I am currently learning Russian and German on Duolingo

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      Nice! How/where do you get the best practice there?

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        Currently I’m at the trying to communicate my intentions stage, so a lot of it is simply talking to shopkeepers and that kind of thing. However I do get to have a lot of fun banter at restaurants as people love too strike up a conversation in English, to which I respond in Chinese, which always goes down well. I’ve been bought a lot of beers already and given a lot of cigarettes (Chinese cigarettes are great).

        I’ve just had a conversation with a mother and daughter on the bus which was really cute. The little girl’s English was really good.

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    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.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    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.

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        いまゆうは、アニメとまんほんやくしたいのです。いまは、ノルウェーには、アニメとまんの99%はえいやくだけから、えいはなせないひとはこれをたのしめなくて、アニメヲタクのみんはこれでノルウェーべんきょうできません。このシチュエーションはちょっとざんねんおもうからほんやくしゃになりたいです。

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      没有区别啊!你是想说“韩”语吗?

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        mi toki insa e ni: lon ni la mi mute li jo e kulupu pi sitelen musi. mi o pali e sitelen musi tawa kulupu pali wan kepeken toki pona.

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      How have you found learning Mandarin in comparison with Spanish? Interested to hear how they compare to Toki Pona, too!

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        I’m much further along in Spanish, so it’s hard to say if mandarin would be more or less difficult at the beginning. Mandarin is much more logical than the romance languages tho.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    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

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    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.

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      现在你用什么材料学习?

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        我有大学时的旧教科书 (汉语与文化读本 and Tuttle books),还收看当地的中文新闻广播。

        您有什么建议吗?

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          没有什么建议。我大部分只用句子Anki卡。比如Spoonfed Chinese等。

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    Russian on Babble. I tried Doulingo for Russia and Mandarin in the past and I really struggled to stick with it.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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 🙂

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      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.