I am currently learning Russian and German on Duolingo
Flemish
Is it that different from Dutch? Personally can’t quite differentiate, sounds more like an accent, and at best a dialect.
Yeah it’s not a real language lol. More of a dialect. I just find it funny to be able to switch between sounding Dutch and sounding Flemish.
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Idk, Tagalog…?
中文
I mainly study French, I’ve just cleared the CEFR A2 ☺️
I study a lot of other languages more casually, mostly Mandarin but also Russian, German, Arabic, and Spanish
中文
Greek, but I haven’t been focused or committed for the past 9 months.
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Chinese from HelloChinese app is my main one that I consider important, that I want to eventually reach fluency on. But I am also at a point with learning through the app alone where I’m past the “leaps and bounds” phase, I’ve completed the course both with Pinyin visible and with only 汉字, and so a lot of it is just steadily continuing to learn through the stories and “immersive lessons”, and trying to eke out gains in comprehension and memorization and such.
So in order to handle that freshness wearing off, I also mix in learning other languages here and there. The main source of that has been Japanese and Korean through YuSpeak. I also spent some time learning the Cyrillic alphabet; I recommend the app “3 hour Cyrillic by ‘Russian Made Easy’” for this, it’s both free and it puts the letters in context of words they’d be used in. Then I’ve made some effort to learn the Arabic alphabet too, but haven’t really found an app that clicks well for doing so.
I wanted to get back into French, cause that was my original main attempt at learning a second language before I got into Chinese, but again, haven’t found an app that clicks well for it. I originally was learning French through Duolingo but quit it a while back when they pushed the “health system” that penalizes mistakes. Then I tried to get into it through Busuu, both in the past and more recently, but their course design is annoyingly inconsistent at this point, in both content and the length of a lesson.
Also the Cyrillic alphabet was one of the first things I learned when I decided to start learning Russian
Right on!
汉字
I can’t read that, could you please translate?
Sorry, that was me being a bit cute and showoffy with referencing it that way. 😅 汉字 translates to “Chinese character”, so I was using the Chinese for it to say I went through the course with Pinyin visible (the Romanization system for Chinese) and with only Chinese characters (Pinyin hidden).
I’m mostly learning Arabic and Danish. With Arabic I’m learning Standard Arabic (FusHa) and Levantine dialect. I’m past beginners level but not further than that. My FusHa is better but hoping to learn more Levantine, since that’s what people actually speak. I’m almost fluent in Danish, I just need to focus more on listening skills and pronunciation. But I’m also doing one Russian lesson per day on Duolingo. I want to study Russian more in depth in the future, and want to pick up Mandarin and Hindi again.
I had German in school, and besides occasional lessons to brush up my knowledge I’m not doing anything with it.
EDIT: Forgot that I want to pick up Portuguese as well, but I’m already pretty okay at it
I’m learning Hebrew
Other than the writing system and some loanwords, it is very similar to Punic which survived in North Africa until the 7th or 8th centuries. I have an Ugaritic dictionary which I wanted to memorize, also similar to Canaanite Languages at least in vocabulary, I know the grammar and verb morphology differs.
I’m trying to learn arabic. But by now i only got the letters/alphabet. and some words.
I started in Duolingo but aside from the lessons for the letters it is pretty unhelpful. Language Transfer ist great, although its focus in son speaking. For reading and writing i’m continuing with Arabic Unlocked.
As a native I will probably be of no use on how to learn it as a foreigner, but from my experience learning languages music and TV help a lot and I wouldn’t mind recommending songs and shows for you.
Thank you! When i get better shows and music will be great.
I’m a teacher, I got some native kids in my classes, or at least their parents are natives, from Iraq and Syria. The kids are very proud of me for trying to learn their language and that is great motivation 🙂
Spanish. But it’s the fun part now as I can just read/watch/listen. I miss the odd word and I have to pick my materials carefully but otherwise I can just sit back and enjoy. It doesn’t feel so much like studying/learning anymore. Although I do need to brush up on my grammar, especially tenses, and practise speaking. Unfortunately, I’m not too near any Spanish-speaking places to get that practice in.
Trying to learn Indonesian Bahasa but it’s not going well. I’m thankful the language uses Latin characters though. Terima kasih.
I kinda want to learn Dutch because it sounds funny
Why Indonesian, anyway?
indonesia is a huge country with 280m population and developing rapidly, it’s a great language to learn.
Hmm, maybe after Tagalog… this language should be next. From what I’ve heard, no conjugation problem, just foreign vocab input, mainly as a problem…
That being said, your reason reminds me of this ever so inspiring quote.
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
It sounds pretty to me and a friend of mine is from Jakarta. I also like books and there’s a bunch of Indonesian lit I’d like to get into.
Chinese on Duolingo. Moving there in a little over a month so trying to get a little head start.