Spyllus
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Well you can use apps on your smartphone
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You have to learn the cultural context in which you are learning the language, for example, even speaking your native tongue, 50 years ago, people wouldn't be able to understand you, or would be very confused because the context was different.
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On a word level Google translate is pretty decent. On a sentence level? Forget about it....
It can be a help to get words from a sentence translated into another language but don't expect Google translate to get the grammar right.
It is just too hard for statistical machine translation to grasp the context as well as the grammar of a certain text. There are just too many options...
I'm with you on this point too. Also, its better for translating to your native tongue rather than a foreign language, since you know what the translated word means
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wow, thanks for the site!Hi everyone,
I'm learning Spanish with a native Spanish teacher at http://blabelia.com
I found this platform recently and it's working quite good for me
.Apart from Spanish teachers, there are lots of different teachers of other languages.
Regards,
Julia
wow, thanks for the site!
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Thanks for the tips!
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Yeah, its great how our minds work like that, it also works like that in the sense of talking and listening
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Well Japanese would be a lot more difficult, however French would be easier, but just do what you wanna do.
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I always remind myself of the main goal why I wanted to learn a new language. I got two reasons or goals, the first one is to advance my career and the second one is to help make my future travel plan more convenient when it comes to talking to native speakers. I think the first reason is what motivates me for now although just like anyone else I also feel the lack of interest or movitation
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I don't know how they can do it O_O it's difficult enough to learn 1 let alone more than one at a time
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I try to get a base of vocabulary and grammar and then start immersing myself in the language. Reading books, watching tv shows and listening to music in that language. This technique has helped me out tremendously whenever I try to learn a new language.
This is a very good way
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For Japanese, I think you should learn the basic characters first so that you can read them, don't worry about more complex characters until later in time.
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I was able to finish spanish on Duolingo. I've been on and off with it until I decided to really focus and I was able to finish it in a few months. I even got to 150+ streak! Now I just finish one or two lessons a day.
Nice! I haven't gotten very far!
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This is a good site to learn the basics. The kanji strokes are interesting as well, as they will show you how to write the kanji in the correct way. It's also a great site to learn some of the vocabulary as well.
Yeah, I definitely agree with you one this one.
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I really just have to remind myself a LOT to do it. I usually set an alarm for every day to remind myself, and to motivate myself, I usually remind myself why I WANTED to learn the language in the first place, and tell myself if I want this.
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It's pretty good if you need to translate a word, maybe if you are curious, or only need a loose translation of said word. However a LOT of meaning is lost in the translation and google translate doesn't tell you things like the definition of the word in your designated language, which would be much more effective.
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I've used this site before and yeah, I got to say that it is very good, it even works on mobile, so if you need to use it on the go then BAM! It contains a lot of good content and it's kind of pointless for me to keep talking about what they have as it is right at the top of this page
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I haven't tried studying multiple before, but I imagine that you would want to learn them at the same time. If you learnt one then another you might become less fluent in the first as you forget many things, especially if you don't speak it for ages. Allocating Study time for me, I just allocate an hour a day, however sometimes I just feel lazy and leave a day out.
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What's special about your language? Every language has some special aspects. Let me start with my mother tongue: German. One funny thing about German is that there are a lot of compound words. In this kind of aspect, German is very flexible. It let's you put together an almost endless amount of nouns in one word. So you could have a word like "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz".
Tell us something special about your language. It can be about the Script, Grammar, Pronunciation. Whatever. You choose and introduce
Wow, I think the longest word in English is antidisestablishmentarianism. Actually, just looked it up. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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My native tongue is English -_-*
I mean, I guess it would be my first choice, but it is a very boring one. However I do like the endless combination of words that you can put together in English, and I like how it is a common-ish language.
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Dude, thanks a bunch! I have tried getting into learning Japanese, not too recently but I probably started about 6 months ago now, however I just tried to study by myself and I never ended up remembering to study and learn everyday so I just ended up forgetting about it. I think this will most definitely help me as I am getting back into learning!
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(Japanese) What is your biggest challenge?
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My biggest fear and difficulty, is learning and remembering all of the Japanese characters, I have trouble even just remembering the basic ones at times.