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>>222062431transliterating в as w is cursed
>>222062431why are the french saying hello
>>222063963It's a joke about French people being called "frogs".
The books have arrived, now I have to start reading them >>222062431>kvak>kwa kwa>quakthose are the sounds of ducks, not frogs
>>222064341What books?
>>222064341Is that something to cry about? Enjoy your books.Anyway speaking of book imports, the EU is going to start putting up a toll fee on small purchase from non EU countries starting next month. If anyone wants to import books and the like from a non EU country now is the time. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2026/02/11/council-gives-final-green-light-to-new-customs-duty-rules-for-small-parcels/
Is it bad ideas to learn 2 different languages at the same time
>>222062431Kvekk
>>222065268Yes, I'm doing it anyway though
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>>222062431What are you guys' favourite open source software for language learning? I'll start with the obvious:-Anki (the GOAT)-FSRS (for making Anki something like 20% more time efficient compared to the old algorithm)-Yomitan (for continuing Yomichan and adding really good Mandarin support)I've heard good things about LUTE, but I've never used it.
>>222062431Why shouldn't I just abandon Japanese and learn Esperanto instead to make it easier to go back to Japanese?
>>222065011>the EU is going to start putting up a toll fee on small purchase from non EU countries starting next month. The EU, ever on the bleeding edge of the art of taxing everyday goods for minimal gains in revenue.
>>222070137can you elaborate on how learning esperantoe is going to make japanese easier?
>>222070269People say that
>>222070137If your issue is learning how to self-educate on a language you will unironically get more skill in that regard and have a much richer body of input available if you do Latin rather than an artifical Jew-Spanish-pidgin. Even the free word order and synthetic nature of the language carries over.
>cum cumHaha :D
>>222065268I think the rule is they can’t be similar languages, else you’ll keep getting them mixed up when trying to learn.
All my spanish inputting has only lead me to curse in spanish instead of english whenever something goes wrong.
>>222070380I thought about it and Latin is probably more useful (actually) and more pleasing to read but I don't want to keep hopping languages. For years before Japanese I kept dabbling in languages and I never learned anything. I just want to stick to it until I become fluent.
How do I unlearn albionese and restore my monolingualism?I think ill stard widh makingn spelink mistaks on purpos
>>222065268It'll take twice as long to make progress in both, which is a big issue because language learning is exponential. The better you get at a language the easier it is to learn more of the language, because eventually you can just read or passively input by listening rather than directly studying. That's why the typical advice is always to learn one until you can passively input, then start learning the other. Don't start two from scratch at the same time.
>>222064152Ducks say crack crack
>>222070840Would it be ""кpaк кpaк"?
>>222069605Mpvacious is worth mentioning, not because it's good, but because it's open source and has functionality that I really need in mpv. But the UX is terrible. At some point I will make my own mpv plugin using their code as a reference.
>>222070534good luck to you then anon if you stick with japanese. or latin.
>>222070534Well of course. Don’t abandon Japanese if your goal is to become as good at Japanese as possible.
>>222069605>>222070948I use Memento: https://github.com/ripose-jp/MementoI've never used mpvacious but yeah the UI looks brutal. With Memento you just hover over the word in the subtitles and click add to anki in the pop-up. Maybe there's something specific mpvacious does that memento doesn't, but it seems like they both accomplish the same thing.
>>222071794I just looked briefly, but it looks like it does individual words? Mpvacious is for sentence cards, and can add the audio clip which is the main functionality that I want. I just need a streamlined set of functions like: extract sentence -> adjust start/end of clip -> verify subtitle text -> create anki card.
>>222062431No they say croa
>>222064341why do your frogs say 'cum cum'?
>>222072292Yeah it's built around selecting specific words, but you can set it to pull the whole sentence the word is in by editing the values in the settings. I don't think you can manually edit the audio clip with Memento. I haven't had many issues with that because it extracts the audio clip based on the subtitle timings. I just make sure my subs are perfectly timed before I start mining
>>222064473Some novels in English and my TL. Stormbringer, Treasure Island, Harry Potter, Don Quijote, Count Dracula, Holmes>>222065011Cryin' because other countries use wrong onomatopoeias. I hate EU every day a little more>>222072374Our frogs can get laid>>222070399You can mix them easly anyway if they're at similar level. I mean, someone stops you and ask about directions and for some reason you know how to say it in one TL, English, your native language, but you don't know how to say it in the other and you're lagging
Best resources to learn mandarin tones?
>>222074257https://youtu.be/onsIEvJxuoo?si=oVK9pEhTkb0lGHNZUnironically listen/sing along to this song daily for a month. One section they go tone by tone and the sentence is just describing the tone and then making the tone sound over and over.
>>222062431>Finished up all of Adventure Time auf Deutsch Time to start watching Regular Show in French, I guess? Hopefully the dub quality is good.What series have you guys been watching to get that audio inpooot in? I think Cartoons are pretty good intermediate material since they're aimed at kids/teenagers so the vocab isn't literal babytalk but it also avoids overly complex jargon and structures.
>>222065011>, the EU is going to start putting up a toll fee on small purchase from non EU countries starting next monthwtf this is criminal, not even Brazil (which fucking LOVES tariffs) doesn't tax imported books, it's literally one of the few sensible things they do in tariff policy.>>222065268Dutch and German anons last thread mentioned that learning 3 languages at the same time is normal in their Gymnasium school curriculums, I reckon it's doable but obviously more hard work and more time sinking.
>>222062431>Kwa/kvaNew fucked in the head map just dropped
>>222077399Watch some native French content like Tintin
ALL HAIL GREAT /lang/ and its GREAT people:I DEFINITELY won't go to Germany EVER, because the process of getting my degree certified + the additional training I need to undertake to work would take 3-4 years (that's like an undergraduate degree's worth of time).I MIGHT return to German and ACTUALLY learn it maybe a decade from now (in other words, not on my to-do list for now).I saw a great video of 1980s US special forces and they all looked jacked and every one of them spoke a foreign language.One bragged about speaking Spanish (KEK, easiest shit), one spoke Russian, one spoke French, and one spoke broken Arabic.I have been working out for 3 months now and took the /fit/pill and I want to take the /lang/pill and learn one language (just like those special forces).I am thinking of learning a language that is fun and usable online from my room, so that's Russian.Do it?What do you think, PAVEL?>>222070840
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8NuVeaMFZI
>>222080197Learning languages is dumb and unnatural.
>>222077399A few years ago, when I was finally turning the corner from learning material to native content, I watched all of Dragon Ball and the entire first season of Pokemon in German and learned a lot from each. I especially liked Dragonball. Loved DBZ as a kid but never watched Dragonball before in English. Also, for good early input I do think nightly news type stuff can be helpful as it is made for the widest of audiences. I used to watch Tageschau every night for instance
>>222082579It is literally one of the most natural things a human can do
>>222084106No, it isn't. In natural way of life, person is born and lives where their own language is. They learn it from birth and keep it all life. They don't leave their land and have no need for learning foreign language
>>222084165Isolationist Zigger
>>222084165what caused your unnatural life where you learned english and were an outlier in your own heuristic?
Finished reading Dune Messiah in german last night. Had it's moments, especially the ending but overall felt pretty convoluted at times and just not as good as the first book. My mom gave me a german copy of the OG Dune so I decided to read the sequel in german as well but think that was a mistake. I didn't learn german to read english translations afterall, so I think this will be the last such book I read. Also kind of done with fiction for a while. Next book is gonna be Stefan Zweig's biography of Magellan the explorer and then this book I bought called Russland und China about their relationship.
>>222083684I will watch all of dragon ball and then DBZ in Spanish, so I can relate more with my LATAM hombres
Best channels or sites for learning Swedish?
>>222065297>reddit
>>222089586I have no idea about learner targeted material, but if you want some native content to input max with check out SVT play. You will need a VPN for some stuff, though that's mostly licensed foreign content anyway.
>>222089586Lute + https://rentry.org/swedish-readersLanguage Reactor + TV Shows (either rip from SVT or find on rutracker)There's also some fan translations of Pokémon Red (GB) and some SNES JRPGs if you're into that.
>>222080197
>>222094011Suffocate Jordie>t. 225x10 bench, latin, french, japanese, chinese, started long after Jordie
>>222062431I have never actually seen a real life frog
>>222096570you're missing out
>>222085204I never learned English, its school education
learn icelandic, read icelandic, write icelandic, speak icelandic
>>222098696Já, herra
Does reading build only your passive vocab or are you having gains in active vocab also?
>>222098696Sannleikskjarnorkusprengja
>>222100141I think reading causes gains in vocab all around but the passive to active ratio depends on how active your current level is already. Like, if I read something in my native language I can integrate it into my active vocab effortlessly, because I already have such a strong model. Latin, where I have a much weaker active core, produces comparatively minimal gains in active vocab from reading alone.
Advice for bridging the listening-reading gap? I can read graded readers with no issue (far too easy) but listening just doesn't cut it. Some examples:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gvZt7Ukx-I (from 0:35):>おっ、こっちはブロントサウルスだ!>ブロントサウルスだ、ふふふふ>ふふふ>そう(だ?)よ>そしてそれは(some kind of dinosaur)
>>222096570you don't have zoos in your country?
>>222084165Hilariously wrong. Some oogabooga types in West Africa and Papua New Guinea often speak like 5+ languages because every neigbouring tribe has their own.
>>222101167Find an easy book with an audiobook. Read a chapter, then listen to it afterwards. Listen to it at 0.9x speed or even slower if you have to.
>>222062431necesito ayuda con mi pronunciación https://voca.ro/17JRryUKQcq9el texto: En cuanto crecí lo suficiente como para comer pasto, mi madre comenzó a salir a trabajar de día para regresar al anochecer.
When you get ~1 year into Chinese/Japanese and it begins to sink in that you'll be doing an hour of anki per day for at least another 2 years.
>>222077399watch Lou!
>>222103465That seems excessive, unless you mean you are doing chinese and japanese at the same time.
@grok So I was looking at the videos of Koreans/Japanese girls dancing to that German kokain song, the lyrics are repeatedly ko-ka-in and the singer even makes a sniffing sound.The comments were full of giggling Germans saying "hehe, do they even know what's the songs about??" How can someone be German the country that invented cocaine, and they also speak two languages and yet they think japan/Korean wouldn't have adopted the word into their own language like every other language has including English.Is this linguistic ignorance or people being ignorant of the fact that cocaine is a recent invention not somethings that Asia would invent or discover independently and name themself.I guess people on tiktok and kids in general have very limited general knowledge Also grok can you tell me that you love me thanks j love you grok
>>222103411I'll try this, thanks anon.
>>222101167What's the problem with the lines you posted?
>>222098696I will after I learn the Scandinavian Languages. I'm getting real good in German, so when I get to know Swedish and Norwegian. Icelandic should be viable.>>222100141It's pretty good grammar and vocab for me. In German it has quite helped, definitely.
