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Check this pastebin for plenty of language resources as well as some nice image guides. pastebin.com/ACEmVqua (embed) (embed)
/Lang/ is currently short on those image qts, so if you can pitch in to help create one for a given language, don't hesitate to do so!
FAQ: >How do I learn a language? What is the best way to learn one? How should I improve on certain aspects? Ideally take a class, otherwise buy (torrent) a well-received textbook for your language, google any grammar you have trouble with and no matter what do lots of translation exercises. Duolingo is fine to use in addition to whatever else you are but a poor idea to use on its own. >When can I move on to a different language? At a minimum of when you've gotten the grammar for your current language down, or being able to shitpost in its respective general without much effort. >What language should I learn If you have to ask, German. Russian if you especially want a challenge >Should I learn X to get a qt wife/gf? No, fuck off
i've made several arguments. i have yet to hear a single valid point why finnish is a particularly hard language compared to say slavic ones. i already debunked the 15 cases meme.
David Smith
The only thing you ever said was "ackshually its not hard anglos r just dumb XD". Do something besides shitposting and posting uninformed opinions if you want anyone to take you seriously
Carter Butler
>"ackshually its not hard anglos r just dumb XD" i'm not wrong you know
Eli Price
Only proving my point, you don't have the slightest idea what the fuck you're talking about and are just full-throttle shitposting
James Brown
Learning Japanese. Trying to get through Pimsleur. I was struggling remembering it all doing it once in the morning and once at night, doing the same 30 min lesson 2x. I seen someone say they would play it on repeat at work. I've done that for the past couple days and I feel like Im progressing and remembering better. I loop it and then listen to some music at the same time.
Grayson Nelson
this is rich coming from a German l m a o
Adam Cooper
When have the Germans ever been wrong?
Easton Williams
Don't start this shit here
Camden Gray
But he's right, you know. Anglos (especially Americans) usually don't learn second languages, or learn them at a lower rate than others, and so they're dumber at picking up languages.
Charles Walker
Learning Croatian. Very easy after learning Spanish in university. Keep practicing, listen to the music, and watch films too. You'll get it! Also, really understand and recognize patterns as to which kinds of words conjugate and how they do so. Also keep a journal with word bank and write everyday about what happened. Of course just using the words you know.
>Svaki dan, sam malo jaden jer želim ići u Hrvatska sa moja famalja. Vamo na America su puno ljude ali ne puno srce za dom i famalija.
Ali hvala bog za sve. Tamo su idea za naš život od On. Gdje hrvat zene? Do I just fly over there to find one?
i'm sorry but this is horrible. looks like you haven't even peeked at noun declension yet.
Ayden Stewart
Not that, but it's irrelevant anyway. If you learn a second language [especially out of necessity] as a kid that's barely going to help you unless the second is similar to the third. He's a fucking moron who thinks his opinions are facts regardless
Brody Nelson
No, Americans are literally not familiar with learning second languages outside of mediocre high school classes that don't really work. Normies who aren't really into language learning who are Anglos have a harder time picking up a new language because they don't know how to do it. It is different if you have gone out of your way to do it as a hobby in your free time, but that's not something a lot of Americans do.
Leo Cook
>but that's not something a lot of Americans do. You know just because you post things doesn't mean it's true. Kids don't know how to learn languages, they just absorb everything, and your claim that Americans are less likely to do it as a hobby compared to anyone else is a claim you blatantly pulled out of your ass.
The original point is Finnish is not "medium difficulty" and his claim was based nowhere in reality
Cooper Perez
Have you ever been outside? If you have been, you'd know that there are tons of Americans crying about how hard their Spanish class is and get upset over how trying to memorize 4 different articles is hard. I'm not kidding. That's not something common on Jow Forums because we're all autists here who like to learn new languages, but it's common with Americans who don't learn other languages as a hobby.
Carson Jones
Are you saying Europeans love their forced language classes in middle school? There's absolutely no urgency to learn Spanish for us [memes aside] unlike English for Europeans. It's a complete false equivalency. I didn't like taking Spanish in middle/highschool and yet I'm here learning far harder ones
Owen Mitchell
I'm saying that American education for second languages is shit. The fact that there's also no urgency for you to learn a second language makes it harder for you. What don't you understand about this? I already said that it's normie Anglos outside of Jow Forums and stuff who have a harder time with it, not you in particular.
Luis Smith
I'm saying you either have an interest or you don't and that has nothing to do with country. What don't you understand about this?
Jose Taylor
Yeah, I'm still working on my English. Will try harder next time :^)
Owen Murphy
Are you even talking about anglos or americans, make up your fucking mind
Tyler Perez
Instead of des it should dat (if he means dees, it's the demonstrative pronoun in the genitive case) > Dir misst mech ee Stëft bréngen. That's more akin to "You must bring me a pen" also "dir" is either plural or genitive 2nd person, I would simply use "du". [Du sollst mech ee Stëft bréngen] >Ech wäert den Zait benotzen. This is "I will use the time" it should be "Ech ginn den Zonk mollen" >Är Hoer si laang a rout gewierwt. Her is "seng". "Used to be" should become "waren" [Seng hoer waren eemols laang an rout] > Ech wonneren ob ech e Roman ginn schreiwen. Ech wonnere mech ob ech e Roman schreiwen ginn. >Denkt Dir Iech de Präis deen ech Dir verlooss hunn? Erënnerste dech d'Geschenk deen ech da läscht Joer ginn hunn? > Sollt mir Pingpong spillen? Solle, not sollt >Gitt e Biene vu Frëndlechkeet a léiert d'Begrenzung vu Frëndlechkeet. Hiew eng Biene op aus Frëndlechkeet an léier d'Begrenzung vu Frëndlechkeet. The last one is beyond recognition unless I rewrite it.
Christopher Cook
People without an interest in language learning who aren't Anglos still generally have an easier time picking up more languages.
Nathan Flores
Not enough to drop Finnish to a "medium difficulty"
Nathaniel Mitchell
>take spanish all through high school and do two years in uni >never need it because I worked with white people >decide to go into construction trade because academics are for faggots well now that there are mestizos crawling all over the job sites I work at I might as well pick it back up. I remember much more than I expected, I can pick out many words I recognize though I mostly miss out the full structures of the sentences. I seem to recall reading on Jow Forums about some website that sets up chatrooms for people to communicate with people in other languages, for mutual learning purposes. Does such a thing exist or am I retarded (could be yes to both)? I also remember some people complaining that it was hard to find people who wanted to communicate in anything but english.
Elijah Davis
Seriously? You would classify that as hard? It's easy.
Adam Robinson
t. turk that cant get white pussy
Robert Flores
no they dont. most swiss learn french/german in school and never pick it up. most only know there native tongue and english
Alexander Garcia
No, every site that ranks this in existence would classify it as hard for an English speaker. Unless you speak Hungarian or some barely spoken meme language whose people don't even exist on the internet it's going to be hard for nearly everyone
Joshua Miller
he is a brown turkroach that is seen as subhuman in europe and tries to one up himself on an anonymous board by insulting le anglos xD
Colton Johnson
Source? I've learned languages with more cases than that and it's easy, stop whining Ameribrainlet. There is no reason to believe that memorizing a case is more difficult than memorizing a preposition of the same meaning.
I legitimately can't tell if you're this much of a fucking idiot or just baiting
Connor Richardson
>Unless you speak Hungarian hungarian and finnish are about as close to each other as russian is to english. in the same language group but completely different apart from the very basics for all intents and purposes.
yeah those are difficulty tiers for ANGLOS... who suck at learning languages as we have already established. you could drop most of these languages by a tier or two for non-anglos.
Parker Bell
based anglo hating turk
Jose James
Let's say there is an ablative case. In the ablative case, you attach a suffix onto a word which basically changes the meaning to "from (noun)". The case does not decline for gender. This is literally the same as memorizing the word "from". There is no difference in difficulty.
Hudson Morris
>Nope, doesn't count because I said it doesn't Can you two just go shit up some other thread?
Gabriel Thompson
What's your explanation for cases somehow being more difficult than memorizing a single preposition/postposition?
Dylan Wood
Why German? I'm interested in the language, I train dogs and the founder has us do it in G*rman already. Sadly, his faggot son never bothered to learn the language and I barely see the dad.
Kevin Evans
Are you just arguing with yourself now
Landon Peterson
i don't think he knows what postpositions, prepositions or even cases are. considering his flag i can't say i'm surprised.
Liam Foster
The fuck do you an expect from a country who's claim to fame is "geographically close to a great power?" Ignore the leaf, considering he's talking shit about anglos (which Canadians are) he's likely a shitter immigrant or some faggot using a proxy to sully the okay name of a mediocre country.
Jonathan Baker
You can't provide evidence that learning a case suffix is harder than memorizing a preposition of the same significance. I guess you gave up so I am indeed "arguing with myself" now.
Charles Cooper
>>The fuck do you an expect from a country who's claim to fame is "geographically close to a great power?" muh pull syrup
Connor Johnson
These two are either baiting or underage children who don't actually understand how stupid they are. All they've been doing is passing off their dumbshit opinions as facts and going "U CANT PROVE ME RONG DUMB BURGERFAT XDD". It's honestly embarrassing to watch
Aiden Jackson
Reasonably easy but difficult enough to be somewhat interesting, consistent, very useful etc.
William Rodriguez
Yes, that's how an argument works. You have the burden of proof when it comes to proving your claim that Finnish is a difficult language, so you provide evidence that it is difficult.
Oliver Green
I am French, Anglo-brainlet.
James King
How about instead of arguing with some burger on Jow Forums you gain some international prestige? Go win a war or something.
Benjamin Turner
I did last thread and was arguing against the claim that it was only "medium difficulty" for non-Anglos which nobody has ever provided evidence for while conveniently ignoring any sources posted. You and your retarded friend aren't worth bringing the thread down, go fish for (You)s somewhere else.
Medium is default. It doesn't have to be proven. That's like asking to prove that God doesn't exist. If you make the claim that difficulty exists in a language, you have to prove it.
Aaron Sanchez
Do you actually have some sort of brain damage?
Jackson Roberts
>Finnish is hard >No it isn't >Here's a source saying it's hard >Um no it's actually medium prove me wrong >Here's a source again >Lol you can't prove me wrong dumb american Great thread, really good language learning going on here
Gavin Nelson
Let's not forget >I'm French >Leaf
Christopher Nelson
>Here's a source saying it's hard *hard for anglos
which means p much nothing. anglos even struggle to learn babby languages like spanish
Ayden Foster
Don't give the kraut/leaf (You)s for the sake of the thread
You have provided no evidence that it's hard. I tried to help you look in the right direction for evidence by asking you to prove how memorizing a case suffix is harder than memorizing a preposition, but you came up with nothing for that one. All your "evidence" is easily debunked, unreliable.
Jack Gonzalez
Got to love how Jow Forums x lets me hide replies along with a post
Jason Russell
Difficult, I suppose. Do you speak it?
Jeremiah Perry
That's a good way to block out opinions and facts you disagree with. Have fun in your personalized echo chamber.
Jose Roberts
@95421013 Not even worth it
Robert Parker
>why is finnish hard >Difficult, I suppose. the fuck of a response is this
>Do you speak it? nope. i do know hungarian (also not a particularly hard language) though and have dabbled in finnish. i also happen to be an expert on spurdo memes.
Noah Lewis
>why is finnish hard >Difficult, I suppose. This is hard evidence that Americans are retarded and so they think Finnish is too hard for them to learn.
Blake Bell
>the fuck of a response is this
>nope. i do know hungarian (also not a particularly hard language) though and have dabbled in finnish. i also happen to be an expert on spurdo memes.
>This is hard evidence that Americans are retarded and so they think Finnish is too hard for them to learn.
hallo, ich heiße user und ich lerne Deutsch seit langem, aber ich habe nur vor kurzem angefangen es regelmäßig zu lernen ich habe schon vielleicht die A2 niveau erreicht. bitte korrigiert mich
Leo Turner
Any Italian user can proofread this please?
Anche se i fedeli alla tradizione si sono ridotti a una manciate sono loro che sono la vera chiesa de Gesù Cristo. Durante questo periodo di grande crisi noi riprendiamo le parole di sant'atanasio. Per la gloria della nostra religione necessario un risveglio dalla letargia che è intorpidito la nostra fede e conseguentemente la comprensione della verità. La via da intraprendere per la salvezza delle nostre anime della nostra amata terra è quella della crociata. Una crociata contro i nemici della verità, contro i nemici della religione, contro il peccato, contro il peccato, contro il secolarismo, contro il modernismo, contro la falsità, contro l'ipocrisia! Armate di dunque delle armi della verità e combattete la buona battaglia non domani fratelli ma oggi! Che la vera fede vi sproni ad annientare il sonno imposto dai governi moderni e vi esorti a vivere come veri cristiani perché non c'è fede senza combattere!
Nathaniel Adams
Huh, why are you so angry? You don't even speak the language. I fear you have another area of expertise: being a cunt. Anyways, it's a lot different from English and Spanish but I like it so far. I'd recommend it, but I think that attitude is universal.
Jason Howard
Hallo, ich heiße user und ich lerne seit langem Deutsch, aber ich habe erst vor kurzem angefangen regelmäßig zu lernen. Vielleicht habe ich schon das Niveau A2 erreicht. Bitte korrigiert mich.
Julian Rogers
>I fear you have another area of expertise: being a cunt.
that's a good skill to have though.
Alexander Morales
Sure it is, if you want to die a lonely and miserable man.
Jonathan Martinez
Why are you people even responding to the Turk and the froggish leaf? They’re both obviously just assmad at Anglos because they were forced to learn English in school while we were lucky enough to grow up knowing the world’s most useful language
You're asshurt that you struggle to learn Spanish or some shit.
Juan Collins
You better shut your mouth before I kiss it, xir.
David Thomas
maybe i wouldn't mind :3
Cameron Diaz
fags get out
Luis Phillips
Kiss me instead
Justin Roberts
>the shitposters are gay internet penpals who secretly crave the warmth of a saxon cock The greatest fiction writers of our time couldn't fabricate such a tale.
Currently learning Russian. Been half-assedly using Duolingo heavily the past few months (maybe a half hour/day?). Shit's been taking a while to stick, but I'm getting there. Had a look at memrise and it seems better.
Ordered a book (Teach Yourself Russian) which I'm waiting on. I'm hoping following a learning plan will help me start using the language a bit more outside of the duolingo app.
Parker Garcia
>struggle to learn Spanish This jab probably would’ve worked if only my father and my 5 uncles weren’t from Spain
Noah Reed
play dota 2, tons of ruskans.
Brayden Ramirez
Y-you suggested the kiss first! You're double gay.
Amerifat dies as he lives, fat and dumb. Too dumb to even know how to kiss.
Jason Carter
>ahh yes, finally time to record the history of the leaf.. >they are gay >finished como se dice mexico is our greatest ally on the continent en espanol?
>Are you saying Europeans love their forced language classes in middle school? European here, I hated the Swedish classes in middle school, but English classes were nice and easy and sometimes fun because I got to show off my skills to the others. :^)
The real boring classes comes with high school and German, French, Spanish.
Noah Murphy
>comes come*
Fuck me, that's what I get for going on Jow Forums before even breakfast is made.