I am currently learning Russian and German on Duolingo

  • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 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.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

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

      • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        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.

    • الأرض ستبقى عربية@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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        2 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.

  • Arlaerion@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • الأرض ستبقى عربية@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • Arlaerion@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        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 🙂

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    I’m mostly learning Arabic and Danish. With Arabic I’m learning Standard Arabic (FusHa) and Levantine dialect. I’m past beginners level but not further than that. My FusHa is better but hoping to learn more Levantine, since that’s what people actually speak. I’m almost fluent in Danish, I just need to focus more on listening skills and pronunciation. But I’m also doing one Russian lesson per day on Duolingo. I want to study Russian more in depth in the future, and want to pick up Mandarin and Hindi again.

    I had German in school, and besides occasional lessons to brush up my knowledge I’m not doing anything with it.

    EDIT: Forgot that I want to pick up Portuguese as well, but I’m already pretty okay at it