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FAQ U: >How do I learn a language? What is the best way to learn one? How should I improve on certain aspects? Read the damn wiki >Should I learn lang Y so I can learn lang X? No >What is the most useful language? The Swedish dialect of Salmonese >What language should I learn? Any dialect of Salmonese
I can speak basic french, enough to survive (I can have 5 min conversations, ask for things etc.) but my writing and grammar and spelling are atrocious. Should I just read or do I need lessons at this point?
How difficult is speaking and listening to Mandarin if I am incapable of discerning tones?
Luke Barnes
Hello, frens! I need an advice. I used to learn German almost 7 years ago and got a B1. I stopped because I had school and extracurricular activities. Now, I want to continue but in this time of year, I can't find classes. So, should I try by myself or wait until September?
Does anyone have a PDF of Zertifikat B1 Prüfungsziele, Testbeschreibung by Hueber?
Thomas White
Learn German with us, I use Duolingo
Eli Clark
"I have eaten enough" and "I ate dog" differ only in tone on a single syllable. 我吃够了。v 我吃狗了。
But in reality you think tones are harder than they are. You can create them because English uses them as well. Thr only difference is that English uses them to add emotional/contextual cues while Chinese uses them to distinguish words, so you are less conscious of using them. Try saying "Huh?" as if someone just said something retarded. Bam perfect exaggerated rising tone. Say that on "cha" and you got tea 茶. Try saying "hmm" with a nod as if someone just said something interesting. Bam perfect exaggerated falling tone; add it to "gou" and its dog 狗. Low dipping and high tons are easy, high you just sing the syllable at around the starting tone of your falling tone, and low dipping you just push it to the bottom of your comfortable vocal range and then pop back up for the next syllable. Mandarin also has stress, which is fairly intuitive after you listen for a bit and just exaggerates the tone contours and raises the volume of the syllable (as is the def of stress). Listening is harder, but listening is hard in any language. You will notice that native speakers will treat the tones a lot differently from how they are taught to you, because obviously in fast speech things aren't perfect. Anyways the difficulty in pronunciation is more than made up for by the retard-tier grammar. Writing however tips back the scale in favor of difficulty.
>Mandarin also has stress Stress on top of the tones? I can't even work out the correct stress in sentences in English and it's the only language I speak.
Ryan Scott
What kind of job is the interview for?
Ian Davis
It barely matters. Basically multi-syllable words only get stressed on first syllable, and counter words are usually less stressed, esp ge 个. Completely unstressed syllables lose their tone.
Evan Bailey
>I'm from SE Asia >I'm actually Mongolian, I'm a good portion Mongolian >Speaks neither Mongolian nor a SE Asian language >Barely even looks asian >Barely remembers Chingis Khan's name and refers to him as some sort of barbarian rapist
I think i'm too dumb for Hindi. Even just reading about Devanagari is confusing the fuck out of me, never mind trying to hear the difference between the consonants.
I’m trying to learn Spanish for obvious reasons but I find myself being able to read it much better than understand it when it’s actually being spoken probably because of how fast it’s spoken
Grayson Richardson
try studying for more than two days
Jace Howard
I'm reading through the third Harry Book in Spanish and I still can't understand Spanish speakers when they come up to me at work and ask for help, gotta shamefully ask them to speak English until I get gud at listening
What's the lesson about? Forgot about spring break, don't have lab next week :))))
Elijah Martinez
We just go by chapters and discuss a different theme that the book lays out. This chapter was all about religion in society. I think the next lesson is about other issues in society.
Kevin Clark
I love Azula, she was my favorite villian(?). I wonder how good the dubs are in other languages. Maybe there's good subs out there.
Thomas Davis
why is french easier than german?
Jose Green
No cases?
Josiah Howard
It might be a good idea to learn some grammar lessons, but reading probably will help with the spelling.
Andrew Cruz
Challange Easy >Have you ever kissed a man before?
Practice reading outloud? Maybe watch watch something with subtitles, pause it and repeat what they say the way they said it. Unless your accent is really bad of course. Then you just have to learn the sounds you can't make naturally.
Juan Evans
¿Has besido un hombreo? ¿Quiers de tratar? Estoy duro...
Brody Campbell
Besado* fuck me. This is why I'm dying alone
Sebastian Gonzalez
>holly no longer in discord Il mio cuore è pieno di tristezza.
Gabriel Bennett
Challenge time:
Easy >I drink tea with jam and bread. >She died last year. >I don't understand you. >He wears glasses. >What's your favorite movie?
Medium >There was a terrible snowstorm in April. >Do you listen to music while you study? >My book got wet in the rain. >I like to sleep-in on Saturdays. >You're the only one for me.
Hard >If you knew you were going to die in a year, would you live your life differently? >To stand in the strong wind and feel the rain drawing closer towards us... what a glorious feeling.
>the black Russian guy This is basically what happens when you use Jow Forums as your only source of knowledge on anthropology and ethnography.
Jackson Adams
Duolingo is a fucking godawful meme and I legit don't understand why people unironically use it. Go for languagetransfer.com άνον, I'm learning Greek from it and it's excellent.
Julian Brown
nvm, seems like their site died, not sure if anyone told them, also it was org and not com in either case, their courses are on soundcloud and youtube soundcloud.com/languagetransfer
>I drink tea with jam and bread. Πίνω τσάι με μαρμελάδα kαι ψωμί. >She died last year. Αυτή πέθανα πέρυσι. >I don't understand you. Δεν σού kαταλαβαίνω. >He wears glasses. Αυτός φορά γυαλιά. >What's your favorite movie? Τι είναι η αγαπημένη ταινία σου; >Do you listen to music while you study? Αkούει την μουσιkή όταν μελετά; >My book got wet in the rain. Το βιβλίο μου βρέξτε στη βροχή. >You're the only one for me. Είσαι η μονή για μένα.
I don't know the other ones but I'd appreciate the greekanon to help me out with these too.
Nathaniel Richardson
>I drink tea with jam and bread. Dzēru tēju ar džamu/ievārījumu un maizi >She died last year Pagājušajā gadā viņa nomira. >I don't understand you Es tevi nesaprotu/nesaprotu tevi/nesaprotu >He wears glasses Viņam ir brilles >What's your favorate movie Kāda ir tava mīļakā filma?
>If you knew you were going to die in a year, would you live your life differently Ja tu būtu zinājis, ka nomirsi gada laikā, vai tu dzīvotu citādi?
Izmantoju Hugo.lv kad es nesapratu ko sacīt lūdzu palidzi mani ja tu gribi palidzēt xd
Blake Clark
C's get degrees
Jose Parker
>Challenge time:
>Easy >>I drink tea with jam and bread. Je mange the avec confiture et la pain >>She died last year. Elle est morte l'anee derniere >>I don't understand you. Je ne te comprende pas >>He wears glasses. Il port de lunette >>What's your favorite movie? Quel film est ton prefere?
Ok, that's it, I've done my best. I can't speak french
Brayden Cooper
>je mange the >mange I mean *bois*, of course
Dylan Miller
>Αυτή πέθανα πέρυσι. "Πέθανε" is the correct one. >Δε σου kαταλαβαίνω. "Σε" > Τι είναι η αγαπημένη ταινία σου; "Ποια είναι..." >Αkούει την μουσιkή όταν μελετά; "Αkούς μουσιkή όταν μελετάς;" >Το βιβλίο μου βρέξτε στη βροχή. "Το βιβλίο μου βράχηkε στη βροχή" > Είσαι η μονή για μένα "Μόνη" Do you also need an explanation? You are really good. Congrats! Do you want me to write the rest of the challenge in Greek?
Mason Morales
>"Ποια είναι..." "ποίος" is more like "which", isn't it? I fall into the trap of translating directly from English, I should do it from Polish because the patterns are far more similar.
I see that most of the errors are conjugations, I know them but I completely forget when I'm in the middle of a sentence. Bad habit, need to work on it.
If you wouldn't mind translating the other sentences in the challenge, I would really appreciate it. Thanks for the kind words άνον
>la pain More natural sounding to say "mange du pain", some bread instead of the bread. And here's a fancy é you can copy.
Dylan Hall
I learned French at school, but it was a long time ago. I think it's time to start learning again, I'd like to. And I can use diacritics (mobile keyboard), I just don't care lol
Carter Richardson
>There was a terrible snowstorm in April. "Υπήρξε μια απαίσια χιονοθύελλα τον Απρίλιο" >I like to sleep-in on Saturdays. "Μου αρέσει να παραkοιμάμαι τα Σάββατα" (but we usually don't say that, we say that we like to wake late or sleep more) I forgot to say that while=ενώ, your sentence made sense so I didn't notice, sorry~
>If you knew you were going to die in a year, would you live your life differently? "Αν ήξερες ότι πρόkειται να πεθάνεις σε ένα χρόνο, θα ζούσες τη ζωή σου διαφορετιkά;" >To stand in the strong wind and feel the rain drawing closer towards us... what a glorious feeling. "Να στεkόμαστε στο δυνατό άνεμο kαι να νιώθουμε τη βροχή να πλησιάζει πιο kοντά προς τα εμάς... τι ένδοξο συναίσθημα." I hope it helps. You are right about "ποιος". If you don't mind me asking, what made you want to learn greek?
Zachary Sanders
>If you don't mind me asking, what made you want to learn greek? Pic rel's songs and the history of Byzantium
Thank you very much for your translations, they've been a great help :)
Damn that's a shitty feel, had the same feelerino when i went to germany the 3rd time i was about b1 but still had a tough time undersrandinng people probably had to do with the fact i only went to bayern and sachsen
David Thomas
I hope I'll become a regular here so I might get a chance to talk to you again! Keep improving, fren and goodnight!
Easy >Ich trinke Tee mit Konfituere und Brot. >Sie ist im letzten Jahr gestorben. >Ich verstehe Sie nicht. >Er tragt Brille. >Was ist dein Lieblingsfilm?
Medium >Es gab im April einen schrecklichen Schneesturm. >Hoerst du Musik waehrend du studierst? >Mein Buch ist im Regen nass geworden. >Ich mag am Samstagen ausschlafen. >Du bist die Einzige fuer mich.
Bitte korrigieren Sie mich, oder sagen Sie ob es eine geeignetere Wendung gibt.
Thomas Turner
Unpaid internship :(
But it beats earning $0 sitting at home, and there may be a paying job after the internship is over
Christopher Perez
Easy >I drink tea with jam and bread. Jag dricker te med jam och bröd. >She died last year. Hon dog förra året. >I don't understand you. Jag förstår dig inte. >He wears glasses. Han har glasögon. >What's your favorite movie? Vilken är din favoritfilm?
Medium >There was a terrible snowstorm in April. Det var en fruktansvärd snöstorm i april. >My book got wet in the rain. Min bok blev blöt i regnet. >You're the only one for me. Du är den enda för mig.
Evan White
Er trägt*
Hörst du musik beim lernen*
Protip: Germans use "lernen" for studying
Ich schlafe samstags gern aus *
Carson Richardson
Is this duolingo for rio platanese ?
Logan Johnson
Duolingo is fucking stupid
Austin Ross
make a better program nerd
Jackson Foster
OHAIO GOZAIMAAAAASSS WATASHI WA AARROCHTONU DESU KA! RAREU BIGUTJA OF NIPPON AEROPORT TOIRRETO DESU HAI ^__^
