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162 No. 162 Stickied hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
Pre-emptive tl;dr: ITT links

I would like to suggest a sticky in which we can post links to online learning sites and to downloads for audio learning programs, Rosetta Stone language packs and the like. I feel this would be a great boost the board.
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3667
I've searched for this thing everywhere I know
The ebook is called "Speak Japanese Fast" by David McGimpsey

I'm just looking for a list of words with mnemonics and that ebook seems to have about 1000 or so in it's 300 pages.

If any of you have it, could you upload it and post the link please?


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3752 No. 3752 hide watch quickreply   [Reply]
Sup /speak/

Can You please help to translate?

I think it's slovak language.

Thank You in advance.

~Anon
>> No. 3769
It's actually Slovenian.

Something about a carrier pigeon show.
>> No. 3786
I have no idea what language that is, but it's something about a carrier pigeon show in Sosnowiec-Polijska. The organizators ask the entrants to enter their pigeons between 29'th and 31'th of January 2010. 27 birds will start in category A, 27 in B, 27 in C, 27 in D, and three in F, G, H. No idea what the second part says.


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3328 No. 3328 hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply]
Not sure if this has been posted before or not, but I noticed this board and thought you all might be interested in this website:

http://lang-8.com

You sign up, tell the site what your fluent languages are and the languages that you want to learn.

Then, you write things in the language that you're trying to learn and other people who are fluent in that language will read your post and correct your grammar and words.

I've been using it to learn Japanese and it's pretty awesome so far. I think it's hosted in Japan so there are lots of people learning Japanese, English, Korean, etc, but other languages are represented also.
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>> No. 3782
>>3364

haha bro never go to Japan. Last year I lived there and as soon as you say anything in Japanese they go absolutely mental, just stopping short of clapping their hands and throwing money at you.

Nevertheless this site it pretty useful thanks OP.
>> No. 3784
>>3782

You don't like to be applauded?
>> No. 3785
>>3784
its gets little irritating, because it feels like they think you are retarded so the simplest phrase is met with astonishment.


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3499 No. 3499 hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply]
SUPER LANGUAGE CENSUS 2009 FUCK YEAH

The easiest language to learn (from an English/Indo-European speaker's point of view)?

The hardest (" ") language to learn?

The most beautiful language?

The ugliest language?

The best language to speak philosophy in?

The best language to sing in?

The best alphabet, syllabary, etc..?
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>> No. 3686
>>3664
You embarrass me.
>> No. 3687
>>3664

Spanish gender. Its not that hard.
>> No. 3783
SUPER LANGUAGE CENSUS 2009 FUCK YEAH

The easiest language to learn (from an English/Indo-European speaker's point of view)?
French

The hardest (" ") language to learn?
Chinese/Arabic

The most beautiful language?
Arabic

The ugliest language?
Hindi

The best language to speak philosophy in?
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3781 No. 3781 hide watch quickreply   [Reply]
Ёба!


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3750 No. 3750 hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply]
sup /speak/

I apologize for using this place as my own personal google language, but when I get an important chunk of info I want to translated correctly...

"no te quiero lastimarte o hacer sentir mal por mis problemas y a todo eso le agregas que soy muy muy celosa aunque quiera ignorar lo que pase a mi alrededor no puedo. que me quieres decir con eso que hay otra mujer en otro lado si es asi yo lo quero saber por favor.

I mean, I get most of it.. but I just want to make sure.

thanks folks
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>> No. 3774
>>3768
>vos

lolololololololol

On a serious note, is she going to understand that? She used 'tu' in her message. I'm not a native speaker so I don't know exactly how much comprehension there is between the different dialects.

Also,
>If you get tired of her just spam her "puta puta puta puta!" and she'll go away.

This.
>> No. 3775
>>3768

can't get tired of her, like making love with her too much.
>> No. 3780
OP, in relation to the "vos" vs "tu",,,,, where is she from?


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3766 No. 3766 hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply]
ITT: Goals and foreign language learning

I often avoid discussing foreign languages with people because of my different approach.
I personally am most interested in being able to read and perhaps write in many languages.
Granted, it is maybe also because I'm an antisocial neckbeard, but I digress.

Many people berate me for being most interested in grammar first.
I think it will make life much easier.
Say you are newly studying German. If you understand German grammar and are faced with a sentence like the following:
>Das Problem mit meiner Mutter ist, dass sie mich wie einen Teenager behandelt.
One can easily deduce what this means if one only knows which part of speak each word is, since the words should be somewhat familiar.
If one does not know what part of speech they are, though, translating it could be a daunting ask.

These are, however, just my thoughts.

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>> No. 3777
>>3773
>>3776
Right now he's working on German and Mandarin Chinese. I'm in his German class. He kicks ass. I'll mention the interpreter thing to him, don't think he's interested in being a diplomat.
>> No. 3778
>>3777

I understand. I just thought I'd mention it because he shouldn't feel he is limited to jobs soley devoted to languages, he can take his skills to a different field to be successful.
>> No. 3779
Currently the only language I'm studying is Spanish. My goal is to be able to "think faster" and not "uhhhhhh" before I can respond to someone.

Eventually, I want to learn classical arabic, to read the Qu'ran, speaking is not necessarily important and everyone I ask has something different to say on whether Qu'ranic Arabic is appropriate to use in daily conversation. And, to speak, reading is not really important though will come easier because that's how I work, Scots Gaelic, just to kind of return to my roots.


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3650 No. 3650 hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply]
preez to be transrating
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>> No. 3734
>>3732

Considering that kanji were brought to Japan directly from China originally, yeah... what a coincidence...
>> No. 3746
I think a typical 1870 Chinese immigrant would write in Cantonese. Or rather Classical Chinese, as Vernacular Chinese is commie invention.
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>>3746
>Vernacular Chinese is commie invention.

That is quite an oversimplification of a very diverse literary movement you are making there. I hope you are trolling.


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3696 No. 3696 hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply]
I have been watching some videos from this guy on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/laoshu505000

In them he suggests that a great way to learn languages is through internet chatrooms.

The only decent chat room I have found so far is: http://chat.icq.com/icqchat/chatroom.php?c_id=57

But there are only about 10 languages there. I struggle to find decent chatrooms, even by browsing google in another language.

Does anyone have any links to good foreign chatrooms?
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>> No. 3756
He seems like a nice guy, but judging from the one language (besides English) that both he and I study, Chinese, his language skills aren't exactly jawdropping.
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>>3756
Same here, his Vietnamese is atrocious. Even the 70 year old white missionary I know speaks it better. It may be because they're both Eastern languages, but I couldn't find anything he did in French to compare with.
>> No. 3763
>>3757
troll status: god tier


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3738 No. 3738 hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply]
Are there any good online forums where one can discussing language learning?

The only one I'm aware of is How to Learn Any Language's, and that site is far too stuck up for my likes.

If there aren't, would anyone here be interested in creating one?

(If you're still interested in the aforementioned board, you can go to it at http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/default.asp. I do not really like it though.)
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>> No. 3744
>>3739

Not OP:
I love lang-8 but I never have any time to post. And now I'm ashamed that I haven't posted in 2 months. I need to make a new account.
>> No. 3758
да выж полуебки
>> No. 3762
>>3758
ну ты понел


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