My obsession with English pronunciation kept me from learning languages to avoid "phonetic interference". But I gave up (for real) on sounding natural in English, so I am ACTUALLY open to learning foreign languages now!
I've pondered it long enough to actually want to do it now. It's going to be my cope and refuge from life's ups and downs.
Which languages should I learn? (Exclude South Asian, East Asian, and Middle Eastern languages, keep it exclusively European/Slavic).

>>220929444
you were supposed to learn German

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>>220929444
Learn Swedish with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvHDbK4wyOU

>>220929542
Tbh, I wanted to move to Germany to study there but I dropped the idea.
I might still learn it though.
I want to socialmaxx, and explicitly learn socialable languages and to have a motivating goal to get good at them. I might learn the normie languages.

>>220929388
>pic
Kek. Sometimes you're alright, Jordie.

Non je n'oublierai jamais ce jour où j'ai lu
Ton nom mal écrit parmi tant d'autres noms inconnus
Sur la première page d'un journal brésilien
J'essayais de lire et je n'y comprenais rien

>>220929542
I am finishing uni in a year and I will ascend no matter what and I actually DO like language learning. I will try to find a way to DO learn languages but I need literally just a few hours of thinking. I already am thinking of learning Romance languages, but I'll discuss it here before I finalize things.

My obsession with Jordie kept me from loving maidens to avoid "marriage". But I gave up (for real) on trying to avoid my love for Jordie, so I'm actually open to loving Jordie now! I've pondered it long enough to actually want to do it now. He's going to be my cope and refuge from life's ups and downs.
Love your Jordie <3

>>220929613
You should learn Greek

>>220929388
Hey, I remember Jordanon as the name of a regular. Are you he?

>>220929575
>normie languages
Isn't German that? I mean even Mutts have it as an option in their youth shooting ranges.

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>>220929576
I finally, for real this time, stopped giving a fuck about improving my English accent (either US or UK). For real this time.
That's why I have hope now.
The deadline for passing the morphology and syntax module of the Arabic academy ends tomorrow and I haven't accessed the academy since October 2025 so I will get kicked out, which is a relief.
Now I will be FREE to actually learn a language.
Spanish? French? and what? One more. What about Italian? (Spanish / French / Italian)

>>220929675
Well, as much of an incompetent language learner I've been, I am a good pharmacy student. Germany has immigration options for pharmacists and I tick ALL the boxes (except one, can you guess it :)??? I'll give you a hint: it requires me to be B2 :))
But I had other options so I stopped pursuing that option. I might learn it if it helps me socialmaxx.
I have no REAL hobbies besides language learning. I want to learn a language ASAP by the time I graduate uni so I don't appear like a liar when I tell some grill I like languages
Can you imagine?
>I like languages! I've been into them for over a decade now!
>Cool jordie! Holy shit you must be such a hyperpolyglot. How many languages do you speak?
>Actually, let's talk about something else, ok?

>ankigooning a premade deck and speedrunning the green owl course
then with the basics down
>inpooting and sentence mining
Would this work? I want to learn a new (euro) language from scratch

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>>220929940
You and me brother

dead /lang/ is dead
LISTEN UP /lang/ers!
Spanish --> French --> Portuguese (EUROPEAN, for the Portugalobro) and finally... RUSSIAN! in that order.
STARTS... TODAY!

>>220929575
Fuck, I wasted time on German. Maybe Swedish or other scandinavian language as Serb anon said?

Doing 30 new cards a day but that makes for about 330 cards a day and it takes ~61 minutes to get through the deck :( how do I get better at memorizing stuff bros

>>220929807
>Can you imagine?
LMAO, watching that convo go down IRL would be gold.

>>220930369
>Fuck, I wasted time on German.
Why? Were you hopin' to meet Jordanon through it?

>>220930369
Actually, if it's a European language and it's global and easy to learn (relatively), I am up to start it SIMULTANEOUSLY with you.
Which language? Pick one.
I LITERALLY DROPPED ENGLISH, TRUST ME THIS TIME

>>220930439
I mean, I like it, but it's hard and Germans aren't the most pleasurable people to interact with if you're a Pole, no offense. Also, I wanted to compare my progress with the Jordanian anon
>>220930485
Focus at one

>>220929444
>But I gave up (for real) on sounding natural in English
Can bad habits ever be fixed when it comes to pronunciation? Especially if they were built in a classroom setting with 100s of hours of drilling of horrible pronunciation like in ar*b cunts?

>>220930584
Brainstorm languages we're both A0 in. From my end, that's literally any language that's not English or Arabic :)

i learned 1 new word today :3

>>220930615
Depends on ear genes + accent.
British accent would make you sound comical if you don't have good ear genes
American accent? Will make you sound clearer
But if it's that vs learning a new language, just learn the new language, even if you won't speak it with a good accent. I wasted so many years.

>>220930584
>no offense
None taken. Huh. Is that a thing? I thought it's generally the whole "We don't think of you at all." shtick vs. PiS(S)'s constant REEEEEing instead, not hostility. Get met with a lot of car thief jokes, do you? If so, I thought people moved on to Romanians for those.

>>220930656
New words I learnt today:
ئىز trace
نومۇر number
ئاۋات rich, prosperous, flourishing
罪行 criminal action

>>220930584
Brainstorm the fucking languages nigga
I am waiting

Still looking for (additional) Nip speakers to help out with >>>>220924444.

>>220697973
>>220699717
>Einfach
>Der Bus haltet jeder Stunde neben den Markt.
*hält jede *dem
Could use "... Stunde vorm (or 'vor dem') Markt.", too.

>Wir suchen die nächste Metrostation.
Technically not wrong but 'U-Bahn-Station' or 'U-Bahn-Haltestelle' would probably be more common. Might use it in Paris tho'. Oh and 'suchen nach der nächsten' would've been correct as well.

>Sie hat diese Morgen mit ein Taxi zum Flughafen gefahren.
*Sie ist diesen *einem
Or just simply 'Sie fuhr diesen Morgen mit einem Taxi zum Flughafen' if you want. If you wanna use 'Sie hat' then it'd be 'Sie hat diesen Morgen ein Taxi zum Flughafen genommen' for instance.

>mittelschwer
*Mittelschwer ;p

>Ehe wir die Grenze reichen, haben wir seit neun Stunde gefahren.
*erreichen
'Ehe' would mean "before" (cf. English "ere") in this context whereas the English original says that "by the time" so it should be something like 'Sobald' ("as soon as"/"when"). The 2nd clause is actually tricky and German and would probably be something like
>... werden wir seit neun Stunden gefahren sein.
Not sure if this deserves to be in a medium challenge.

>Er hatte bevor dieser Reise niemals eine Papierkarte benutzt.
No errors. Slightly more common might just be 'vor dieser'. And 'Papierkarte' weirds me out, not that "paper map" is any better though even if I know what's meant.

>Die Einwohnern wiederaufbaut die Brücke, die letzte Winter zusammenfiel.
*Einwohner *bauen die Brücke wieder auf *letzten
Could also do 'bauen die Brücke, die letzten Winter zusammenfiel, wieder auf.' if you wanna be extra German.

>>220926236
You take that back, you scoundrel!

>>220929940
Yeah, but greenbird is very inefficient in the way it doesn't respect your time lol
Would be better off using a colloquial series book or a Michel Thomas course book

>>220929940
If you already speak spanish you probably don't need either before just starting input, because eu languages are all fairly similar.
Anki especially is going to be a waste of time.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6XjMufH4g

Bitch, how do you have autism when your job is fake exaggerated emoting in front of an audience all day. They're giving out these diagnoses like hot cakes.

>>220930767
Online:
Everything is super political. The German left doesn't like Poles and blames them for everything, and the German right doesn't like Poles and blames them for everything. They love political debate but can't handle disagreements. Not only about politics.
Irl:
I spoke with three Germans and an American, and the Germans did everything they could to make me feel like the ugly girl among the pretty ones. This kind of dynamics. Plus, there was moralizing, stupid takes, ignorance: speaking from a position of authority about things they know nothing about. This and some stupid takes are those "we don't think about you at all" I guess. There was also a strange dynamic between the Germans, as one looked down on the other two. Everyone was sucking up to the American though. Overall they acted kind of asian. Not a big deal but it didn't leave a good impression on me
>>220930820
French, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Japanese, Estonian, Finnish

>>220932058
French and Japanese.
But there is no straightforward, robust resource for Japanese. It's literally a 2200+ hr language.

>>220932058
Can you pick more languages please

Idk anon. At this (not very good, I'm a shitty language learner) level, I might stick to my poor German or switch to Norwegian or other Dutch. I just want some progress to the end of the year

>>220932295
>It's literally a 2200+ hr language.
that number has been deboonked. its more like 4k+ hours. the world does not know the weeb's struggle

Please learn Danish.

>>220932058
>Overall they acted kind of asian
asians are polite and kind, don't compare them to those obnoxious faggot sitzpinklers

>>220929675
I don't know if my experience was just the exception, but where I grew up but they only offered Spanish and French elective classes. I'm assuming maybe the private or well off schools offered German, or maybe I was just unlucky

>>220932782
I hear verbal Danish is a great filter compared to Norwegian or Swedish. I'm still happy to learn Norwegian, and supposedly I'd be able to read Danish too once I get better at it.

>>220932886
Don't be mean about them. I've noticed something similar among Americans as well, though to a lesser extent. Anyways, what I meant more specifically was the fear of disagreeing, taking differing opinions as a personal attack (which is why I mentioned “no offense” earlier, just so we're clear), a strong emphasis on hierarchy, and submission to authority, not necessarily based on the arguments, but rather on, idk, social status and stereotypes. You can find all of this in any population; it’s just that I’ve always associated these things more with Asia, where this kind of mindset seems to be more common, and Western Europe with egalitarianism and a more laid-back attitude. Maybe it's just my cognitive dissonance, maybe I have bad luck to people and my observations are worthless or maybe I'm just incompatible. I don't want to start any arguments. It's not that I have anything against arguing, but this isn't the place for it. Anyways, Polish germanophiles are much worse in every metric, I've mentioned this some time ago

Çalinc

Easy
This soup needs more salt.
Rinse the vegetables before you cut them.
We have never tried such spicy food before.

Medium
Unless you keep stirring the stew, it will stick to the bottom of the pan.
She has been perfecting this curry recipe ever since she came back from her trip abroad.
Neither the chef nor his assistants could identify what was missing from the dish.


Hard
Despite having followed the recipe exactly, the texture turned out nothing like what was described.
It is only by tasting as you cook, rather than waiting until the end, that seasoning can be properly adjusted.
What nobody at the table could agree on was whether the bitterness came from the chocolate itself or from it having been overcooked.

>>220929940
Don’t use the owl. Do literally anything else. I tried Memrise and it was okay. Linguino is a fun website with some major languages on it. Duolingo is so fucking annoying to use. Half the time is wasted on bullshit animations and ads after every lesson asking you to buy super duolingo. Then you run out of “energy” and you have to watch more ads to do anything. I wish I could have 2020 duolingo back but it’s just atrocious now.

>>220932058
Weird. I have no issue with Poles myself (the only known I knew IRL was a childhood friend of mine whose parents migrated from Poland ... I still remember the delectable sausages they served at his house ) and don't really know this to be a common thing among my peers either. Maybe your experience was an outlier. Maybe it wasn't. Sorry to hear that in any case.

>Everyone was sucking up to the American though.
Odd. When was that? Recently-ish? At least post-2016 fetishization of 'Murrica dropped off a cliff here.

>some stupid takes are those "we don't think about you at all"
That's mostly just bantz though, anon. You're on /int/, you should've grown accustomed to that ;p

>>220933287
I wouldn't know. I've just heard repeatedly (and was surprised) that apparently German isn't particular uncommon as a second language option in the US. Although, yes, Spanish apparently far outranks it for obvious reasons.

>>220934761
It was around 2016 or 17.Friends of the friends in the collage town so it was quite international even though most of us were Poles and Ukrainians. Still, it's just a small attempt, so I'm not jumping to conclusions, online interactions put me off more desu but people online are, well, you know.

>>220934761
german was available in every school I've been in. No asian languages were available despite the massive amount of native speakers available in my area and despite every student in the school wanting to learn them

>>220934761
In high school, I only had the option of Spanish and French, but in college there were a lot more options. I actually chose German because I thought it was interesting. There were quite a few people learning it too. My class was full at the start and we still had about 15ish people by the end of year two. This was in a random fly over state too, but not the midwest where you might expect heritage learners. I also met a random old man at work one day that said he learned German in college. I’d say it’s surprising common.

Thoughts on Busuu for French? Apparently it's really good for romance languages or something

>>220929388
>don't spend much time consuming media in my own language, not really into watching TV or vidya
>supposed to consume media in a different language ti inpoot
What do? How are people able to rack up like a thousand hours in a year?

>>220937889
read nigga

>>220930426
good luck. I only do 10 a day and have 130 or so reviews, and that already drives me crazy some days.

>>220929711
Can we hear your final English accent?

>>220930426
i do 50-60 new cards a day from mining and at my peak was doing 130

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Vf9LBqEhp/?spm_id_from=333.1007.tianma.2-1-3.click

>>220937889
Watching a TV show you are already familiar with in your TL, sitcoms are great for this
If you're really never ever enjoyed a single TV show in your entire life maybe give it a shot

Is "rittled" a word? Just had P*rpl*xity use it in a response and I'm finding zero hits online (that aren't obvious typos). Man, I thought these things were good at language, as, y’know, Large LANGUAGE Models, if nothing else ...

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Got this bad boys on Ali Express, Im using the QWERTY phonetic settings but its nice to associate the image of the Cyrillic equivalent in my keyboard. It's for learning Bulgarian.

>>220938110
Is Delta Force any good?

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>>220929388
How do you make a field that can take multiple inputs in anki? For instance, to store a word that has multiple meanings.

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r8 my french sapphire team

>>220939647
I'm very well read and I've never heard of this
Maybe rattled or riddled are close

>>220940168
Its own explanation doesn't really clear it up either:
>Hah, good catch—that was a typo‑on‑purpose‑gone‑wrong. I meant:
>
>“gets railed”
>
>Not “gets rittled.” The “rittled” bit was me mashing “riddled” and “rail” together by accident.

But that makes zero sense in context. Also, WTF is a "typo-on-purpose-gone-wrong" (gone sexual, police were called)? And "by accident"? Man, these things are still wonkier than I thought. Pretty sure this is just a post hoc rationalization of its own hiccup.

>>220940318
Simply an AI hallucination mate
They're not reliable

>>220940318
It wants to rail you but can't type it out since it's too lewd

>>220939971
Well-rounded, nice. What device are you playing that on?
>tfw accidentally deleted my Smaragd save file

>>220940353
I get that but the one thing I had assumed they were fairly good at was coherent language. Now I can't even count on that :'(

>>220940373
Nah, their responses are rittled with errors

>>220940364
kek

They do do weird stuff when running into their nanny guardrails. Had one spiral out recently and repeating the same phrase literally hundreds of times for a solid minute or two before it terminated the response. I wonder how many tokens that wasted. You'd think that they could catch that at runtime.

>>220940395
Heh.

Today I finish the HSK3 vocabulary and I start with HSK4. Exciting.
I'm very busy with other daily obligations so I've mostly only been doing my daily Anki. 20 new cards a day. I'm not checking any grammar explanations, nor reading as much in DuChinese (graded readers). But when I do I already feel like HSK3-level stories are fairly easy. I wonder how difficult it'd be for me to tackle the HSK4 exam in October.

Thoughts on this guy?
https://www.tiktok.com/@shiyoje/video/7514416185807523094
Ngl this dude's french is really good for someone that has learned the language for 8 months. Almost suspiciously good. Especially since he already speaks slang and mimics the intonations of gen z french people which is really hard to learn from format french that you'd learn at the beginning. He claims he learned the language for 5 hours a day during the first two months, then 3 hours a day for the remaining months. I simply don't believe this is possible to reach this level with only 3 hours a day. what do you boys think? Skill issue on my part?

>>220941930
I haven't clicked the link, but I know that social media is filled with grifters who lie about how long they spent learning their TL in order to sell some kind of product.

>>220942001
Also, if it were really possible to learn a language well in 8 months, there would be people out there who speak 20 languages all at a high level. So far I haven't seen any, maximum is usually around 7 or 8, and those are extremely sweaty learners.

Man, it just continues, this time hitting me with "ostealgically" (an impressive zero hits on Google):

>Hah, good catch—that was a typo‑collision. I meant:
>
>“osteologically dense”
>or really just “bone‑like / structurally heavy” as a metaphor
>
>But even “osteologically” is over‑engineered here; what I was going for is:
>
>“dense, like a solid rather than soft.”
>
>So you’re right to call it out—it was a brain‑slip trying to sound clever and failing.

I think after a certain context size/length it just wigs out. Couple dozen more messages and it would probably sound like a J. G. Ballard fever dream.

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What are you currently reading? You’re reading to improve your TL right anon?

>>220942715
I'm barely reading a few DuChinese articles a day, which is an application with graded Mandarin texts. Most people use it for the chaptered stories because those are better at repeating vocabulary to make it stick, but the stories are SO boring and they feel so long. I like just spamming articles that are a few paragraphs long and sometimes include weird cultural trivia. Thinking about trying Chairman Bao too, which is another website for graded readings.
In Korean I'm just reading like a short story a week.

>>220930426
you are taking way way too long for each card
I used to do 40 a day and at most it would take me half an hour with a few persistently missed cards
you need to reevaluate either:
the way your cards are laid out
how you are memorising them during your sessions
the level your deck is at
your actual memory capabilities

>>220942037
Who can speak 7 languages at high level?

>>220940318
>>220939647
It's probably supposed to be "riddled." See the second verb definition.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riddled

>>220942279
At least it's still using the latin alphabet.
Deepsneed still constantly hits me with the old random chinese character in the middle of a sentence.

>>220945452
Deepsneed is a chink LLM though so isn't that par for the course?

>>220945656
Yes

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today I learnt

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>>220937889
Try something in pic related.

>>220942715
Listening to a Catcher in the Rye audiobook in German. Haven't read it in years, but I got nostalgic for it.

>>220946765
Learned that it's called "flypaper" or learned that it exists?

>>220937885
idk for french but I used it for Spanish because my former employer paid for it and it was pretty good
The lessons themselves are actually decent and you get a lot of tutor hours in the basic package

>>220941892
hsk4 has twice the vocab as 3
if you can finish all the vocab a week or two before the exam and practice exam-style questions, do a mock or two and pass, you will be able to pass the exam
it's matter of motivation though and you will either do it or not
if you think you can't do it then you won't be able to do it

>>220943142
Chairmans bao is incredibly boring. If you think duchinese is bad you will despise the chairmans bao

Well, the preliminary assumption is that I am going to (try to) learn as many languages as I can (maybe 3 new languages). The which is blurry, but all the contenders I made have Spanish in them.
Should I start Spanish and then figure out what's next once I finish it?
Will I regret actually learning a language (Spanish in this case)?

>>220948347
if I keep up the pace of 20 new words a day I will be finished with HSK4 vocabulary in one month, and the HSK exams in my cunt are in October/November iirc. I'd definitely need to practice the written portion a few weeks before it though. But I also think it's possible. I'm barely doing any immersion now but soon I'll have more free time.
>Chairmans bao is incredibly boring
Do you have any other reading recommendations at my current level? Or should I just keep doing DuChinese+Anki? I'd also welcome listening content desu. I don't watch any Chinese stuff, but I heard some dating reality shows are pretty comprehensible and fun.

>>220949221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi_dyZrkDNk

>>220948347
I'm starting to think boring readers for learners is a problem with a lot of languages. Meanwhile Japanese had a bunch of amazing content based l on things like traditional folk tales and history and adapted short stories from known writers which were both genuinely interesting and thought a lot of cultural context and references. Meanwhile the stuff in French I've encountered is incredibly dull. Thankfully the language is so simple for an English speaker that picking up something like Asterix doesn't require much study.

>>220949569
I don't remember what I was reading at HSK 4 but you might be interested in 连环画, which were basically picture book stories made for peasants with low literacy during the cultural revolution and before. They use simple language and tell actual stories which are more interesting than graded readers. but maybe the language is still a bit hard for hsk4
this website has a lot of them available to read: https://m.lhh1.com/
and this one is one of my favourites: https://m.lhh1.com/files/nd60/561.html
the ones published between 1968 and 1975 tend to be very political and light on the story aspects though

>>220949569
oh, and if you are willing to put in some effort, DEFINITELY read this
https://m.lhh1.com/files/cartoon/05d/916.htm
I won't give you any spoilers but this is an adaptation of one of my favourite Chinese stories about a man who falls in love with a gay rock.

>>220949887
There are actually adapted versions of the classics in French, but I think they are made for teens, not language learners. I'm a bit past that stage but I'm sure you can find them.
That being said, I think you are better served reading any modern author, provided you are at least low B2 and willing to look up a word or two. The grammar is a bit easier and the style more direct and succinct.
I don't really read popslop but all of the english garbage should have a french translation which could be of great use.

>>220934255
Dieser Suppe würde eine Prise Salz gut tun
Vor dem Schneiden sollte man das Gemüse immer spülen.
Gewürziges Essen dieser Art haben wir noch nie im Leben ausprobiert.

Wenn man nicht adäquat auf das Umrühren des Eintopfs achtet, bleibt danach ein schwer zu entfernender Rest am Boden des Topfs.
Seit ihrer Rückkehr vom Ausland arbeite sie fleißig dran, ihr Curry-Rezept zu vervollkommnen.
Weder der Hauptkoch noch seine Assistenten waren in der Lage, die fehlenden Zutaten des Gerichts zu identifizieren.

Trotz der Tatsache, dass ich dem Rezept haargenau gefolgt habe, hat sich die Textur des Gerichts komplett anders als erwartet herausgestellt.
Einem gelingt das Abschmecken eines Gerichts nur wenn man beim Kochen regelmäßig das Gericht kostet und entsprechend abschmeckt, anstatt am Ende mit einem Schlag eine Menge Gewürz einfach reinzuschmeißen.
Die um den Tisch sitzenden Leute konnten sich nicht drauf einigen, woran die Bitterkeit lag, beziehungsweise ob es an der Schokolade an sich lag oder einer zu langen Kochzeit zuzuschreiben war.

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>>220940366
This anbernic device. Works well for gba. I've played basically all the pokemon games from gen 3 in french and german. Pretty decent beginner input imo.

I want to get some sort of similar device with joy sticks so I can play PSP and PSX games but haven't bothered yet. I think a lot of these devices are up in prices atm, so probably not the best time to buy.

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>>220942715
finishing Anmerkungen zu Hitler by Haffner (pretty good). Not sure what's next.

>>220946777
>Listening to a Catcher in the Rye audiobook in German
one of the first books I read in german. Also just coincidentally started Franny and Zoey by Salinger in english.

ئۈستكە بارىڭ

I left my basement today and met a hot, wealthy German woman with a successful career today (a friend of a friend). I don’t stand a chance with her, but she was nice and had a cool conversation with her, so I’m going back to learning German very serious now, thank you very much.
Pimsleur + Nicos Weg + anki decks for the mentioned is a good method?
>>220949221
Learn Spanish, I'll start with you as mine side quest

is it possible to make beginner level CI that isn't insanely boring?

>>220955745
i like assimil. their short dialogues are funny and well-written.

>>220955745
narrow domain input with heavy lookup is an acceptable way to start if theres no good beginner material
narrow domain = sticking to one topic

>>220934255
I don't know the Norwegian words for most of these yet I'm afraid.

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>>220934255
ius plus salis eget.
lava holera antequam seces.
numquam tam odoratum cibum gustavimus.

nisi assidue moveas ius, fundo sartaginis adhaerebit.
ea hanc compositionem iuris indici expolit quoniam ex itinere suo redivit.
nec coquus nec adiutores sui intellegere possunt quid cibo desit.

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It's difficult for me to enjoy language learning when the language uses the latin script (abc... Etc.) because I'm used to it and it doesn't feel like enough of a challenge...

I *want* to learn Italian, German, swedish, polish, I just... Hate that they use the same script as my native language.

>>220957348
how effective is assimil

>>220942715
Clarice de Lispector

Apparently she uses weird vocabulary which not even educated Brazilians use so that's cool I guess

>>220961722
then just learn a language without latin script. But the fact that you can't come to this conclusion tells me that'd you struggle with those "easy" languages you listed anyways

>>220962910
I'm already learning Chinese and hindi, I was learning Japanese and reached just about n5 but felt pathetic because weeb language (and learning to read bleach in it's native language)

>>220963392
>but felt pathetic because weeb language
get the fuck off my website you shit zoomer

>>220951674
>Dieser Suppe würde eine Prise Salz gut tun
*.
I think I remember you. You always make these TLs way fancier than the original.

>Vor dem Schneiden sollte man das Gemüse immer spülen.
The English original (OE) is not advice (ought) but an imperative (do):
>Wasch das Gemüse bevor du es schneidest.
Genuinely a mistake.

>Gewürziges Essen dieser Art haben wir noch nie im Leben ausprobiert.
*Scharfes
I'd just say 'Wir haben noch nie zuvor solch scharfes Essen probiert.'.

>Wenn man nicht [...].
I know you get off from sprucing these up 'cause they're 2ez4u but c'mon ...
>Sofern man den Eintopf nicht ständig umrührt, wird er am Boden der Pfanne (who TF makes stew in a pan?) festkleben.

>Seit ihrer Rückkehr vom Ausland arbeite sie fleißig dran, ihr Curry-Rezept zu vervollkommnen.
Weder der Hauptkoch [...] fehlenden Zutaten des Gerichts zu identifizieren.
*better: 'aus dem Ausland' (or something with 'Auslandsreise') *more common: 'zu perfektionieren' *I think you'd just say 'Koch' (or maybe 'Chefkoch') *closer to EO: 'was dem Gericht fehlte'

>Trotz der Tatsache, dass ich dem Rezept haargenau gefolgt habe, hat sich die Textur des Gerichts komplett anders als erwartet herausgestellt.
*'gefolgt bin' (hah, got your ass for once)
I'd use 'exakt' and 'wurde die Textur ganz und gar nicht wie beschrieben.'.

>Einem [...] reinzuschmeißen.
Did you know that the 'Sz' originated from 'ss' being written as 'fs' (well, an elongated 's'+a "normal" 's') and the two just being connected at the top? Anyway:
>Nur durch das Abschmecken während des Kochens, anstatt damit bis zum Ende zu warten, kann das Würzen richtig angepasst werden.'

>Die um den Tisch sitzenden Leute konnten sich nicht drauf einigen, woran die Bitterkeit lag, beziehungsweise ob es an der Schokolade an sich lag oder einer zu langen Kochzeit zuzuschreiben war.
...
>'Worauf sich niemand am Tisch einigen konnte war, ob das Bittere von der Schokolade selbst oder vom Verkochen/zu langen Kochen kam.'

>>220964481
Also, probably more common, now that I think about it: 'die Würze richtig angepasst werden'. Changes the EO's meaning minimally but still. Also, lies. Plenty of stuff only really gets seasoned towards the end, not midway.

>>220955745
It doesn't have to be interesting. What I want out of beginner CI is lots of simple understandable sentences so I can figure out how the language works, that's actually the fun part in the beginning. The less creative it tries to be, the better. It doesn't have to be a good story that makes me think or laugh, just contain lots of straightforward sentences that flow together coherently, without any sudden jumps in difficulty. What's interesting to me as a reader/consumer is not what is necessarily interesting to me as a language learner, at least in the beginning.

>>220964959
i think it has stronger mnemonic value if content is charged in some way

e.g you probably pick up words related to love/hate/family/sex more easily than pencil or toolbox

>>220961842
>how effective is assimil
so far i feel like i have made pretty good progress and i am only on chapter 30 out of 100.

if you do it the way they prescribe, it's probably more effective than how it has been for me. i think they say to do 1 chapter per day, out of the 100 chapters in the book.

i am trying to do 10-15 chapters per month, but i am not doing any of the exercises. i am just creating audio flash cards, listening and repeating the flash cards, and reading the texts.

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>>220964481
>probiert
man almost went with that instead of ausprobieren. Probieren does seem more right for something like food. Ausprobieren sounds like the verb you'd use with trying out a new car.

>I know you get off from sprucing these up 'cause they're 2ez4u but c'mon ...
just more fun. I make more mistakes this way too which leads to more learning imo.

> (who TF makes stew in a pan?)
Didn't even realize the og said that; my brain must have auto corrected it to pot.

>*'gefolgt bin' (hah, got your ass for once)
I have brought eternal disrepute upon my family

danke wie immer für die ausführliche Rückmeldung

I'm having a moment where I really don't want to do my anki and idk why my mind is fighting me so hard.

>>220966324
Yeah, 'ausprobieren' sounds (slightly) unusual in this context. No doubt a lexicon entry could elaborate on the usage differences.

>just more fun
Not for me and my 'tism ;^(

>danke wie immer für die ausführliche Rückmeldung
Gerne, gerne. Probably not gonna stick around for good though, I really just want someone to help me with my smut translation (>>220924444) and then I'll bounce for a couple months/years again, I reckon. No luck so far though, that one Swedenon's short comment aside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGPFke-hEHI

Dialects are starting to piss me off.

>>220967160
I mean they piss off natives, too, check out this sperg REEEing about dialects (ledditor so it's a given but still):
old d00t reddit d00t com/r/Unbeliebtemeinung/comments/1sqshs0/

Also, if it's any consolation, I only understood half of this song, if that. The beginning is OK, him describing the early hours of the day, night transitioning to dawn, first rays of sunlight in the twilight et cetera and him waking up. But I already don't know WTF Kinettn (which I only recognized audibly due to the title) are supposed to be exactly. The "ghetto" where he lives/sleeps? No idea and I don't care to look it up either. Then something about him cleaning his something-or-other.
Next he goes on about how he hasn't shaved or washed in 10 days, got rum in his pocket, goes to get breakfast and bum a cigarette and something else from people. Then something about people no longer doing something, him being unemployed, I think (Atze), and even more stuff I can't make out. Finally, he says it doesn't matter if he works or not since it's enough at least for a thin kinda soup and the rest I only got parts of. Maybe 50% was generous.

>>220950938
I'm not even close to B2 since I've been doing this casually for half a year, but for now comics like Asterix are the perfect level. I'll get to classics at some point, when I'm ready. I'm not too worried about dictionary look ups, you really appreciate the trillions of loan words in English after a few years of grinding Japanese vocab.
>>220967160
Should have studied something like Swedish instead.

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So many native people in my TL have annoying voices, but the language itself is kinda cool and doesn't always sound annoying.
What causes this?

>>220966364
how many reviews do you do each day?

>>220968907
Swedish learners often have trouble with Scanian though, as the most widespread "non-standard" one.