Brazilian, so I know Portuguese, the Brazilian variation, or just Portuguese-Brazilian (PT-BR) I can understand English vocally and textually, though my writings and speech are lacking.
I am studying Latin these days, It's a bit easier when all the things you normally read are mostly inspired by It.
gingermilk You can (as people have said) use the book LLPSI, but you can also find other books written in Latin, an example is the own bible, you can find It at the vatican's official site (https://www.vatican.va/latin/latin_bible.html). You can also find youtubers who actively speak Latin, like Luke Ranieri with the channels Polymathy and ScorpioMartianus, and you can also use the duolingo app (which is not as natural as the other options)

WastedBucket

I'm a native English speaker learning Indonesian/Malay.

indepth6

gingermilk
Polish
Knows also English, German
Learning French, Arabic
Interested in languages like Latvian and Tamil

xerave

EFL

yukarihinata

gingermilk replying looks at notes A YEAR LATER because I didnt actually answer your question.

Formal classes are good because you learn the grammar much quicker. However, the other half of the battle is consitently studying vocab. At least, the was my experience with German.

Mayua

gingermilk

My native language is English! I've been learning Japanese on-and-off for like 4 years at this point but after making plans to go to Japan in a few years, I've gotten more motivated to learn it! I'm only still in the beginner stages, though.

1996FordMondeo

gingermilk
Id rather not disclose what is my native language because I dont like people knowing where im from.
But I also speak english and russian, both learning in school(this spoils too much of my location already)
My english is good but russian not so much since i dont use it a lot.

sungen

Gigachad Hey man, I'm trying to learn how to puhua a pieni Suomi if you're still learning, that goes for anyone learning Finnish though 🙂

Kotos

Pure Anglo-Saxon thoroughbred. Took two years of Latin. The first two thirds of LLIPSI is too easy and the last third feels tedious but I can blow through the New Testament with few problems. Took two semesters of German and currently working on busting the rust off, then moving on to Old Icelandic / Norse.

https://mega.nz/folder/INlRkAQC#CthKI9-_kmDNyrOx12Ojbw/folder/ABkREa7Q

Here's a MEGA for various IE languages if anyone is interested.

Jack-O

Spanish (Native), English, and i'm trying to decide if i should learn dutch or japanese.

harukoto

Jack-O start casually practicing some japanese regardless if you have interest at all. it's not hard to learn the first two alphabets, takes a couple days and some practice reading and writing over time. get to really learning most kanji when you're ready to actually commit. it saved me a lot of time. i learned one other language while getting the basics of japanese out of the way, arguably the fun parts, the only fun parts. a language like dutch wouldn't get in the way at all either.

if you watch anime, with dutch subtitles and have learned a lot of japanese you might find yourself relying on either language when you don't understand whether you're reading/hearing something you haven't learned. that'll help you learn more. i did this with one target language and watching anime. it made me happy when i would look away and would just understand the japanese without looking at any subtitles. second greatest feeling of my life.

frijole del alta

harukoto

harukoto when you're ready to actually commit.

really is about that, its difficult for me to learn more complex japanese because I study for a couple days but then lose focus when I skip a day of studying.

Merulox

I gave japanese a go in june of last year and managed to learn about a thousand kanjis before anki finally burnt me out and I don't think I'll ever have the heart to give it another shot. :/

Anki suffocated me. In the beginning, I'd do it every morning and that was fine, but towards the end, I'd procrastinate every day until late into the evening, and I wouldn't allow myself to go about my day until I did all my cards.
So, even though it only took me 30 minutes to do, the fact that I had to do it weighed down on me for entire evenings and was suffocating.

I still vividly remember the day I decided to give up: I hadn't felt so free and happy in a while.

FranciscoFranco

I am fluent in English and Spanish. I speak Italian good enough to have simple conversations and fairly understand harder ones, although I lately set it aside I hope to be able to reside in Italy one day and become fluent. I also gave turkish a try and I learned some basic stuff. I would totally love to learn mandarin at some point but that´s a far away dream right now. Also if anybody wants to chat in order to practice a language I´m down 🙂

evil wiizard

speak Ukrainian good enough, know English to the point that I'm able to post silly texts in the forums like this,
I am also learning Karelian (Karjalan kieli), as it is my native language, but my family was too assimilated by another culture to teach me when I was a child. so it's kinda... re-learning, actually.
and I'm actively trying to forget language I was forced to learn.
maybe, MAYBE, after I will feel more connected with my mother tongue, I'll try Estonian (same language sub-group) or Belarussian, but that's uhhh not soon.

do y'all know those moments when you just... switch languages mid-sentence? or you remember some information, but can't recall which language it was written in? : D
sometimes I'm like "man, that's just crazy, явахуї, як так взагалі можна- oh"

Phenazepam

I guess my native languages would be English and Serbo-Croatian (was raised with both) however I'm rusty with the latter but understand things just fine and can talk extensively in it. I'm currently trying to learn Mandarin, it's been fun and I really enjoy the language! I gave Mandarin a shot end of last year because I wanted to learn an East Asian language and yeah I love how it sounds (most don't but I'm odd), love the writing system, and the grammar isn't hard for me. I remember giving Japanese a shot in 2019 but was totally overwhelmed by the grammar, conjugation, and kanji inconsistency. Still Japanese is a wonderful language, just not apt for me. Occasionally I like surface level studying other slavic languages because as a Slav myself I like other Slavs lol.

gingermilk

Phenazepam Tell me if you need help with Mandarin since I am a native speaker!

Just an update on my language learning journey. I used to be obsessed with learning languages, but the craze has slowed down a lot since obsession does not automatically lead to diligence and efficiency, which results in me wasting time.

I enrolled in a Persian class during my first semester in uni and I appreciate the fact that I actually got to practice with native speakers, but I did not keep my studies after that due to various reasons. I also tried to pick up German again since there are books I wanted to read in the original language, but gave up too because I have morphed into a lazy ass who cannot be bothered to memorize even just the article chart. I also tried Tamil, but did not study beyond the alphabet. Right now I just spend 10 minutes daily clicking words on Duolingo Indonesian, which I would not even call learning but at least I can feel less guilty.

sonoko

gingermilk
I'm native anglo. Know Italian to a high enough level that "studying" now just means reading,watching stuff in Italian. Currently tackling French.
I would love to learn a Scandi language, but every time I do that I think "why waste time on this when German is Germanic too and has 10x the speakers and all of the media and literature". Then I try German and think "Man, I just can't get on with this, why not learn a Scandi lang instead?" and thus the cycle continues.
Would like to do Japanese too, but I don't know if I'm enough of a Weeb.

« Previous Page Next Page »

Sheepishpatio.net is a forum running on the Flarum software, use of the forum is free. Please enjoy your time.

Friends of the site Here

If you are interested in creating imagery for the site, the resource page is Here