/lang/ - Language Learning General

>Is it worth to learn [insert special snowflake conlang for autists]
no

zošto bi učil makedonski?

Poor man's Latin

What level of profiecency or fluency should you switch to a second language?

For me since I value quantity over quality i'd say B1 level in order to have the most time to study as many languages out there

using duolingo and memrise for russian. any third free source i should use?

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my wife chino... I WANT TO FUCK CHINO
please chino is so cute my wife chino is so cute chino chan sex chino sex with chino i'd like some more kafuu chino sex with chino kafuu chino my wife cute is so chino wife

>I don't remember exactly because I also learn other languages
sounds like a winning formula

Michel Thomas. Pimsleur. Read the wiki.

Hey everyone. I wanna share again the Japanese language learning materials the Japanese teacher from my university gave us.

mediafire.com/folder/7z925are8hwa7/Jap_materials

upload to mega pls , mediafire is being a nigger

based and chinopilled

Got the achievement!

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Congrats! Which language?

Those repeat after me courses seem stupid to me. Can it even improve your listening and speaking skills. It seems just useless cramming and you don't learn to organically learn to build sentences or speak in everyday manner. It is better to do role play with someone.

French with a bit of Russian. How far is your streak? And what languages are you learning?

I've got a 31-day streak and I'm learning French and Italian.

How far are you along your tree? I am bit farther than half way?

not him
but i had a friend in high school from south africa who could speak english afrikaans dutch zulu french german and italian. cool lad. is this common there?

Generally white Afrikaners can speak English/Afrikaans, English people are monolingual generally. Africans can speak many languages usually, afrikaans ,English and native language. Generally speaking the majority of Saffers are trilingual. But desu languages like Xhosa and Zulu are more like dialects than real languages. But it's pretty easy for Afrikaners to learn Dutch. Most Afrikaans teachers have at least two years experience of Dutch. But yea your friend is rare but I think it's more common here to be polygot than other countries.

translation challenge.

>mmm yes chino chan yes very good while I was being challenged by the Chino

>please chino your scent is so fragrant let alone your taste must be superior

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has anyone here gotten a good grasp at how to speak a language when learning it but still found it difficult to understand other people using it?

>Minna no Nihongo
>Genki
wow it's fucking nothing
You can get those anywhere for free extremely easily, you dumb faggot.

opposite for me. can understand anyone talk about anything but struggle to string a sentence together myself. probably just need a gf

Why would you want to learn Bulgarian? You said you were interested in Greece right? If you're not the same user then forgive me but I'm just letting you know that "Macedonian" isn't a distinct language. It's almost identical to Bulgarian.

Can I ask you a favor, file?

Sure why not

Please check this out and tell me what you think:
Much obliged.

No, i'm in high school.
>inb4 reported for underage
Calm the fuck down, i'm 18 and i will finish high school at 20 years of age
It's not even a high school, it's a "technical middle school".
Apparently people on Jow Forums can't comprehend that the education works differently in other countries.

no one cares retard

Seek help

He literally asked me

Thanks for making me feel old

Why is it so difficult to find somebody from japan who learns russian?
I'd like to find a partner who studies russian, is native japanese, and knows english at least at the B2 level (preferably better)

Why do you need your partner to know English?

>Easy
>What day is today?
ΤΙ μέρα είναι σήμερα?
>I have no choice.
Δεν έχω άλλη επιλογή
>We are good friends.
Είμαστε kαλοί φίλοι
>This boy has no job.
Αυτό το αγόρι δεν έχει kαμία δουλειά
>Your hand feels cold.
Το χέρι σου είναι kρύο

>>Medium
>Do you have any suggestions for me?
Έχεις kαμιά πρόταση για μένα;
>Did you miss the bus?
Έχασες το λεωφορείο;
>It's against the law.
Είναι παράνομο (I would say it like this cuz it's easier than the other way)
>He invited me to dinner yesterday.
Χτες με προσkάλεσε για βραδινό.
>Suppose it rains, what shall we do?
Στην υπόθεση ότι θα βρέξει, τι να kάνουμε;

>>Hard
>Certain fungi are much better at extracting phosphorus from the soil than plants.
Ορισμένοι μύkητες είναι πολύ kαλύτεροι στην εξαγωγή φωσφόρου από το χώμα σε σχέση με τα φυτά

If you have any other questions tell me. I wrote these based on how I would personally say them so I didn't try to translate them literally, but in a way that sounded natural in Greek

>Another weekend of social obligations that mean I won't be able to study much

>Στην υπόθεση ότι θα βρέξει, τι να kάνουμε;
*τι θα kάνουμε;

I appreciate this mate, I should have been more clear though. My question was whether my corrections/suggestions were as wrong as the Burger made them out to be.

Well they weren't huge mistakes but they would be noticeable nonetheless.

Learn Bulgarian

>why yes, I am learning Scots. How did you know?

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Ok :).
I don't mean to sound like I know better than you (just trying to understand why I'm wrong on my reasoning), but doesn't να βρέξει suggest that we're talking about a situation where it is no longer raining?
And the wikipedia link (if you correct the kappa in it) is fairly clean on the fact that τελιkό νι is always retained for τον.

Because I'm not good enough at japanese to understand something, and they could be likewise
It's more convenient than resorting to ooga booga ways of explaining difficult stuff, like "A bad, B good"

Scots? You mean bastardised English with a bit of borrowed Gaelic in it?

I am interested in learning greek. I never said i was interested in macedonian necessarily. I wanted to check it out but im not good with slavic languages nor was it the language of the ancient macedonians

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Yeah you're right about that. Αόριστος is about something that happened in the past and it stopped. In my example though, I didn't use αόριστο but μέλλοντα συνοπτιkό (at least that's how it's said when I looked it up. We weren't taught about this in school). "φαντάσου να βρέχει/βρέξει" are both correct though. Regarding the νι, you're right on that one. Your biggest mistake was saying ποια μέρα. That's only used for sentences like "ποια μέρα θα πάμε παραλία;". As you can see, I don't know grammar perfectly but neither will any other Greeks know it perfectly. It's not a problem if you make some mistakes while talking, only the big mistakes are are a problem

My motivator gave up and only got 50xp today. Sad

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Get good then. If you can't even explain basic concepts with the language you have no reason to be having entire conversations with people.

YIKE!
I guess I must educate you. Scots developed out of Middle Anglic and so did English. I could just as well say English is bad Scots.

Alright I understood you now. I would recommend learning Greek only if you're REALLY interested in Greece. It's not an easy language and has many confusing rules and grammar, not to mention the fact that it's quite useless. If you like learning the language though, go for it

How

I can explain shit but in english I can do that while asleep, but in japanese I'll have to take 10 minutes to research and find shit
Even then if it's just japanese-russian exchange it's still very difficult to find somebody

Yes, im really interested and wouldnt pick it up only to drop it sometime later. I would like to read ancient stories like the illiad in the original texts as there is much meaning lost in translation i would presume.

Great, great picture, OP. I'm going to make it my wallpaper and gaze at it for half an hour because it's just so beautiful. I can see you're an individual of great taste who likes to share beautiful and precious images with the rest of the world. Insane that there's so much negativity on this website when there's well-crafted drawings with true meaning and purpose like those to cheer us up. I challenge anyone to even try and think of an argument against posting the mutated feels man on every single board and every single thread. Protip: you can't.

None of that changes the fact that it's just English with Gaelic in it. It's equivalent to me learning Portuñol and claiming to have learned another language. If you want to be a larper so bad go learn a real language like Scottish Gaelic instead, then at least you'll be able to talk about it without being laughed at.

Thanks again.

>It's not an easy language
Perhaps not the easiest, but I'm sure it would be much easier for an Anglo to learn than some Slavic language. I've never studied French, but it looks much harder to me...

Greek vocabulary is super interesting and fun to learn, noun/adjective/pronoun declension fairly simple, but verb conjugation can get tricky sometimes. Pronunciation is kid stuff, even though Greeks themselves sometimes talk a little bit too fast.

>I would like to read ancient stories like the illiad in the original texts as there is much meaning lost in translation i would presume
The above applies to modern Greek. If reading the Iliad is something you'd want to do, then good luck, because you're in for a world of hurt. Ancient Greek is an entirely different beast in terms of Grammar.

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who are some comfy language youtubers
for me, it's langfocus

Thanks for the insight. Perhaps once i become proficient in modern greek i may teach myself the ancient form. But thats likely many years away

Ancient Greek compared to modern Greek is almost like a different language but if you want to read the classic Greek epics as close as possible to the original text, modern Greek is just fine. I wish you luck on your journey learning Greek φίλε μου

>NO, NO NO! THAT ISNT A SCOTTISH LANGUAGE! AND EVEN THOUGH NONE OF YOUR ANCESTORS HAVE SPOKE GAELIC YOU SHOULD REALLY LEARN THAT!
>NO! YOUR ANCESTORS HAVENT SPOKE ANGLIC AND SCOTS FOR THE PAST 1500 YEARS! THEY SPOKE GAELIC UNTIL 1900!

Every now and again NativLang's video gets recommended to me and they're always interesting.

That's a good plan I think. You'll be able to get enjoyment out of modern Greek in the meantime and it should be (I think?) a good base to build upon.

Well...Scots is a germanic Germanic...Scots are not a Germanic people... Seems like a cover up, make you feel uncucked while you in fact are still cucked, that sort of thing

Thank you

Technically Gaels are German, they were Celtic Germans who emigrated here after the Roman invasion.
But us lowlanders have spoke Cumbric for a short time and Scots/ Anglican for longer than Scotland has existed, the language was literally created in this land.

Make a challenge already. We should be obligated to make a challenge within the first 10 posts. If we do it this way where we wait until 150 damn posts, we actually get less responses from native speakers.

challenge: pull my foot out of your ass

I would have made the challenge back then but I was banned.

sick do you want to join our discord server lad

I wish I could join the Discord server, but I imagine I'm quite useless in this context as a native English speaker. Well, I guess I could help out French learners but I'm not fluent.

Make it now then. It's not too late.

why would it be useless we have plenty of americans and some australians in there

Learning standard Kalaallisut and Scots. Thoughts?

thanks for replying

Can someone set out a guide on learning ebonics?

yeah
the it's not hard

basically just say "FUCK WHITES how are you today?"
or "hello, FUCK WHITES, bro"

My challenges always suck, but I guess.

Good, don't know much about them but you seem to enjoy learning. That's all I got as a reply :)

Everyone already knows English there, presumably.

How can you even be bad at making challenges? All you have to do is type a couple of gradually complex sentences and grade them by difficulty.

thanks BRO

>Kalaallisut

You're triggering my NAIL boner
Tell me more about this experience

thats not the only point of it lol

>Tell me more about this experience
He learned to say "hi" and "thanks".

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Well that's more than most white men ever did

Challenge

Easy
>Excuse me, do you have any forks?
>I like this pink and white dress.
>Do you have this dress in a bigger size?
>I don't want a car, I want a truck because I am a man.

Medium
>Why yes, I do prefer to order my steaks well-done, how could you tell?
>NO!!!!! WHY WOULD YOU ORDER A DISGUSTING RUBBERY STEAK? YOU BELONG IN HELL, YOU MONSTER!!!
>For me, it's pizza with pineapple and ham. Hawaiian pizza is an amazing invention; only fussy eaters with the palate of an eight year old can't appreciate the complex mix of flavors.
>NO!!!!! YOU RUINED A PERFECTLY FINE PIZZA, JUST SO YOU COULD FEEL SUPERIOR TO EVERYONE!! I AM GOING BACK TO REDDDIT WHERE I CAN'T SEE ANYMORE OF THESE WRONG OPINIONS!!!!!

Hard
>Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
>Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.
>When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can reach an apparent magnitude of −2.94, bright enough for its reflected light to cast shadows, and making it on average the third-brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus.
(You have to write out the number including the negative sign in letters.)

Wait, I think I should have said *any more, not anymore here.

I take it back, that's fucking awful

Shouldn't have asked me to write it, retards.

>Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

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Have sex incel