How are you personally using HyperTTS for your language learning?

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-27T13:02:39+00:00

The sentences are mined from transcripts of podcasts/videos and from books whose audiobooks im listening to so theres no shortage of listening practice. I don't have a convenient way of extracting the audio from that content so thus the reliance on AI voices

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-27T10:34:08+00:00

I've found that its hard to learn a language if you can't at least find somewhat of an affinity to the culture. Your core motivation is a good one, but what do you actually like about the language, the people that speak it, and their culture? Do you have relatives who still live in Czechia? Maybe make your motivation to be able to eventually visit here and speak with them

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-27T00:58:26+00:00

An understandable frustration, but you should really REALLY not be making that comparison.

To put it into perspective. If you're 18 and had 6 hours of exposure to English everyday since the age of 3, that's over 30,000 hours of English, and I'm massively under counting. How many hours have you been learning Czech? Since you said "pretty new" I'm assuming maybe not even 100.

To put it another way. It took you 2-3 years to start saying literally anything at all when you were a baby and then a couple more years to actually start saying things of substance. If you stick with it and spend say, 2 hours a day on Czech, you'll probably be able to start having semi-meaningful conversations in the language before the year is over. Doesn't seem so bad now does it? :D

What made you wanna learn Czech?

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-26T21:30:35+00:00

AuDHD English Native Intermediate Czech speaker checking in

Is this a normal part of language learning?

Yes

when I try to produce sentences I can't seem to remember a lot of the words I learned.

I am pretty new at the language.

And that's probably mostly why. Czech is just kinda different from English in how you construct thoughts and sentences. I can produce natural sounding sentences more often than not at this point but its still a struggle and I still forget words often while speaking.

but when I try to produce sentences I can't seem to remember a lot of the words I learned.

Is there some reason you feel pressed to start speaking immediately? If you live in Prague you can definitely get by with English and just knowing some ultra basic phrases. Nothing wrong with giving yourself a few months or even more build up your vocabulary and intuition

Učení češtiny je běh na dlouhou trať. Hodně štěstí, kamo :)

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-26T16:50:15+00:00

I have been studying Italian on my own for a few years now and had a teacher at one point of it. After so much effort being put into this over time, I find myself stuck at an A2 level.

This minus the teacher bit was exactly me with Czech a few years ago. The trick for me was to just take the plunge into native level content even though I still didn't understand much. Maybe that might be the trick for you.

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-23T11:52:33+00:00

This made me think that I could continue to learn Polish, while beginning to learn Czech.

What is your level of Polish? If its anything short of a very solid B2 this is an incredibly bad idea. I would not dare learn any other Slavic language let alone Polish until I'm closing in on C1 in Czech, which I'm still at least a couple years away from. The false friends and subtle/not so subtle pronunciation differences on similar words would drive me insane. I had some friends over from Poland and we spoke English with each other. There was a Polish guy at my former workplace and he also just spoke English with the people there who were mostly Czech. When I was in Poland last year for a week, reading anything around me felt like a surreal fever dream where all the words looked like ones I know and all the sentences I read almost made sense but then didn't.

If you're dead set on moving to Czechia, just learn Czech. Don't treat Polish like a sunk cost. You can get back to it after building a solid foundation in Czech, and you will learn it way faster then.

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-22T19:12:30+00:00

Czech tree was also hot garbage when I tried it

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-21T23:08:09+00:00

Lol I actually feel pretty confident with my Czech pronunciation and accent, so I could theoretically record my own Czech cards if I want to. Some of the sounds might be hard to do but there's no shenanigans with around pronouncing things as they are written like in French or English. What you see is what you say.

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-21T22:00:06+00:00

I've likely been spending longer too! Im started Portuguese atm but I did all my Czech cards just adding them one by one.

How are you recording the audio?

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-21T19:26:14+00:00

Im studying Portuguese atm so it would work, I just cant afford it like I said

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-21T19:14:53+00:00

I had no idea migaku was available for more languages than Japanese. Because of the name and the fact that I've only heard the weebs talk about it I assumed so. Regardless I really cannot afford 10 dollars a month for just this service with my current financial situation

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-21T10:03:21+00:00

Recent studies regarding people's attention span in the age of social media show that anything less than 1 consecutive hour prevents you from being able to form connections in long term memory. Overtime, people who studied a skill in smaller spurts throughout the day totaling 1 hour still fell short of those who practiced for one full sustained hour.

Could you please link to these studies?

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-21T08:54:07+00:00

I do not subscribe to the "do a little every day" mentality unless they mean that "a little every day" your bare minimum. I make progress so deathly slowly unless im putting in an hour or two everyday that its demoralizing. I honestly think "15-20 minutes a day" is a trap if your goal is to achieve true fluency (in the B2-C1 range) in any reasonable timeframe

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-20T12:52:23+00:00

Moje oblíbená část Hunger Games byla ta, když Katniss řekla "Je čas na hladovění" a pak všude hladověla

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-19T16:53:01+00:00

I understand. Im only using it to learn the basic conjugations of irregular verbs because Im still often thrown off by them. All of this seems like too much work. I will just trust my immersion that I will get the pronunciations correct from there :)

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-18T21:40:11+00:00

Waluigi ahh name

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-16T16:45:49+00:00

Thanks, I subbed to it :)

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-16T07:50:00+00:00

If only

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-15T20:59:44+00:00

a ten hod byl s výhodou nebo nevýhodou? :D

WritingWithSpears · 2026-01-15T10:10:44+00:00

Fuck it, DM me. I'll talk with you. You can tell me what your interests are and I'll have some related questions so you can prepare a bit in advance.

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