learning a new language
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pandas21
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4 years, 6 months ago by pandas21
I so badly want to learn another language and I’ve tried to use online apps but I can’t remember how to say stuff and I don’t know if I’m even saying things right. I can’t remember anything I learned from things as recent as the previous day. I’ve tried Spanish French and Russian but I can’t seem to learn them. Does anyone have any tips to learn a language or any easy languages to learn? Also would anyone be willing to help me learn a language? Sorry if this is long.
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2006_Mandy
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4 years, 6 months ago by 2006_Mandy
I speak French a bit
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2006_Mandy
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4 years, 6 months ago by 2006_Mandy
It takes time
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Knots_EM
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4 years, 6 months ago by Knots_EM
I'm learning German using the app "Duolingo". It makes learning the language easy because of the way it is structured, so it's hard to forget things. I started at the beginning of lockdown and i feel I am really progressing. I have been doing French in school for about 5 years and I feel I know more German than I do french even though I have spent less time on German. So yeah I guess I recommend Duolingo
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pandas21
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4 years, 6 months ago by pandas21
@2006_Mandy and @Knots_EM thank you for your suggestions! I will try them! Thanks again!
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Cirivere
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4 years, 6 months ago by Cirivere
duolingo is pretty good yeah! I don't like how duolingo has started to push more competiveness to "motivate users" with their leaderboards though, but you can turn those off by turning off the leaderboard notificatons and turning your profile to private,,,, esentially disabling any friend options (yeah the staff really doesnt understand how to make funtions optional in an easy way). duolingo also has a sideapp called tinycards, which is an additional flashcards app to the duolingo app. duolingo has a ton of language courses, some of which are also available from a different base language than english. duolingos content is entirely free, but does have adds (not too annoying though), unless you pay.another app is memrise, it has official memrise courses, but also usermade courses so occasionally you'll find a course that is actually the vocab of an actual coursebook someone submitted. these usermade courses can be easily found on the website version of the app. (memrise actually used to be really cute with like a space theme but now its just yellow and boring design 😭), also memrise tends to be more like a simple flashcard type of app, but it also lets users add their own mnemonics. memrise has some funtions like speech practice and hearing native speakers talk if you subscribe. the app is still really useful without paying hellotalk is an app I havent used myself, but it allows you to chat with native speakers, and it apparently has an in build correction tool (I wonder if thats actually a good tool, or if its like google translate lvl) . tandem and hinative are also both apps where you chat with native speakers mindsnacks is an apple only app, but it gamifies language learning (it is however, not entirely free and has some vocab games you need to pay for to unlock them) busuu and babbel are similar to duolingo, but both have a paid option if you want more out of the app,,,,, babbel has more free content than busuu though. plus! babbel has speech recognition! (i mean.... duolingo has it too for some courses but yeah) I've only really used duolingo and memrise though since I didnt have enough time to try them all out |
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Cirivere
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4 years, 6 months ago by Cirivere
best is to try out duolingo and memrise both and see what course you like the most, or if you decide to invest in an actuall language book, check if someone added it to memrise. I do like the structure and vocab in duolingo courses a lot and it was the first app I tried so personally its my fave (despite the developers adding fancy and hip features like the leaderboard,,, which im still salty about)both apps also have online forums so if you're stuck, check those out! |
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DaniaAhmed
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4 years, 6 months ago by DaniaAhmed
I’d be happy to teach you Arabic, it’s a beautiful language 😊 Using the app “Duolingo” also helps
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Cirivere
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4 years, 6 months ago by Cirivere
one more tip! I find it difficult to remember words too when I first start, it helps to focus one one new language at a time till ive got a bit of a solid base (so not like, 3 languages at once when im new to all of them)
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pandas21
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4 years, 6 months ago by pandas21
@DaniaAhmed that would be awesome😊
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pandas21
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4 years, 6 months ago by pandas21
@Cirivere thanks for all of the tips! I’ll definitely try them!
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Cirivere
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4 years, 6 months ago by Cirivere
no problem! also online you might find somecommunities that learn languages? im not sure about specific forums or anything but I do know langblr exists (the language learnign tag of tumblr),, but iit might be fun to make language learning buddies
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pandas21
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4 years, 6 months ago by pandas21
@Civiere thanks again!
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yurchenko9
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4 years, 6 months ago by yurchenko9
I use a notebook and write out the words I'm learning in The language I'm learning and then in English so I can know what they mean. And when I feel like I will have a harder time remembering the sound of a word I kinda "spell" the sound our on top of the word on a notebook. Also writing it down will help you remember what you're learning and you can always go back and look at it when you forget something
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pandas21
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4 years, 6 months ago by pandas21
@yurchenko9 thank you!
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AG13
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4 years, 6 months ago by AG13
I’ve been using Duolingo to learn Italian, and it’s been going great! I would definitely recommend using Duolingo!
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pandas21
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4 years, 6 months ago by pandas21
@AG13 thanks for your help!
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arf820
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4 years, 6 months ago by arf820
i’m currently learning both italian and french on duolingo! 🙂
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