>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! (embed) aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Learning resources: First and foremost check the Jow Forums Wiki. (just one (embed)) 4chanint.wikia.com/wiki/The_Official_Jow Forums_How_to_Learn_A_Foreign_Language_Guide_Wiki
/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 read the OP; nobody embeds anyway and I just want to say I hate that chino faggot pass!
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 but post an apu if you actually read this but I doubt it >Will I learn a language by using Duolingo five minutes a day while taking a shit No >I'm going to use Duolingo anyway If on your phone, use the mobile site and NOT the app; the latter lacks many important features and doesn't let you turn the word bank off which should always be off. In addition don't copy-paste or memorize answers for the sake of completing lessons, and as above, google anything you don't understand >Should I learn X to get a qt wife/gf (male) etc? No >Should I learn lang Y so I can learn lang X? No
>What language should I learn Austrian >I just want something easy and somewhat useful Chinese >I want a language that's useful and fun but not too hard Mexican >I want a language that's useful and embrace a challenge Swiss
how do you say "I'm a total fucking waste of oxygen that contributes nothing to Jow Forums by posting about gay boys and whining for a girlfriend to other users of this site" in your target language?
Connor Reyes
"I'm a leaf"
Zachary Murphy
What's the coolest/most interesting thing you've been able to do with your target language? Could be as simple as reading a book or something more.
I understood it when an enemy in Wolfenstein called me a "Wixxer"
Levi Cox
Sort of understanding things in other, related languages that I never studied. German: Dutch/Luxembourgish Swedish: Norwegian/Danish/spoken Icelandic once Russian: Slavshit in general (still takes forever to figure out since I have to sound words out. Since you remember "shapes" of words it ends up being a problem across alphabets)
Nolan Davis
Anyone here have any success with the Michael Thomas method? I'm studying French and German.
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
Was able to travel to Germany and express myself in German, ask for directions, or food and have meaningful conversations with people about their life. It was an awesome feeling, because the first time I went to Germany I had tourist tier knowledge of German.
Funny how when I started my goal in learning german was just to be able to say and understand basic sentences.
I want to do the same now with French
Zachary Bailey
how do you say I want to sniff chino chan and cuddle her and hold her?
Jacob Morales
translation challenge easy AAAAAAAAAAAAARGHH I WANT TO FUCK MY WIFE FUCK FUCK FUCK MY WIFE medium Since I've held it in all this time, won't you become mine this once? hard Please do NOT even MENTION the name of my cute wife, you degenerates do not deserve to call.
Asher Richardson
AAAARCH ICH WILL MEINE FRAU BUMSEN
medium;
Weil ich es fur eine lange zeit gehlaten habe, willst du nicht mein Diesesmal werden?
Bitte erwahnen Sie nicht einmal den Namen meiner sussen Frau, ihr entarten sind nicht wuerdig Anzurufen
so can you explain this meme to me?
Liam Gonzalez
He's dangerously obsessed with a l*li anime grill named Chino. Ignore him and don't do his challenges.
Eli Long
oh ok thanks, he sounds like a weird wanker
Connor Gutierrez
>I miss Finland and that qt
from Medium? >I'm not sure that we should be doing this. Ik weet/ben niet zeker of we dit zou moeten doen >Don't give me an excuse, you turned in that paper late! Geef mij geen excuses, je was te laat me je document / je hebt je (what do you actually call a paper in this context?) te laat ingeleverd! >I heard you saying that you wanted to be an astronaut someday. Ik hoor je zeggen dat je een astronaut ooit zou willen worden >Would you like fries, chips, or apples with that? Wilt u friet :^), sjips, of appels daarbij?
Hard >Give me one conceivable reason why I should give a fuck about your little "play." er...good luck directly translating 'conceivable'; I imagine it's meant in the sense of 'realistic' or so Geef mij een (noem maar wat, realistische, denkbare, enige) reden waarom je kleine "toneelstuk" zou mij kunnen schelen >The man with a golden spear awaited in the abandoned dungeon, wishing he had bought a black tower instead. De man met een gouden speer wachte in het verlaten kerker (?), wensend (?) dat hij een zwarte toren in plaats daarvan gekocht had >"Barack Obama is either the worst president in history or not," she should say after the elephants learn how to break the camel's back. (the second part of the sentence makes no sense but ok) "Willem Alexander is of een van de slechste koningen ooit, of niet" zou zij zeggen na dat de olifant de rug van de kameel braak >One day, I will create a giant tower of light, and send the guards to eliminate anyone who is in my way. Ooit (?) zal ik een gigantische licht-toren bouwen, en ik zal de bewakers sturen om iedereen die mij in de weg staat te verwijderen (? it implies to kill/destroy). >tfw welklikdwoord doesn't know about bewakers
>Ik weet/ben niet zeker of we dit zou moeten doen >Geef mij geen excuses, je was te laat me je document / je hebt je (what do you actually call a paper in this context?) te laat ingeleverd! Geef mij geen excuses, je was te laat met het inleveren van je paper. Would just call it a paper assuming it is a research paper. >Ik hoor je zeggen dat je een astronaut ooit zou willen worden Hoorde >Wilt u friet :^), sjips, of appels daarbij? Of erbij, however, never aardbei . >er...good luck directly translating 'conceivable' Denkbaar >Geef mij een denkbare reden waarom je kleine "toneelstuk" zou mij kunnen schelen Moeten instead of kunnen feels better to me. Also waarom ik iets om je kleine " toneekstuk" zou moeten geven. Is also possible. >De man met een gouden speer wachte in het verlaten kerker, wensend dat hij een zwarte toren in plaats daarvan gekocht had Wachtte. The last part is not wrong but reads clunky (to me), see pic. >"Willem Alexander is of een van de slechste koningen ooit, of [juist] niet" zou zij [moeten] zeggen nadat de olifant de rug van de kameel brak* Brak* >Ooit zal ik een gigantische licht-toren bouwen, en ik zal de bewakers sturen om iedereen die mij in de weg staat te verwijderen (? it implies to kill/destroy) en zal ik (?) bewakers sturen om iedereen die mij in de weg staat te verwijderen/ uit de weg te ruimen. Not sure about the inversion in the second clause, both sound good to me. I would just omit ik in the second clause all together.
>Romanians/Hungarians: vampires You obviously don’t know anything about Romanian tradition, Romania had literally nothing to do with vampires before the Dracula book.
Christian Kelly
Explain to me Romanian culture
Adam Reed
>know a lot of vocabulary in german >cant express a subtle nuance because germans have way too many fucking verbs the mean the same shit.
Like nigga i just want to say "put the book on your head" should I used, legen, setzen, stellen? why do you have to have so many fucking words for "put"?
why did my first language have to be a brainlet language?
learn one useful language and one language that youre very interested in.
a useful lang isnt always neccessarily the most spoken language in the world, but it could be a langauge in a very improtant geopolitcal part of the world like arabic, or persian , or russian
Anthony Parker
二年后我还不会说汉语
Fuck my life
Ryan Martin
> 二年
Oh lordy such a basic mistake
Nathan Peterson
how can i stop feeling like all languages besides english are useless? i want to learn german and swedish but dont think they would be useful in any situation.
Cooper Jenkins
>gendered articles >assigning genders to inanimate objects what is this retarded shit
James Moore
y'know, I had to make a proper conscious effort not to get upset at this desu
what's "useful" ? but more importantly: why do they need to be "useful"? in all likelihood, in your situation, they aren't just like knowing why the sky is blue isn't all that "useful" but I still want to know
>what is this retarded shit leftover from a time when people couldn't think in more obviously different categories than genders otherwise they would've assigned them other group names, or numbers or whatever it's just a way to refer to the groups that stuff belongs to, it never actually had anything to do with _actual_ genders ...which is proof that gender is a social construct actually
>legen -> liegen put something somewhere in a lying position, like a carpet or a newspaper >stellen -> stehen put something somewhere in an upright position, like a cupboard >setzen -> sitzen put something somewhere in a sitting position, or put it on top of something else (this one is a little more abstract than the others when not used for people)
In your example, you would use either legen or setzen, and both would be fine.
Just call them category 1, 2 and 3 nouns if it triggers you so much.
Josiah Smith
why
Julian Clark
bls answer to The true struggle is remembering which one of the pair is strong and which one is weak.
Jace Sanders
Needs more context desu.
Nathan Ramirez
thats a really cool way to remember them thanks. what objects would you use fro setzen? I can only think of Ich setze das kind auf den stuhl
Jonathan Collins
You mean in the sense of A is more like B? That would be A ist eher wie B, so eher wie. I'm probably wrong though.
James Sullivan
nigga i just told you
Thomas Hall
>Germany? More like GAY MANY lol Something like this
Matthew Lopez
is there some proper scientific reason why some people (I've only heard anglos really) say "nuchilar" instead of "nuclear"?
f'gettaboutit
>issues with audio on new ubuntu >think i fix'd it >must test >somehow the first thing is a lithuanian university radio >mfew
>what objects would you use fro setzen? I can only think of Ich setze das kind auf den stuhl The most common use is obviously for people (or animals) sitting down. Use it with a reflexive pronoun if it's someone who sits down himself. >Der Mann setzt das kleine Kind auf das Sofa. Dann setzt er sich daneben. I can't really think of any objects that are comonly used with "setzen" right now, but I'm pretty sure there are at leasta few. "Stellen" and "legen" are really much more common here.
As said, you would probably use some phrasing with "eher": >Deutschland? Wohl eher SCHWUL VIEL lol
StartFM -94.2MHz, Vilnius University, Lithuania startfm.lt/
it was in Rhythmbox and I just picked an online radio at random to see if muh audio was working (it does but headphones still don't)
I would but literally all my Finnish friends speak Swedish ...do you speak Swedish user? do you speak Finnish? can I stay with you for a week or so this summer? :3
Aha, I never used Rythymbox's radio function before. >tfw you haven’t touched your Linux partition in who knows how long Don’t dual boot, kids. Go all the way in.
Brody Taylor
>Don’t dual boot, kids. Go all the way in. >double trips words of wisdom nah but the real trick is almost the same as with languages: have dedicated time on each in my case I use it extensively for work and for learning/playing around either way there was no other real choice for my poor wimpy chromebook
god bless their soul for finally stopping with unity hot damn that was a train wreck
it looks like you didn't do the old one Ezpz >I don't enjoy life. >Thanks. >That flag is too colorful for me. >What do you want? Medium? >I'm not sure that we should be doing this. >Don't give me an excuse, you turned in that paper late! >I heard you saying that you wanted to be an astronaut someday. >Would you like fries, chips, or apples with that?
Hard >Give me one conceivable reason why I should give a fuck about your little "play." >The man with a golden spear awaited in the abandoned dungeon, wishing he had bought a black tower instead. >"Barack Obama is either the worst president in history or not," she should say after the elephants learn how to break the camel's back. >One day, I will create a giant tower of light, and send the guards to eliminate anyone who is in my way.
> ???????? eine ????????? > ?????? niemals ????? kaputt.
> Sie sind doch drinnen. > Warum seid ihr nicht schon drinne? > ???????? > ?????? kaputt. > ???????????? Eier. > ??????? Eier ist echt hart.
Evan Lee
>[foreign surname], Alter. [foreign surname] >Das klingt ja wie die Mannschaftsaufstellung von Energie Cottbus. >Die sind da drinne. >Und warum seid ihr noch nicht da drinne? >Das ist alles voller Kanaken da. >Wie bei Energie Cottbus. >Hör mal, ihr seid doch Weicheier. >"Weichei" ist echt hart.
Thomas Reyes
dit kanaal zou het beste bron van vocabulaire die ik heb ooit gevonden kunnen zijn nou ja tenminste ik vind het leuk, maar van wat ik kan zien, zou het nog moeilijk zijn om een echte nouvelle in het nederlands te lezen youtube.com/watch?v=mNk88xNOp4w ik begrijp wat de tekst zegt maar niet altijd elke woord
Henry Mitchell
>dit kanaal zou het beste bron van vocabulaire die ik heb ooit gevonden kunnen zijn dit kanaal zou de* beste bron van vocabulaire die ik ooit* heb gevonden kunnen zijn
Andrew Collins
dem adverbs in front of verbs be jackin me up mayne wut up wit dem fuckaz shit be movin all the time gimmin me a my grain shiieeeet (in that case I should've known since it's technically an indication of time so then it has to go before the verb...)
ben ik gek geworden of praat bijna niemand in hun doeltaal hier behalve als ze tjallenges doen?
Pretty sure you’re confusing us for Swedes, Finns, and Mexicans, bud
Samuel Campbell
bost more language challenges everytime im going to answer, this /lang/ merchant answers first
Jace Howard
In German, should "hr" (like in sehr for example) be read as "ha" or "h-a"?
Kevin Peterson
the H always elongates the sound of the letter it precedes. so the R at the end of german words often sound like the british R at the end of the word that isnt really pronuounced.
i pronunce sehr like se-ahr
Ryan Price
small but honest chuckle
Caleb White
What is your goal in your target language bros?
Me, I want to be able to converse in French and be able to travel to france and talk to everyone in french, so at least a low B2 by 2020
>Challenge Can you speak in polish? Can you write with correct grammar? Me either.
Connor Cook
Uhh, gotcha. The British R is a good comparison too. Thanks!
Ian Perez
>183 subs Hoe heb je zijn kanaal gevonden?
Btw, 'Vocabulaire' sounds a bit posh, i recommend saying 'woordenschat' instead
Logan Stewart
What pen is that
Jackson Long
How would one benefit from learning Finnish? I like Finnish but I have no Finns to talk with.
Gavin Cox
>'Vocabulaire' sounds a bit posh it's the only word I've ever known for this but now I will _definitely_ use it if I can sound like a smart-ass!
I can't for the life of me remember how I ended up on the guy's channel; I think I was casually googling something to do with recensie or so, and I wanted to see if he was a normie or just an average handsome dutch dude who talks about books and turns out he does a very nice and comfy job of it and I can't even hate him even though he's attractive dus
I'd love to be able to actually talk and have proper conversations in Dutch but I doubt that's gonna happen any time soon, at least not at this rate it's not like I'm busting my ass working on it either
Wyatt Thompson
So I assume you dont really talk to native dutch people a lot? maybe you should spend less time on Jow Forums and more time studying dutch or practice talking big dawg,i see you here all the time
Grayson Cooper
so, how do I learn Persian
Landon Thomas
why persian
Luke Jenkins
I'm glad you enjoy it, because it's frustrating for me, I can't understand a word
> ??????????? > Oh Mann, in dem Keller. Und hoffe ??????? du rennst ???? > Du, lauf schneller! > ???????? kann schneller. > Lauf ????????? ab > ???????????? gleichfalls.
Landon Nguyen
>I assume you dont really talk to native dutch people a lot? m8 I am quite literally surrounded by them every single day and most speak Dutch to me I speak like 20-80 Dutch-English back, in writing that is also improving bit by bit, but irl it really gets awkward real fast if you make too many mistakes, gets in the way of actual discussion, and I dislike that I'm here so much because it's a lot easier to write in Dutch here than irl, and it's helped me a whole bunch, especially with confidence before the naturalization exams
so then I started feeling bad about the thread dying and now I try to keep it alive as much as I can without shitposting, while also posting in Dutch whenever I can, since the nice local toothpastes always correct my stupid mistakes and they give very good feedback and extra info (and imo it's way better practice than just doing challenges) and no, posting in /nederdraad/ is not an option, believe me I've tried
How else will I welcome my new overlords. jk, would like to read Shahnameh, and Persian sounds cool
Elijah Parker
Ezpz 生活を楽しまない。 ありがとうございます 旗が過ぎ明るいと思うんです。 何を要るんですか
Eli Cooper
I'm planning on moving to one of the Scandinavian countries for a couple of years to learn the language and get to know the culture. I want to live in a small town and take a break from living in enormous cities. I speak English, Polish and Spanish fluently. Which country would you guys recommend? Iceland seems like my cup of tea. >inb4 fucking polish migrants I want a Scandinavian country to be my last stop before going back to my homeland.
Gabriel Lee
>Oh man, in den Keller. Im Horrorfilm rennen 'se1 aufs dach, bevor 'se abgeschlachtet werden. >Komm, lauf schneller! >Hör zu, ich kann nicht schnell laufen! >[unintelligible] >Na, danke gleichfalls!
1 dialectal version of sie
Jonathan Thomas
eerste post vanaf mijn nieuwe kutgoedkope schoottop >dvw ubuntu ontwikkelaars geen fuk geven voor mijn slecht zicht >dvw ik kan of normale zoom of dubbel >dubbel is te groot >normale te klein leven is pijn gelukkig heb ik tijdelijke oplossing (welke imo een foutieve vertaling van workaround is, maar da's wat google zegt dan ook met een vinkje op een schild zodat je weet dat het rechtmatig is)
wat het ergst is is dat mijn hele apu verzameling is op mijn andere laptop ik had nooit gedacht dat ik zou mijn vierkanaal foldertje tussen meerdere computers zou moeten synchroniseren
Brandon Ramirez
MOTHERFUCKER!! I WAS GONNA DO THIS HEARING CHALLENGE WHAT THE SHIT!!, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU DO THE WHOLE ITS FUCKING THAT YOURE ALWAYS HERE ITS 2AM IN GERMANY FOR FOCK SAKE
Joshua White
last bump 'night frens >mfw I found my dorky laptop stickers after looking through the whole house for an hour
