daily polyglot workout edition>What language(s) are you learning?>Share language learning experiences!>Ask questions about your target language!>Help people who want to learn a new language!>Participate in translation challenges or make your own!>Make frens!Read the wiki:https://4chanint.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Official_/int/_How_to_Learn_A_Foreign_Language_Guide_WikiUseful links:>Free language‐learning book archive:https://mega.nz/folder/INlRkAQC#CthKI9-_kmDNyrOx12Ojbw>Books on linguistics and language courses:https://mega.nz/#F!Ad8DkLoI!jj_mdUDX_ay-8D9l3-DbnQ>Assorted language resources and some nice visual guides:https://pastebin.com/ACEmVqua>Torrents with more resources than you’ll ever need for 30 plus languages:https://archive(dot)ph/x0dFH>Russianon’s list of comprehensible input resources:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wXd0V32TjCFsr1-F_en_lA4MI-i7JtyYf26cWLtPRec>Massive collection of textbooks on various languages, sorted by familyhttps://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/>/lang/ inpoot torrentshttps://rentry.org/inpoot>Refold Anki deckshttps://rentry.org/refoldprevious thread: >>215483079
>AIslopSerbsisters what is dis
I am this close to giving up on Chinese.Latin, Greek, Italian, they call me.
>>215500637just 2 more weeks and you will be fluent
>>215497138You can still use the language exchange apps anyway igOr play Chinese games onlineIf I ever break up with my current gf (which I hope not but 万一) I would probably get an Uyghur gf to get fluent in that as well because realistically there's no way I'm doing it if I'm not living in Xinjiang or talking in Uyghur every day.
are there language exchange apps to talk to cute french girls?
buenos tardes
/lang/ lives longer if the OP is a lust provoking image. This may be true for all threads.
>>215503818this is why those japanese language threads never die then
>>215503818/lang/ dies because the people who post in it are always the same assholes. Pretty shit threads honestly, even for /int/‘s standard.
>>215503818>>215503931It's Friday
It's a dangerous world out there
>>215503692>misgendering tardesfuck off chud
>>215505832buenos noches to you too amigo
I have nothing to contribute but have a bump
>>215506128güenos nachos ig
If I have a pdf of a dictionary, what is the best way to turn it into an anki deck?
>>215500182>Spanish via DuolingoI have started reading beginners stories, and can more or less follow the story without much trouble. Watching Univision I can sometimes understand the gist of the news. The daytime dramas are easier to follow. The comedies and variety shows are incomprehensible.I'm still too nervous to try Spanish IRL. Need to take a community college course or something to get actual speaking practice.
>>215510018You use an AI prompt to turn it into a table or directly into an excel file, then you tell the AI to scramble the rows randomly, then you watch a video on youtube where they explain how to turn an excel file/txt file with a table into an anki deck which is something anki can do.
Duolingo stories were unironically great beginner immersion material. I binged them all in Spanish. Unfortunately you can't do that anymore.
>>215510231That's a lot of work :(
I want to learn IT ALLChinese, French, German, Italian, Latin, Greek, Russian, Danish, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Magyar, Hebrew, Turkish, ArabicI could... if I did NOT have a job...
>>215513131dont learn portuguese the only people who are worth talking to who speak this language speak english
>>215513160>dont learn portuguese the only people who are worth talking to who speak this language speak englishIt is like Spanish but sovlfull thoughbeit
i envy weebs and koreanboos, german study books are so normie compared to cute weeb ones
>>215504011So true. The threads in which I don't engage in last longer lol.
>>215514547Germaboos need to rise up
>>215514547I don't get why other countries can't make goverment/tax-funded resources like dw.de. That site has news, videos, audios, stories, etc. complete with exercises, vocabulary list, and accurate subtitles. I naively expected all developed countries would have something similar. Is tax revenue from language schools that significant? And it's not like they closed all language schools in Germany because dw.de exists.
I had a dream I was talking with my dad in my TLDo you ever dream in your TL?
>>215515391NHK is pretty good. CCTV (Chinese Central TV) has stuff as well.I don't think you bothered to look hard enough lol.
>>215515990Nope. hardly comparable with dw.de. Other countries just don’t care about spreading their language.
I need to level up a foreign language and get B2 certificate as fast as possible.I know:>Polish (N)>English (C1+ IELTS confirmed)>Esperanto (~B1, would be the easiest one but there are no universally recognized official certificates, familiarized myself with a bunch of Romance word roots there)>Russian (~A1, 3 years in high school)>Japanese (~A1, self-study)Honourable mentions:>Dutch (was dealing with it at work and find it easy to read as it's a mix of English an German, can understand written text pretty well)>German (3 years in middle school, but no output since 10 years or so)>Ukrainian (it's like Polish but funnier and I know a couple of words)Which language should be the easiest and the fastest one to focus on having my language background in mind? Any of the mentioned ones or maybe another one (Italian, Castilian, Czech, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian?)
>>215516235Why?
>>215514547>using booksngmi
>>215516337professional requirements
>>215516448But it doesn't matter what language it is?
>>215516539Basically yeah
>>215514547>french graded readersarthurian legendvictor hugo, zola, etc., adaptationsalex leroc journalist kino>german graded readerstrannies and multikulti in berlin
>>215516235Czech or something similar to Polish Or Spanish, it's incredibly easy
>>215516135Cry about it I guess
>>215516829German for Reading by Karl Sandberg has you reading short excerpts from Bismarck, Max Weber, Freud, Engels, Spengler, Marx, Hitler, Jung, Kant and Goethe The French for Reading one is nowhere near as good but it does have Assommons les pauvres by Baudelaire, I can't remember if it's in its entirety
>>215500182what if instead of reading and listening i just autistically goon anki instead
>>215515691Sort of. I dreamed I was cashier in Japan, but because I'm still dekinai I was saying shit like "Ku re di to kaa do... De bi to kaado" and customers were getting pissed off at me
>>215517579You goon anki and then you have enough words to be able to read easier
>>215517579You will have an easier time when you do start to read and listen (to a point), but you will still have to read and listen eventually
BOM DIA SENHORES
>>215500182>listening, reading>no talking
>>215517812Talking is for normies. If you are on this site you are too far gone to partake in that.
>>215517880I was thinking of joining a EVE online corp in my TL to simulate the foreign worker's experience
>>215517977God speed Yanktism
>>215518076Thanks. If my verification email ever arrives, we'll see how it goes
>>215517786Bundinha
>>215513131>Danish, Swedish, Magyareasy skipThere are so many major languages you can learn, no reason to learn the micro ones unless you actually want to live there
>>215516235>Walloon learns Russian and German in school but no DutchHUH???
Mandarin study done. Glory to president Xi.
>Italian, French, German, Russian, Swedish, JapaneseMy list is still unrealistic, but not as much as other anons here
>>215520240Embarrassing
>>215520240无论是哪一个国家的,崇洋媚外总给人丢脸
Buenos dias saars
>>215520902How to say "do not redeem" in Spanish?
>>215521263¡¡¡NO LO CANJEES!!!
>>215520868你这辈子注定注孤生,族谱最后一页都给你留了空白
Non sei por que ninguén está interesado en aprender galego, a verdade é que é moito máis fermoso ca o portugués e oxalá os xogos estivesen traducidos a esa lingua
>>215513131Thank gods I've always wanted to learn the same four languages and I'm keeping my eyes on the prize.
>>215520240Social credit +30 milion
>>215520414Skip fr*nch and swedish and it's realistic.
>>215521754This is the god of dabbling (devil) here. You will be much happier if you dabble. Please just endulge your fantasies of knowing many languages. You will love what dabbling will do for your life. Dabbling is only a net benefit that DOES NOT have any downsides :3
Vietnamese study done for the day. What a funny language.When does trying to speak it not feel like I am doing a funny asian accent?
>>215521868Be gone, spawn of hell!
>>215521868Dabbling a bit to at least know the Cyrillic and Arabic scripts is not that bad I think.Also the more languages you know some stuff about the more conversation topics can you have with people of different backgrounds.Autistically focusing on only one language is only sensible when you've already decided you want to work there or your gf speaks that language
>>215510231I have been making decks from .csv files already so I understand how to do all of that. But I have never used AI, so what ai would be needed and is it paid? Also would an ai fuck up stuff that is not the latin alphabet, like polytonic greek accent combinations? And would it be able to separate nominal forms, the genitive, and the article, for example?>>215511151its a lot less work than doing it by hand
>>215521868>>215522286The dabbling devil is multiplying across regions. Anons... do not fall victim to this!!!
>>215510018I don't know the best way to do it - but I would assume you would use a OCR python script to pull the shit, then sort it with more scripts into a csv/tsv to then put it into anki.This will most likely work - but depending on the language and quality of the source, the OCR may shit the bed.
What would be considered legitimate speaking practice? I am now realizing that language learning has many different facets. I am good at reading and understanding my target lang but I have issues consistently speaking. I imagine my "speaking stat" for my target language is just lower than my reading and listening stat so to speak. What would constitute as great practice for speaking? Just trying to converse with friends etc? or is there more to it?
>>215522419Speaking to people in your TL. If you feel too shy to do that, you can always just yap about your day in your TL to a camera and judge yourself.
Does your TL's territory consume olives?
Reminder to use https://steamdb.info/instantsearch/to buy some games in your target language before the steam sale ends
Thinking again about committing to German as my 4th language
>>215522319You can ask all of those questions to the AI that's built into google
>>215522676I'm gonna use this and then pirate them all
>>215522840English, Italian and French are the other 3?
>>215522986Russian
>>215522900I dont use google
>>215522676Chinese FMV dating Sims already acquired
My not read everything in DUTCH (translation)? Why even bother learning multiple languages....
>>215523310You should've used a translator for this post
>>215519842because dutch is the language of judeothalassocracy
Northern or Southern Welsh anonsIf you had to pick
>>215525479Southern Welsh people are closer to Brits. Northern Welsh people are feral creatures who will bite anyone who is bad at Welsh.
I'm mentally a child and need gamified apps
>>215526318The first resource I used for Mandarin was a book series called Zhongwen which is like an activity book aimed at foreign Chinese kids I believe.Shit was an effective way to learn for me lol.
>>215526318>germanPost checks out.
bomp
>>215521561注孤生是什么意思啊兄弟,你写错了字...
After investigating Russian and Polish languages I found that Russian has many more loanwords from German despite being farther away than Poland and Poles actively purged all German loanwords from their language out of pure butthurt. I despise Poland now and Russia is my best friend
Die Juden hassen weiße Kunden!
>>215528908>actively purged all German loanwordsThey didn't do a good job of it then
>>215528759Study harder.
Don’t learn Spanish is a useless language
>>215529834单独写“注”没有“注定”的意思你知不知道学不好普通话怎么拜金瓶宝宝呢兄弟你这真太可惜了吧 崇不了西洋 媚不到外
>>215530063It was a homophonic pun lol. If you don't get it you need to study harder. It's really that simple.
>>215530113lol this cope住孤生 is wrong as wellyou 住 in a place and 过 a lifeit should be 过孤生I know you're a beginner but this is embarassing lil bro
>>215530212You are just outing yourself as an idiot. Cope harder and study more. Shit is embarrassing.
>>215530329真上钩了 我靠can you say what 所谓的 "pun" was then?
>>215530406If you can't figure it out yourself there is no hope for you lol
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thread's on life supportbump
I was slacking off a bit because I was looking for the best method on my own. I want to learn basic vocabulary as quickly as possible, mainly nouns and adjectives, so that I can understand a little more than the content for total beginners, which either bores me or is surprisingly difficult, like I understand most of it from the context, but after 2 seconds I forget for example what a washing machine is in German. So I'm gonna grind with some premade anki deck. I rejected that refold one already, so maybe I'll focus on DW Nicos Weg or that one from the Goethe Institute. From Monday, I'm going back to learning with Pimsleur
>>215522319Just use chatgpt and use the following prompt. If you are using the free version just split your dictionary pdf into 10-20 page portions:I have a PDF file containing dictionary entries. Each entry typically has a word, part of speech, definition, and sometimes example sentences. I want you to extract all entries and convert them into a CSV format with the following columns:WordPart of SpeechDefinitionExample (if available)Instructions:Ignore page numbers, headers, and footers.If an entry does not have an example, leave the Example column blank.Make sure each entry is on a single row in the CSV.Preserve special characters and accents in words.Output should be pure CSV text, ready to save as a .csv file. Example format:Word,Part of Speech,Definition,Exampleapple,noun,A fruit that grows on trees,"I ate an apple for breakfast."run,verb,To move swiftly on foot,"He runs every morning."If the PDF contains extra formatting or multiple definitions per word, separate definitions with a semicolon ;.
>>215525577I've dabbled in Welsh before but the Welshmen in my family come from southwestern Wales (Caermathenshire and a tiny bit west of that). Aside from that my old man's family is English and Scottish right to the coloniesI'd go further into Welsh but I don't have the money to head to Wales to use the language
>>215500182https://www.transparent.com/word-of-the-dayi think they only allow one language per email though, but they do latinhttps://www.thefreedictionary.com/^has a grammar quiz+guide
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/institutional-48528766
>>215529893what if i learn to rap instead
In Hindi anything that is place before a postposition can't be the grammar subjectExample : उसके पैरें में दर्द हैThe auxiliary verb is singular because the grammar subject is the descruptice adjective so he must agree in quantity with the grammar subject
>>215529893Why?
>tfw you aren't as good as you thought you were with a language and get exposed
>>215529893ah okay i will just speak german in spain then
>>215538081How? Did you actually try to talk to someone?
>>215539936lol
Are there any good Turkish comprehensible input resources for beginners? I've looked for ages and can't find anything. I think LingQ has some stuff but I really don't wanna pay $15/month to read shitty stories.
>stress significantly changes the pronunciation of words and is unpredictable>let's not indicate it
>>215541481russian?
>>215540568LingQ minus some gas station food this month
The calm before the storm I will have around 500 flashcards to review in about 5 days according to this SRS system. I reviewed them all perfectly at the start so it will be interesting to see a percentage of what I forgot in a few days. Today's unit had no actual Chinese content but just outlined advice for language learning best practices. I can finally start adding actual characters to the flashcard pile now.
>>215513131instead of Danish and Swedish learn Bökmal. It's is slightly easier grammatically, its spelling is more regular than Danish and phonologically you will struggle less. Norwegians understand Swedish and Danish better than other combos, which means with Norwegian you more or less get access to all 3. >>215522286Yeah, learning Arabic abjad, Cyrillic, Greek alphabet, Devanagari, hangul, kana, pinyin doesn't take much. Also learn how to pronounce German and French correctly.That's just a few hundred Anki cards. Use Rosetta Stone alphabet aid for a neat table of pronunciation rules.
Do any of you have the experience of dating as a language learner? Do girls find it attractive if you speak another language? Do they find it attractive if you're actively learning one?
>>215542996bögmål kekekekekekeke
>>215540568https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/TurkishYou can always just grab a bunch textbooks and extract the text+audio and make it comprehensible with lookups/translations, that's all you really need to make progress in any language.
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>>215544308I think they mainly find it attractive if you're handsome and rich, but knowing another language can give you percentage point or two.
>>215544308Do you mean dating a girl of your TL? If you can speak in english together it doesn't matter much but shows you're somewhat intelligent and gives a topic of conversation so not useless.From my own experience with japanese yeah going there fluent gave me more opportunities but I have a white gf so didn't care.Also once I was reading a japanese book in a train in Switzerland and the black girl next to me nearly jumped on my cock.A friend went in tokyo last year and spoke with a random girl in broken english and now she lives here and they're married so being white and tall will always be better than be native level in 20 languages. They're still talking the same bad english together.tl:dr speaking other languages shows you're smart so you get a few points no matter what
>>215544308
>>215548550where's video games and having political discussions on the internet?
ein stückchen deutsche Kultur zu deiner Unterhaltunghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJad_ZgMTUw
>>215544308People (women) love coming over and asking what you're learning/what you're reading but very few of them can hold a proper conversation about itSame for TL natives, they always ask the exact same questions Maybe it's good for getting people interested in you but not good for it being your entire topic of discussion. Very performative, in that way. Like reading feminist literature on public transport
>>215548888See: Bottom 15 Most Attractive Hobbies to Women
>>215549049this faggot mastered the youtube algorithm so well that I got suggested videos of him even though I never clicked on any lego or toy related shit ever
Yo tengo tres computadoras en mis pantalones
>>215549225Ordenadores
>>215500182What does the difficulty scale mean in innerfrench? Is it higher if it's more difficult or vice-versa?
>>215548888>>215549072
>think I can skip passé simple in French for now since it's one of the rarer tenses>want to read the little prince as my first book>it's mostly passé simplenuke Paris
>>215544308depends on the lang, but generally yes. Here French is king with women.
>>215548550languages other than normie romance ones probably give them the ick
>>215500182Can you fix my pronunciation PLEASE? https://voca.ro/129hKAoVNiF5
>>215550643It's so over
Which /lang/ will give me the highest ROI on finding a gf? Spanish? Portugese? Russian? Japanese? German? Finnish? Icelandic?Adjust the answer for likelihood of success/attractiveness of gf in question
>>215551480thai, chinese, russian
>>215551384Why fix it? It's charming.
ni hao. Wo zai xuexi zhongwen. Wo xiangyao Zhonggou de Laopo. Ni keyi gei wo ma?
>>215551480English.
>>215551480Brazilian Portuguese
>>215549087Es ist halt viral gegangen. Bin kein großer Lego-Enthusiast aber ich schau bei seinem Kanal ab und zu vorbei weil ich sein trockenes Humor lustig finde. Gibt's was durch und durch Deutsches an einem Lego scharf kritisierenden 40-Jährigen was ich irgendwie charmant finde. Finde sein Akzent/Ausdrucksweise irgendwie herausfordernd auch und das bietet mir eine Gelegenheit mein Hörverständnis zu vervollkommnen. >>215550643in wie weit ist Pornographie anzuschauen überhaupt ein Hobby? Noch dazu kommt es mir komisch vor, Manospehere als ein Zeitvertreib zu betrachten. Es ist eher eine Zeitverschwendung über solche deprimierende Themen den ganzen Tag zu beugen. Würde lieber ein Auge dabei zudrücken als aus sowas ein Hobby zu machen. Leute die sich damit ohne Ende befassen sind oft meiner Erfahrung nach bemitleidenswerte Figuren. >>215551480auf gar keinen Fall würde ich auf Deutsch tippen. Kommt auch stark auf deine spezifische Lokale an. Bei mir hier in den USA würde ich Spanisch sagen im besonderen wenn man auf Latinas steht. Ansonsten bei uns ist wahrscheinlich Französisch am ratsamsten aufgrund der Tatsache dass Frauen in der Regel Romantik usw mit dieser Sprache assoziieren.
>>215551252yeah, if you say you're learning Japanese or Russian you're in trouble, maybe even German too
>>215548550>>215550643My hobbies are equally balanced, does that give women the ick?
>>215551252>>215553525Why worry about the ick when your descendants would die out in a few generations anyway? Either have fun with the languages you like or learn Hebrew or Pennsylvanian German.
>>215550643ALG goes at the bottom toothe grammarchad gets the girl
japanese is pretty neat.
>>215541730English.
>>215548550>>215551252no, i think what is meant here is the ability to speak them. it's not language learning. even studying french for merely 3 hours a day would have them go "omg are you done yet" (this happened to me and i hated it)
I will learn Arabic and Turkish through duolingo because I disrespect those languages and don't really want to become fluent in them.(Also because they have no good Anki decks)
Willst du mit mir die Sünde seinDann tanz mit mir durchs ParadiesWillst du mit mir den Schmerz befreienDann tanz mit mir durchs ParadiesWillst du mit mir nach Erlösung schreienUnd auch nur einmal Sieger seinWillst du mit mir die Sünde seinDann sei willkommen im Paradies
>>215556976Bump for truth. Tell a Russian farmer that ˈfəɥtə,ɡrɑf and fətʰɔɡrə,fJj are a stress shift apart and xhe'll laugh at you.
I traveled to China recently and that trip completely broke me.Two years of learning Chinese and I couldn't 听懂 for shit, niggers were speaking ultra fast and I couldn't get anything but the most basic 好吃吗 tier shit.Should I just give up? Am i retarded?
>>215561581you should have immersed with video games
>>215561655But Chinese games are shit.
>>215541481one of the things that makes Greek weirdly easier than you'd think, stress accents are always written for some reason. in Russian I guess they only use them for children and learners
>>215561581You didn't try to watch any movies or news before going? If you inputted daily, you wouldn't get surprised like that, you'd already know your level sucks ASS before you booked the trip.
>>215561581Did you atleast fuck any bug women
>>215561803I'm watching shitty Netflix cdramas and Link Click but real life was way harder.>>215561808Well it was a trip with my Chinese girlfriend so yeah.
>>215561581Well, you can't expect to adapt immediately from classroom learning to the real world. It took me a week or two to get used to speaking and hearing Chinese 24/7 but after that I was fine. You probably just needed a bit more time.>>215561923Forget everything I just said you have a Chinese girlfriend (who you are talking to every day in Chinese, I hope) and you still couldn't cope? It's joever
>>215562053>Forget everything I just said you have a Chinese girlfriend (who you are talking to every day in Chinese, I hope) and you still couldn't cope?Well you see she lives here in Spain so we speak in Spanish always for her to practice. I like to call her 小母狗 when fucking her though.
learning spanish is annoying because so many study materials and comprehensive input resources are tailored to americans, and by the nature of that it's gigaslop. i like spain a lot and also latin america, but mentally i go full trump giga hitler 1488 just so that there is less of a demand for spanish learning resources made for americans, clogging up my search results with trash
>>215562126Next time you can call her 嫂子 or 御姐My gf hates that though, lol
>>215562738Well thanks but I don't have much need to improve my bed talk, just my listening.
