I am currently learning Russian and German on Duolingo

  • featured [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    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

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m focusing on Japanese, but recent shake-ups in my life have knocked me out of my habits.

    I should probably be working more actively to cultivate my Russian, I feel it’s getting rusty.

      • Erika4sis [she/xem]@lemmygrad.ml日本語
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        4 months ago

        今いまの理り由ゆうは、アニメと漫まん画がを翻ほん訳やくしたいのです。今いまは、ノルウェーには、アニメと漫まん画がの９９％は英えい訳やくだけから、英えい語ご話はなせない人ひとはこれを楽たのしめなくて、アニメヲタクの移い民みんはこれでノルウェー語ごを勉べん強きょうできません。このシチュエーションはちょっと残ざん念ねんと思おもうから翻ほん訳やく者しゃになりたいです。

  • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    I speak a few languages, it’s like the one thing I seem to have a knack for.

    I have been working on my Mandarin again, I studied it some in university but have not used it actively for years. There’s potential I could transfer to my company’s head asian office, which is based in China. My position wouldn’t require it, but living there I would want to improve my Chinese level. I should probably learn Cantonese too on that note.

    It’s a pretty fun language to study, because after you are comfortable with the pronunciations it is all just vocab and idioms. The grammatical structure is like my favourite thing.

      • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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        4 months ago

        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.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    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.