>>221572590
I didn't heed the warnings in the op pic
It's mostly going fine though

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Translation challenge - Underwater diving

>Easy
1. We jumped into the clear blue water.
2. Small fish swam around my hands.
3. I found a shell on the ocean floor.
4. The diver pointed toward a dark cave.
5. Bubbles rose slowly to the surface.

>Medium
1. As we swam deeper, the water became colder and darker.
2. The instructor told us to stay close to the group underwater.
3. We saw a large sea turtle near the coral reef.
4. My oxygen tank felt heavy before we entered the water.
5. An old shipwreck lay beneath the sand at the bottom of the sea.

>Hard
1. By the time we reached the submerged ruins, the pressure of the water had become impossible to ignore.
2. What fascinated me most was the eerie silence that surrounded everything beneath the surface.
3. Had the guide not noticed the sudden change in the current, we might have drifted dangerously far from the group.
4. The deeper we explored the underwater cave system, the more disoriented I became.
5. Even years later, I can still remember the overwhelming feeling of floating through an endless blue abyss.

>THREAD RULE:
THREAD RULE:
>THREAD RULE:
No indecisive questions about which language you should learn. If you can't decide in 5 minutes, then you shouldn't learn a language.

>Original Post
>Self Comment
>Page 10 bump
>Link to previous thread
>Challenge which no one has replied to
>Some one posting their 'thread rule' which the copied pasted from the previous thread.
Lots of real organic discussion going on here. And that is a GOOD thing.
Everyone is occupied with grinding through the hours nescesary to learn their target 语言。

>>221576334
Language learning is a solved problem. There is nothing left to write about.

I was just wondering, do American speakers without the father-bother merger pronounce the short form for the word "mother" like /mom/ (mom) or /mvm/ (mum) or /ma:m/ (mom but american)

>>221578073
I don't know.

>>221579865
damn

Is there a good way of actively improve listening abilities, other than just
>consume lots of content
?

For example, does listening and then reviewing transcripts actually help, more than simply consuming more content?

i dont have a great process for this but im thinking of starting to:
1. listen to some content,
2. mark when i dont hear something with 100% certainty
3. review the transcript
it is at this point im not sure what I should do to "cement" the knowledge of what the actual words were. do i make a flash card? Do i re-listen? do i just move on?

>>221578073
are there even american people without that merger?

i thought all americans pronounced father and bother with the same vowel sound.

wiktionary doesnt have any US or Canada example that dont use the merger, for example:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/father-bother_merger

Can you learn a language that you want to know for cultural reasons but hate the sound, grammar, etc of

>>221582092
Yeah, the more you acquire the language, the more it starts to sound normal.

>>221581561
I think listening while reading the transcript covers all the bases. You just have to be patient and put in the hours.

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chat do you agree?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdtiPvDpUjM

>>221582311
Only a retard can't understand French spelling, it's even more regular than Spanish spelling.

>>221582311
I decided not to watch that video because I assumed it would be

>muh shallow orthographic depth superior to deep orthographic depth

Happy to be wrong, if someone has seen it

>>221582490
He put japanese in F tier, the single greatest writing system ever thought up, and it's in F. That should tell you all you need to know.

>>221582311
"language nerds" sure do love to glaze swahili for its grammar and spelling yet i never see anyone mention any media made in it
spiritual dabbler language

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>>221575440
in claram caeruleam aquam saluimus.
pisces parvi circum manus meas nataverunt.
in fundo oceani concham inveni.
urinator digito ad antrum atrum intendit.
bullae ad superficiem tarde ascenderunt.

ut altius natavimus, aqua frigidior atriorque facta est.
instructor nos remanere prope manum sub aqua iussit.
grandem testudinem aquaticam prope coralliorum saeptum vidimus.
amphora aeris mea gravis videbatur antequam aquam intravimus.
naufragium antiquum sub sabulo in fundo maris iacet.

>>221582092
no
>>221578073
i've never heard of someone pronouncing father, bother or mom differently