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Are you learning another language? How far along are you?

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  • F [email protected]

    *δύσκολο
    Συγγραφή would be used to describe authoring a book. You could use γραφή or γράψιμο or a verb construction να γράφεις "to write".

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    Σωστά, είναι καιρός που δεν χραφω ελληνικά 😅 🙂

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    • C [email protected]

      Möchtest du mit mir sprechen? Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut, aber ich will es lernen.
      Ich war im 2003 in Hesse, ich liebe Deutschland

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      Das ist doch schon gut. Welche Muttersprache hast Du, und über welche Themen möchtest Du reden?

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      • goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zoneG [email protected]

        Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der BRD

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        Wir sind großzügig und teilen.

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          Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

          I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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          I'm not but I'd love to learn some other romance languages, Italian and French would be my choices right now.

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          • m137@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

            Am I learning a new language? No.
            How far along am I? About halfway.

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            You're killing it, keep it up! 💪

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              I'm learning Japanese. On and off for years, but mainly the last couple. I'm still only at the advanced beginner stage, trying to work on my Kanji, reading, and listening.

              Also learning Spanish, but I feel like I'm in a better spot with it. I took classes in school and have a decent foundation, just need way more practice. It's on the backburner since I'd rather build on my Japanese.

              For fans of this thread/topic, check out [email protected] . They have a weekly thread for progress and a few active folks. Lemmy also has more specific language learning communities that could stand to be more active.

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              I always find it amusing when I meet people who speak all three languages I do: English, Spanish, and Japanese. Well, admittedly, I also know a bit of French, but it's so similar to Spanish that it feels like cheating to understand so much with so little investment. So yeah, when are you learning French next? 😆

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                Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

                I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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                I've been learning Japanese for a long time now. The funny thing is that I started at the wrong end by learning kanji first and then moving onto grammar and vocabulary in that order. Avoid what I did unless you want to be proficient at reading it without understanding it!

                Although not all is lost, because I'm getting used to reading news and Wikipedia articles without much aid or effort anymore, and spoken Japanese is slowly getting easier. Understanding it is still proving to be a bitch from time to time but that's on me!

                Btw, does anyone know of great websites to read Japanese? I browse Gigazine.net quite a bit and many news outlets, but I'd like to mix it up and move away from politics and news in general. I'm still a bit shy about online forums, but maybe I should do that next.

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                • quazatron@lemmy.worldQ [email protected]

                  I'm learning Python. Not bad, but I prefer C.

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                  Python also prefers C

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                  • L [email protected]

                    I always find it amusing when I meet people who speak all three languages I do: English, Spanish, and Japanese. Well, admittedly, I also know a bit of French, but it's so similar to Spanish that it feels like cheating to understand so much with so little investment. So yeah, when are you learning French next? 😆

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                    LOL, I did take a semester of French in high school.

                    I guess it makes sense as an overlap - North America and Europe both have primarily English, Spanish, and French speakers in close vicinity. And Japanese cultural exports are just really popular.

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                    • viking@infosec.pubV [email protected]

                      Learning Swedish now, since I already speak passable Norwegian, it's not the hardest endeavor.

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                      This might be a weird question, but: Did you have a particular reason to learn Swedish or Norwegian, or is it just for fun?

                      I've been interested in learning Swedish or Danish, but I haven't been able to find a practical reason to. I hear that almost all of them speak English pretty well, and will prefer speaking English with you if you visit their country. (The curse of being a native English speaker who likes languages.)

                      I would have had easy access to a native Danish speaker, but sadly, my Mormor ("mother's mother") passed away just last night. Her English was perfect as she lived in the US for >70 years, but her beautiful accent is what originally sparked my interest in Scandinavian languages.

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                      • t_berium@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                        Und, wie läuft es?

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                        Ich spreche sehr bisschen und nicht sehr gut.

                        Rammstein singt nicht über die Bibliothek.

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                        • A [email protected]

                          Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

                          I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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                          I've been learning Portuguese (Brazilian) off and on for a while. I'm mostly okay-ish at reading it, but it's nearly impossible for me to understand it when spoken.

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                          • daggermoon@lemmy.worldD [email protected]

                            I'm learning Esperanto because everything I do has to be esoteric. I understand the fundamentals of the language and my pronunciation is perfect i'd say. I've been learning for a few months and I can read and write basic sentences. I also want to learn Spanish (mostly to flirt) but it's hard to find the time. I'd also like to learn Indonesian, German and Afrikaans.

                            Edit: I'd also love to learn Polish but it's so fucking hard.

                            Edit 2: Oh and Finnish. I really like languages and I get excited about them.

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                            I learned a bit of Esperanto, many years ago. It's crazy how easy it is to progress in that language, compared to natural languages.

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                            • karasu_sue@pf.korako.meK [email protected]

                              {日本人|にほんじん}です

                              {漢字|かんじ}、{助詞|じょし}、{敬語|けいご}あたりが{辛|つら}いとよく{聞|き}きますが{日本語|にほんご}はそこまで{厳密|げんみつ}に{喋|しゃべ}らなくてもある{程度|ていど}{通|つう}じちゃったりもします

                              {漢字|かんじ}を{理解|りかい}するのに{部首|ぶしゅ}からいくのはいいですね、{部首|ぶしゅ}と{旁|つくり}についてある{一定|いってい}の{意味|いみ}を{覚|おぼ}えたら{読|よ}めなくても{意味|いみ}を{理解|りかい}するのが{簡単|かんたん}になります

                              {小学生|しょうがくせい}レベルで1026{個|こ}ある{漢字|かんじ}をとりあえず{覚|おぼ}えれば{日常|にちじょう}で{困|こま}らないレベルになると{思|おも}います

                              {頑張|がんば}ってください

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                              カッコいい! 皆と同じように僕も日本語を選びました。Lemmyで人気のある言語らしいですね。

                              でも昔、僕の場合は最初に漢字で勉強し始めたので、予想に反して、読むことや理解することが難しくなってしまいました。昨年から、オンライン新聞とウィキの記事を読み始めたので、単語や文法がだんだん分かりやすくなってきました。一歩ずつ進んでいくんですね!

                              ところで、日本語を読んで練習するためにおすすめのウェブサイトがありますか?

                              I hope I didn't make too many mistakes. Writing is still a challenge!

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                              • P [email protected]

                                This might be a weird question, but: Did you have a particular reason to learn Swedish or Norwegian, or is it just for fun?

                                I've been interested in learning Swedish or Danish, but I haven't been able to find a practical reason to. I hear that almost all of them speak English pretty well, and will prefer speaking English with you if you visit their country. (The curse of being a native English speaker who likes languages.)

                                I would have had easy access to a native Danish speaker, but sadly, my Mormor ("mother's mother") passed away just last night. Her English was perfect as she lived in the US for >70 years, but her beautiful accent is what originally sparked my interest in Scandinavian languages.

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                                So sorry for your loss!

                                As for my motivation, I did a year of work & travel in Norway after finishing my bachelor's and picked up enough to be conversational. Actually I tried staying afterwards but could only score student jobs and temporary stuff, so decided to build my CV a bit more before going back.

                                Life took a few unexpected turns and instead of returning after a couple years, I ended up working all over Africa and then Asia for 15+ years, but I still kept going, thinking I would one day return.

                                Now that the time might have come in the near future (= next 2-ish years), I was looking more and more into the requirements and figured out that the wealth tax would break me - I'm by no means filthy rich, but they tax you on assets above ~160k USD, and since I don't qualify for any government pensions due to my erratic work, I've set aside a good chunk of investments for my retirement that'd effectively be crippled in its growth potential. The only thing exempt are a primary residence there (considered to 25% of its value) and local government pension accounts.

                                That pretty much killed Norway for me, so I'm now looking at Sweden instead, where there's no such thing, and cost of living are also lower. So I decided to switch over to learning Swedish instead, it's not far off. I was there last year and was able to have a pretty normal conversation with a real estate agent where I spoke Norwegian and he Swedish, and we understood each other just fine.

                                For visiting only, English is just fine. But if you plan to work and socialise long term, it's absolutely essential to integrate.

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                                • L [email protected]

                                  I always find it amusing when I meet people who speak all three languages I do: English, Spanish, and Japanese. Well, admittedly, I also know a bit of French, but it's so similar to Spanish that it feels like cheating to understand so much with so little investment. So yeah, when are you learning French next? 😆

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                                  Coincidentally, I speak English, French and Japanese, and am learning Spanish (and I learned German and Sesotho in the distant past). I cheated, however all except Spanish were learned at least partially by immersion in places where they speak it.

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                                  • A [email protected]

                                    Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

                                    I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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                                    I'm currently learning Catalan, doing Duolingo until I find some class (which there should be one in a couple of months). It's relatively easy for me since I already speak fluent Spanish and Portuguese and understand almost everything in Italian.

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                                    • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldW [email protected]

                                      Tried learning Spanish in school but I never really had a reason to stick with it or keep going. Recently started relearning some vocab and grammar and phrases because there are places I'd like to visit that would be much easier with even just some basic phrases and books I'd like to read in the author's original words and phrases.

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                                      Same here. I learned un poco en escuela, but didn't pick up that much. I recently started trying Language Think Transfer. It's kind of fast paced, but it goes over a lot of language concepts to help you translate outside of the classroom. It follows a teacher and student learning and the one I'm doing is 90 lessons. I got to take notes and everything.

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                                      • schwim@lemmy.zipS [email protected]

                                        Ich spreche sehr bisschen und nicht sehr gut.

                                        Rammstein singt nicht über die Bibliothek.

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                                        Sehr schön, weiter so! (Deren Texte sind oft nur auf den ersten Blick oberflächlich, tatsächlich aber mehrdeutig)

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                                        • L [email protected]

                                          カッコいい! 皆と同じように僕も日本語を選びました。Lemmyで人気のある言語らしいですね。

                                          でも昔、僕の場合は最初に漢字で勉強し始めたので、予想に反して、読むことや理解することが難しくなってしまいました。昨年から、オンライン新聞とウィキの記事を読み始めたので、単語や文法がだんだん分かりやすくなってきました。一歩ずつ進んでいくんですね!

                                          ところで、日本語を読んで練習するためにおすすめのウェブサイトがありますか?

                                          I hope I didn't make too many mistakes. Writing is still a challenge!

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                                          {自分|じぶん}は{日本語|にほんご}{学習|がくしゅう}については{知|し}らないですが({日本人|にほんじん}だから{当|あ}たり{前|まえ}だけど・・・)、
                                          {子供向|こどもむ}けの{絵本|えほん}サイトとかは{意外|いがい}といいかもしれません

                                          https://ehon.alphapolis.co.jp/

                                          あとはサイト{集|しゅう}みたいなのもあるっぽいですね

                                          https://nihongo-e-na.com/jpn/site/tag/読む/

                                          ルビが振ってある日本語のサイトを探すのもいいかもしれないですね、
                                          {慣|な}れたらなろうとかで{本|ほん}を{読|よ}むのも{良|よ}いかも??

                                          Switchのどうぶつの{森|もり}を{日本語|にほんご}に{設定|せってい}して{勉強|べんきょう}している{人|ひと}も{見|み}たことがあります

                                          ちなみに{書|か}かれている{日本語|にほんご}は{完璧|かんぺき}でしたよ!

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