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hard working and attention paying catto edition

>What language are you learning?
>Share language learning experiences!
>Ask questions about your target language!
>Help people who want to learn a new language!
>Find people to practice your target language with!
>Participate in translation challenges or make your own!

Learning resources:
First and foremost check the Jow Forums Wiki. (feel free to contribute)
4chanint.fandom.com/wiki/The_Official_Jow Forums_How_to_Learn_A_Foreign_Language_Guide_Wiki

Check this pastebin for plenty of language resources as well as some nice image guides.
pastebin.com/ACEmVqua

/lang/ is currently short on those image guides, so if you can pitch in to help create one for a given language, don't hesitate to do so!

Torrents with more resources than you'll ever need for 30 plus languages:
Mega link with books for all kinds of languages:
mega.nz/#F!x4VG3DRL!lqecF4q2ywojGLE0O8cu4A

FAQ:
>How do I learn a language? What is the best way to learn one? How should I improve on certain aspects?
find a target lang gf (female)
>When can I move on to a different language?
you are not gonna learn the one you are currently learning anyway so you might as well do it now
>What language should I learn?
it doesn't matter because see above^

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>mfw I'm fluent at English but when I speak I struggle to pronounce a few things and that makes me look like a retard

gib latina gf

>wants a latina gf
>does not speak spanish
>slavic
Bro, why aren't you here? you would be a pussy destroyer

>slavic pussy destroyer
Doesn't sound likely friend

Why not? Serbs are based.

>MFW learning Arabic and listen to al Arabiya, BBC, and Sky News Arabic all day at work

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>>mfw I'm fluent at English but when I speak I struggle to pronounce a few things and that makes me look like

>Im fluent at

>at

Doubt

Pretty small thing to criticize considering the amount of "should of" posters that come from your country.

Sr*bians are some of the tallest people in Yurop, due to the I haplogroup that is shared with Scandinavians. Mexicans and people like them are small, and easily impressed by large Serbian sizes.

He had another mistake, but I bet you dont know what it is

Native speakers don't have to speak correctly because we make the rules.

Interesting take from a guy that types "dont".

Pretending to be retarded can be fun, I agree.

I'm curious what the other mistake was, unless it was punctuation

Just b confident bro

Isn't that what Greece did when you crashed your economy and didn't pay debts?

A better example would be our joke of a referendum but one could argue that we weren't just pretending.

Did you find it yet? Or is it too difficult for your roach brain?

Can you read?

na'am. Trying to get used to reading without shadda, sukun, damma, etc. I read the chyrons on the news channels and get the majority of them

question: what's the difference between Amrikiyun and Amrikiyeen? They're both plural forms right?

Why are you seething mutt? You smugly claim that someone is not fluent because of a small mistake yet using the same criteria the majority of your people should be considered illiterate. What's there to be smug about?
"I struggle to pronounce a few things, and that makes me look like a retard."
There, are you really sperging out about a comma and a period?

-----|| Archived challenge ||-----

Easy
>Do you want to eat ice cream?
>It's so hot in July.
>I walked my dog in the park.
>She is bit nervous.

Medium
>I asked him about it but he still hasn't responded.
>Summer is almost over and we still haven't gone to the beach.
>They were giving away free newspapers near the shop.
>My grandma always asks me when I will get married.

Hard
>I think I can distract him for a few seconds and then you can escape out of there.
>The dinner was ruined when Jake insulted Jessa's cooking, she was fuming and stormed out with her fists clenched.
>Selena thought she could manipulate the evidence and fool the cops, but they saw through her sham and arrested her.
>I'm telling you, those were two separate cases that are totally unconnected.

你想不想吃冰淇淋?
七月这么热!
我在公园跟我的狗散步
他有点儿着急

我问了他,但他还没回答
夏天快结束,我们还没去海边
他们在商店的旁边给免费报纸
我奶奶总是问我什么时候我会结婚
... i dunno about the other ones, if anyone is fluent i'd appreciate criticism :)

>It's so hot in July.
Июль oчeнь жapкий.
>She is bit nervous.
Oнa нeмнoгo нepвничaeт.

I don't feel confident enough to do any more.

Is this GT?
I am learning chink too but I am too DYEL (do you even lang) to figure it out, except for the mistakes like using 他 for he

for she*

God I wish Duolinguo existed 20 years ago I'd be competent in a couple languages by now. I can't believe how shit stuff like Rosetta Store was/is by comparison and that they had the gall to charge so much for it.

Which ones would you have picked?

I'd have stuck with French. (currently learning Spanish and enjoying it a lot with Duo)

>duolingo has meme languages like High Valerian and Klingon while still missing stuff like Latin and Arabic
people who speak fake fantasy languages fluently would be the first to be exterminated if I was ever a dictator.

Based

How similar is mandarin compared to Cantonese, and will the language basics carry over easily. Are we talking Spanish to Italian different or latin based to germanic/slavic difference.

From my very uneducated deduction, it's mostly the tones and pronunciation that's different. The written language is fairly similar from what I have heard.

>most prominent language in US after English is Spanish
>learn Portuguese instead

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Thats fine then, could just learn writing then learn speaking by assimilation with locals

Vorresti mangiare un gelato?
E' cosi caldo a Iuglio
Portavo a spasso il cane nel parco
E' un po' nervosa

oh yeah xd
i just wrote 'ta' on my chink keyboard and it auto assumed 他

chad

what if I speak both a fantasy language and Latin?

Fuck Duo. I hate the Godforsaken cunt. He always has some dumb, smug fucking look on his face. I turn him off, but I'm still forced to look at him every time there is a loading screen or a premium ad pops up. I want to beat him to a bloody pulp and analy rape the man or woman that designed him. FUCK JANNIES, FUCK NIGGERS, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, FUCK DUO.

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>i got recc'd some like movie about 12 year old lesbian girls
What movie? Asking for a friend.

NEDERLANDERS: Wat is het verschil tussen 'wit' en 'blank'???

Anyone else here /thriving/?

Which Scandi language would be the best to start with?

Norwegian is the easiest to pronounce, Icelandic has difficult grammar, Danish ia impossible to pronounce, Swedish has some sounds that are hard to pronounce correctly for English speakers

Which one do you __want__ to learn? They all have different ups and downs depending on your preferences and ambitions.

This is the old archived challenge from last thread tho. Better post something new.

Faroese, it's obscure so you´ll be cool at parties

Easy
>Do you want to eat ice cream?
chcesz jeść lodów?
>It's so hot in July.
tak jest gorąco w Lipcu
>I walked my dog in the park.
szłam mojego psa w parke
>She is bit nervous.
ona jest trochę zdenerwowana

NEW LANG CHALLENGE

Easy
>I am so thirsty.
>The school is on the right.
>The cake is red.
>We play games.

Medium
>Here's my card, buy us a cheese pizza.
>It was freezing outside so I went back in and put on a coat.
>That forest always smells like blossoms.
>He's always late, it's really annoying.

Hard
>They wanted witnesses for their alibi but couldn't find anyone willing to go to court and testify.
>It's easy to distract her, she's known to ramble on about anything, just keep the conversation going.
>All this apartment needs now is a feminine touch.
>We planned to intercept his route and catch him in the act.

>szłam
Please be my gf

btw, what do you mean by gt?

>E' cosi caldo
Fa così caldo
>nel parco
Al parco sounds more natural

Google Translate

No Mohammad

Kek I thought you were one of those who bump with obvious Google translations
But I couldn't tell since I'm shit at chink so I was asking if you're seriously learning

be mine then

are you motivated yet

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A czemu nie kochaneczko, jestem bardzo łagodnym i przystojnym chłopakiem

easy
我太渴了
学校是右边
蛋糕很红色
我们在玩
medium
这是我的卡。你该买我们一个比萨饼。
很冷了,就我回里去了 [...]

>Medium
>Here's my card, buy us a cheese pizza.
Weź moją kartę, kup nam pizze z serem
>It was freezing outside so I went back in and put on a coat.
na zewnątrz było zimno, więc wróciłem i włożyłem kurtkę
>That forest always smells like blossoms.
>He's always late, it's really annoying.
jest stale spóźniony, to denerwujące

I am scared for my life

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>>Do you want to eat ice cream?
>chcesz jeść lodów?
Czy chcesz jeść lody?

>>It's so hot in July.
>tak jest gorąco w Lipcu
Jest bardzo gorąco w lipcu.

>>I walked my dog in the park.
>szłam mojego psa w parke
Szedłem na spacer z moim psem do parku.

>>She is bit nervous.
>ona jest trochę zdenerwowana
ok


>>Medium
>>Here's my card, buy us a cheese pizza.
>Weź moją kartę, kup nam pizze z serem
Here's my card exactly mean = Tutaj jest moja karta
but your sentence is ok also

>>It was freezing outside so I went back in and put on a coat.
>na zewnątrz było zimno, więc wróciłem i włożyłem kurtkę
ok

>>That forest always smells like blossoms.
>>He's always late, it's really annoying.
>jest stale spóźniony, to denerwujące
On jest zawsze spóźniony to jest naprawdę denerwujące.

>Do you want to eat ice cream?
アイスクリームを食べたいか?
>It's so hot in July.
七月は暑いな

Ich habe so viel Durst
Die Schule ist am rechts
Die Küche ist rot.
Wir spielen spiele.

Hier ist meine Karte, kaufen uns Käse Pizza.
Es war eiskalt draußen, so ich geht zurück und anprobiert einen Mantel.
Das Wald riecht immer als Blüten.
Er ist immer spät, es ist wirklich nervig.

one is raciss the other one is used by naffers en pindas

Je suis si assoiffé
L'école est à droit
le gâteau est rouge
nous jouons des jeux

Wit is the color itself, blank is used as the color of the skin. You would seldom hear someone say "een witte man"

Do every Belgians speak both Dutch and French fluently?

>You would seldom hear someone say "een witte man"
I hear that a bunch desu

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>Cantonese is my first language
>can't pass the hard challenge
How fucked am I?

Writing is similar, but speaking is entirely different. They aren't mutually intelligible and words have different meanings/uses.

>fluently
No , it depends on what region you live in.
Usually you get the other language from 10 years age in school.

youtube.com/watch?v=M0Ncawy2LJc

How different is Latin Spanish to actual Spanish? Duolingo only offers Latin but I'd like to learn to talk to Spaniard, not Cubans and Mexicans.

>Die Schule ist am rechts
"Die Schule ist auf der rechten Seite."
or just "Die Schule ist rechts."
>Wir spielen spiele.
"Spiele" is a noun and has to be capitalized.

>Hier ist meine Karte, kaufen uns Käse Pizza.
There's this confusing spelling rule where you can choose to hyphenate words where two nouns are joined together, and one or both of them are foreign words ("Pizza" being Italian). So I guess either Käse-Pizza or Käsepizza is right. But even native speakers get confused by that. However, "Käse Pizza" is definitely wrong.
Also, it should be "kaufe uns eine Käsepizza."

>Es war eiskalt draußen, so ich geht zurück und anprobiert einen Mantel.
Es war eiskalt draußen, also ging ich zurück und zog einen Mantel an.
"anprobieren" means "try on", but you're not trying on a coat, you're just putting it on.

>Das Wald riecht immer als Blüten.
Almost correct. It's "DER Wald riecht immer NACH Blüten."

Duolingo won't teach you how to conjugate vosotros which is very important as its commonly used in Spain so you must learn all the tenses/conjugation of vosotros + subjunctive mood and all of its tenses. Usted is used all the time in Latin America and using Tú to a stranger is very rude but everyone uses Tú in Spain to strangers. Spain Spanish pronounces 'c' in a word like 'th', you can look up explanation videos on youtube. Also some differences in vocab, like ordenador in spain vs computadora in latin america, teléfono móvil / celular, boligrafo/pluma, camaerero/masero etc you can find many examples of the difference in vocab online

Your question is very insensitive. It's like asking "How different is American English from actual English"

You achieve instant fluency in your target language but now speak your native language in the accent of your target language, do you proceed?

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In his defense I'd say European/sudaca flags calling us fat retarded subhuman 40 times an hour is also a little insensitive. I mean they're not wrong but the latter has no real place to talk

German/sort of Swedish and either way, yes without a second thought

What if I say that my target language is my native language

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Actual English and American English have no gramatical differences. The differences boil down to where the letter U is and how you pronounce a certain metal. The worst mistake you're ever going to make talking about vagina sacks when you meant butt bags. The American/Actual English divide only really exists to web designers and localizers. If your hang up is with the term 'actual': Get over yourself. It's the Spanish spoken by Spaniards in the country is Spain. It's Actual Spanish. It's hardly an insult to Latin Spanish.

Don't know if here is the right place
What's the difference between "what did you do" and "what have you done"? Imagine you fucked up and somebody ask those questions. When translated they look the same in portuguese.

im just gonna do the first one since i cant come close to the other ones.

>vil ha spiser du is?

wait no im retarded its:
vil spiser du is?

>Actual English and American English have no gramatical differences. The differences boil down to where the letter U is and how you pronounce a certain metal. The worst mistake you're ever going to make talking about vagina sacks when you meant butt bags. The American/Actual English divide only really exists to web designers and localizers. If your hang up is with the term 'actual': Get over yourself. It's the Spanish spoken by Spaniards in the country is Spain. It's Actual Spanish. It's hardly an insult to Latin Spanish.

youtube.com/watch?v=9-Ft91k-2ik

i got banned from duolingo for this..saw a couple of faggots in the forums with those flags and called em what they were...i just made a new account and tested back in so more practice for me...even some them make a post about "respecting all languages" kiss my ass

Are they really much different from those fags who learn esperanto though

What the fuck are you even trying to say?

>be asshole for no reason
>get banned
>cry about it to your hugbox back on 'the chan'

no. esperantos are also faggots and KEKS!

Tu as quel age?
Montre-moi ton pièce d'identification, s'il te plaît.
Je pense que tu es très jolie.
Que feriez-tu pour cent euros?

American English IS actual English, you're the ones who arbitrarily changed random spellings out of asshurt for colonists

âge*
Que ferais-tu*
Feriez is for Vous

Ah yes, thanks.

Easy
jeg are så torst
Skole er på hoyre
Kake er rodt
Vi leker spill

Quieres comes helado?
Es muy caliente en julio
Yo caminando mi perro en el parque
Ella es un poco nerviosa

Yo estoy muy sediento
La escuela está a la derecha
La tarta es rojo
Jugando juegos