Learning languages is hard

Learning languages is hard
How do you do it?

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My parents taught me Russian, I learned a little bit of Korean from K-Dramas

native english speakers are incapable of learning other languages
even the french are way better at it

what are you learning?

just pretend like its your native language but use other words

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And thus the Dutch language was born.....

German and Greek

Get a good grammar book and exercise book, anki decks for vocab. Work every day or at least on a regular basis. When you're not actively studying, read about your language's country (news, literature, anything really, in your native lang at first), listen to music, watch movies, youtube, etc. It's important to associate language and culture.
Most importantly: don't get discouraged, keep studying even if it's sometimes boring or hard or frustrating, have fun with it. It takes time to take in what you learn and really assimilate it so don't be impatient.
Good luck.

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If you're struggling then you need to stick to only one language. Choose one and drop the other ASAP.

Also remember you can only make real progress if you do at least 30 minutes of studying EVERY (and I really want to stress -EVERY-) day, and preferably more as 30 minutes is a bare minimum.

thank u chaps

Oh dear.

We have these pocket books from a French publisher Assimil. Just last week I bought myself "Swedish without toil". It has short lectures that you can work through at the bus stop or waiting at a doctor's. I hope that taking little steps will be easier.

how did you learn English so well, im tired of being mocked for at least trying to practise , ITS NOT FAIR IM BLOODY TRYING TO IMPROVE

Also: If you've got a good grammar, it should have a paragraph about the first and second German consonant shift. I read that back in school, and following that I was able to figure out the meaning of some Dutch and English words on my own. It's a process that German went through, but English and Dutch not fully.
For instance, initial T often became TH in English and D in German, thus "thorn" - "Dorn". Initial P became aspirated in German, so your "penny" is "Pfennig" hear, and where I come from, you don't even hear the initial P anymore.
There's some more rules that should open up a lot of basic vocabulary for you while learning German.

Greek on the other hand is probably more difficult to learn.

yes
It's hard for me to learn English
I can't memorize new words (_)

Imagine being a boring monolingual anglo

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I learned the basics and the grammar in school, and then we had Dutch TV in our cable. The Netherlands don't dub their TV programme, they just put subtitles under it. But it was interesting, and gradually I was able to understand more and more. When I had a basic vocabulary, I started borrowing English language novels from the main branch of our library.

Well, that was all long ago before the advent of the internet, which should give you more options.

Best of luck!

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Imagine being a frog and gloating about anything

I am jealous, it must be so easy to learn when you're just being assaulted by American English from all angles every time you turn the TV on or go travelling or watch a film

at least your language English is one of Germanic family thus you can learn similar one like Swedish, German and others without linguistic barrier. mine is isolated and can't smooth learning any languages.

English poses a difficulty that German or say Spanish doesn't have -- it is not written the way it is pronounced. It took me quite some time to get used to that. And it was hard to understand spoken English at first.

When you watch films or TV shows, what makes it a bit easier is seeing what is happening. In certain situations you know what the characters should logically be saying, and that makes it easier to recognise words and phrases when they come up.

But also on TV, nobody slows down while speaking. It's different from when you meet a foreign tourist or you are in a foreign country and people take special care talking to you in order for you to understand them.

>german and greek
Why do you torture yourself la'?

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Btw. I just remember a story from a few years ago. I was at a farmer's festival and met some people from -- of all places -- Australia. They tried speaking German and it was not bad, so I asked them where they learned it. They said from German TV shows that run in Australia, in particular "Kommissar Rex". ("DCI Rex" is an Austrian police dog who solves crimes, LOL.)

English is closer to French.

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German is still easier to learn for an English speaker, though. The complexity of German and French grammar are about equal, but what French has and German doesn't is that the words are not spelt the way they are pronounced. In school it took me about 2 1/2 years to figure out how to pronounce a French word I saw written. You don't have that difficulty while learning German.

Currently learning my 3rd language by using some online practice tool (Duolingo etc) and a fuckton of native media. Surround yourself with that shit, after you learn to think simple stuff it all becomes super easy, so the hard part lasts only a couple months
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>is that the words are not spelt the way they are pronounced.
While there are of course some exceptions (words like "oignon", "fils", etc.), the vast majority of French words have very predictable pronunciation. It's just that the rules of pronunciation are less intuitive, but they exist nonetheless. Beyond the issue of complexity, the only real difference is that a given pronunciation in French can often have a plethora of different spellings, but generally this is less important than the reverse (i.e. being able to match pronunciation to a given spelling).

Maybe it's easier for someone coming from the English language as he's already familiar with the concept, but I had a hard time learning French. I used to think "now I've got it", and then along came a word that would be pronounced differently and destroy my illusions.

Anyway, I don't regret having learned French as third foreign language in school. It served me well in France and even got me through North Africa on vacation many years ago. (That was still before terrorism and the revolutions.)

Well yes and no. Most of our adjectives are French, but it is still a Germanic language which makes actual speaking easier.

Use duolingo.