>What language are you learning? >Share language learning experiences! >Ask questions about your target language! >Help people who want to learn a new language! >Participate in translation challenges or make your own! >Make frens!
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 wiki before asking in the thread >Should I learn lang Y so I can learn lang X? No >What is the most useful language? Modern Greek >What language should I learn? Cypriot Greek
Some would call this easy >The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe >She hit the cow. >We washed the dishes. >The vending machine is broken. >Please sit down.
Some would call this medium >He hit the shark in the nose, stunning it for a moment. >I can't feel my legs. >I overslept and missed the train. >A caterpillar turns into a butterfly. >I stood in line for food.
This hard, right? >The Ides of March is a day on the Roman calendar that corresponds to 15 March. It was marked by several religious observances and was notable for the Romans as a deadline for settling debts. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar which made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history. >A common myth about the kangaroo's English name is that "kangaroo" was a Guugu Yimithirr phrase for "I don't understand you." According to this legend, Cook and Banks were exploring the area when they happened upon the animal. They asked a nearby local what the creatures were called. The local responded "Kangaroo", meaning "I don't understand you", which Cook took to be the name of the creature. This myth was debunked in the 1970s by linguist John B. Haviland in his research with the Guugu Yimithirr people.
Luke Mitchell
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Ryder Cruz
Some would call this easy >The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lejonet, Häxan och Garderoben >She hit the cow. Hon träffade kon. >We washed the dishes. Vi tvättade tallrikaren. >The vending machine is broken. varuautomaten är trasig. >Please sit down. Sitt ner tack.
Liam Price
Der Löwe, die Hexe und der Schrank. Sie schlug die Kuh. Wir haben das Geschirr abgewaschen. Der Automat ist kaputt. Setz dich bitte. / Setzen Sie sich bitte.
Er traf die Nase des Haies und betäubte ihn deswegen für einen Augenblick. (???) Ich kann meine Beine nicht spüren. Ich habe verschlafen und den Zug verpasst. Eine Raupe verwandelt sich in einen/zu einem Schmetterling. Ich bin Schlange gestanden, um Essen zu kaufen/holen.
Die Iden des März ist ein Tag im römischen Kalender, der dem 15 März gleicht. ... Ein häufiges Missverständnis ist, dass der englische Name des Kängurus eine aboriginale Redewendung war, die "ich verstehe dich nicht" bedeutet. ...
Wyatt Hall
>Lejonet, Häxan och Garderoben You don't have to capitalize the nouns (expect at the beginning of the sentence). Otherwise it's fine.
>Hon träffade kon. Hon slog kon. Träffa means meet.
>Vi tvättade tallrikaren. Vi diskade tallrikarna/disken. Tvätta means to wash something in a washing machine.
>Sitt ner tack. This is fine. If you want to, you can say "Sätt dig ner" as well.
Good work. Keep it up!
Leo James
Thank you for the corrections. The first one is meant to be the title of a book. Am I allowed to capitalize it then?
Just curious, but how long have you been studying? Or are you a Swedish person currently in Iran?
Dylan Martin
>The first one is meant to be the title of a book. Am I allowed to capitalize it then? Oh yeah, the Narnia book. I didn't think of that. I think either way is fine then.
>Or are you a Swedish person currently in Iran? Yes, I'm a native Swedish speaker.
Kayden Gomez
That's cool. What brings you to Iran, if you don't mind me asking?
Jaxon Mitchell
Sorry, I don't want to be rude but I'd rather not talk about it. It's cool that you are studying Swedish. Is there any particular reason why you choose that language?
Zachary Reed
No problem, you don't have to say. I chose Swedish because I was interested in learning a North Germanic language, and I have a few particular interests that are related to Sweden.
reading a lot (translating as you go. easier level and raise as you progress) + watching videos (with subtitles) + broken speaking/typing is the only way to learn. Prove me wrong
Daniel Green
>Some would call this easy >>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Το Λιοντάρι, η Μάγισσα kαι η Ντουλάπα. >>She hit the cow. Αυτή χτύπησε την αγελάδα. >>We washed the dishes. Πλύναμε τα πιάτα. >>The vending machine is broken. Ο αυτόματος πωλητής είναι σπασμένος. >>Please sit down. Κάθιστε, παραkαλώ.
Might do the rest later.
Isaac Flores
My English pronounciation is horrible. I always get mocked for it by my friends, so I never speak unless it's really necessary. It really is a vicious circle.
/lang/-friends, what are some good ways to improve your pronounciation?
Noah Barnes
>what are some good ways to improve your pronounciation talk into a microphone with replay
Michael Cooper
I barely practice Japanese Their culture is just so damn boring
Sebastian Bennett
Learn IPA and see how words are pronounced more easily. Like for example
I am still too stupid to do these in French :c Kill me please or pray that I improve in French.
Evan Taylor
What is the difference between a and ʌ, exactly? The example on Wikipedia makes ʌ sound like ə but those examples all sound off anyway. I read some articles where linguists theorised about the presence of ʌ in Slovene but came to the conclusion that it's there but nobody can hear it (which raises the question of what the point of it is, then) so it's a mystery sound to me.
Samuel Gutierrez
Amazing this hasn't been bumped off due to all the new Zealand threads
Caleb Bennett
Does anyone have experience with Assimil Dutch with Ease (or Assimil Niederländisch ohne Mühe heute for that matter)? Are there any Dutch learners here?
Ian Price
Ye irooni ki hollandi yad migiri? Salaam, chera holandi yad migiri?
Jaxon Wilson
Sorry, I don't speak Dutch. Just thinking of learning it after grasping German a bit better. Swedish is my mother tongue so it seems somewhat easy to learn to read. Speaking it is surely a whole other matter.
Charles Thompson
Nor do I speak Farsi. Silly mistake. -_-
Ethan Young
My bad, flag memed me, didn't read earlier post. Also that's not dutch, that's persian >An iranian who learns Dutch? Hello, why are you learning Dutch?
Anyway, how well do foreigners generally pronounce Dutch? Seems tricky to learn.
Isaac Watson
They tend to do ok, though accents generally are noticeable. As for tricky to learn, you might be better off asking others who have learned or are learning, since being raised with it kinda skews your perspective.
Jayden Wood
From the easy challenge:
>Wuhêheq, dêhekpi kuna, bis todehig wumas. >Vã hêvbi behekeq. >Vaš demmik eki na lêpito. >piši ki ni vogred. >Meqa, kinato avar êg.
Jaxson Clark
What language is this?
Charles Perry
It's Calconian or Calcontian, my own made-up conlang
For some reason I first thought Kurdish, but then I figured it may be a Native American language. I googled one of the words and there were no results. Êg qodim eto.
James Anderson
>Êg qodim eto. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Aiden Gomez
what does افا انت هنا خخخخ mean
Angel Fisher
'if you don't reply to this post your mother will die tonight'
Jace Jackson
Can someone explain to me how "based" is related to "good"?
Logan Morris
>Hon träffade kon. Depending on what 'hit' means there, this could be correct. Otherwise you have 'slog' like Iran-user said.
>Vi tvättade tallrikaren. Vi diskade tallrikarna. Although tallrik is dinner plate, so maybe we want a word for dishes in general (aka including glassware and silverware etc). >Vi diskade disken.
>varuautomaten är trasig. All correct but I've never really heard that word before. They're usually just called whatever they contain+automat, or simply automat. Which means colloquially it'd be "Automaten är trasig".
>Sitt ner tack. Sounds a bit rude almost due to being so short and each word being a single syllable lel. I'd say something like "Var vänlig och sätt dig ner".
>Träffa means meet. Not only. The actual gloss for 'hit' is 'träffa' (as well as 'beat' for 'slag'). The cognate and gloss of 'meet' is of course 'möta', even though 'träffa' is more colloquial.
>Tvätta means to wash something in a washing machine. No, it simply means wash. You don't stick your car in a washing machine, do you?
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Isaiah Wood
>No, it simply means wash. You don't stick your car in a washing machine, do you? Yeah, you're right of course. Thanks for pointing that out.
Carter Carter
I wake up Should I study German or go back to sleep like the neet I am?
Jackson Cox
Thank you for your corrections. That's interesting with the "automaten". I saw that word come up in my research but it just sounded wrong, and it wasn't in the official dictionary.
Owen James
I'd like to apologize if my "corrections" made you confused. rightfully points as some mistakes I made. I guess it's harder to give proper feedback than I first thought, huh.
Adam Roberts
>we will never know what east germanic sounded like
Medium: oн пoбил нa нoc aкyлy, пoэтoмy oнa зaмepлa нeмнoгo вpeмeни. Я нe мoгy чyвcтвoвaть cвoи нoги Я пpocнyлcя cлишкм пoзднo и нe пoпaл пoeзд гyceницa пpeвpaтитcя в бaбoчкy я cтoял нa oчepeдь зa eдy Hard: No
Noah Howard
that's what I would do if I had a time machine. I'd record old languages
Cameron Allen
You can actually find recordings of remakes of east germanic on youtube, how accurate that is, we dont know , and not sure how they actually remake the sounds from old texts
Cameron Harris
>page 8
Tyler Perez
Hanzi and Kanji aside, which language has the most complex orthograpy?
A lot of Gothic writings are translations of Greek texts and feature many Greek words, and the syntax often follows Greek patterns too
Grayson Bailey
You is plural, thou ignorant bastard.
Colton Martin
It's both
Connor Smith
He was making a joke
Jack Sanders
Takes a slav to get a slav joke, huh?
Dominic Martinez
No shit??! I knew americans are kinda thick but c'mon
Logan Martin
He's making a historical joke, you was the plural and formal role and thou was singular and informal, that's why he called referred to him using thou
Jaxon Gonzalez
>role >called referred I mean form* and referred* of course, I am phoneposting
Luis Smith
>I am phoneposting reee outta muh /lang/
Jackson Anderson
Le lion, la sorcière, et la garde-robe Elle a frappé la vache. Nous avons fait la vaisselle. Le distributeur automatique est cassé.
Il a donné un coup au nez du requin, l'étonnant pour un moment. Je ne peux pas sentir mes jambes. J'ai surdormi et raté le train. Une chenille se transforme en un papillon. Je fais la queue pour la nourriture.
Zachary Robinson
bump
Alexander Nguyen
what's the best and most productive way to learn german
and the answer for me was books, college textbooks to be exact, I used "treffpunkt" and "wie geht's " . write out all exercises and hear lots of german on easy german, write down words you dont know put them on anki . simple as.
Yeah I know we are in 2019 someone telling you to use a book sounds old fashion but theres no simple way around language learning.
Caleb Gray
CHINA
Tyler Wright
duolingo is only useful for learning the basic of the basic of the basic
Xavier Rodriguez
What word does tvätta come from? Why do other Scandis say vaske?
>What word does tvätta come from? Två, from Old Swedish 'þva', which is also whence words like 'tvål' (soap) and 'tvaga' (wash/clean) come from. Root-cognates in other languages are for example Old English 'þwean', German 'zwagen' and English 'towel'. Originally 'tvätta' (tvaga) seems to pertain to using hot water specifically to clean something, which is what you used for clothes with time so it stuck I guess.
>Why do other Scandis say vaske? I'm not sure why they didn't develop a form of 'þva', so I can't say. But we of course have 'vaska' as well, and that is as old as PGmc; *waskaną -> Old Norse: 'vaska' -> Swedish/Nynorsk: 'vaska', Norwegian/Danish: 'vaske' Old English: 'wæscan' -> English: 'wash' German: 'waschen' etc So it seems there are simply two forms, etymologically meaning different things (clean (water not implied) and wash (water very much implied)) but which have either become synonymous or been led on to completely new meanings, in Germanic langs.
