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lingvo

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  1. Mmm I don't use that kind of slang anymore but let me recall my obnoxious teenager ages: nitas= necesitas. pera= espera. ta bien= está bien. k/q va= qué va. l=el. q pdo= que pedo. Anyway, writing like this is something that I personally would not suggest. Even our parents didn't like it.
  2. It is one of the more spoken language, but I don't see how chinese would be relevant in businesses, since chinese companies already employ english language to convey communication among the interested parts. Is not a bad idea to learn chinese though, you will be able to speak with hundred of millions of asian people except with maybe those that lives in rural areas that use a completely different dialect. To learn chinese you must devote yourself in learning hanzi, after overcoming that barrier, everything will be, in theory, easier afterwards.
  3. Never is too late to retake a language learning path. You can achieve a great spanish proficiency within 6 months of hard work. And you are not starting with zero knowledge, therefore you're not an absolute beginner. Feel free to write or pm any post and questions related to spanish in the language discussion. Regads;
  4. Motivation is key to learn a language. Even if you are some memory whizkid, without motivation you will not be able to succesfully learn a language . For me, there are tons of reasons that would motivate to learn a language: moving to a country, cultural love, foreign couple etc. I learnt english by my own because all the media I was putting my time into it was originally in english. Like videogames or books.
  5. Indeed. Is the best way to become functionally fluent in no time, since you learn by mimicking the way a native speaker expresses him/herself. Reading is good, interesting and will provide you a lot of vocabulary, but without a putting some time spent speaking and listening to natives you will have a lot of trouble trying to express yourself.
  6. I do a lot of proofreading for my own text and when people ask for my help to correct theirs. I'm usually consistently accurate by default, but I have a Thesaurus at hand just in cases. Although recently I've been using it quite often mostly because I'm into writing more than ever.
  7. I don't know. I will know when the suitable time to having children comes. It's up to their parents to decide or not to teach kids their native language. Is not something that should take lightly, you need commitment to teach and also, you have to cope with the hindrance of a child not willing to learn your language because disregard it as useless for his/her regular social life. Until they realize that bilingual kids are cooler , of course.
  8. My biggest problem is mostly alloting time to focused language learning too. Is easy to let passive learning do the job but that's useless without devoting some serious time into active learning. My second problem was looking for language exchanges, I'm not quite sociable therefore Is hard for me to look for language learning buddies.
  9. During elementary schools, I got the best grades in my english class. But for me that was far less remarkable than being an ace in Maths or Physics, Which I had just fairly average grades, thus I didn't take too seriously the stuff I learned from school english teaching.. And also didn't learn much english more than just grammar and a few vocabulary. I acquired real english insight from playing text heavy computer role playing games such as Planescape Torment, Baldur Gates, Fallout, The Witcher etc.
  10. Because sear words are easy to grasp. Is easier than trying to understand, say, how a person ask for direction speaking in certain language. Is way I see it, therefore is not necessarily true. Also I think that another reason is because is something that We could find amusing enough to yell profanities in another language.
  11. Mmm not that I remember of. maybe you should try look searching with "abecedario" search term. Because I grew with Sesame Street alphabet songs . I also remember a children song about numbers. Most of them are Typical wordplay.
  12. English speaking natives are as much as heterogeneous as Spanish natives. Take a look at different stereotypes for people from different regions. Say, texans, the common stereotype is that they are fond of guns and have a rash accent. Canadians are quite polite, loves hockey and tend to say sorry often. British people like tea, their food is perceived as terrible and are quite pompous.
  13. You would be astonished how plentiful is pf profanities the spanish language. Some of them are quite offensive even for a casual conversation. But these swear words are often used anyway, like in some regions from Argentina. Anyway, everything boils down into a cultural perception, some people from different regions take offense for stuff that are regarded as a compliment in another. Language is a curious thing, as human behaviour.
  14. Spanish is the most useful language between the three choices for sure. But you must pursue the language you feel more passionate to learn. I personally suggest Esperanto first since It will help you to enhance your overall language learning proficiency. And I don't recommend to ever touch japanese unless you have a good reason to spend several years of hard work it takes. Japanese is ambiguous and unflexible (commit a spelling mistake and you will end up saying something different ), therefore it takes a while to get used to its unefficiency.
  15. American english sounds coarser to my ear. I prefer British because it sounds subtler and funnier, but my opinion is clearly biased because I loved Monty Python and IT Crowd. In any case, I understand americans better because they pronounce the "r" clear enough for my spanish native ears. But I would love to speak and understand near 100% british accent.
  16. I would translate it like this: " Un Centavo ahorrado, un centavo ganado". And I can think in several different ways to rephrase it and still keep intact the idea conveyed. For this is why I love languages, they can be so flexible tools and even still work outside of their conventional rules. You can write a spanish sentence without accent mark sand still manage to convey the same message. Of course, less clearly than write it properly, but even speaking in a flawed manner you're able to communicate with it. Neat.
  17. I'm an usual case, I found easier to just write than speak. But is generally better to improve first your speaking skills than your writing with romance and germanic languages, given the vast phonetic richness. For me is harder because sometimes is difficult to grasp every word spoken. I struggle with British English in that regards, some pronounciations are so subtle that is tough to understand without several months of acclimatization. The opposite happens to japanese, pronounciation is easy for spanish natives like me, but the kanji and confusing grammar rules are the real barriers there.
  18. Only if they provide an easygoing and helpful staff willing to answer all your spanish doubts. Otherwise, don't pay courses that only offer access to material, only pay for tutoring and maybe podcasts. Material to spanish language learning is plentiful online and free to charge.
  19. Ah, Luca Lampariello's method. Tried to use it when learning some japanese but didn't work, phonetically speaking japanese is very poor and pretty much a hell of ambiguity. I only think that japanese is only effectively learned by Kanji first, then sound flow afterwards.
  20. When language preservation subject comes in, I always think how aboriginal languages are doing lately. In LatinAmerica, the aboriginal people preserve their language quite well. The two major language families are the "arahuaca" and "caribbean" which branch in: arauak, chibcha, guajibo,sáliva-piaroa, tupí, yanomam etc. The first studies in aboriginal languages were made by catholics missionaries from Europe. Several monks wrote the first grammar and dictionaries for caribbean and arauak. Nowadays these are considered cultural patrimony and even if someday these languages are not spoken among natives anymore, these are already well preserved and protected for anyone willing to learn them.
  21. Doing active listening. I mean, listen carefully every dialogue piece with subtitles as backup double checks. But do not try to watch an entire movie like that, split that into several video fragments. And watch them over and over. Then watch the entire movie/t.v show several times. Is important to pick something that you're willing to watch repeatedly without getting tired.
  22. A decent approach. In fact, for example, a good japanese learning process in the beginning is watching kid's shows instead of anime or j-drama. That also applies to easier languages (almost every other language except mandarin, cantonese or arabic), tons of elemental vocabulary and context to improve fast.
  23. Seems to be logical since you're paying someone to save the time of looking for a suitable learning source for you. A professional will know an effective approach to learn reasonably fast or will pick a method suitable for you. But yeh, language learning with high quality pros is not cheap at all. Therefore is something you should consider whether is worth it or not to spend money.
  24. I use Anki to quickly recall every vocabulary I stumble across in my language learning journey. I used "clozed deleted" sentences in order to assimilate better the vocabulary because learning a new word without context is a waste of time.
  25. Pretty basic but good tips and tricks nonetheless. Diving in is something with its own risks, but is well worth it when is done properly. You could visit the country of your target language learning and you will learn next to nothing if u don't get away from your comfort zone. An example is going to Japan hoping become fluent in japanese as fast as humanly possible but you realize that some people even doesn't need to learn japanese to have a comfortable life in there. My auntie married a japanese business man then She moved with him to Japan but her japanese is very poor and never bothered in learning Kanji.
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