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post 1569926181 12-30-2018, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted By Komytea⏩
spanish was my first language, so i'm trying to learn italian now. i know the basics through duolingo but i always get bored.
cause you're not speaking chit. you're just playing a little app game. get Pimsleur Italian (that may or may not be available to torrent) do it for 3 weeks straight and you'll be hooked and surprised at how much you're speaking. it's vocab building, and listening comprehension from there on out.
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post 1569926491 12-30-2018, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted By Purfected⏩
his wife isn't fuking him. Swahili, Urdu, Greek, Persian? what a fuking waste.
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post 1569926651 12-30-2018, 10:23 PM
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Took Japanese in high school, but should've been more serious about it. Went to Japan this past September and was lost. Sparked my interest in it again because I have another trip to Japan come March 2019 and I at least want to become more fluent in it. Planning to take some Japanese classes offered by locals to eventually get my JLPT 3 and then one day get to 2 or 1.
post 1569927151 12-30-2018, 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted By W1LLW⏩
cause you're not speaking chit. you're just playing a little app game. get Pimsleur Italian (that may or may not be available to torrent) do it for 3 weeks straight and you'll be hooked and surprised at how much you're speaking. it's vocab building, and listening comprehension from there on out.
will look into it brah
post 1569928651 12-30-2018, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted By R1DINGPwnies⏩
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post 1569938551 12-31-2018, 05:02 AM
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New Years Bump. For resolution miscers.

My goal is to be able to have a 1hr long conversation in 3 languages, by the end of 2019

1st language; Esperanto. (I've been learning for the past 4 weeks.)



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post 1569938691 12-31-2018, 05:09 AM
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Been learning mandarin for a while but slowed down. Time to kill it in 2019
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post 1569939311 12-31-2018, 05:30 AM
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In on this, Spanish is super useful so I'm going to smash through it in 2019. Might take some time to brush up on my Japanese and Turkish too
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Learning russian. Stuff is ridiculous though.
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post 1569956171 12-31-2018, 09:54 AM
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^^ хорошо

I've studied Russian for awhile. Can read at a fairly advanced level, but my speaking, writing, and listening are comically bad. I've seen a few русские братья in here. Pm me if you guys ever want to practice. I rarely get to speak.
post 1569966641 12-31-2018, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted By W1LLW⏩
We butted heads like a year ago in your travel thread because I told you I was a boujee traveler and you said you preferred to go off the beaten path. Now here you are telling me you're going to the mega city that is Moscow when the language is the same in minsk, the women are just as attractive, and it's cheaper? come on mane.
Because i aint travelling there im living there. Minsk would get boring quite quickly compared to the awesomeness of Moscow.

If i criticised your travelling choices i apologise seems like a dumb thing to do.

I dont really go off the beaten path at all just prefer to go to countries different to my own
post 1569974941 12-31-2018, 02:26 PM
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Just made a thread on Rosetta Stone, this might be a better place for it. Copy & pasted:

Rosetta Stone, anyone use it? Contemplating pulling the trigger on 12mo since they are doing a buy one get one free thing. I can gift the second 12mo course or I can pick a new language. 2 years for $95.88.
I get pretty bored at my house (see sig) and I like the immersion principal. I've read reviews that hate on it and say "learning as a child is the lazy-mans way of learning a language." Sounds right up my alley...


Anyone actually have experience with R.S.?
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Originally Posted By W1LLW⏩
his wife isn't fuking him. Swahili, Urdu, Greek, Persian? what a fuking waste.
He's a Language professor, he loves doing it lol
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post 1569980061 12-31-2018, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted By GrandpaFeathers⏩
Just made a thread on Rosetta Stone, this might be a better place for it. Copy & pasted:

Rosetta Stone, anyone use it? Contemplating pulling the trigger on 12mo since they are doing a buy one get one free thing. I can gift the second 12mo course or I can pick a new language. 2 years for $95.88.
I get pretty bored at my house (see sig) and I like the immersion principal. I've read reviews that hate on it and say "learning as a child is the lazy-mans way of learning a language." Sounds right up my alley...


Anyone actually have experience with R.S.?
depends on what language you are trying to learn?


I can pretty much guarantee that if you are trying to learn an Asian it will be a waste of money. every person I have come across on youtube or forums who has put serious effort in to Japanese has said rosetta stone is a waste
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post 1569982511 12-31-2018, 04:21 PM
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was teaching myself japanese over this year, it's actually pretty easy, i think it's because i love the culture.

i only know english too so it was a surprise to me to how fast i learned. i can pretty much conversate with people in japanese over text but yeah the writing i cant do for **** and i still need a dictionary.

i think if i were to learn a different language like with english characters i would learn so fast. spanish i could probably do in a year easily because i'm filipino and so many words are the same even though i don't know tagalog.
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post 1569994751 12-31-2018, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted By Purfected⏩
depends on what language you are trying to learn?


I can pretty much guarantee that if you are trying to learn an Asian it will be a waste of money. every person I have come across on youtube or forums who has put serious effort in to Japanese has said rosetta stone is a waste
Spanish! Any suggested companies?
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Originally Posted By GrandpaFeathers⏩
Just made a thread on Rosetta Stone, this might be a better place for it. Copy & pasted:

Rosetta Stone, anyone use it? Contemplating pulling the trigger on 12mo since they are doing a buy one get one free thing. I can gift the second 12mo course or I can pick a new language. 2 years for $95.88.
I get pretty bored at my house (see sig) and I like the immersion principal. I've read reviews that hate on it and say "learning as a child is the lazy-mans way of learning a language." Sounds right up my alley...


Anyone actually have experience with R.S.?
Universally amongst Polyglots that I've seen review products, Rosetta Stone is considered not worth the time or money.
Spanish! Any suggested companies?
I posted a bunch in the first post.

Baselang specializes in unlimited 1 to 1 tuition in Spanish. If you can afford it.

Duolingo is free, and has a big community of people learning the same language (just click discussion). It's considered a good resource for beginners to learn vocabulary, but universally people say you need more than just duolingo to learn a language. (I recommend trying to repeat the sentences that come with audio, to get some speaking/mimicking practice.)
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post 1570025881 01-01-2019, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
was teaching myself japanese over this year, it's actually pretty easy, i think it's because i love the culture.

i only know english too so it was a surprise to me to how fast i learned. i can pretty much conversate with people in japanese over text but yeah the writing i cant do for **** and i still need a dictionary.

i think if i were to learn a different language like with english characters i would learn so fast. spanish i could probably do in a year easily because i'm filipino and so many words are the same even though i don't know tagalog.
how was learning kanji, and reading / writing for you? Japanese seemed WAY EASIER for me to pick up and speak / listen to compared to when I used to try and learn Korean. Japanese reading and writing is the very difficult part
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post 1570026071 01-01-2019, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted By Purfected⏩
this dude is obviously extremely hardcore, as he is learning multiple languages at once. but I am going to start using his methods for learning Japanese. i.e write a page or two in Japanese, listen to Japanese audio, work on grammar etc etc.
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I'm actually thinking about learning sign language. Because why not?
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Originally Posted By Purfected⏩
how was learning kanji, and reading / writing for you? Japanese seemed WAY EASIER for me to pick up and speak / listen to compared to when I used to try and learn Korean. Japanese reading and writing is the very difficult part
learning kanji is easier for me than learning katakana. lol. i still am not confident with katakana. but kanji i know most of the basic ones by looking at them.
i mean i don't know a lot but the ones that i know sticks in my head. i think the more i come across though it might get harder.

i basically learn words that go with the kanji. for me it registers with my favorite words like chuu-sei-shin loyalty 忠 誠 心. these three kanji i can never forget because loyalty is one of my favorite words lol.

i can't write for **** though. i'm not sure why. it just doesn't register for me. even with so many writing exercises. i spent like weeks trying to memorize writing, after those weeks i couldn't remember them anymore. but i can read and memorize what it looks like.

i think i do pretty well, though i imagine i'm really slow compared to other people, because i've never known any characters aside from english characters and don't know any language except english

yeah but vocally i'm pretty confident, really easy to understand and pronounce, except for the ****in R sound for me lmao. sometimes i get it right, sometimes it's like wtf. "kore" that ****in word man. i feel awkward saying it all the time. even arigatou gozaimasu, but when i say arigatou gozaimasu slowly it sounds just right. fast i **** it up. but japanese people understand me when i use words that don't have that "r" sound.


my brother self-taught himself japanese playing japanese video games (imported, non-english versions) and i think a few light novels. i think it was a mix of playing and learning at the same time as he went on. he's 100% fluent in conversating with japanese people online or through text. he can also understand vocally fluent. i might try that as a test or something.

he learned really fast, like a year i think. he did take japanese in highschool but just for one year. but that was years before he tried teaching himself.
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Originally Posted By NillaWafer⏩
I'm actually thinking about learning sign language. Because why not?


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Can anyone just spell out for me what I need to do each day to get gains? Do I need to buy a course?
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Originally Posted By jimberee⏩
Can anyone just spell out for me what I need to do each day to get gains?
These people speak multiple languages, and give advice:

Luca Lampriello... (Listening, and Bidirectional translation method.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNScWReYGoo

Benny Lewis... (Speaking based method.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgec7VxZYc0

Steve Kaufman... (Listening and Reading method.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXqFD2bWHxU
Do I need to buy a course?
There are a number of free resources...

Duolingo.com (Basically the listening, reading, and bidirectional method.)

Memrise.com (Spaced repetition for learning vocabulary and phrases.)


30 mins a day minimum is preferable.
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just ordered this bad boy




My current textbooks





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for anybody trying to learn Japanese, these 2 videos helped me a lot in the beginning



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i've got genki 1 as well but haven't delved into it yet

the source that helped me most though was



best place to start for a beginner imo. i looked at genki 1 when i first started and imo it was a terrible start lol. they expect you to know kana fluently.

think i might order the same as you for the grammar and kanji

there was this one perfect memory website online that helped me a lot, i can't remember it anymore though damn it. started with an I
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
i've got genki 1 as well but haven't delved into it yet

the source that helped me most though was



best place to start for a beginner imo. i looked at genki 1 when i first started and imo it was a terrible start lol. they expect you to know kana fluently.

think i might order the same as you for the grammar and kanji

there was this one perfect memory website online that helped me a lot, i can't remember it anymore though damn it. started with an I
this website is what I used to learn hiragana and katakana, worked super well for me

https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/

https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-katakana/
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Quien esta aprendiendo español?

Que cosas usas para practicar tu español?
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Originally Posted By Tickyouup⏩
Quien esta aprendiendo español?

Que cosas usas para practicar tu español?
https://discordservers.com/search?term=espanol
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