languagelearning

I definitely feel learning a language expands your understanding of the world as you're no longer limited to just one corner of the world nor reliant on translators. It's also fun to communicate with people you would've never have gotten into contact with otherwise

Even though Chinese is a huge passion, I still lose my will to practice once in a while. What are your tips and tricks to keep it going?

I usually spend 1-2 hours. Any more than that and I get too tired. At my pace it takes about a year and a half to 2 years to get to where I can read and listen. But I reckon it could be cut down if I was spending more time a day.

I heard that training diplomats spend 8 hours a day on the language they're learning: a full time job. Imagine that. I'd be completely exhausted and my brain would be buzzing by the end. You reckon you could do that?

we all know it's popular to use music and videos to learn a language.

do you start off by having some intermediate knowledge of a language before you start using music/videos to learn and then write down any new terms? what is your process?

I am trying to use videos to learn cantonese but there is a lot I am struggling to understand.

I'm using Duolingo to improve my Mandarin and learn to read, and to learn Spanish.

Does anyone have some recommendations of texts for learners to practice reading?

My wife suggested me to use kids books, but I'd like a more motivating content than teddy bear's adventures...

I recommend this app to learn languages, especially the Romance languages. You type in the movie/TV show name in Simple Mode and read through the subtitles and match the foreign language to English. This really helps me learn languages, especially Spanish. I use Harry Potter as my main source.

I'm trying to come up with a decent study routine between two languages. I would love to hear what languages you guys are learning, and how are you organizing your time between them. What has been working for you?

Just as the post title says, is there anyone using Anki here? Would there be enough interest in making a separate Language Learning Anki community?

https://lemmy.world/c/nahuatl

https://lemmy.world/c/german

https://lemmy.world/c/geschichtsmaimais

https://lemmy.world/c/french

https://lemmy.world/c/farsi

https://lemmy.world/c/spanish

https://lemmy.world/c/chinese

https://lemmy.world/c/sichuanese

https://lemmy.world/c/lanzhouhua

https://lemmy.world/c/wenyanwen

https://lemmy.world/c/cantonese

https://lemmy.world/c/zhongwen

https://lemmy.world/c/writestreak

https://lemmy.world/c/writestreakcn

https://lemmy.world/c/writestreakjp

https://lemmy.world/c/writestreakvn

https://lemmy.world/c/writestreakes

https://lemmy.world/c/writestreakar

https://lemmy.world/c/japanese

https://lemmy.world/c/learnjapanese@lemmy.ml

https://lemmy.world/c/tibetanlanguage

https://lemmy.world/c/language_exchange

To be clear, I made the communities after /c/chinese to copy the subs from reddit I liked. Please let me know if anyone wants to mod. > c/learnjapanese@lemmy.ml

https://lemmy.world/c/nahuatl

I have learned different languages on and off through the years. Here are 3 of my top resources.

Farsi: Persian learning (Majid) German: learn German with anja, learn German with herr antrim Cantonese: 5 minute Cantonese