No.3
It's time for a LxL thread.
Say what language(s) do you speak natively and what language(s) are you trying to learn. Connect with someone (either in-thread of outside of it) and conversate, exchange tips, whatever you need.
OP: Native spanish, CAE certificate, looking to learn asian languages.
No.4
quite obviously native German speaker
Learning Portuguese right now, started 2 weeks ago. It's pretty fun
I had Spanish in school for 5 years but I was never interested in it, it was mandatory. Even though I didn't learn much and always sucked I think it did help me a bit with the beginning of Portuguese. They're pretty similar so it doesn't seem as new to me
Then again I feel like I confuse some stuff and also Spanish pronounciation is easier
No.5
Native in English
Completely fluent in Esperanto
Learning Spanish, I'm at some intermediate level–Por ejemplo puedo escribir algo asi sin consultar un diccionario pero creo que a menudo hago mal con la gramatica si hablo por suficiente tiempo
No.7
>>5>Completely fluent in EsperantoJust curious. Why would anyone learn Esperanto? I mean is not really used isn't?
No.8
>>7Well, I learned it when I was 15 because I was browsing the languages section in the library, and found an Esperanto lesson book, and was amused by the idea, and just by reading the book I was able to learn it sufficiently for communication within a couple weeks/months. Since I learned it so easily it was hard not to check out Esperanto speaking communities online eventually.
It's not used as a universal second language as its creator intended, but there are people who use it. For example the group for it on Facebook has almost 15,000 members and people post in it every day…And I made /esperanto/ here 7 months ago and it gets posts now and then that aren't just me or the few other regular users. Some people use it to travel (Some esperantists allow other esperantists to stay at their houses for cheap/free) but I've never done that…It's not "useful" but it is fun if you like that kind of thing.
No.10
>>8>learn it sufficiently for communication within a couple weeks/monthThat sounds pretty cool actually I wish other languages where like that.
However. Do you think your native language made it easy to learn Esperanto or it's just easy for anyone independently of his native language?
>It's not "useful" but it is fun if you like that kind of thing.I guess that makes sense.
I was interested in logban in the past. I liked the idea of a logically consistent language but in the end I decided against learning it in favour of natural languages.
No.11
>>4>They're pretty similar Yes, grammar is pretty much the same. I used to speak Portuguese. I pretty much forgot all about it years ago (stoped living in Brazil) but if I grab a book in portugues in an hour of reading it's like I'm reading it in my native language.
No.12
Obviously Spanish speaker.
I kind of know English but never studied it formally (I probably should someday) and I'm currently studying mandarin chinese.
No.13
>>12Estudias mandarin con un profesor, libro o algun curso de internet? Qué recomendarias para un autodidacta?
No.14
>>10>However. Do you think your native language made it easy to learn Esperanto or it's just easy for anyone independently of his native language?Actually, I think I learned it so fast because alot of the words are latin based, and I was familiar with Spanish already. For example guess the meanings of:
saluton, facila, bona, mondo, tempo…–there are germanic words too and some even from English, so that did add to my advantage, but I think knowing a latin based language already was the key to learning vocabulary so fast. Then again there are alot of important words that have no base in any natural language.
The grammar is more neutral than the vocabulary. I've had a Chinese guy tell me that the grammar was easy for him but the pronunciation and some of the vocab was difficult.
Most Esperantists today will agree that the language is fairly eurocentric, but will also generally say that it's still simpler and faster to learn than a natural language is no matter what your native language is.
No.15
>>11yeah, learning it made me realise how actually did not forget all of my Spanish.
nice get
No.18
>>13I'm selftaught I used the book "Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar" to learn basic grammar, it's a great book you can download it from
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=modern+mandarin+grammarIt's very good.
>Qué recomendarias para un autodidacta?Mmmhh, That's a good question.
1 - Memorizing one or two Hanzi a day make the difference. You'll be tempted to memorize a lot of hanzi very fast but that way you'll burn out. Keep it at two per day and don't miss one day.
2 - Use Anki or other Spaced Repetition System. But don't use it to learn the hanzi nor the words use it to keep fresh what you already learned in some other way.
3 - If you don't have a smartphone get one. There are apps that make studying so much easier, Anki is one but also Pleco, Pleco is the ultimate dictionary app for Chinese. You'll have to buy a couple of add-ons though. Abc dictionary, handwriting hanzi, the internal reader (pop up word definitions) and the text-to-speech add-on (good for learning the pronunciation). Pleco also has a Spaced Rep System but it's too fucking complex.
4 - Sooner or later you'll have to start reading, do it as soon as possible. Even one sentence per day (pleco at hand) at the beginning is enough. From the sentence you get the words you don't know and add them to anki and annotate the grammatical structure for later study if you haven't seen it before.
5 - Don't miss a day.
No.46
im from colombia so you should know how i roll.
Currently im focusing in learning russian, but i think im not doing fairly well. I spend some days of the week learning via memrise, i have some digital textbooks of intermediate and begginers russian but dont ocupy them that often, i'm relying right now on just memrise.
But like i've said i'm going rather slowly.
I have as well studied other languages but not in depth so technically i currently just know english and spanish.
No.94
Native Polish.
Pretty fluent in English.
Shit at German.
I'm taking both English and German courses at my Uni currently and honestly, I'm fucking it up pretty badly.
Guess I have a pretty vast English vocabulary, more than enough for communication, but the grammar part is where the ride begins. Barely learned english grammar at all, always relied on intuition, as in "it just feels right" instead of "the rules say this and that" Lots to make up, but I may even manage, given that I get over my depression and stop being a lazy fuck.
German is much worse, I honestly haven't studied shit during high school, and now it backfires. I'm probably the worst student at the entire Uni when it comes to German. I know just a handful of words, often making mistakes when making them into sentences, and as for grammar… you can guess.
Open to any propositions, though I highly doubt anyone in here would wish to learn the language of us potatonigs.
Could use help with German definitely.
Apart from that, I'm open to casual conversations should you ever have such wish, because fuck my life.
No.103
Native Spanish speaker, learned English from living in Burgerland most of my life. Know a tiny bit of French from the classes I took in high school. Looking to learn Japanese while in university.
No.110
Native English speaker, been learning Russian very casually from the New Penguin Russian Course for about a month.
No.112
>>94>Barely learned english grammar at all, always relied on intuition, as in "it just feels right" instead of "the rules say this and that"Das ist doch kein Problem, wenn es funktioniert, oder? Und dein Englisch scheint gut zu sein, auch wenn du dich eher auf Intuition verlässt, statt auf Regeln
No.113
>>94>>112und mal nebenbei, der Typ hat einen echt kleinen Kopf
No.114
>>112>>113Ich brauche die Regeln für die Klassenarbeit und so weiter, Intuition ist zu wenig. Aber wie ich gesagt habe, Englisch Grammatik kann man lernen. Deutsch ist mein Problem jetzt. Ich weiss zu wenig Wörter und habe probleme mit Grammatik und Konversation…
Ich weiß nicht.
No.120
>>114dein Deutsch scheint aber ziemlich gut, ihr habt wohl ein recht hohes Niveau an deiner Uni (vor allem wenn du sagst, dass du der Schlechteste bist)
No.121
>>3English
I took german in high school, but never done much else.
No.128
I speak Portuguese and English fluently, and am learning French/Swedish/Japanese (although the last two I'm still really bad at)
No.137
Native in both English and German, currently learning Japanese and Danish derp around on duolingo danish.
No.159
Native Romanian speaker, obviously.
I also speak English well, and I am a beginner at Esperanto.
I also want to learn Latin and Ancient Greek.
No.215
Native speaker of Chinese (Taiwan), seeking French and Korean. I'm a heritage speaker of Korean, but it's been 10 years since I left Korea, so quite a large part of it is gone now. I prefer text-based exchanges over Skype, but we can work something out.
No.224
Native English speaker, looking to learn Russian
I can read Cyrillic and know numbers/basic words.
No.262
>>215Intéressant, maintenant je prends le français et le coréen aussi. A quel niveau es-tu en eux? Quant au coréen, je n'ai que pris un semestre, et j'ai pris quatre semestres de français.
No.265
>>3tfw everyone hates the guy learning french because every hipster fag has tried to learn it at one point and gave up.
I am a hipster faggot but Im not like the rest… I will never give up
No.270
Speak English Natively, intermediate in Spanish seeking either Icelandic or Danish
No.279
>>265>but Im not like the restthat's exactly what a hipster faggot would say :^)
No.285
>>265Stay strong dude
French is cool
>>279>I am a hipster faggotDamn, that's also exactly what a hipster faggot would say
No.292
I speak English natively but with an Australian accent (hey at least it's not Scottish).
I'm learning Italian to be able to talk to my family.
No.293
Native: Spanish (Venezuela, Latin America)
Mastered: English (USA)
Trying to learn: Japanese,Sweden and perhaps French
No.306
Native Swedish, fluent English, and currently learning Japanese.
After Japanese I might pick up Korean.
No.323
Of course English is my main language. My goal is I would like to learn Spanish (Mexico/S.American) better and become more fluent in the language. Maybe afterwards I will try to learn Mandarin.
No.329
I come from the holy land.
Hebrew is my native language, although I'm fluent in English, can understand Russian pretty well, and am currently learning Japanese.
No.334
No.335
Native: English
Learning: Spanish
I've taken 3 years and I'm still by no means fluent. I know conjugations and some basic rules, I just need to practice them
No.351
English native, studying French currently, and if I get my first choice University, will be adding Russian to that
Kinda wanna pick up Esperanto soon, and then Arabic or Mandarin.
I like languages
No.364
I don't understand the appeal of Esperanto. I mean hardly anyone speaks it and it failed being a "universal" language. Not trying start a war or anything just curious.
No.365
Native in Polish
Completely fluent in English
Trying to learn Russian
No.378
>>364not that guy but it's not just about the universal langage concept, there's also Pasporta Servo which sounds pretty good, also it apparently helps you to learn another language if you only know 1 (that's why I'm learning it)
No.382
>>365Eh, też chciałem się kiedyś uczyć Ruskiego, Niemcy to bardzo nieśmieszni ludzie, ale wyszło jak wyszło. W przyszłości przerzucę się z niemieckiego na jakieś skandynawskie.
A tak swoją drogą, jak ci się wiedzie w UK, anonie?
No.383
Fluent in Norwegian (native) and English, learning nynorsk (second written form om Norwegian), French (total beginner) and Esperanto (intermediate)
No.385
>>383Nynorsk is pretty interesting. So is it used throughout the country .
No.392
>>285dude get the fuck out with your poorly structed and inefficent garbage
No.444
>>94I'm still here.
I'm still utterly failing it.
If there's any germbro interested in Skype convos, it's
k1shii you can leave me a message… Would appreciate it.
No.460
Native in English, tried learning Spanish in High School, but I couldn't stay interested in it. Tried self teaching Esperanto in High School, which didn't go well either (but I still remember a few things like "Saluton" and what not).
Decided to take a chance and self teach Japanese because why not (and I love vidya). I expected to give up in around a week, but I learned it isn't as hard as it seems, and have been slowly learning for about half a year now. Much to people's surprise, I don't really give a shit about anime.
No.1108
Native in English, started learning Russian a few months ago. I'm still in high school and my HSC is going down the shitter because of the amount of time I'm dedicating to procrastination and trying to learn Russian (badly).
Luckily I'm in a program which allows me to study linguistics at university regardless of my final mark, and my first year is free. Praise the Australian Welfare special snowflake state.
No.1110
Im a native Spanish speaker. Started learning English in Elementary. And finally started learning basic Russian in my first year of university (last year). Im located in south California
No.1111
Native in Slovene. English is mandatory in schools here (10 years), I also took German in gymnasium. The rest is mostly little bits of other languages; learning Italian and French by going on vacation there, similar with Croatian (except it's close enough to Slovene I just have to learn the differences), I studied a bit of Latin and Icelandic (because I didn't bother with proper Old Norse). I need to learn some proper Russian or Polish, I can understand them pretty well but can't speak at all. Maybe learn some proper Esperanto just because. Oh, and I took a beginner's course of Japanese once.
No.1114
Native langueage is english of course. I've been learning latin espanol for the past 3 months occasionaly going to local mexican restaurants and practicing. Looking for any latin american speaker on Tox or xmpp(preferred) who is willing to help me out.
No.1115
>>1114
blacklion@xmpp.jp-preferred
lionx@toxme.se
Leave a message if you can help
No.1189
Native language is spanish (puerto rico)
Grew up on burger tv and attending bilingual schools, so im perfectly fluent in english.
Im learning catalan, as i recently found out im descended from catalans. That and the language sounds cool to me. Its close enough to spanish that i can understand the written language pretty well eve though im only a week into my learning but the pronounciation still bugs me. Lately all ive been doing is listening to music in catalan and translating words with google translate so i can get a feel for the language before i start actually studying it.
I eventually wanna try esperanto and german, but i thought id start with one closer to my native tongue.
No.1205
My native language is Finnish. I wish to learn Turkish, Turkmen, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek, Saha, Tuvan, Udmurt, Mongol & Altai.
No.1208
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Native Finngolian speaker obviously. (Not) fluent in English.
Can speak Swedish somewhat okay, same for German. Need to brush up on latter. Still studying both and also independently learning Russian which I refuse to give up. I'll grind the basics till I die if I have to.
chk@cock.li
No.1209
>>1205
Aren't most of those mutually intelligible?
No.1213
No.1215
Arabian from the Arabic Peninsula.
Mother language = Arabic
Secondary languages:
English (mastered)
Japanese (medium. I know the 1006 elementary school kanji)
At first I was content with having these 2 other languages and playing vidya, but then I got addicted to syntax.
And so, in order to be a fully fledged syntax and language teacher I have embarked on a journey to learn German, French, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, and Hebrew.
Will begin learning German as soon as I have accumulated as much terminology about syntax and morphology as possible. They ease the learning for me a lot.
No.1223
>>1205
I don't think this post was me. It could be, but… I'm 99% sure it wasn't because fucking Udmurt? I want to learn Turkish, Turkmen, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tuvan, Mongolian, Azeri, Kalmyk, Lezgi, Khakas, Tatar, etc. and Altai, Saha, etc. are interesting but not right now into them, but Udmurt? Fucking Udmurt? No, I can't believe that was me that posted that. If it was… I'm so fucking confused. But it couldn't have been. Anyway…
>>1208
>not wanting to learn Mongolian and/or Turkic languages
PERKELEEN IDIOOTTI SÄ HÄPÄSET KOKO SUKUS JA ISÄNMAAS, YLPEÄT MUINAISET SUOMEN KIELEN KEHITYSTÄ EDELTÄVÄT MONGOLIPOJAT MATKUSTAA VITUNMOISELLA AIKAKONEELLA NYKYAIKAAN JA PANEE JA RAISKAA SAAMELAISTYTTÖJÄ PERSEESEEN JA NE LUULEE SUA YHEKS JA PANEE SUN PERSETTÄ KUNNES SÄ PASKOT VERTA.
TŠINGIS KAAN RUNKKAA HAUDASSAAN UNOHTAAKSEEN HÄPEÄNSÄ
>>1209
Not much. Mongolian and Tuvan have at least some common vocabulary, like "deer" means "heaven" in Tuvan and "high" in Mongolian, and Bashkir has some stuff in common with both, along with an ebin alphabet that includes the letters ҡ and ҙ. Turkish, Azeri, Uzbek, Turkmen, Kazakh and Kyrgyz form a kind of a somewhat clearer continuum than other Turkic languages.
No.1226
>>1223
Entä jos halajankin aikamatkustajamongolipoikien lämmintä kosketusta?