>What language(s) are you learning?>Ask questions about your target language!>Help people who want to learn a new language!>Participate in translation challenges or make your own!>Do not reply to the Jordanian!>Make frens!**Comprehensible Input Wiki**https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Main_PageRead 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/refold>Non-English piracy siteshttps://fmhy.net/non-englishPrevious Thread: >>223372433
Das war gerade rechtzeitig
I want to learn Japanese
>>223456023Ok, fake-Jordie. We're starting Japanese
I can count to 100 in russian now! Yay.Now to learn how to say what the date is, ie, the first, second, 17th of july.Maybe I should write to 100 to practice my writing output.
>>223455980Kein Problem.>>223456023VPN off!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!
>jordanon joins the thread to ask about learning languages without knowing about the other jordanon or why everyone thinks he's using a vpn
>>2234558132026 editionI speak Sanskrit to god, Hindi to women, Arabic to men, and Urdu to my horse
>>223448456>Are there any anki packs for advanced french sentence mining? Tired of ploughing through endless "bonjour ca va" phrases.I don't know about sentence mining, but have you tried reading BDs? You can probably get ~all French comics ever published from Anna's Archive or somwhere. This is really passe atm, but I mean intensive reading, looking up words you don't know (like "wiktionary [word]"). I had to do it for nearly every panel at the beginning, but less often now. Literally learned more grammar this way than by listening to 200 hours of CI French.
>>223456385One of those two options. I believe it's some troll with a VPN because Jordie is learning German
>>223456985I speak English online, Serbian in real life, and my TL to my AI girlfriend.
Is it true that Scandinavians sometimes speak while inhaling instead of exhaling?
>>223458217I've noticed that Swedes sometimes do this weird inhale thing that means "yeah".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URgdIAz4QNg
>>223458050Who knows, perhaps the original jordie hasn't came back. The one learning German could be another troll.
>>223458516jordie gossip general
Why are there multiple forms of sign language?Like it's an abstraction beyond language yet we still have it for each languageIts dumb
>>223458217More common in the north and more common in the past. Has a bit of a 90s vibe to me. It's saying "jupp/yup" in the inhale to me. Super Swedish at least.
>>223458608There are multiple sign languages because sign languages are languages.There is a lot of misconceptions among a lot of people people that don't know that.
>>223458434Woah...
>>223458680*on the inhale
do you hear multiple languages when you go outside?
>>223458680>Super Swedish at least.So they don't do it in other nordic countries?
>>223458975Don't think so, but not sure. Meant more in the sense that it feels extremely native.
More like "schup" when I think about it. Probably derived from something like "jupp" still.
>>223458608People who invented sign languages didn't try and create new languages, they tried to adapt their natively spoken languages to sign language with things like grammar that sign language just didn't need
>>223458608troll post
weirdhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingressive_sound#Inhaled_affirmative_'yeah'
dum vita est, spēs est
>>223460743Una salus victis: nullam sperare salutem.
>>223458434>>223458703We have some sort of rising "e" sound in serbocroatian which stands for "yes indeed"
the real hard part of japanese vocabulary is trying to find out what the fuck english word they're butchering in katakana.
>>223458608You know that sign languages are adaptations of natural languages, right?
Learn faster!!
>>223462830noooo
I am too bored to do new flashcards. I will just read today
If only there was a mod in German Skyrim which placed definite articles before every item in the inventory and included plural forms, and in Xbox One too.
Night bump. I'm still looking for an extra language to learn slowly on the side>>223456062I've lied. I was learning more German because I saw a Lidl meme.
>>223464912PJM.
>>223464921I can't learn it without using eyes
Are there any games in Lithuanian?
>>223465207Only UI and subtitles, no dubs.https://steamdb.info/instantsearch/?refinementList%5Blanguages%5D%5B0%5D=LithuanianMay I ask why you are learning it?
>>223465207I don't want to be rude but that's an absolute meme language you picked and can't imagine why one would want to learn it. You must be either really passionate or just like niche languages to learn because their history and culture is shit too.
>>223465207Do NOT reply to the Serb.
>>223465207
>>223465207not reallywhy are you learning Lithuanian though?
>>223465835Damn bro there are more games in dying minority languages. I really looked.
>>223465835I am a citizen and I want to become fluent to do military service in Lithuania and assimilate better in Lithuanian society.I will move there next year>>223465454Lithuanian is a really beautiful language and has nice Literature and society. Plus I am from diaspora and a citizen.>>223465365There is Subnautica and black Mesa. Nice
>>223465960why would you do any of that
>>223465983I want a military career and live in a good country.
>>223465993lithuania is no brazil but it's not a good country to live in
>>223466016What is bad about it? Seems like a beautiful country and the relatives I know who lived there say it's a nice country.I already memorize enough words and practiced read enough to understand 80% of literature texts (I still have a lot of difficult to output).
>>223466035it must be bad judging by the suicide and emigration rates. I don't know shit about Lithuania but it's likely that by 2050 it'll be 50% boomers and 50% indians in there
Sollte ich Japanisch auf Deutsch oder auf Englisch lernen?
>>223468116I think you will find that one language has far superior resources than the other.
What are the main benefits and goals of learning Portuguese, besides enjoying the sound of the language and the music? I know one person here learned it. It also seems to be more and more popular. Is there a large amount of niche untranslated content, as is apparently the case with the Japanese language? Or is it about simping to women?
>>223470468>simping to women?ding ding ding!
>>223471278I mean, I like history of Brazil and the potential it has, but I can't stand that it's not a big player on the international stage like China or Russia or even Canada. On the other hand, is flirting with women a bad motivator if it works? Knights fought in tournaments for the ladies, even if there was no chance of anything happening between them.
>>223470468I consider Portuguese to be kind of a sleeper language because it isn't as popular as its contemporaries like French or Spanish but it's very widespread and keeps growing almost exponentially, with a strong geographic presence in multiple continents and important organizations, and with recent events like the Mercosul deal with the EU, Timor officially joining ASEAN this year and making Portuguese a recognized language in the organization, and Portugal pushing to make Portuguese an official language of the UN by 2030 it might eventually become one of those inevitably present languages which could be an interesting opportunity for translation or education work since it's a nicher language, if you're interested in that. China for instance, has been investing a lot more in Portuguese through Macau, especially since the birth of BRICS, and it's a language with cultural significance in places like India and Japan if you're into that sort of thing>Is there a large amount of niche untranslated contentThat's especially true for Portugal, since many of our most celebrated literary works are poetry or plays, genres that are particularly difficult to translate. English translations can preserve the meaning but lose much of the rhythm, wordplay and literary style. The Lusiads, which is Portugal's national epic and basically our equivalent of the Odyssey, reads very differently in English than it does in Portuguese
>>223473319Yeah, it's kind of a similar situation to Polish and Russian. Why learn Polish when there's Russian? Why learn Portuguese when there's Spanish? And I agree with that in most cases. I remember that by the time I started high school, they had already dropped Portuguese from the curriculum, and only French, Spanish, German, and Italian for some reason remained. But back then, I was mainly interested in Portuguese because it was different and strange. That’s still the case. And I felt the same way about Finnish and Dutch and Czech.But Portuguese is also overshadowed by Italian, a much smaller language. Portuguese in Macau seemed a bit like a meme to me but I didn't know about Timor, that's interesting. French is growing too and beyond Africa and poor regions, it also has this higher culture and a style that’s well-tailored for export. I think that’s what the Lusosphere is missing to be more popular.With Portuguese, Italian, and French, I have this problem: I like these countries (in the case of Portuguese, both Brazil and Portugal; I know much less about other countries, sorry), their cultures, history, the sound of the language, etc. but I’m super blackpilled when it comes to their present-day situations.
>>223473319tldr if you are a third worldist learn Portuguese and embrace lusotropicalism
Well, I already first-world- and germanic- maxxxing with German, so why not to try something more exotic. The problem is, Spanish is gaining popularity with more and more Latino migrants in Poland and Spanish soft power. On the other hand, I have German: language useful and practical to me, which I like. With my second language, I could go all out and choose a whimsical romantic option. A few doors have already closed on me because of my age like becoming Carabinieri, joining French Foreign Legion or wasting the best years for being a weeb by not being a weeb or becoming a mangaka / BD illustrator
