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>>221992837No.
How do I learn japanese in 2 weeks?
>>221994096Use the 2 weeks to invent a time machine, then go back at least 5 years. 10, if you're lazy.
>>221994016Actually it would be, es ist mir scheiss egal
>>221992837probably not, but it gives you gains in identity building. i.e you're the kind of person to squeeze every second possible to 'immerse' in your TL
>>221994016I think in mainland Spain the most common (and vulgar one) would be 'me la suda'/'me suda la polla'. Sudar is the verb 'to sweat'. The full expression literally means 'it makes my cock sweat'
>>221994016>vulgarlolIf you want vulgar then go with "ei kiinnosta vittuakaan" = I don't give a fuck
>>221994016can any greeks confirm that they shit themselves?
>>221994016The least interesting language on the list has the most boring phrase. Go figure.
>>221994016The actual vulgar Russian one is мнe пoхyй (it’s dick to me). People often replace хyй with хep, хpeн and фигa, in descending order of vulgarity.
>>221994096memorize a bunch of canned phrases and repeat them over and over until they sound semi passable then film yourself having conversations with bewildered japanese natives struggling to understand you and upload the video to youtube with the title japanese natives SHOCKED by Chilean's PERFECT japanese
What do portuguese speaking people say in this case?
>>221994378give me a fuck
>>221994016What's going on here greekbros?
>>221994797>spreads semi-hairy asshole
>>221994016nobody fucking says that, the real one is "jebie mnie to" (it fucks me)
>>221995767the Russian equivalent is мeня н, basically the same meaning
*мeня нe eбeтIt’s actually the opposite lol, “I am not fucked”.
>>221994016should really be мнe пoхyй (~it's under my dick) for russian, пo хpeнy is a softened versionalso>esperanto
>>221994016I love that pic, very fun to learn aboutHave more like it?
>>221996609Yeah, be sure to frequent the thread so you don't miss more infographics like this!
>>221996931Honestly couldn't give one horseradish about that.
>>221996931>Central Europe isn't rea-
>>221996931ai sloppa map, look at the Bosnian border, the illegible text on Slovenia (and elsewhere), how the A-s of malaka get progressively worse on CyprusAnyway, it should be po velnių, and it is factually not the most popular one. That title goes to blet/bliat/blt (our ways of spelling blyat), followed by nachui/nachuj/naxuj/naxui/nx (another russian derived one, so no consensus on how to spell it) and blemba. Even if we only count native swear words, first place would go to šūdas (shit).https://www.delfi.lt/gyvenimas/psichologija/kalbininkai-isskyre-12-lietuviu-dazniausiai-vartojamu-keiksmazodziu-nuo-riebiausiu-iki-svelniausiu-79761257
>>221996931Thank you>SpanjeUhm... That's what we call Spain .. other countries use Spain as swear word?
>>221995767I say that
>>221995767Not my circus, not my monkeys
>>221996931slop mapkurwa is exclusively Polish spelling, in Czech, Slovak and Hungarian it's kurvaroughly same pronunciation though
>>221998217say that in Mexican
>>221994096watch anime
>>221998251No es mi circo, ni son mis changosMost likely
i so badly wish i could learn spanish but i'm just too mentally ill
>>221998251Me vale un cacahuate
>>221998338Es facil.
>>221994734>What do portuguese speaking people say in this case?Foda-se
>>221998390not if you're a retard
>>221998376Me vale verga, más bien>>221998338If you speak English you are halfway there. Romance languages are the easiest to learn for English speakers.
>>221998338What mental illness do you have that stops you from reading and watching soap operas?
>>221994016The circus one isn't vulgar at all, it's actually rather polite
>>221998457ocd, ocpd, adhd and depression are the biggest obstacles for me but i have other bullshit too.
>>221998315>No es mi circo, ni son mis changosif you said that to another Mexican irl, would it be understandable or does it sound like complete nonsense?
>>221998516Would probably laugh it out, because the way it's worded is funny. It sounds like something you'd say as a joke. If you wanted to sound insulting and make it clear you don't give a shit, you'd instead say:>Me vale vergaWhich roughly translates to 'It's worth a cock to me' That's something you'd say when you are really pissed off in casual contexts, most likely to be used by the lower class.
>>221998516It sounds like "not my business", they'd probably understand, though it'd sound weird, yeah.
>>221998487Those are labels. What exactly stops you from reading a book or watching a tv show?
>>221994016It it's actually vulgar then it would be мнe пoeбaть
>>221998251Me chupa un huevo
>>221998702i'm sad and lazy
>>221994096Pimsleur for 4 hours a day repeating every lesson 4 times. Then go order at a restaurant and ask for directions or something.
>>221994096go to japan
>>221998338Podemos ayudarte a practicar
>>221999564I was going to write a big essay trying to motivate you, but I can't be arsed. It never works, there's no combination of words that will make your type do anything, it's a giant waste of time. People that actually want to learn a language don't need to be hyped up for it, you just want to whine.https://drchristoschristophy.substack.com/p/why-dont-you-yes-but-the-game-of
>>222000246the only thing that makes me wanna keep trying learn is being able to actually read and understand some random small sentences like this every once in a while. shows that i've made at least a tiny little bit of progress so far.
>>222000412Say 'Nalgas' and you will be fluent no matter the context. For instance:>¿Cual consideras que es el significado del universo?What do you believe is the meaning of the universe?Nalgas>¿Que desayunaste hoy?What did you have for breakfast today?Nalgas>¿Rubia con tetas grandes o morena con nalgas grandes?Blonde with big tits or dark skinned girl with a huge ass?NalgasThere, now you are fluent in Spanish.
>>221998338Dreaming Spanish + books (textbooks and literature) + movies
>>221994016>not my circus, not my monkeysI like that one, I'm stealing it
>Gymnasium in Germany teaches kids English, French, Latin and Ancient Greek all at the same timeGermanons, does this actually work or do students just scrape by and then immediately forget everything they learned?
>>221998338You'll do it brah! I'm watching dreaming spanish, listening to some lectures on soundcloud and flipping through a frequency dictionary (it kind of sucks though - I want to find a better one). I'll move onto watching DBZ with the Latin american dub later. Also that Mexican movie with the jewish vampire is funny
>>222000899> I'll move onto watching DBZ with the Latin american dub laterBased. Gerardo Reyero as Frieza makes the character much creepier and ominous than in Japanese, actually.
>>221994734>Tô nem aí (i'm not even there)>Tô pouco me fudendo (i'm not even getting fucked)
>>222000763Ok, this is obviously overstated.Only around 50% of students go to Gymnasium and study 2 foreign languages, the other 50% virtually only ever study English. 2 foreign languages is the maximum if you are doing the equivalent of AP classes in science/technology or some other non-language specialization that happens to be offered at your high school.So among those 50% of Gymnasium students maybe like another 50% does some kind of languages/classics AP that allows them to choose 2+ languages, so 25% of the total. While Latin is extremely common, just as common as French, ancient Greek is not offered a lot. I don't have any official statics but just going with my gut feeling I would say it is less common than Spanish. The reason is that teachers these days tend to have a more of a modern romance studies background than a classics one.So it's likeEnglish Only: ~50%English/Latin + English/French: ~50%English/[3 or more languages, modern more common]: ~25%And this are only the rough statics of people taking the courses. The truth is that basically only the straight A students end up being proficient in languages other than English because English media has somewhat of a reinforcing effect.However this still creates a decent percentage of Germans that are fluent in French with French being a very important commercial language in Europe and having a high demand in government roles, especially in defense, security, diplomacy and energy. French proficiency is mandatory for all future diplomats next to English. As a German that is fluent in French I can tell you that for every French person that speaks German there are 50 Germans that speak French.
Has the Polish Jordie decided on what language he'll learn?
>>222001669Fascinating, genuinely. Thanks for the answer.I always admired the German tiered system for education, I feel like we could really use that division even if it looks "cruel" for less academic teenagers.
>>222001772Nah, the German tiered system is trash. School is something the GDR did better than the West, the one Finland adopted.
>>221994016I want to see some videos of some Greek women saying they don't care in a vulgar manner
>>222001706he's not really like jordie since he actually is genuine about language learning and isn't trolling
LERNU!
Norwegian kind of sounds like Scottish accented English
Why do I sound Korean/Chinese even though I'm a native speaker of English born in America and I've never even been to Asia?
>>222002947It's over...
>>222003104Wow, this is interesting. Do they use some AI model to analyze your particular recording and break it down? Cool. Wish there was a free version
>>221997722that's just germany
>>222002265What's the difference between them?
>>222003104Try speaking Russian as you would imagine an Englishman or an American speaking it and then try applying what you did to English
>>222002947.
>>222003380skull emojiwilted flower emojiThey probably don't have the Estonian accent in the database
>>221994016also>det driter jeg ii shit in it
>slept like shit sunday night>great anki answer rate monday>slept great monday night>shit anki answer rate todayI've noticed this happening repeatdly over the years. I suppose proper sleep cleans out the brains short term memory?
>>222002947Should I try BoldVoice™ for $0.00?I knew my chances of getting an American gf were already close to 0, but if it stays like this, I'll just get made fun of the moment I open my mouth and say my first English word because of my kimchi-dipped accent.
>>222001706Kind of. I'm letting myself to dabble with many languages, but so far I've found one I like, a small one, without much content, and I'm sticking with it for now. Probably because it's a easy one. But I'm also not pushing myself any more and learning it slowly but steadily>>222002521Yes, and Irish kind of too. I wonder how much of this is a coincidence and how much is the influence of Viking invasion. Or maybe it's the English of the south that's the strange one, and Scottish and Irish have more conservatively preserved the pronunciation and melody of the language >>221998338Just read it with audio / do Anki / do Pimsleur. I think you can concentrate for at least half an hour, anon
>>222000395Please don't give up on us, Serbbro. Your encouragement and helpful posts usually go unappreciated and I think that's lame.
>>222001669I found this interesting.>>222002427Why did you link a kidney stones infographic?
>do audio exercises>can't tell the tones apart for shit>hit listening comprehension practice>can understand what's being said without seeing the text 90% of the timeI can't tell whether those intonation exercises are a spook or not.
Behead all Esperantists
>>222008401The trooniponers first brother.
>>222008795Why settle for less than TCD?
>>222007202Giving people practical tips and tools can be helpful, but you can't change their state of mind. If the conversation starts from a frame that they are incapable and hopeless, you can't do much about it because they often get emotional payoff from staying in that frame. I've found words are pretty useless when people are stuck like that, whether it's related to language learning or not. Maybe guided meditation with imagery would help them re-frame, but it's outside the scope of online discussion.
>>222008795they can't even type their stupid mayan hieroglyphics and have to use romanji because no OS can support that shit. way bigger threat from esperautists actually having functional keyboards to interact with.
I am native English and advanced in Spanish, planning on learning French next. I was just going to jump in however I was curious if any anons have made a similar path and had any advice or particular content I should lean on in the early stages.
>>222009982You should be able to jump right into intermediate level podcasts, anything A2/B1 will be comprehensible. Don't waste any time on the beginner level stuff, you are not learning Japanese. The grammar is also 80% the same. Pronunciation is harder but don't get discouraged, focus on writing first, especially so you don't mix them up.By advanced I hope you mean an abundant lexicon and mastery of the grammar, including all tenses of the subjunctive.
>Esperanto
One day I will be enjoying my siestas with my chicas fr cuh
>>221994016>Greeks when i'm in the middle of telling them a really cool story
>>222005269Maybe, I've always wondered about this.I barely got any sleep last night and my retention rate happened to be the highest it's been in a while today. I've also had some days where I got good sleep, ate healthy, exercised and had a horrible retention rate.I used to do anki reviews on my phone as soon as I woke up while I was still sleepy in bed, subjectively it felt like recalling was much easier.
I made 0 progress on spanish today but i got drunk and feel pretty good.
>>222014704Why are you drinking on a Tuesday
>>222014704nada de lo que necesitas está en el fundo de la botella.
>>222014704Drinking is haram brother. (Turkey is an Islamic country right?)
>>222011657All “Esperantists” ought to be drawn and quartered for sapping energy away from Latin.
>>222002947It's just trying to tell you a service. I mean sure it's accurate on hitting the correct accent if it has the data for it (unlike Estonian), but it's clearly trying to find something no how small as we can see by it trying to say the American anon might have a Chinese or Korean accent. Besides I think if you have an accent it stands out more if reading of a script like that rather than speaking freely, it has a tendency to become a bit unnatural. >>222003104>>222006025So I wouldn't worry if I was you guys. I recorded a voice clip of myself reading an excerpt from a book for comparison, this is what a "90%" Swedish accents sounds like. https://voca.ro/184QO5bckBDHI mean I'm certainly not perfect but it's not that painfully obvious right?
>>222008401
>>222018669they described epsteinranto as an 'equitable language'
>>222018669Good.
>>222016760You sound a little like the Swedish Chef from the Muppets.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfafno4HND4But if you didn't tell me you were from Sweden, I don't know what I would have guessed. Your accent sounds... provincial. I couldn't understand most of what you said. Are you reading Treasure Island? I had a hard time understanding most of what you said, but I think think I heard "Ben Gunn" and "mutineers." Maybe your accent is more put-on than usual?
How do I start outputting speaking?
>>222021645Depends how autistic you want to get with it really.Generally if you can write what you are thinking in your TL, you can express yourself in your TL. The faster you get at being able to output written, the faster you will be able to output overall.You can either do a diary, or chat to a AI or catfish whores online whatever the fuck you want to do.Speaking you either just full send and figure it out as you go along, or you can autistically shadow in your room until your pronunciation is as best as it will ever be before attempting to talk to a human irl.Ultimately you will make a mistake. Don't be afraid to do so. You only learn by doing.You can do it Brazil :D
>>222021897I mention written output first as if you can't express yourself in writing in isolation, you are probably not going to be able to express yourself in a conversation
>>222021897Thanks bro
Signed up for a language exchange app but idk what to talk about
>>222022173Most time in those apps people approach me trying to flirt or saying gross sexual stuff
>>222022302Don't threaten me with good time
There was a brazilanon last thread who said he's learning lithuanian, here's some songs for youKernagis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAiESZYDDIsFoje: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2JuykNP4DoErlickas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGbkt3ZJFLsRelevant (song about brazil, generic pop though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM9XisjkUl4And something dialectal, more for comprehension than anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD_9oSvFlowAll except the last one have lyrics in the videos themselves. For the last one, see how much you can understand, since you won't find lyrics easily online.
>>222016760You sound like a mentally disabled native speaker
>>222023308Thanks man. I really need to practice my listening.
>>222024403Try looking for Lithuanian comprehensible input. Here's some guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeAIfMOAjXQ&list=PL1RSy2yTe52HRonrypEuxwfpgmIu4Bfc2
>>222025163Is glossika a good resource?
>>222022173Ask them how their day is, then ask them about the socioeconomic inequalities in their nation and agree with whatever their opinion is, and then finally ask them to show their boobies in your TL
>>222025378I don't know, I've never tried it. I've watched a lot of comprehensible input videos to get good at Spanish listening and it helped.
>>221994016Is duolingo a good choice if I'm trying to learn the Arabic alphabet? I just need to reed the letters and know their transliteration since I'll be reading Arabic names all day for work
>>222016760I thought swedes were supposed to be good at English
>>222026262>Is duolingo a good choice if I'm trying to learn the Arabic alphabet?Flashcards would be better I think. Use anki
>>221994016Serbbro what are the most useful languages to learn and can you explain why?
>>221994016Not including the Serbian one is a shame>My dick hurts>>Boli mi kurac
It's over bros, I can't stop switching between learning Spanish, French and Italian.
>>222027428German, Spanish and French are the best bang for your buck. Why? They're in the top 10 most powerful languages according to the Power Language Index* and if you factor in FSI hours, they give you the most "power per study hour". If you don't have an immediate reason to learn a specific language, you might as well pick one of them.* - http://www.kailchan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Kai-Chan_Power-Language-Index-full-report_2016_v2.pdf
>>222027541>Ne kažaš srpski jezikFake Serb
>>222027541I think you also said you believe Russian and Japanese to be useful but Mandarin to not be as useful, is there a reason for that as well?
>>222027592Did I? Mandarin is definitely powerful, but I don't care much for it, but that's just my own subjective vibe. Maybe because they're more closed-off to the West, so on some level I feel that Japan and Korea have more cultural output despite being smaller.
>>222027630I picked Japanese entirely because of the cultural output, my thinking was that at the time, I didn't have any pressing need to learn a language, and if I picked a language I would enjoy the content of it'd be easier. I guess Japanese is very hard and their economy is terrible but at least it'll be good preparation for other languages, and maybe Japan might be able to fix their economy one day. Maybe I should have picked Spanish though.
>>221994016everyone that has said or thought this at any level of politeness in any language is a low iq NPC
>>222006025>'ll just get made fun of the moment I open my mouth and say my first English word because of my kimchi-dipped accentit's an asset everyone loves konglish
>>222001669I wonder why French is still so prevalent in Europe when it seems irrelevant compared to English, but I guess it makes sense with all the speakers.Also I genuinely wonder if there's any upside to learning Latin outside the context of studying history/literature or whatever in college. I know people who learned Latin and the only upside seems to be that they are doing well professionally (doctor and a lawyer) but that's it.>>222027541Genuinely what's the point of learning German outside of wanting to live in Germany/Austria (and why would you want to do that lol) or genuinely liking the language? Not saying it's not worth learning but I just don't buy learning a language for its usefulness in a vacuum. In other words, if a language is going to be useful for you, it'll be readily apparent in your life and you won't be asking others what "useful" language to learn. Anyways, I'm slowly approaching A2 in French and getting a bit more comfy with it, but holy shit I don't know if I'm ever going to get understand French spoken at a fast native level. Hopefully I can get it to B2 before I turn 30 next year so I'm not too senile to learn Russian - I think having a rotation of Spanish/Portuguese/French/Russian will be sufficient, although a small part of me will have FOMO of not learning Italian or German.
>>222002947
>>221996931>>LAYNOFalse, its "blyat" in Unkraine
>>222027849Woke maps, please understand.
>>222027786>if a language is going to be useful for you, it'll be readily apparent in your life and you won't be asking others what "useful" language to learn.The point is if you don't have an immediate need or reason, then picking a powerful language is a way of "hedging your bets". A powerful language has a higher probability of eventually resulting in some kind of utility, maybe not immediately but somewhere down the line. You have a higher chance of discovering something good compared to a non-powerful language, simply because there's more media produced in that language or more NPCs to interact with or create things or geographically and economically it's in the middle of everything and cool stuff bounds to happen there. It's also helpful to think of languages as icebergs where there are a handful of surface-level cultural facts everyone knows and then a lot of depth you don't see because learning the language is a prerequisite to even knowing about it. It's like saying "what's the point of learning English if you don't want to go visit London and you don't care about Shakespeare", obviously the English language is a very deep iceberg that you don't really discover until you actually know English. German and other powerful languages are similar, they are deep icebergs and there's a lot to discover beyond the surface.
>>222027786>I wonder why French is still so prevalent in Europe when it seems irrelevant compared to English, but I guess it makes sense with all the speakers.Dude you’re making us look bad right now.> Also I genuinely wonder if there's any upside to learning Latin outside the context of studying history/literature or whateverYes that’s the primary draw believe it or not.>I know people who learned Latin and the only upside seems to be that they are doing well professionally (doctor and a lawyer) but that's it.If you’re a utilitycel then shouldn’t this be a big point in favor of Latin? People yammer incessantly about the financial returns on a given language (even though it’s horrible for all languages relative to the time invested if you’re murican). So your takeaway from Latin being that you can’t see why it’s worth learning, because the only supposed benefits are its rich corpus and apparent resulting professional advancement seems utterly baffling to me when you combine it with your other posts.So you can’t see why German could be worth learning despite it being a language with a rich corpus, large nation, and regional career prestige in Europe.French also isn’t worth learning because it only has a rich corpus, substantial European presence, and substantial global presence, thus aiding in career advancement.What do you need it to do beyond A. Have a hefty populationB. Have a rich corpus; andC. Advantage your career?Does it need to suck your dick and do your taxes too?
>>221994016When I lived in Germany, they used. Scheiss Egal!
>>222028100German isn't worth learning shit.
>>222027957Alright I think we agree but just not on the framing. Yeah if you're interested in the corpus of a language in terms of literature/culture/etc. then go for it. I'm just saying that learning French just because someone said it's potentially useful is not the best motivation if you aren't personally drawn to it and it's not readily apparent that it'll be useful in your life.
>>222028100No not really, if the only benefit of Latin for people that are not going to study Latin texts is increased cognitive ability, then the study of other languages can provide the same effect while providing further utility. And I don't see what you're losing by reading Latin translations if you're not a Latin scholar.>rich corpus, large nation, and regional career prestige in Europe.I mean if you want to read Goethe and work in Germany then go ahead and learn German. I didn't say that it was never worth learning dude. I was just saying that if you're just going to pick up German because it happens to be considered "useful" then you're doing it wrong.
>>222027680>I guess Japanese is very harda good chunk of the difficulty boils down to shit teaching strategies>there's no resource that tells you which word to pick when you want to speak (e.g. no resource that tells you the words しばしば, よく, ~ことが多い, ちょくちょく, 頻繁 can be used for often, and the differences between them (register and shit))>you also don't have resources that teach you shit that's not intuitive at first sight at all (おあがりください, どうも, どうか, 悪趣味(wtf it's not evil hobby?), etc.)>keigo goes ignored as well. shit like なにとぞ you're apt to hear in formal contexts will be readily ignored by textbooks, which take the easy way out by sticking to easy to translate words for the most partthen there's the fact that moonrune resources suck dick because they ignore stuff like phonosemantic compounds, etymology, radicals and stroke order rules letting you guess stroke orders 98% of the time, the structure of compounds (上昇(similar meaning), 生死(opposites), 和服(former modifies latter), 登校(latter is object or complement of former), 非常(former negates latter)), etc.
>>222028516>I was just saying that if you're just going to pick up German because it happens to be considered "useful" then you're doing it wrong.You’re right about that. Same goes for Latin.However, the value of Latin is something that I honestly can’t properly explain because it is only partially about learning a language and the other part corpus driven (which is why some people “study Latin” and are so dull, because they forgot the goal was to actually go read).What I would say I guess is if anyone wants meaningful deep engagement with the primary shared canon of the Western world, Latin is the way to do it, and it’s not as hard as it’s made out to be, latinists are just unique in their ability to be overdramatic. Almost everything written in the vernacular until like the 1950s is so steeped in that tradition that it’s an inescapable undercurrent for many texts even in English.
>>222020306Yes exactly it was treasure Island! It was the first book I could find in English on my bookshelf. Maybe not the best one since there was a fair bit of colloquiall contractions and the like. Though I think I would sound better speaking naturally off script and not feeling the pressure to squeeze it into a recording.>>222023796Actually never mind trying that.
>>221994016Bump
>>221996931we dont use kanker all that muchkut (cunt) is much more common, its our equivalent of fuck
hwo can i get fluent in english?
>>222032705live as much of your life as possible in english, especially onlineenglish is the easiest language to do that with because everything exists in it and it's generally higher quality
>>222032705Live and breathe English. Simple as.
>>221994016>I shat myselfGreece are you okay
Which Jewish language (excl. English) is best?
>>221994016Det skiter jag i = I shit in it = I don't give a fuck. "Shit in something" can also mean to deliberately not to do something.
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>>222029732Your phonology comes across as English-sounding (in the sense of the language, not the country), but your pronunciation of certain words or combinations is hard to make out. Maybe if you spoke at a little slower clip, that would help you speak more distinctly. Here are the main things I had trouble with.- "colours" ("colors") -- Sounds like you're saying "collars" or "callers"- The "and sat down" is hard to make out. It comes across as if you might be saying "an sant now," or something with "said," or maybe something else.- "Now says he" -- It almost sounds like "says" has two syllables, like "sedis," instead of just "says." You're also slurring it together with the next word, so the whole thing comes across as "said-i-see" (almost like Tennessee).- "Far more likely it's the mutineers" -- Comes across as "Far more like puts the mutineers." I think, you say "mutineers" clearly enough, but the meaning didn't register at first because I was so thrown off by the "likely it's" part.Besides that, there are details of rhythm and intonation that are disorienting. In the first paragraph, you hesitate a bit ("he... came... to a halt"), and then quickly stumble through the rest. Like I said above, "sat" almost sounds like it could be something like "said," and you end the sentence with a rising intonation. Combined with the fact that what immediately follows is Ben Gunn's dialog, beginning, "now," it almost sounds like you're saying, "... and said, 'Now! Now! says he!'" (which doesn't make much sense, of course, but it sounds like something that is supposed to make sense). Again, I think if you spoke just a little slower, it would probably help with your phrasing.I recorded myself reading the same passage for comparison. I don't suppose I'm going to win any awards for the narration, but I hope it's a helpful illustration nonetheless.https://vocaroo.com/14AAJ4aDt4uP(Looking forward to comments that I also sound mentally disabled, or worse... ESL.)
El hilo murio otra vez.
>>222035354German. Jews liked it so much they based Yiddish off of it.
>called Nigerian Pidgin>is actually a creolewhat did they mean by this
>>222006954>Kind of. I'm letting myself to dabble with many languages, but so far I've found one I like, a small one, without much content, and I'm sticking with it for now.I'm so happy for you brah. Let's all turn into gigapolyglots
>>222040585Pidgin and creole basically the same thing. A creole is just a pidgin that has become the primary language of a nation as far as I am aware. A creole has roots in being a pidgin.
>>222000626facts>>222002947oño>>222009982im native spanish, im learning japanese now , but, im planing to study italian and french too, but i think its better to learn first italian because its closer to spanish i think?>>222014704borracho >>222014898fondo?>>222027518start with spanish>>222027786>Genuinely what's the point of learning German outside of wanting to live in Germany/Austriai just want to understand what Rammnstein are saying okay, but also, because i love asuka langley and i want to be her since i was a kid
>>222032705mira muchas peliculas, juega videojuegos en ingles, trata de hacerlo sin subtitulos
Does anyone know any easy to setup local translators? preferably open source if possible. I only have internet for 2 hours a day and I use that time for work
>>222043699The best local translators will be local Large Language Models. The more VRAM your graphics card has, the larger, and tehrefore better, models you'll be able to run. Gemma 4 is probably the best of these models right now, and comes in multiple sizes. Here are the two smallest ones, which should be able to run on a variety of hardware:https://huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUFhttps://huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-E4B-it-GGUFThe different files you can download are different quantizations of the same model. Quantizing a model makes it dumber but easier to run. At the same file size, it's generally better to run a quantized version of a larger model than an unquantized version of a smaller model. These are .gguf files, which can be run through a program like koboldcpp:https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcppRead the OP of >>/g/lmg for more information
>>222043699https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate - not the easiest to set up, but it is open source.if you have an android/iphone phone (or an emulator for one), you can use google translate offline, kinda.https://support.google.com/translate/answer/6142473?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&oco=0
>>222041155Thanks. The only downside is that I sometimes confuse my TL with similar languages I've already tried. But that also helps me grasp things faster because I can see the similarities. And because of these similarities, I’m not worried that I made the wrong choice, since switching languages wouldn’t be all that time-consuming, especially in the early stages of learning. So I allow myself to switch languages at any time, but I’m not doing that. Also, having less content, but still some, actually helped. And good luck in your learning too!
>>222000763I had>German, Dutch, English, Latin, Greek, French (all mandatory)also:>Music, PE, Drama, Art/Culture/Design>Geography, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, History, Biology, Economics, Business Economics, Civics, Philosophy, Sociology (Phil. of Life)Only 4-7% of students go to a Gymnasium, so the difficulty can be cranked up a bit. I was sadly an ADHD problem teenager and never did the homework, but thankfully gifted and still passed.
>>221994513I'm not Greek but I shat myself
I decided that I will try to Ajatt my way with the Lithuanian language.
>>222050185I ain't reading alatt
>>222050316tl;drMe lithuanian all day
>>222050185Is that even possible
>>222050407Radio + audiobooks + literature + textbooks
>>222050380It was a play on AJATT but replaced J with L and then the phrase I ain't reading all that lolComedy with multiple layers type shit fr cuh
I am learning Spanish and I feel that my reading is quickly out pacing my speaking and listening perhaps. When I am listening to music in Spanish, I think I can understand maybe 50 percent of it. When I read the lyrics along with the song, I can understand 80 percent. Why can't I understand as much without the lyrics? I am also learning Puerto Rican Spanish and I hear those types of Spanish are a bit more difficult listening wise but its the Spanish I am most familiar with.
>>222050510Sorry I have the 'tism
>>222050638>Puerto Rican SpanishQue asco.
>>222050638>Why can't I understand as much without the lyrics?puerto rican spanish is an enigma even for other spics to decipher, just consume more spanish from puerto rico to get better at understanding it, wish there was more that could help.
>>222045047>>222044914nice thank you very much anons
>>222050638We've had this conversation a few times before. It's this >>222051337It's basically a meme in the Spanish speaking world https://youtu.be/4j-bCVCeLfo?si=Zk053wnP1KcXvsE6
>>222050638Honestly I never really understand what is being said in songs without looking up the lyrics.
How am I supposed to learn Spanish considering I understand 100% of the input I receive?
>>222051796Just imitate them like you’re doing a racial stereotype of your preferred accent until you get it.
>>222028516>if you're not a Latin scholarThe problem with this sentiment is outsourcing engaging with the mind of the West, your own mind, to a guild. No wonder people feel rootless and manipulated, they lack the ability to parse even their own heritage. It's like saying only architects ought to know the first thing about how to use a screwdriver. It's a non sequitur. There's a sickening learned intellectual helplessness that has become all pervasive in American life, yet I lack the imagination to properly express the full extent of my disdain for those who embrace that odious sentiment.
