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100%. German's highly logical but a bit difficult which is why I like it and would recommend staying with it. Nigga you're fine then
Jeremiah Perez
These charts always make it look harder than it is.
Lucas Murphy
I know I'm just being a dick
David Collins
Not yet. I’m still at a very basic level. But I’ll probably start with something like Harry Potter. Eventually I’ll get to the big boy stuff like Borges.
Kevin Smith
What app do you recommend for learning English? I want a mini course, with grammar and these things, not "translate this word" like Duolingo and Memrise.
among case based languages German is super easy mode the only reason it's got this reputation for "insane grammar" because it's the only case based language English speakers often learn in high school German declensions are very significnatly reduced compared to languages like Latin, Greek, Icelandic, basically any Slavic language, etc.
for example there would be no way to make such a pic for Icelandic because of 12-14 main noun declension classes and if you count all subclasses and declensions something like 70 different ways to decline nouns
QUICK are you man enough to translate >benis is bagina :DDDDDDD into your target language?
Benjamin Hernandez
are the romance languages actually easier than german?
Levi Hall
yea apparently since modern romance got no cases although imho they make up for it with their ridiculously inflated verb conjugation but the FSI suggests that it does make enough of a difference
I'm noticing a lot of times with plural words in Russian, e tends to end up as ё; is there some sort of rule about this?
Brody Hall
>embed embed embed embed Nooooo we were supposed to fix this~~
Jordan Watson
i can't think of a single regular word that ends with ё, let alone a word in plural
> мyмиё a regular word not some all rules breaking meme
Nolan Myers
Not ending, just anywhere e.g. cecтpa > cёcтpы
Ayden Campbell
i think that's an isolated case
based on just one word i can make up a case that ё is to be removed in plural form with an example like:
кocтёp -- кocтpы
Luis Sullivan
I remember there being a couple but it's probably a coincidence then
Jayden Flores
Reminder, reasons for learning a language rankings
Top tier: Because you like learning languages High tier: Necessary for a country you live in/have serious plans to move to* Mid tier: General usefulness (if you're also doing it because you like learning languages refer to top tier)* Okay tier: For use in a country you hope to move to someday* Low tier: It's something to do but you don't really take it seriously Shit tier: muh ancestors muh heritage Kill yourself: trying to get laid
The sort of person to do that being an insufferable twat aside, it's a serious and extremely time consuming commitment. Even by peacocking standards it's completely stupid when one could just fix their own garbage personality in less time
Nicholas Adams
>one could just fix their own garbage personality in less time
do you know how difficult it is to fundamentally change a garbage personality? It's ranges from very difficult to almost impossible
But you can reach A2 in a language with Duolingo in a single year
Liam Brooks
yo nigga listen i don't know any russian but i think i know the reason why this ё stuff is happening
look when you've got a word like >cecтpa the stress is on the "a" however if you decline it - that includes the plural like cёcтpы - the stress changes to the "e"
however, in russian stressed syllable NEVER have reduced vowel sounds - this is why the "e" turns into "ё" in the plural, because it receives the stress.
i am drunk i hope this makes sense.
Owen James
It's really not difficult, just nobody wants to put in the effort and I'm including myself in that. Keep in mind this is just temporarily not being a conceited/boring asshole for pussy, not attracting a soulmate (who let's be honest, isn't going to be that great if she was swept off her feet by some fatfuck speaking broken French)
Oliver Wright
i learned a language for an exchange student in high school. she was my first crush. i never made a move on her.
also your tier list lacks "i like the country the language is spoken in and want to learn it to make vacation there more enjoyable"
Owen Cook
>never made a move on her Story of my life.
Anyway the amount you'd need to learn for a vacation and have it be useful is far beyond what almost anyone is going to do for a few days/week in another country. I always see people learning greetings and things but everyone just speaks to them in English because they can't actually say anything useful
Austin Hill
Hebrew
Julian Harris
Based what language should I learn poster
Xavier Murphy
What about звepь - звepьё? There are a lot like this ))
Its wir gehen, right? But what's wrong with "mit dem meine Freunde"
Cooper Rivera
Yeah it's wir gehen
you don't need the "dem" after mit It's just mit meinen Freunden, with my friends Cuz when you have a dative like mit, you add an "n" to the end of plural nouns, like mit Kartoffeln
I'm a brainlet in German so I could be wrong
Easton Williams
I mean Kindern
Nathan Bennett
Just turn on the mnemonic keyboard.
Mason Martinez
alright, thanks
Cooper Robinson
Wait! Wait!
I also have a gut feeling that your word order and word choice is wrong, like it should be wir gehen mit meinen Freunden beim Auto, or something
but I don't know what the correct version is, I only have a strong feeling
James Brooks
>wir gehen mit meinen Freunden beim Auto wouldn't that say, "we will go with my friends" I'm sticking with the swedish structure since my teacher told me to. You might be correct, though.
Ryder Moore
It would be more simple to say "wir fahren", that's just my guess
also bump
Jordan Flores
I wish I'd learned German by now because nowadays I'm just too miserable to put in the immense amount of work it would take for me to be able to speak it, write, and understand it being spoken. I try to engage in German conversations and when I have to look up every other word it just makes me more miserable.
Isaiah Rodriguez
Story?
Michael Powell
watch some german videos
Leo Flores
> the immense amount of work it would take for me to be able to speak it, write, and understand it being spoken There's no hurry user, I've been studying german for 7 years and I'm still around the A2 level. I just started to get serious last week and now I feel like I've never been that good before in german
Brayden Harris
7 years?!?!? I'm supposed to be almost fluent by december.
Caleb Foster
That's nothing. I started studying it in 2009 and I don't even know what level I'm at. I certainly can't understand normal German conversation, I have no idea what the fuck anybody is saying. I can't even comprehend news reports.
Well, to be fair, you aren't really taught how to learn a language in the US. I didn't practice every single day of those 9 years, I only studied in school from 2009-2011. And tried studying off and on after college but didn't really know what to do to do it effectively, I'd try to watch movies with German subtitles but it just seemed to take way too long and be really inefficient. Even to this day I don't know how people learn other languages effectively. I have a Finnish friend who speaks at least four languages and is probably more adept at English than I am but I can't even speak or write skillfully in one other language other than my native. I've tried German, Spanish, Japanese, you name it. Not fluent in any of them.
Luke Martinez
Well, I lied a bit. I started at age 11, first year of middle school, and I stopped at age 18, just after the baccalauréat (final exams in french highschool) and I even managed to get a 18 out of 20 in german, which was my first foreign language. I should have said "I studied", my fault Now I'm 24, and I guess I'm a beginner again, though I have some memories from school Well I started in 2005, I just stopped learning it for 6 years, as I decided to make short studies in an highschool which wasn't offering german lessons.
Adrian Thompson
Don't you worry, german will be easier for a swede like than for a fr*nchoid like me
Jose Scott
i see Probably. There's tons of similarities.
William Gomez
> Kill yourself: trying to get laid this is a valid reason not like > Top tier: Because you like learning languages it's just autism
Xavier Martinez
Don't compare yourself to some finnish genius, and focus on one language only. Have you tried to buy an exercise book with lessons in it and important vocabulary? That's what I use and it works quite well
Angel Williams
>Have you tried to buy an exercise book with lessons in it and important vocabulary? That's what I use and it works quite well
I still have my old college textbook and all the stuff I bought back then. Maybe I could go through it again but I just don't feel confident I'm ever going to get to where I want to be at this point.
Elijah Gray
If Franck Ribery can do it then you can also do it That's my motto
Ryan Gray
>Franck Ribery
Now I'm lost.
Luke Reyes
Irish
Landon Morales
Forget about that, and just do it
Kevin Miller
do you group your vocabulary so it has a common theme? eg. animals, clothing is this a good way to go about bulk learning vocabulary
