/lang/ - language learning

Tips for learning German? Starting from scratch.

Would you prefer exact but grammatically unnatural but correct translations, or not really exact and more natural translations?

why are these threads always dead?

I think it's because we dont use enough sexy anime women as the op image.

>nobody on the weeb forums wants to learn anything but weebanese
really makes you think

I want to learn German

Why? Not shittalking your choice but genuinely curious.

Why?

Yes, the English lines are modern and natural to read, but not a literal translation. The translation would not have suffered from being as literal as possible. Since it is a different speech being recited in a different language, the recitation should match imo.

Like here, there was no reason to drop 'you' from the sentence.
>Excuse me, you little people.
...as an example. Of course the exact literal translation would have been a bit weird; Excused me, your little people, but as I said; as literal as possible, not full on unreadible because of it.

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Why do Russians call him "Adolf Gitler" instead of "Adolf Hitler"? Wouldn't using "X" work?

Bumping with a reminder that the wiki needs more work

Because outside of true polyglots refining their technique and specific questions there is not much to talk about.

Yo, where's the /lang/ pastebin?

I like the way it sounds and I think it may open up some professional opportunities.
Who knows, maybe even a blonde german-speaking so

Remember to change your devoce into your target language anons

I, for one, did a rather big edit to the Spanish wiki back in the day

Beautiful dubs

It's the old way of transliterating foreign names. They say Victor Gyugo for Victor Hugo too for exemple.
I think they've changed the rules for transliteration now but the old names stick around.

And there aren't questions in the OP anymore to engage in a bit of conversation

I think it's lost

So it's sort of like with the japs. They spell names in japanese and then pronounce that instead in of pronouncing them "properly". That's why "engrishu" is a thing, btw.

pastebin.com/raw/ACEmVqua found this.

any chinese learner here? I'd appreciate some tips regarding resources for scrubs.

>duolingo
>using a picture the Sphinx and the Giza pyramids for Arabic

Use duolingo for some basics and vocabulary, torrent a textbook like deutsch heute (there's a 9th edition floating around one of the piratebays somewhere, I'll find the link later) for grammar, exercises etc

Nice going argentina. We need to put this in the OP next thread.

>duolingo
>ever

Of course the Mexican has a blonde fetish

Alright /lang/!
1. Your cunt
2. Language you're learning
3. Why you're learning it.

1. Flag
2. French
3. Ive always had an autistic obsession with it and attempted to learn it multiple times when I was younger, but now I want to go all the way. Also, I want a qt hairy armpit french gf.

>1. Your cunt
México
>2. Language you're learning
Français
>3. Why you're learning it
Now that I know English, I think this is the most important language I need to learn.
Maybe Chinese or German are more relevant now, but since I was a kid I always heard that French was second behind English and I'm not gonna interrupt it now.

Ok I'll make them more literal in the future

:3 yay fellow German learner

Pls join German learning discord, is very lonely so far
discord.gg/qzuFFVz

Flag.
I'm not actively learning a specific language, but rather I casually study languages and their history, etymology and such, so I learn a lot about languages (especially European ones) this way.

I don't study German, though. I only know it from school several years ago etc. Although I'm not a speaker, I can read it and understand it. I could for example translate a text, but I could not type one without errors.

UK
Spanish
I think Spain is really similar to the UK more so than any other country. They have a lot of history and culture that is still European but kind of completely foriegn to me so I want to eventually kind of look into all that.

The thing is certain sounds don't exist in their language so they can't possibly transcribe those names in a way that will allow people to read it with the correct pronunciation.
Typically the "u" sound in Victor Hugo does not exist in Russian.

>The thing is certain sounds don't exist in their language so they can't possibly transcribe those names in a way that will allow people to read it with the correct pronunciation.
I know, but the "dumb" bit is that they can still produce the sounds with their mouths, but choose to pronounce the "closest thing" they can get in their language instead. That's what I've always felt was dumb about Engrishu anyway. This is also what creates the case with L/R, as the closest letter they have produce a sound inbetween L and R so they guess instead of.. you know, just learning.

>able to actually have basic-intermediate conversations in Lithuanian

feels like I have made it, but still a lot of work to do.

duolingo actually helps to remember words quite well, it is definitely reinforcing my existing knowledge of Polish.

>Lithuanian

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How are you learning lithuanian nigel?

it is quite a good experience actually.

Complete verb tense conjugation:
morfologija.lt/

Dictionary that tells you the stress class of words:
tv3.lt/zodynas/terminu-zodynas/

Explanation of stress classes:
šaltiniai.info/files/kalba/KF00/Lietuvių_kalbos_žinynas._Daiktavardžių_kirčiavimas.KF2700.pdf

Pretty good dictionary that shows stresses of all words to help accentuation:
ezodynas.lt/

Some live TV:
lrt.lt/

forgot this too:

Lithuanian Participles:
lituanus.org/1987/87_1_04.htm

Because this board is the Facebook of neo-neo-Jow Forums. It's good if you want to discuss reasons why the death penalty for teenagers and under is not wrong, because there's so much material to work with, but not much else.

Trying to clarify something, in German do you use "indem" only if there's an object?

For example, "he bought the car (object) by lying" = "er hat das Auto gekauft, indem er gelogen hat", but if I were to type "he learned by reading" it would just be "er hat durch Lesen gelenrnt"

>gelenrnt
gelernt

Brazil
Japanese
I'm going to start saying I hate anime. If my choice of learning the language depended on this, surely I'd never have the least interest in it.
I'm actually a huge fan of Japanese music, cinema and literature. Most of what I listen to, watch or read has something to do with the language. I wish I don't have to count on translations forever.

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i would say er hat das beim Lesen gelernt

durch can be used i guess but u would have to write out "das" the object

Japanese is easy
only brainlets say it’s hard lmao

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When people learn Spanish, do they learn Spanish from Mexico, Spain or where?

When I was in school, I learned Spanish from Mexican teachers, so Mexican Spanish, I think

Ecuador
Russian
It started with Tolstoy, then I just found myself loving the language and how it sounds and eventually I start getting interest in the rest of Slavic languages

I've found that it's ineffective for me, I generally have already memorised that each button on my phone does, And you aren't likely to use words like "Settings" or "Storage" very often anyway

I don't though

I have only 4 options unfortunately: chink, nip, spanish and english.

I'm doing a bit of French whenever I have time.
I'll never be fluent, but I enjoy doing small courses on duolingo when I can.

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Time to do Memrise

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>I'm going to start saying I hate anime
アニメが大嫌いです

God damn it, I got a speeding ticket today

Depends a lot really. Southerners in Brazil usually have more contact with Ur a gay and argentina so they end up leaning towards rioplatense accent. People here up north usually only see colombians and peruvians. All my spanish teachers at school were peruvian

Бyмп

Name 4 or more things about the language youre learning to motivate others.

German
>sounds fucking manly and bad ass
language of scientific advancement

>Hard Grammar makes it even funner to learn and you feel special when you master it because it means youre not a brainlet

>German girls love foreigners who speak german

>Germany is an amazing country to visit.
Able to understand history more if you know german especially the german's side of history. Germans are generally not friendly but are freindlier when you know german

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French
>noun genders aren't actually that hard
>conjunctions are cool
>tons of words that are fun to say
>french is going to be the lingua francia soon

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I wish i could read chinese moon runes. I have no interest in Chinese or China except the characters.

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>German
>sounds fucking manly and bad ass

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I had a theory that in the US and Canada they learn Mexican, in Brazil they learn Argentinian and in the rest of the world they learn from Spain.
Now I see, that it changes depending on which part of Brazil you are, that's pretty cool.
Although I have to say that there more diferences than just the accent and some words. Like the pronouns you use and how ypu conjugate, specially the imperative

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When someone says they are learning or speak Spanish in the UK, they usual mean Castellan from actual Spain.

WWE network seems to be a surprisingly good listening resource. They have alternate audio for 6+ languages for every ppv.

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Does anybody here have experience with Arabic? How easy/difficult is it for a Westerner?
Would you recommend it?
Any good online resources (that aren't aimed at autistic Islamic converts)?

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Ok russian also sounds manly bro no need to be a bitch about it

The more I think about your question the weirder the word 'indem' becomes.
If I had to make up a rule for when you can use it: "Explaining something that has been, is being, or will be attempted or accomplished by someone performing an action."
And that's just a clusterfuck of a rule. Let's shorten it: "Indem is used when there's a verb with which a person attempts or accomplishes a feat, regardless of tense."

It's probably still a terrible explanation, but the best one I managed to come up with.

This is magnificent. Would learn the language to watch it.

Typical slav sub-linguaity. Ukrainians do the same plebness. But instead of g'ing everything, they replace every "g" with "h".

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>Parlez francais!

Anyone else learning Italian?

Is this book good for learning french grammar
French for Reading - Karl Sandberg

Does anyone have recommendations for books on French grammar?

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> if people are near a Spanish-speaking country, people learn Spanish from that country

can someone clarify the difference between the following:
She had been having bad dreams before
She has had bad dreams before
She had bad dreams before

I'm old fan of Rammstein but for me german sounds weird and funny in general.
And i dont see something good to sound like bad ass. Maybe it's good for baboons but not for people.

ummmm I'm not a huge grammar person

> She had been having bad dreams before
she has dreams in the near past, but recently stopped having bad dreams
> She has had bad dreams before
she has bad dreams sometime in the past, anytime from baby to now
> She had bad dreams before
she has bad dreams in the near past

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Yeah, that's what I said.

Can someone tell me what this means? It's probably either Russian or Ukrainian: Mashyna-shvydyna

I'm learning italiano too

Г used to be pronounced like the Spanish and Dutch g (this can still be seen in sister languages such as Ukrainian). Using it to cyrillize foreign names with Hs just never went away.

>cunt
flag

>lang
Arabic

>why
I'm sort of just "giving it a shot" right now, to see if anything catches my interest. It's undoubtedly a very useful language these days, and my background in Turkish has helped me with some of the vocab.

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I worry about not keeping up my German. Watching/reading stuff is all well and good but I need to speak/write it and I don't really know where I can do that on a regular basis. It's a very good level so I don't fret too much but I'd rather not let it degrade at all.

Brainlet here.
Wy is it important to know the difference betwren an adverb and an adjective? They pretty much do the same thing, only that the adverbs describe verbs, adverbs and adjective; and the adjectives describe nouns.

use italki

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