http://www.zompist.com/whylang.htmlThis is an excellent article about learning languages and why we fail. The gist of it is, that if you're not in a situation where you MUST use the language, chances are you won't learn it. It has some good tips al

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Anonymous 04/26/15 (Sun) 16:42:40 No.2501

http://www.zompist.com/whylang.html

This is an excellent article about learning languages and why we fail. The gist of it is, that if you're not in a situation where you MUST use the language, chances are you won't learn it.

It has some good tips all throughout with some sobering realizations. The last paragraph was a sucker punch for me.

>If a language is used only at home, be aware that the children will learn only an impoverished form of it– possibly to their surprise, if they go to college and take courses in it, expecting an easy A. A high-school friend of mine was German but grew up in the States; returning to Germany, she was embarrassed to find that her written German was terrible. Similarly, my wife, who was educated in Peru, is always distressed at the low quality of the Spanish produced by Hispanics who've grown up here. (I know a linguist whose reaction was, "But they're still native speakers." Sure, but they have a lousy command of the written standard.)

So much for my ego. In light of this, I'm going to try to perfect my spanish. I can speak it natively but my reading and writing of it is borderline illiterate. I think for me this would be the smartest choice as I rather know a second language well that 3-4 languages mediocre 2 of which I may never use IRL. Plus, I get access to spanish imageboards, shit's p nice.

So what about you, what do you think about languages?

If you live in the US though, I honestly think learning programming or bettering your math is much better to know.

Anonymous 04/27/15 (Mon) 03:50:59 No.2508

I speak spanish natively, and I learned how to write and read englis using imageboards, speaking and listening, well, english is quite easy when it comes to that.

Anonymous 04/27/15 (Mon) 06:27:48 No.2509

>>2508

>englis

asides from point out what was probably an over site, I've been trying to learn Spanish forever. I have a couple of friends "one is spain" on in "Brazil" who just used online resources to learn english. The Brazilian just played video games. So my question to you is besides /argentina/, are their Spain Spanish imageboards that you guys know of so I can learn the language better. I speak working Spanish cause I landscape over the summer and I need it to talk to some of the landscapers.

Anonymous 04/27/15 (Mon) 10:18:10 No.2513

>>2509

Hispachan is the main one. It even has an /int/ board.as well as specific country boards that sorta emulate their own dialects if you're into that.

I also know of puertochan that services Puerto Ricans.

Theres probably more but hispa is pretty populated and fast. For some reason there's been an explosion in Brazilian users recently.

Anonymous 04/28/15 (Tue) 02:57:03 No.2519

>>2513

aw man, they don't have a /fit/ board on hispachan or puertochan. I think I'll stick with puertochan as there seems to be a mix of English and Spanish when anons post. Makes sense anyway learning a more Hispanic Spanish first, as I'll be using that more for work, before switching over to Spain Spanish.

Also holy shit my last post was terrible, I guess I should try to sleep more

Anonymous 05/07/15 (Thu) 17:23:25 No.2661

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>If a language is used only at home

OP, this was created by and for normalfags. The message here is that if you only use your language for talking with your other family members (highly unlikely if you're a weeb learning jap) then it's very likely that you're learning a bastardised version of the language. This message doesn't apply to us, sorry man.