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Stop shitposting this in every thread.

Hebrew

*crunch*
*crunch*
Swedes are my least favorite of the nordcuck posters.
*crunch*
*buuurp*

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Spanish if you want something practical, Japanese for funzies.

tsez

한국어!

Is Spanish really useful in USA?

In most major cities, yes.

No, all the spics learn English by 2nd generation.

Why are you studying korean lad?

it's ok user it's not your fault they died
if they die, we make a new one
and if nobody else makes one, then a thread is not needed at all
don't take this burden all upon yourself

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Thank you. I'm asking because heard about that.

I started learning german through Duolingo and I went quite far in the process, but the lack of practice made me lazy to continue.

I think the funniest thing between german and portuguese is the difference between masculine/feminine objects. When one has it in feminine, the other one is masculine.
Like table, or chair, or anything else.

It was kinda hard for me to remember all the differences.

how the fug do spoiler tags work

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They don't work on Jow Forums

hello newfriend

I only come on /lang/ when im motivated to practice.. :c

Jow Forums doesn't have spoiler tags user..
some boards do some don't
/tv/ does, for example
to figure out if a board allows [spoilers] you can use the original form; if it allows spoilers, you have a lil checkbox there to hide the image
if you don't have the checkbox, the board doesn't allow spoilers

it's not like hiroshimoot lists which boards allow spoilers and which don't, because he's a faggit
Jow Forums.org/faq#spoiler

thank pal, i lurk mostly so posting is always stressful D:

i feel bad now

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15th for Oromo

Don't feel bad user. I know you tried your best!

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I didn't know this shit existed. Perhaps I should try picking up Korean again and shitpost with my fellow struggling anons.

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그건 해!

I'm like 4th Gen and none of my 4th Gen relatives have good Spanish, and my 5th Gen relatives are even worse.

don't stress it user, nobody gives a shit anyway, and nobody knows who you are
people here are much nicer than the average, especially on Jow Forums, so it's quite comfy

Spanish or English?

Learn a native language you fucking loser

get to work slackers

[that which is not Easy]
>Tomorrow is my birthday
>I dislike bringing cake
>I am [your age] years old
>Have a piece of cake
>These are different times

[Medium]
>I had to rush to the store before it closed
>Sometimes she wonders if it's worth it
>He preferred to keep his mouth shut
>The dog finally caught the car it was running after
>The bell rang with a grim echo
>There was no place like it, in the whole world, like Scheveningen, when I was a youngster/kid.
>People from all over the world used to come here
>We used to sleep on the beach

[Hard]
>I prefer calling it age distance rather than age difference
>The wind was blowing softly as his thoughts were swept away by the sight of the dying sun
>A church could be seen in the distance, lonely, atop of a hill covered in yellow grass
>There was once a certain mood hanging in the air around this part of the city
>The entire forest burned to the ground while simple men ran around in awe of Hell's fury

[Queen's English tier]
>Obviously you have chosen to keep the particulars of your dismissal from me. I shall leave a gap in the conversation for you to remedy that.
>I do not know of women and their feelings, but I know they nurse their hurts like wailing newborns.
>If you forget to load the pellet, the gun fires, makes a sound, but releases no shot; it is a great jape, do you agree?

[Фёдop Mихaйлoвич Дocтoeвcкий tier]
>Even if we suppose that all these calculations are entirely sound, that all the decisions taken during this past month are as clear as day. Even then I will not dare! In the end I'll crack!
>He got to his feet, looked about in surprise, as if his coming here were also a cause for wonder, and made off towards T-- Bridge
>He was pale, his eyes were burning, and every limb ached with exhaustion, but suddenly he seemed to be breathing more freely

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>est-ce que
>est-ce q’il
>est-ce q’elle
>Qu'est-ce que c'est
>qu’est-ce que c’est que ça

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German,Russian or italian?

>>qu’est-ce que c’est que ça

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QUICK LANGUAGE CHALLENGE
>>Hello
>>I love you
>>She loves to see you
>>The lovers enjoy the park every time they go.
>>The trees give shade to all the people sitting under them.
>>I just realized that the couple first met at the old train station, the one near the park, where we saw them at earlier today.

Out of those three Russian.

German out of those three

Guys I'm thinking of choosing something to pretend to want to learn for a week on my facebook wall, out of Afrikaans,Akan,Albanian,Amharic,Arabic,Armenian,ASL,Assamese,Assyrian,Azerbaijani,Bahdini,Bambara,Bashkir,Basque,Belarusian,Bengali,Bosnian,Bravanese,Bulgarian,Burmese,Cambodian,Cantonese,Catalan,Cebuano,Chaldean,Chamorro,Chaozhou,Chavacano,Chin,Chuukese,Cree,Croatian,Czech,Dakota,Danish,Dari,Dinka,Dioula,Dzongkha,Estonian,Ewe,Fante,Faroese,Farsi,Fijian Hindi,Finnish,Flemish,French,French Canadian,Frisian,Fujianese,Fukienese,Fula,Fulani,Fuzhou,Ga,Gaelic,Galician,Ganda,Georgian,German,Gorani,Greek,Gujarati,Haitian Creole,Hakka,Hassaniyya,Hausa,Hebrew,Hiligaynon,Hindi,Hmong,Hungarian,Ibanag,Icelandic,Igbo,Ilocano,Ilonggo,Indian,Indonesian,Inuktitut,Irish,Italian,Jakartanese,Japanese,Javanese,Kanjobal,Kannada,Karen,Kashmiri,Kazakh,Khalkha,Khmer,Kikuyu,Kinyarwanda,Kirundi,Korean,Kosovan,Kotokoli,Krio,Kurdish,Kurmanji,Kyrgyz,Lakota,Laotian,Latin,Latvian,Lingala,Lithuanian,Luganda,Luo,Lusoga,Luxembourgeois,Maay,Macedonian,Malagasy,Malay,Malayalam,Maldivian,Maltese,Mandarin,Mandingo,Mandinka,Maori,Marathi,Marshallese,Mien,Mirpuri,Mixteco,Moldovan,Mongolian,Navajo,Neapolitan,Nepali,Norwegian,Nuer,Nyanja,Ojibaway,Oriya,Oromo,Ossetian,Pahari,Pampangan,Pashto,Patois,Pidgin English,Polish,Portuguese,Pothwari,Pulaar,Punjabi,Putian,Quanxi,Quechua,Romani,Romansch,Rundi,Russian,Samoan,Sango,Sanskrit,Serbian,Shanghainese,Shona,Sichuan,Sicilian,Sindhi,Sinhala,Sinhalese,Siswati/Swazi,Slovak,Slovene,Slovenian,Somali,Soninke,Sorani,Sotho,Spanish,Sundanese,Susu,Swahili,Swedish,Sylhetti,Tagalog,Taiwanese,Tajik,Tamil,Telugu,Thai,Tibetan,Tigrinya,Tongan,Tshiluba,Tsonga,Tswana,Turkish,Turkmen,Uighur,Ukrainian,Urdu,Uzbek,Venda,Vietnamese,Visayan,Welsh,Wolof,Xhosa,Yao,Yiddish,Yoruba,Yupik, and Zulu, what should I learn xDDD
Any help?

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>no Mapudungun
shame

>Hebrew
Based.

Unacceptable that you aren't considering montenegrin baka

>French grammar book came in today
Day 1 of my French journey begins. Thanks for following my blog.

Which book?

Practice Makes Perfect Basic French

>Swedish
Do this one

>tfw semester is over and you haven't been keeping up with your language in the break
Fuuuuuck, I can feel myself losing it. I don't fucking know what to even study

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why not tsez

one of these days I will stab you fuckers in the eye you mark my words

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>Tomorrow is my birthday
明天是我的生日
>I dislike bringing cake
我不喜欢带蛋糕
>I am [your age] years old
我是二十岁
>Have a piece of cake
把一块蛋糕吃
>These are different times
这些是不同的时代

>tfw studied Chinese for years and still can only do easy sentences

>>tfw studied Chinese for years and still can only do easy sentences
how is that even possible? I was told one get get pretty good at basically any language in c. 2 years

>one of these days I will stab you fuckers in the eye you mark my words
W-what? Why?

>helps out in his community
>he wants me injured

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>[that which is not Easy]
>>Tomorrow is my birthday
Mañana es mi cumpleaños
>>I dislike bringing cake
No me gusta traer pastel
>>I am [your age] years old
Tengo cien (de) años
>>Have a piece of cake
Tengo un pedazo de la torta/pastel?
>>These are different times
Estos son tiempos diferentes?
>[Medium]
>>I had to rush to the store before it closed
Yo me he apurado a la tienda antes la tienda serrado
>>Sometimes she wonders if it's worth it
A veces ella se pregunto de que si vale de pena?
>>He preferred to keep his mouth shut
El he preferido dejar su boca cerrado?
>>The dog finally caught the car it was running after
El perro finalmente cogió la máquina/el carro/el camino que él persiguió
>>The bell rang with a grim echo
La campana sonó con un eco (mal)?
>>There was no place like it, in the whole world, like Scheveningen, when I was a youngster/kid.
Hubo no lugar como eso, en todo el mundo, como Scheveningen, cuando era un niñito.
>>People from all over the world used to come here
Gente de todo el mundo venía aquí!
>>We used to sleep on the beach
Dormía en la playa
...

>dfw habe ich Deutsch für 9 Jahren gelernen
>dfw immer noch scheiß

>[Hard]
>>I prefer calling it age distance rather than age difference
Yo prefiero llamarlo 'La distancia de edad' mas bien que 'La diferencia de edad'
>>The wind was blowing softly as his thoughts were swept away by the sight of the dying sun
El viento estuve soplando suavemente ya que(mientras?) sus pensados barrieron por la mira del sol
muriendo.
>>A church could be seen in the distance, lonely, atop of a hill covered in yellow grass
Una iglesia debería ser visto en la distancia, solita, de encimas de una colina cubierta en hierba amarilla.
>>There was once a certain mood hanging in the air around this part of the city
Hubo una vez un modo en el aire, alrededor este parte de la cuidad????
>>The entire forest burned to the ground while simple men ran around in awe of Hell's fury
>[Queen's English tier]
>>Obviously you have chosen to keep the particulars of your dismissal from me. I shall leave a gap in the conversation for you to remedy that.
Obviamente, tu has elegido mantener el?????
Okay I give up, too much writing

y'know, you reap what you sow doesn't need to be taken negatively
it just means that the result tends to match the effort you put in, so it just means that along the years you put enough effort so as to be able to only to easier sentences
more effort, more skill, that's how it goes
there's nothing to feel bad about
I could pretend like I learned German for 5 years in school but in reality I did fuck all and never studied

>getting a text book
absolutely based, finally someone who actually does things and doesn't only shitpost about what lang to pick or how to learn
when you're ready you can start doing easy challenges here
check /lang/ every once in a while, there's always someone learning French, and make sure to go through the content on the wiki (linked in the OP)
gambate :3

because you don't take care of yourself well enough
now go do the challenge! easy and medium parts at least

*which

Try English you blithering spastic.

Wakandan

good luck user. make sure to do plenty of listening for the pronunciation / accent. it’s a lot more logical than it may seem

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which languages have the best tv/movies? aside from English obviously

I imagine Japanese is the biggest, but still a distant 2nd place, sort of like their navy in WW2

>now go do the challenge! easy and medium parts at least
I am so shit at both my target langs that I don't dare to even try ;_;

>tfw I will never understand cases and shit and forever be a langlet

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No one I knew could speak the language (well enough to have constructive conversations) and Chinese natives that I met online only wanted to practice English, though they were nice.

In hindsight I should have been braver about putting myself out there and just speaking when I had the opportunity but oh well. I'm thinking about studying abroad in China soon.

Jag er att cuck

Thank you lad, I'm always lazy and never actually sit down and make myself study. The woes of being a native English speaker means it isn't a necessity.

Except if you live in California, I met people there on holiday that only spoke Spanish or Chinese. I was like wtf

Good

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Merci mon ami. I’ve checked the wiki and downloaded all of Pimsleur and Michel Thomas to supplement the grammar book.

how is that good? Like it is cool they spoke Chinese or Spanish, but not knowing English? And they live there?

Du är bög

I have exhausted my Swedish

Korea has an amazing film scene and a fair amount of drama tv shows (I don't watch that tho). Makes me sad that so few other countries put in the work they do and just dub/sub Hollywood garbage.

Japan obviously has a huge media scene.

There is bollywood but idk if any of that is good..

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>tfw I will never understand cases and shit and forever be a langlet
How can you not understand cases? We literally have them in English

>morgen ist mein Geburtstag
>ich hasse Küche bringen
>Ich bin fünfundzwanzig Jahre alt
>nehmen Sie ein Stück von Küche
>Das sind anderes Zeiten

*KUCHEN

AHHHHHH I ALWAYS GET THAT FUCKING WRONG NOOOOOOOOOOOO ;__;

no u

A language having them doesn't mean a speaker understands them. I've gotten a good rundown on accusative, nominative, dative, genitive and direct/indirect object, but there's so much more and it's so much to take in and learn by heart.

Deutsch, natürlich.

Do French people say "le car" alternatively to "voiture" or is that exclusively Quebecoise?

This is the pronoun "I" in many different Indo-European languages...can you guess them all?
Ich
Ik
Es
Ez
Io
Ego
Eg
Eu
Ja
Ya
Yo
Yas
Yes
Jag
Jeg
Je
Jo
Mainu
Mwen
Main
Mé
Ami

Mè - greek

Medium
>Había apurarme a la tienda antes se cerrado
>Algunas veces ella se pregunta si está vale la pena
>Prefirió quedarlo cerrado su boca
>Finalmente el perro cogió el coche que estaba corriendo por
>La campana sonó con un eco grave
>No había un lugar como ese, en todo el mundo, como Scheveningen, cuando fui un nino
>Gente de todo el mundo solía venir aquí
>Solíamos dormirnos en la playa

Hard
>Prefiero llamarlo distancia de edad en lugar de diferencia de edad
>El viento estaba soplando suavemente como sus pensamientos barrieron de la mira del sol moribundo
>Una iglesia se podría ver en la distancia, solo, a la cumbre de la colina que estaba cubierto en césped amarillo
>Una vez había un cierto humor quedandose en el aíre alrededor este parte de la ciudad
>Todo el bosque ardío al suelo cuando hombres sencillos corrieron alrededor con asombro de la furia de infierno

look at dis dude go
you'll do well, I know it
be the example that /lang/ needs user

Ich = German
Ik = Dutch
Es = ?
Ez = Latvian?
Io = Italian?
Ego = Latin
Eg = ?
Eu = Portuguese
Ja = ?
Ya = ?
Yo = Spanish?
Yas = ?
Yes = ?
Jag = Danish
Jeg = Swedish
Je = French
Jo = ?
Mainu = ?
Mwen = ?
Mein = ?
Mé = ?
Ami = ?

>Jag = Danish
>Jeg = Swedish
other way around

I expect very bad performance on this one, had to use way too much google translate for stuff that I should know, maybe I'm just tired
and it wasn't all that easy~

Morgen is mijn verjaardag
I hou niet van taart/cake brengen ( ?!?!)
Ik ben zo en zo jaar oud, ik ga jullie mijn leeftijd niet vertellen
Neem een stukje taart
Deze zijn verschillende tijden (?)

Ik moest naar de winkel rennen voor dat hij gesloten was (wordt?)
Soms vraagt ze zichzelf af of het waard is
Hij verkiest om zijn mond te houden
De hond uiteindelijk vangt de auto waarop hij achteraan rende (?! no clue how this works)
De klok luidde met een grimmig echo
Er was geen andere plek als deze, in de hele wereld, als Scheveningen, toen ik jong was
Vroeger kwamen mensen uit de hele hier
>We used to sleep on the beach
Vroeger sliepen we op de strand
(sliepen?! fuck me, had to look it up)

[Hard]
>I prefer calling it age distance rather than age difference
Ik noem(t?) het liever leeftijdsafstand dan leeftijdsverschil (translates like shit apparently)
>The wind was blowing softly as his thoughts were swept away by the sight of the dying sun
De wind waaide zacht toen zijn gedachten worden weggevaagd door het uitzicht van stervende zon.
eigenlijk zou ik iets zachter gebruiken in plaats van stervende; stervende klinkt te...hard
>A church could be seen in the distance, lonely, atop of a hill covered in yellow grass
Een kerk was te zien verderop, in zijn(?) eentje, boven een heuvel gekleed met gele gras
>There was once a certain mood hanging in the air around this part of the city
Er hangt eens een bepaalde sfeer rond dit deel van de stad
>The entire forest burned to the ground while simple men ran around in awe of Hell's fury
De hele bos verbrandt (tot de grond?!) terwijl gewone mensen renden rond in ontzag van de woede van de hel

stopping, brain = dead

Thanks. Scandinavian languages are sort of on a dialect continuum are they not, makes them hard to remember

how long did it take any of you to be able to read Harry Potter in your target language?

>Harry Potter

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to be fair it is generally accepted as being rather useful for language learning, even if the actual content of the book is garbage

>easy books that everyone already knows from childhood

don't try and act smart because you pointed out children's books are dumb

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fuck off to /lit/, it's a young adult book that is decent for language learning. No one is pretending like it is some work of art.

at least you tried little brother

>Kanjobal,Kannada,Karen,Kashmiri,Kazakh,Khalkha,Khmer,Kikuyu,Kinyarwanda,Kirundi
Definetly one of these

>everyone already knows from childhood
Haha yes. I, too, can recite all the books from heart, fellow Potterhead!