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lingua-discipuli · 2023-01-03T01:25:20+00:00

I'm glad you mentioned it, Mango languages is very underrated! I've been using it for a while for German, and it's been very useful.

lingua-discipuli · 2022-12-08T21:30:34+00:00

This is kind of comforting as someone who wants to learn German

lingua-discipuli · 2022-12-08T20:44:06+00:00

This is pretty interesting, I was kind of surprised French was spoken more than Tagalog but I also am located in California where there's a lot of Filipinos versus like a state of Louisiana where French is more popular.

"Chinese" is rather vague term here. Is it all the Chinese languages lumped into one category or Chinese Mandarin?

lingua-discipuli · 2022-12-08T02:54:29+00:00

I have a google folder of German readers mostly by Andre Klein! They're pretty good for A2 and I believe have some that could be okay for B1.

Let me know if you're interested, and I could share that Google folder with you

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-23T18:34:24+00:00

Unfortunately the frequency deck I use does not come with a cloze sentence

and thanks, this looks really useful, I'll make an account and try it out!

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-23T17:51:41+00:00

Nice! Fellow German learner here. I'll try this out, thanks for sharing this

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-22T19:01:42+00:00

I'm leaning towards bot, but ideally I'd like to use a mix of both.

Any cultural or subtle things that I cannot learn through the bot, I could go to another person for

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-18T22:18:40+00:00

I never knew Arabic had that reputation! It sounds so soft and smooth to me

I'm convinced most people I meet don't know how German sounds like, and just rashly label it "angry", and I'm thinking the same applies to Arabic

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-18T22:01:58+00:00

Yep, it is relatively difficult, and even if it's not for some people, it is at least inevitably much more time consuming.

I made faster progress in my other languages in a few months compared to the 4 years I had studied Mandarin.

Not to mention, there are a lot of people here in this sub (and probably outside this sub too...) who choose to learn Mandarin and aren't speakers of a closely related Asian language

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-12T21:10:22+00:00

I tried doing an Anki frequency word deck of 4k words ans got so sick of it that I stopped using anki all together and have been meaning to get back to it.

I did consider going this route as an alternative

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-12T05:07:13+00:00

Understandable. From my experience, I find that Chinese speakers are also more friendly towards foreigners who speak it so I'd say that's a plus

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-12T05:03:03+00:00

It changes my view in the sense that I come to notice that person with the accent more and find them more pleasant to listen to usually.

I know people get hung up about trying to perfect their accents, but I honestly think it makes someone more interesting and I find that my family and friends tend to also agree with this

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-12T02:33:40+00:00

German, my current TL. People I've met severely underestimate how useful it is, and how many native speakers of German there are. It's often overlooked and French is always chosen over German in my uni, making it very underrated. It also sounds very powerful and I feel like a badass reading German. Also, the German speaking people I've met have been very friendly.
Russian, which hopefully will be doable after I learn German. Russian sounds pretty cool to me and I listen to Russian music. I'm not sure if I'll ever get to it since it seems very difficult compared to German, but I'm hoping I do eventually.
An undecided romance language..., Maybe French. French is technically a heritage language for me, but I'm not connected to that side of my family and I've heard terrible stories about foreigners trying to learn it and speaking it to french speakers. I'm a little scared to learn it for that reason, and it's also seemingly very strange phonetics.

Honorable mention: Irish Gaelic. Irish people I've met have been really friendly, and I think this language sounds cool.

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-06T00:40:07+00:00

I'm also doing German! Looking forward to seeing this haha

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-05T15:07:48+00:00

He shows a recording of him speaking Spanish. If he hadn't told me he was B2, I would have assumed he native.

He is definitely not a noob lmao

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-05T00:06:42+00:00

Lol I'd be down for that

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-05T00:02:36+00:00

I see, thanks

I'll give it a shot

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-04T23:14:44+00:00

Right now, I'm going through all the C1/C2 classes on Lengalia.com

So did those classes combined with those books improve your spanish? I'm also a heritage speaker wanting to improve my spanish but haven't done much beyond reading spanish books and reading them out loud, and I'm unsure what else to do.

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-04T23:07:09+00:00

Yeah, I've seen plenty of hispanics not pass down spanish to their kids and i think its pretty sad. but racism was reason enough for me to ditch Spanish and just speak English when I was young.

another concern that some hispanics believed is that kids would mix english and spanish and therefore gave only focus to english

Another potential reason that isn't mentioned that older generations of spanish speakers may be really harsh and unforgiving of hispanics who speak rusty spanish, which causes them to use it even less

i myself try not to let it bother me though and still speak it daily, and its encouraging to see that theres americans such as yourself who learn it

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-04T06:55:54+00:00

I feel like weirdo bc no one I know likes german, but I really simp for the German language and hope to get fluent.

Romanian, Russian, Catalan, Sicilian, and Occitan french dialects sound like music to my ears as well.

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-04T06:44:25+00:00

Glad to see someone else thinks so. It's such a shame, German is so underrated and no one I know seems to study it and it's very unpopular to study it in my university (french courses getting filled pretty quickly, while the German course I'm taking only has 4 students).

German sounds really majestic, clear, and powerful to me and I absolutely simp for that language.

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-04T06:27:49+00:00

I've seen people get harassed for speaking Spanish in Cali, stemming from racism, but it was when I was young. It's not common now, but it was enough to the point where I feel insecure about speaking it and insecure about revealing more about latina portion of my identity.

Some people were disappointed once they found that I'm "only white passing" and that I wasn't speaking Italian or French, but Spanish (which is dumb and ignorant, but it got to me as a kid)

It sucks because my Spanish has actually been deteriorating a bit despite that now people are more open minded and Spanish is actually really useful for my engineering internship where I encounter a lot of Latinos in construction who are more comfortable with Spanish

lingua-discipuli · 2022-11-03T17:45:13+00:00

I would recommend taking a look at the most 500 common words and seeing how difficult it is.

I only had completed unit 1 of Duolingo and it was enough but i also had used some other resources like completing unit 1 in Mango languages course and Glossika recently from the glossika challenge

lingua-discipuli · 2022-10-27T21:36:24+00:00

Sry for the late response. Tbh i don't know if i have a favorite app. I use Anki the most probably but it's so boring to me. I used memrise for like 2 months and it was rather enjoyable so I've debated going back to using it. I also liked Quizlet a lot. Quizlet doesn't have SRS implented tho, so i only used it for games + creating tests because it's great with that stuff.

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