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Ok story time, I do speak hungarian as my mother tongue but I just moved to a country where they also speak hungarian but hungarian people are minority there (romania) so there's a lot of words i don't know, they are hungarians yes, of course but use different words for differents things. So we could have a conversation with my friends in hungarian but they are still staying sentences i do not understand at all. It's more like american and brit english, try and tell to a US resident words like : nappy, blimey, aubergine, or chuffed and their eyes will widen in a second.

While I was learning English and German simultaneously in school I often mistaken words for each other while writing a test or something. But in spoken language I never had this.

No, not really. I would like to learn and in the process of learning Romanian right now and it sounds nothing like hungarian at all. It has more common things with english which is my second language. And of course because it is a romance language a lot common with Italian and french, and those countries are not even close.

Looks nice, I was startled for a minute when I logged in, it is linguaholic at all? On the side note, is the Asian kind of decorations a little bit exclusive for other cultures and languages, or not?

I am really curious about you adding Hungarian to the app. I always check my mother language on learning apps, i am just interested how other people and perceive something that is natural to me. Great app by the way, thanks for sharing.

Yes I see what you mean but "done" feels like you just want to get rid of language, In my opinion you never stop learning a language, not even your native one. You could still read books and have interesting conversation on that language.

What's the difference in a dirty bus station and a lobster with breast implants? Ones a crusty bus station, the others a busty crustacean.

Yes! After high school graduation I learned Russian for a few months, but sadly the technique of the teacher and books from the 70's did not help at all. I am sad that I stopped, but maybe some other time in my life I will continue.

Hi there! I am a native hungarian speaker so if you have any questions, ask away!

I used to do this with song lyrics, trying to get in the rythm and translate the verse so it looks nice in my mother language. I wasn't so good of course, because I was a teenager and now I think that translating poems and lyrics is more like translating the feeling, not just the words.

Hazugság és rágalom! - Hungarian

Oh, speaking english as a young teenager really helped me to score good paying jobs while I was still in high school. I worked as a not professional translator many times, also tour guide also "that kid who speaks english". So many pocket money for young me, yeah!

Well If you'd like to talk about stereotypes then latin and really posh english maybe. Also german if spoken nicely, not austrian german though. Sorry guys.

When I was a teenager I liked to get the lyrics of my favourite songs and listen to them while reading the words. I think that it can really help you with pronunciation. Also the rhythm of the songs help you to store the words in your memories.

Actually, yes mostly because of the old ways I learned how to get comfortable in a foreign language, and going to the process second, third and so on.. time is so much easier. It's mostly because you learn from yourself and the ways you can study, and also in several ways words and languages are similar to each other. The more the merrier.

Hi! I put in hungarian ones, thank you for this spreadsheet, it looks like such an interesting project!

I really like to keep a clean and well lighted space around me. Also If my head is on the game (hah high school musical reference) then i can study everywhere. First I do the writing part, vocabulary or something like that because after I while I get bored with work so it's better to do it first, then some listening, conversation, or pimsleur lessons. In the end I like to watch funny youtube videos.

Anxiety can be hard, but if you try to look at it as an adventure and not a task that you have to do, it can became so much more easier. I know you must heard it so many times, but you should not be worry about pronunciation first.

Of course the internet helps you with a lot of coursebooks and videos and it is easier for people who can't access language learning things any other way. But don't forget about the good old on "throwing myself into a situation where i can't speak my native language and rapidly had to learn another" situation. Once again of course there are two sides but just stepping out my comfort zone and going to the chinese quarter three times a week (if you want to learn chinese) can also help!

I was sixteen I guess, I already studies english language in middle school then in high school english and german too. But when I decided to do my b2 language exam in my 3rd year of high school I started to go to a language tutor. She helped me to learn the grammar and so and also talked about culture etc. That's when I realized how much more is there behind a language.

Yes, reading really can help you at not just after intermediate level. I suggest everyone to try reading at the very begginig too. Even if you only know a handful of words, try with children's books and newspaper. It can really help your brain to add one and two together later on.

Well, its all depends on the type of language learning method you are in. If you are a minority for example, but you can access education in your native language then you learn speak in an foreign language perfectly and fluently but writing can be hard. But if you are studying an other language like many of us do you can't talk at all or just a very little, you mostly do things and take tests in coursebook and your teacher are not native speakers either, then you write more comfortably than speak.

It does happen of course but it's more like getting buried than forgetting. If you are living in another culture, country and speaking another language your brain just start to associate and work in an other dimension. But if you start to talk in your native lang. its easily coming out once again, maybe a few weeks, months and maybe a little accent but it's there buried deep somewhere. Just like cycling, you cant forget it.

You should choose Norwegian for sure, If you learn a Scandinavian language it will help you to open for another Scandinavian languages and many more European ones!

Oh, yes. Active listening is everything, first of all as others said before me this is how you learn your native language. After a while you could try active reading, it really helps your brain, but its more like a delayed knowledge.