See title. I’ve been to quite a few local language meetups and saw lots of people IRL who are learning languages: wondering how are y’all doing too
For myself… learning French due to necessity. I am making progress, just veeery slow. I underestimated how difficult it would be (a lot of vocabs between English/French are similar… but the languages themselves are not!)
English, being born in non english speaking country significantly boosts your chances of being proficient in two languages. I understand everything I read on the internet pretty well, but my writing skills are not perfect, and speaking is the hardest part.
i found an easy and fun way to learn to speak it: take your favorite sitcom series, preferably a fast paced one with subtitles. pause after each sentence and try to repeat it. in the beginning you may have to learn the difficult sounds with help from youtube. went from being too ashamed to even speak it to fluent in a few months. and i used the office and brooklyn nine nine.
Your writing skills are way above-average. Well done!
Spanish and it’s slowww. I dont have a lot of time and I’m stressed out so it’s hard to consistently get listening exposure in.
I like language transfer and assimil and will be trying out dreaming Spanish for more listening but when I finally have free time I usually don’t want to do more learning lol
So yeah…it’s rough, I really need more discipline
Te recomiendo unos podcasts.
Por si no lo sabias los simpson son muy populares en latino america y el doblaje latino es muy bueno.
Oo gracias! Intento ver Pokémon in español pero después una día largo quiero ver mi programa favorita 😭
los simpson es una mejor idea
When I was in high school, the sequel to my favorite game didn’t get translated, so I convinced my parents to sign me up for Japanese lessons on the weekend. But I didn’t get all that far in it on account of having too much actual schoolwork to keep up with.
Last year I picked it back up again, just for fun, and I’m making a lot more progress using Renshuu than I did in a classroom environment. Earlier this year I bought one volume each of a bunch of different manga series, slowly working through the pile with the help of vocab lists from LearnNatively and Wanikani. So far I’ve finished Yotsubato, RuriDragon, and Look Back.
I’m speedrunning French, trying to focus on Québécois you kinda end up learning traditional French too along the way. This is my third language.
- Duo for daily practice and grammar, but it makes a lot of mistakes
- Work group to practice speaking
- I switched various daily apps to French
- Grabbed a few comic books in French, happy to say I’m now past those :)
- Québécois friends for slang and informal reference
- Recently been playing Pokemon ZA in French (extra fun since it’s in Poke-Paris), quite pleased with it!
I’m about a year in, and I’m low-level conversational. Solidly A2. Basically just taking any resources I can find, I plan to look for a proper class soon.
Le chemin est très agréable, je le trouve bien!
Pokemon Z-A in French is perfect, lol! I’ve been playing it for language learning too (Japanese). I think those games are pretty great for it, good low-stakes, familiar games that have a lot of text, but are also kid-approachable. Would be nice to have voice acting, but otherwise fantastic language immersion games.
Also check out !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz for this kind of discussion on the regular!
Japanese! I originally thought I might make quick progress, but there were surprising number of characters I’ve never seen before. So I just decided to learn everything from complete scratch so that I don’t ever have to backtrack. Everything is written in hiragana at the current stage, and that’s throwing me off a lot too. But I have to learn how they’re read anyway so, oh well.
Ohh nice! If you happen to be interested in manga: someone at my local Japanese language exchange recommended よつばと! which seemed like a cute & quite useful manga series for learning Japanese
Yeah, that’s what plan to do once I can read without too much active thinking. I got ons of manga I want to read in original!
Same, have you tried WaniKani for learning the Kanji and vocabulary? It’s great.
japanese children only learn 2000 characters by the time they are out of high school.
there are 3000 daily kanji, and 50,000 total.
but only 1000 kanji make up 90% of kanji you would typically use/see.
僕も日本語を勉強している。もし勉強方法の質問があればぜひ聞いてください。
Check out KanaDojo. Its a cool little web app that will help with hiragana and katakana.
I decided to teach myself Russian and Japanese when I turned 40. It’s been over a year and making good progress in both. Am still at a beginner lever but pretty happy with progress.
what sucks is when i tell people this they think i am weird or mentally ill. nobody i know or have met in the past year has seen it as a cool or fun thing.
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Esperanto, very slowly, using Duolingo. Why? Just because.
Vi devus kontroli ankaŭ clozemaster.com!
Ho, dankon! Mi certe iam kontrolos tion, kiam mi havos sufiĉa da tempon.
German. I’m not that motivated nowadays but my level improved a lot from the intense work I did between February and June this year
German here too, off and on for longer than I’d care to admit. If I can put at least an hour a day into studying I feel like progress is being made.
Spanish. I’m not consistent and go through bursts but I know more now than I have before.
私は日本語を勉強します (I’ve been studying Japanese) I’ve been doing it just because it sounds cool and I want to go to Japan one day for a visit. I haven’t studied for a bit due to life getting in the way but I can form simple sentences but I’m far from being able to hold a conversation
Before a 4 month stay in Vienna, I tried upping my German game: consumed lots of German-language media (news, books, videos), attended a language course, really tried immersing myself as well as I could. It was enough to get by okay, but I felt frustrated not being to follow along always or express myself precisely. Since coming back I haven’t been able to pick it up and in fact have come to associate the language with the sad realization that it’s behind me.
Edit: just a positive note, I can now easily follow along with German-language talks, musicals, articles etc which feels like a superpower!
I’m also learning French right now. I took Spanish in high school, which helped a lot with understanding Romance languages and the basics of learning another language. I’ve found that learning vocabulary French is fairly similar, but listening and understanding is so much more difficult because it’s so much less phonetic than other languages.
我正在学习中文。中文很难！
I took a break from learning Chinese for a while due to personal stuff being busy and am trying to get back into it. Chinese is a very logical language, I think, and learning it is fun and interesting but challenging. I was just about HSK1 level, I think, before I stopped. I gotta boot up peppa pig in mandarin again - 你好小猪佩奇老师，我是你的学生！
Hey, 我也会中文。我在广州出生，在中国读书至到二年级，然后就出国了。我会粤语和国语 (aka: 普通话)，会基本的字（会看不会写 xD，用拼音或粤拼来打的字）。很 Interesting 的语言。Many words/phrases are self explanatory, unlike English, lol.
I think the grammer and sentence stucture is a but non-standard because I think Cantonese sentense structure is a bit different(?) and the English as my now-primary language messes with it a bit. I can understand like most of Mandarin or Cantonese drama without subtitles, except maybe an occasional vocabulary that I don’t have in my Lexicon yet.
很酷！很多的人也很多的我的朋友 from my hometown & childhood 和你一样来自中国。我喜欢能看到 the etymology in a 汉字。
I wish 我的中文是足够好 to understand 中文 TV. 老师小猪佩奇不是有趣的。
I’ve started learning Catalan, it’s going slower than I hoped because the class I’m taking is filled with people who already speak the language and spend the entire class discussing about technicalities instead of letting the teacher teach.
Hello,
If you are learning Catalan, feel free to join !barcelona@piefed.social , most of the publications there are in Catalan
Merci, a més de pel català serà útil per coses de la ciutat
De res!
