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DONE! ;D

Moved to the correct section.

It actually depends on how you're learning, @Tripeo. If you're someone who wants to learn a language through books and boring exercises (which is very common among new language learners), or if you learn a language through some school programme, then it can be considered studying. If you're someone who learns through the way you should learn (more practise-based), then you can consider it learning.

Oh, I didn't even realise that. It must be a very clever spam post then. Then in that case, I guess it's safe to close this topic.

@Miya Each teacher is different. I took lessons with this guy for a whole year, but he started to act a bit strange recently. :/ Then I've been looking after a couple of other teachers. I took him occasionally last year, he's really nice, but will most likely exclusively explain you stuff in Japanese. This is another nice person, but his schedule is always full, so make sure you schedule lessons with him weeks in advance. I also had her, though I only forgot how she was. Then recently, I've been trying 3 new teachers to get some training with job interviews. This woman is really good, although you can likely have difficulties understanding her. Then there is this guy, he gave me the best tips so far, although we went over time too quick. And lastly there's this guy, to him I had to speak EXACTLY how you should speak, or he won't understand you and think you're a much lower level student than you actually are.

Reading real world books is definitely your best option to learn articles. English articles aren't as hard as they are in all the other western-European languages, since it only has 1 article, which is "the". But I understand it might be hard for you, since Russian doesn't have any articles at all, my mum (Polish) has difficulties with "de" and "het" in Dutch too, even though these 2 articles have no set rules. But I don't think there's a decent app for this kind of stuff, seeing how nearly all language-related apps are usually from English to another language, but rarely the other way around.

I attempted to invent an own language before that combined Dutch, English and German and used Hiragana as its writing system. But I abandoned it the next day, so much respect to you for keeping it up.

The hardest language is the language you like to learn the least. I believe you can only learn a language if you have a genuine interest in it, if you don't have any, you'll have a hard time learning it. No matter if it's Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Swahili, etc., the difficulty of a language really depends on your own mindset.

Welcome. Oh, nobody's here?

I have been in France once, but only as one of the countries I had to pass through in order to get to the UK. I have been in France when I was really young too (Disneyland Paris), but I can't remember anything about it.

I don't see any difference to be honest.

It's like you can read my mind. It's indeed quite empty and flat, but that's my opinion and it's very different from many web designers these days.

I already checked your site. The sites' design is a bit bland, like so many websites these days. However, the content is really great, I really like it.

@Delarno Good to know, then my opinion stands; instead of telling you a specific language, I just gave a more generic option. I might find Japanese easier to learn than French, but obviously a lot of people will either agree or disagree with me. The other one might find Ukrainian the easiest to learn, while yet another one will find Italian the easiest one for example. So whatever is hard or easy depends on your own mindset. But that's my humble opinion.

Moved it to a more appropriate section.

Now I'm level 38 and I still keep coming back to WaniKani. It just works like magic. Eventually I have changed my monthly subscription to a lifetime subscription, so I have paid a one time $ 300 USD and I don't need to pay any cent more to them. It's convenient because I have more monthly subscriptions going on, now I have one thing less I need to invest in. I am now on their Discord server, never seen a very popular place on the internet where there are only nice folks until now.

In case people can't figure out what his website is, because he forgot to turn his URL into a clickable link: http://yourspanish.website/

Lol yeah, Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of America keeps requiring me to create a French manual and stuff while I don't know any French beyond "Bonjour". So if you ever want to make games for Nintendo platforms, French is indeed more essential than Spanish.

Sample sentences for "good night" are tricky in any language. But indeed, "oyasumi" is more commonly used to friends and family, while "oyasuminasai" is more commonly used to guests, teachers, bosses, etc. There is a Kanji (お休み), but it's often used in Hiragana alone.

I thought we already officially got a redlight on this subject?

Haha, Lingua discovered the interwebs as of late. xD

Actually @111kg, I found the Cyrillic script the easiest thing to self-learn when it comes to Russian. There aren't many of them and I still recognise nearly all of them when reading something in Russian (although I read it slowly, but that's what happens with any new script you're introduced to).

And thanks for the many replies on this topic (read: none). ._. I ended up paying 4 euros to a translation company, way more effective than a community apparently. ._____.

I have learnt Russian for a few days. Then I've got introduced to a very long word meaning "hello" and got dismotivated.

I would advise you to learn a bit of all 3 of them and then stick with what you love most. In that case, you want to learn Italian, French and Spanish. Learn the basics of all 3 of them at the same time so you get an insight on which of those you like most. Based on that, continue with the one you liked most.