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I think I will just do passive listening till I can comprehend my target language and just read a lot on the side to build my vocab.
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>>223836918
>passive listening
As opposed to?
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I wonder if I will like Wheelock's or not, I will do all of the exercises since I basically neglected most of them in Familia Romana and I would benefit from them I think.
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>>223836900
>that one guy out there translating hentai into Latin
Who is he? Why is he doing this?
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Creo hornos esta manana
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>>223837280
I remember there used to be a guy translating hentai into classical chinese
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>>223837155
Active listening. Or using visual clues/read and listen at same time
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>>223837280
>Here you are.
>You, who used to be a noblewoman...
>What do you think of the toil of a maid?
>I know this occupation to be a difficult one for you.
>Why have you summoned me here, lord?
>...today, truly, I seek the most proper thing of you, my maid.
my attempt at a translation
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>>223837008
The Raid and its sequel are really good action movies. They’re not cool enough for me to want to learn Indonesian, but dismissing the whole country because it doesn’t come up in your news feed is unfair.
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>>223837401
propria has a sense more like "special" here IMO.

It's only similar to English "proper" in the literary phrase "proper to X person" as in saying something is theirs. Cause it's more like "it's own." So like for example, in the gospel of John you have "in propria venit" as in He came unto his own (his people).
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>>223837364
Oh I had to look this up, "passive listening" meaning background noise you're not paying attention to, why even bother? One of the supreme pitfalls of the studious is here lying in wait to entrap you, that is, being "idle at your book" becoming a habit
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>>223837495
true
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>>223837401
Oh and "ecce te" is more like "look at/behold you."

Labore here is probably better rendered just as work, which is the more late latin usage of the word rather than toil/suffering.

Just some nitpicks, and some are probably just my opinion, but you got it.
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>>223837448
I'm sure there must be some merit and virtue to oogabooga cultures but I shan't be sifting and panning the foetid proverbial bathwaters of genital mutilation cultures to rescue a hypothetical baby which may or may not be present. If it's worth anything, then it will find its way to me, not the reverse. Any phillistine culture like this has left the path of wisdom, and can be handwaved away without thinking
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>>223837571
I’m not going to go on a liberal rant and call you evil or whatever, but I just want to warn you that you come across like a retard when you say shit like this.
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>>223837571
they have an airforce n sheit dawg but yes i also too will never bother to learn indonesian because if they ever become relevant it won't be for another 40 years anyways.

It's a strange country because it has the typical turd world mix of some quite developed areas and then the sticks are full blown tribal warfare with bows, but it's because you have a massive archipelago with 300 million people called a "country" so for what it's worth standard "Indonesian" is actually the language of a forward looking and modernizing culture seeking to nation-build n sheeeit.
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>>223837671
It seems to be a reaction to all the "learn Bangladeshi because it has 60 trillion speakers" stuff you see online.
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>>223837671
I don't care what a fool thinks or how much of a libtard he fancies himself. Here's your (You) now run along.

>>223837677
They could have a space program, it wouldn't matter. I don't listen to nations of reprobates morally worse than the entirety of all forms of the Epstein island scandals. Like I said, if there's any contribution worth anything from such a place, it will be able to break out and find me. Till then, there's no point in even discussing this, and that's all I have to say.
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>>223837280
Translating things you like into your TL is a grueling and monastic but extremely based and effective learning method.
>who is he
A king among men
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>>223837571
>the foetid proverbial bathwaters of genital mutilation cultures
But anon... you're american
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What do o/lang/utangs think about visual dictionaries?
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>>223837871
Google images or your TL's equivalent serves well. Copy-and-pasteable right into Anki. What more could you want?
I wish that AI was at a level where it could make an Irusatoya-level clipart that captures the idea neatly, but unfortunately it is all junk
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Learning languages that are only spoken in “safe” countries is boring. I’d take Hausa over Italian any day.
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Aww yeah!!!! Spanish Chickens bros, we comiendo muy bien lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63WHAbiLZAY
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>>223837981
Yeah but Hausa has like 3 resources
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>>223838002
You got the FSI course, Anki decks, and youtube (including the BBC Hausa channel). That’s more than enough to sentence mine. The language has like 60M speakers, so people upload content in the language every day.
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>>223837986
>Easy
I'd like a nice refreshingly "hard" course marketed for an autodidact
Like a big fat imposing hardcover book in serif type that you could easily detract as pedantic and expensive tedium
I want to feel like my teacher has a comprehensive grasp of the subject matter but also isn't patronizing or condescending
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Q. Wo wird er Hausa lernen?
A. Zu Hause.
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>>223838091
Wir mussen die dawa in jedes haus bringen
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>>223838135
Dawa? Wie bitte?
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>>223837867
kek. It’s only bad when it happens to would-be stacies

>>223837871
Overrated, use your noggin nigga. Ur telling me when you’re told panzer means tank that you can’t imagine a panzer in your head to associate with the word?

>>223837981
Have fun talking to taxi drivers
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>>223838441
Not to see pictures because lack of imagination, but for the TLang vocabulary of objects you already know in your NLang but can’t recall at the moment. Only geniuses can list out words like a dictionary.
Also, Panzer means armour; it just later became associated with tanks. E.g. Eisenpanzerhandschuhe (iron gauntlets; W-F-W: Iron-Armour-Hand-Shoes)
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for me, it's Nigerian pidgin.
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>>223838441
Rather presumptuous of you to think the comment was sex-specific
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If I want to get more in touch with the hunter-gatherer side of my family and heritage, is korean a good language to learn?
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>>223838629
no you are suppose to learn khoisan
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You will never be European.
You will never be Asian.
But all humans descend from Africa.
God bless.
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>>223838900
Noah’s Ark landed in Mount Ararat and that is in Asia, buddy in Christ.
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Should I find me a cute prostitutor to practice Russian with?
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>>223839963
Bat Yam
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I love learning new words and expressions, just the other days I learned words for apotaste, gene, aide de camp, torpedo among others and a cool Buddhist euphemistic expressions for a bloody battle field.
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Do you know where you can get good biscuits in Brazil?
São Paolo, OrRIO.
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>>223837871
i wish DK made their latin visual dictionary it's own standalone thing instead of having it be a german/latin visual dictionary
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I think I'm gonna drop language learning
>>223837280
Kino
>>223837401
>>223837495
I would translate it more as "essence of you", "the core of you as a person" or something like that. Maybe your true colors or real you or your true self?
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>>223845532
Jordie 2, have you considered picking ONE langauge to learn instead of many? I think that will help you learn and make consistent progress. This also includes switching languages. Just take a vacation to germany after a while of learning german and then report back how you feel about language learning.
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Necesito amigos nuevos
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There’s no point in learning a language for traveling if the country you’re visiting hasn’t had a war on its soil in the last decade; everyone will just speak to you in English if you try to talk to them.
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>>223837871
I think they're neat to flip through once, but kind of limited as a learning tool.

>>223845532
Just figure out why you have an aversion to input. If you can crack that, you'll find that the process is a lot more enjoyable.
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>>223845713
Yeah man go to the rural parts of Poland and try speaking English
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>>223838574
FGM is a thing foreigners do. We mutilate males here.

But I guess you also have bottom surgery here.
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>>223845532
Drop all but your easiest language for 3 months and then introduce another.
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>anon is learning a living language that isn’t on the verge of extinction
Mì-fhortanach.
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meds will not understand you
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>>223845977
>proficentugal
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>>223845977
>Italy not caving to globalist English bullshit
BASATO MOLTO
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>>223837280
not really different from Natural Method
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Quiero aprender español, ajuta me
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>>223847335
Pendejo o algo
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>>223837280
kinda interesting bc japanese is often referred to as latin for weebs
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>>223848702
If anything old Chinese would be a Latin equivalent for weebs
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I think I should replace Italian with Spanish. I've recently found a few cool bands, reading Don Quijote right now, which is a cool novel (easly in my top 10) and there are more and more Latin American immigrants in Poland (didn't saw any hot Latinas though, probably because the government hates me), population is younger, and Spanish and Italian languages are similar, so the transition from one to the other shouldn't be painful. The Italian internet is also smaller, and moving to Italy or Spain would be a loss for me, but learning Italian mostly by and for online content without planning to live there is soul crushing
I'm also wondering if I should replace German with some programming or any technical skill or get back to Blender 3D; the entry level seems as difficult as learning German and it could be my way to work remotely from some cool (hot) place like Spain or Italy (it would probably still be a loss for me, but not that terrible). Or learn a technical skill and German and forgot about Romance languages for a while. Idk what to do
>>223845619
>>223845752
Italian and Spanish are languages for living with people there, not using online. Same with French. They are normie nations. Spanish is a bit different because of the population and scale but still. The problem is, emigrating there isn't worth it for me. Germany is all about regionalism. I've been there, people are more focused on their local affairs than anywhere else in the world. My dream is to live somewhere else, even if only for five years. I'm a bit more drawn to the Romance world, but small German towns and rural Scandinavia are also great. The music scene is also important to me in terms of input, but in general I have a problem that it is easier for me to reach for Polish or English when I am interested in something, whereas in other languages it is B2/C1 level which I won't master for some time
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>>223848988
3D is not profitable now
there are probably other skills you can learn for online work but you'll probably have to pick something specific that is in demand, not '3D' or 'programming'
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>>223848840
yeah but it’s a korean internet meme that satirizes the idea that all international weebs can communicate in japanese, so it has little to do with the historical context you’re pointing out.
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>>223849343
It's also a liturgical language like Latin since it allows the learner to read the sacred hentai scrolls.
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>>223837280
>who is he?
a skillful scribe
>why is he doing this?
translating hentai into your tl must be top 10 outputting methods for improving
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>>223849304
Was thinking about 3D because I thought that AI is not such a problem for employees, there is a relatively large gamedev in Poland and a lot is being built, and I used to play with Blender and I like drawing. The most important thing is to start and then look for specialization, best methods, niche, etc.
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Today I read a chapter of the gesta francorum monolingually to warm up, since I figured it would reduce reliance on the translation for Caesar, then I read chapters 16-35 of book 2 of de bello gallico, finishing book 2 out of 8. What did you read today /lang/?
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>>223850747
Going to reread L’étranger in hopefully less than 3 hours, though there are undoubtedly pages I will still struggle with. Then hopefully the first part of 1984. I need to do a lot more Eng-Fre translations though.
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>>223845830
You would be very surprised. The poles have all left the UK and Ireland now to build houses back in their home towns and villages. I miss them so much, I would trade every brownoid on this soil for 10 of them.
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Was speaking french in my dream last night for the first time ever.
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>>223847335
whats ur goal
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>>223851436
I wish to learn enough so I can have a conversation. It's a useful language spoken by a lot of countries. I feel like it's the best language to learn after English
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>>223836900
any experience in learning 2 languages at the same time? like learning italian using french texts etc
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>>223850453
I don't know if it's better in poland but here it's basically like wanting to be an artist or athlete. You basically have to be extremely talented, preferably starting at a very young age. It's not like a trade where you just need the know-how
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With a European language where you can input right away, is it really better to spend 3 months maturing a couple thousand anki cards, or to spend that time with readers and a reading through a grammar book, and probably ultimately picking up a lot of words through input anyways. Afterwards, you can just do a large anki deck aggressively since the work will be much more easy in order to plug holes in your knowledge.
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>>223851669
It is risky, you are guranteed to lose progress in one of the two languages. Remember, you are not just juggling two langues, you are also juggling your native tongue. Your brain is constantly trying to remember and recall each of them, even your native language. Portugaise bro here posted a good video in the last thread, I’ll try find it.
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>>223852215
Just read books and brute force translate them, whilst also teaching yourself grammar. Anki is more useful once you have a solid foundation
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>>223845977
I have no idea why ours is so high, beaten only by NL; though it seems Slovenia would likely outrank everyone if rated
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>>223852436
It even beats Germany and Austria, that's interesting for sure
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>>223852215
For germanic and romance languages your own personal pain threshold is probably the most important factor. If it's sufficiently high you probably could do novels right away. Though for what it's worth I really found that French opened up after brute forcing the 1000 most common words.
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>>223851337
I'll clean your loo
I'm Italian though so I'm still brown
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>>223852436
>I have no idea why ours is so high
You all immigrated to Ireland and London (before Brexit)
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Is using AI to learn languages really bad? I get very mixed messages on reddit about AI use
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>>223854097
I'd wait a couple of years
at which point mankind will also be cooked, so...
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>>223854097
Sometimes it gives me wrong answers. Not very often, but it happens. I think it's usually obvious when AI is wrong, but of course it could be that I just don't recognize all the times it gave me incorrect information and I didn't know any better.
I wouldn't use it as my main teacher, but it works as a sounding board to bounce ideas off of.
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I always thought sayonara was an italian word
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im never going to learn 日本語
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>>223854097
Claude has been great, I do pay for it when I know I have a month where I can use it intensively. It never makes mistakes, but it does sometime talk about shit that wasn’t meant to be there. Like doing a drill on filling the blanks with à, de, en etc. But then I get one wrong that takes Par even though I never asked to drill that.
Regardless, it is great for grammar, and really good for doing translations with
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>>223854672
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>>223854686
I’ll add, with the latest model, when I questioned it adding a par clause, it had a very valid reason in that I should not alway assume that verbs that take de only ever take de, as par symbolises a step séquence or finish of an action rather than the start of the action itself
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>so many resources for hindi
>so few resources for urdu
just goes to show how FRICKED UP crap really is
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>>223854413
wow who is this handsome guy
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>>223855280
Arent they literally the same thing?
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>>223854097
its very useful if your expectations arent too high
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>>223856386
Urdu has the prettier script and some vocab is different (“as-salamu alaykum” versus “namaste”). Them being largely the same spoken language makes it all the more curious how much easier it is to find resources for Hindi than Urdu.
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I wish I was an ESL so I could learn english
learning english sounds like fun
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I wish I was homeless so I could become a CEO from nothing
Rising from absolute poverty to opulent wealth sounds like fun
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>>223845977
Those numbers are based on an free online test that people take voluntarily. They are not to be trusted. Later this year PISA will release for the first time ever a survey of english proficiency for school aged children.
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>>223849786
It also has grammatical cases like latin, chinese doesn't.
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>>223854672
日本語を勉強することは無理です
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>>223858362
単純な日本語達人に為る案内書
一 自殺してねえ(^-^) (ご注意その前に仏に奉納物を差し上げった方がいい)
二 輪廻! 人間道は目的、他は駄目だよ
三 アノン君の新しい国を確認して、日本ではなければ一番目の段に戻ってもう一回試して下さい
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>>223852181
I'll have to become a scammer then to live comfy in some sunny place
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for the Latin learners here: is it a good idea to start another language after finishing Roma Aeterna?
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>>223861055
The gap between Roma Aeterna and Familia Romana is big enough that you really shouldn’t overthink your timeline after Familia Romana. I figure if you have a decently robust reading ability and a consistent habit of reading, you’ll be able to gradually march across the intermediate plateau with a fairly low daily time commitment after a certain point, which you might reach well before even Romana Aeterna is done. At some point though after FR I really really recommend not just reading readers for a year straight, like go read some actual cool stuff and have fun in the language, or at least remember that that’s an option if you get bored or if RA gets too grindy.
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The worst most inelegant thing about French is how they ask questions like hood rats.
>There is meat on the burger?
>I can go to a restaurant with you?
>The Brazilians beat Paraguay in a war?
Inverted word order for questions is only found in old books and FSL speak.
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>>223861424
is RA that difficult? everyone seems to be saying it is
I guess the Latin jumps to something like B2 or C1 given that there's Livy in it
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>>223861480
koreans say
>burger at meat exists?
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>>223861563
It gradually shifts to large chunks of basically unadapted golden age prose, which is tough to get through on your own monolingually. I’ve been told to tackle it early the process is quite slow and grindy, and the Neumann companion is essential.
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>>223861964
I'll try it after a few intermediate readers. I'm not really thrilled by the idea of spending much time reading graded readers
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If odd, I learn japanese
If even, I learn german
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>>223863150
Fuck German just do Japanese. German is a god awful language
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>>223845676
Casi cada ciudad grande en EEUU tiene iglesias católicas con una congregación hispanohablante. Encontrarás nuevos amigos ahí dentro después de la Santa Misa.
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>>223863229
halt maul du schwulctel
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>>223863150
learning the language of an axis power is immoral
please only learn moral languages, like xhosa or malay
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>>223863150
0 is neither an odd nor an even number.
Dovrei prendere italiano >>223863684
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learn french
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_esFqIRR-ZM
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>>223854672
諦めない
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>>223864883
Maybe later
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>>223861563
The first chapters of RA are not that bad. The later, unadapted chapters are more difficult. You can start it any time after FR. If you get stuck, you're not obligated to finish it. No matter how many books you read to prepare, reading RA is not going to be the same experience as going through FR.
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I want to learn french the same way I learnt english, is there a french 4chan or popular forums I could lurk?



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