[QUOTE=Vault;38037154]I'm currently taking Japanese. My teacher goes way too fast and I end up failing the quizzes.
Rossetta Stone isn't helping.
What should I do, I feel like shit.[/QUOTE]
Learn it on your own accord. Lang-8 is good. Add some Japanese people on Skype - it's not hard to do with Chinese but I have no idea regarding Japanese, and talk to them about the topic you guys are in on class. Learning a language is all about practice. Rosetta Stone doesn't work in general, maybe for some phrases. For example, I still remember 这辆车 because it hammered 这辆车 into my brain five thousand times and only 这辆车 and all I can speak is 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车 这辆车
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I've been taking french at my school. It's pretty fun.
le canard mange le pain
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;38041417]le canard mange le pain[/QUOTE]
这鸭吃面包
I'm in agreeance that Rosetta Stone is rubbish. I own a legal copy given to me secondhand by a cousin of mine, and I don't know grammatical rules or anything because all it does is pound vocabulary into your head.
It's good if you're looking to learn vocabulary, which you can just use memrise for just as well
[QUOTE=Vault;38037154]I'm currently taking Japanese. My teacher goes way too fast and I end up failing the quizzes.
Rossetta Stone isn't helping.
What should I do, I feel like shit.[/QUOTE]
I'd love to help, but you're going to have to tell me more. What specific aspecs are you struggling with? Kanji? Vocab? Speaking? Grammar? Listening?
שלום, אני דניאל. אני בכסא. הכסא על הרצפה.
[editline]15th October 2012[/editline]
הרצפה בבניין.
[editline]15th October 2012[/editline]
Hebrew is really fun so far. The alphabet and some of the sounds are a little challenging but the grammar is very economical and almost everything is written how it sounds.
I love Korean, finishing up the alphabet now and moving onto numbers.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;38042894]I'm in agreeance that Rosetta Stone is rubbish. I own a legal copy given to me secondhand by a cousin of mine, and I don't know grammatical rules or anything because all it does is pound vocabulary into your head.[/QUOTE]
Do you really need to know the grammar rules? I know jack shit about the four german cases, But I get them right most of the time, Turn on german TV, Listen to radio. It will enter your mind what sounds right.
Also ask a 6 year old what the proper form of "be" for "I be", He'll look at you confused but you'll hear him say "I am.".
Also I got another reccomendation for OP, FSI, Basically the branch of government that teaches diplomats foreign languages has sets of audiotapes / books, for much cheaper than pimsleur. They are a bit dated though, Lacking in soundquality. But people insist they do work well if you don't have the dosh for pimsleur.
Edit: Also I'mma try listening-reading with all quiet on the western front.
I'm on 200 words for Spanish on Memrise, but I'm not sure how well it will help in a conversation. It'll definitely help when it comes to reading, but I don't think it's a great system for recall.
Sorry if one's been posted already but for learning Japanese, I've found this site pretty damn helpful (I don't use JUST this site though so keep that in mind) [url]http://japaneseclass.jp/info/tour/1[/url]
Does anyone know if there's anything like this for Spanish/Swedish/German?
[QUOTE=jaykray;38076070]I'm on 200 words for Spanish on Memrise, but I'm not sure how well it will help in a conversation. It'll definitely help when it comes to reading, but I don't think it's a great system for recall.[/QUOTE]In my opinion its not that useful for conversational stuff, you should probably grab a some pimsleur tapes, FSI, or something like that. The good tapes will help you with conversation.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;38080339]In my opinion its not that useful for conversational stuff, you should probably grab a some pimsleur tapes, FSI, or something like that. The good tapes will help you with conversation.[/QUOTE]
I think if used in conjunction with something else then memrise can be a great tool for making sure that the words are in your head.
Holy shit learning other languages has made me realise just how much I appreciate English being my first language. I feel so bad for foreigners trying to learn it. I guess either I'm lucky with understanding languages or the ones I'm learning are just "easy" in comparison but goddamn. English just seems to have so many more stupid rules/random alternate words and such. I probably just haven't realised yet cause I don't know a second language "fluently" but geez.
[QUOTE=G3rman;38044598]I love Korean, finishing up the alphabet now and moving onto numbers.[/QUOTE]
After learning Chinese, I think I may take Korean as my third asian language. How hard was it to learn the alphabet?
[QUOTE=Chezhead;38083873]After learning Chinese, I think I may take Korean as my third asian language. How hard was it to learn the alphabet?[/QUOTE]
Not very difficult, patterns helped me retain greatly as there is a lot of repetition.
[QUOTE=Chezhead;38083873]After learning Chinese, I think I may take Korean as my third asian language. How hard was it to learn the alphabet?[/QUOTE]
I'll just drop my two cents here.
Korean is rather difficult, unlike Mandarin, with reading being hard and speaking being rather easy (Short, one or two sylable words, pitch isn't much of a problem), it's different with Korean. Koreans tend to "blend" their words into each other, kinda like when you say "No, i don't know" without using constantants. It makes it rather diffcult to hear each individual words. Be wary with Korean. I'm going to assume that your first Asian language is Japanese, you'll notice that THERE IS A TOTAL LACK OF CHINESE CHARACTERS, FUCK YEAH! It's about the same as Mandarin, most difficulties come with speaking, if you are interested, you should get plenty of speaking practice. I don't have this in the OP as i'm writing this, but Italki will be essentail for this, as many Koreans want to master their english. You don't have to do this with native speakers, there are also non-native (and plenty of hot Korean girls to chat to, you dog you.)
[QUOTE=The Aussie;38086114]I'll just drop my two cents here.
[b]LOTS OF INFORMATION[/b][/QUOTE]
Sorry if you've been asked this already but just how many languages do you know/have you studied? You seem to know a lot about almost every one people have asked about.
Also started taking vitamins to help me memorize things better for study with college, I have yet to start German or Spanish "seriously" yet so I may pick up one of those and see how quickly I pick up phrases compared to Swedish or Japanese, heh. I know they're very different languages BUT STILL.
[QUOTE='Rain [Amber];38094226']
Also started taking vitamins to help me memorize things better for study with college[/QUOTE]
what
[QUOTE='Rain [Amber];38094226']Sorry if you've been asked this already but just how many languages do you know/have you studied? You seem to know a lot about almost every one people have asked about.
Also started taking vitamins to help me memorize things better for study with college, I have yet to start German or Spanish "seriously" yet so I may pick up one of those and see how quickly I pick up phrases compared to Swedish or Japanese, heh. I know they're very different languages BUT STILL.[/QUOTE]
Honestly? French, that's about it. I really enjoy linguistics though, and research it for pun. This is sort of an outlet for my strange little hobby.
Is there a forum or something where I can ask people to check if what I wrote in Japanese is correct?
I'm trying to figure out how to say "My favorite x is y"
Would it be わたしの好きな [B]X[/B] わ [B]Y[/B] です?
I'm in German I and loving it. My university is shutting down the entire German program after this semester and so I won't be able to continue with my German studies. They still offered German I knowing that they were going to shut down the program. Didn't even phase it out by stopping German I class, then II and ultimately III. Shitsux.
[QUOTE=ashxu;38100841]Is there a forum or something where I can ask people to check if what I wrote in Japanese is correct?
I'm trying to figure out how to say "My favorite x is y"
Would it be わたしの好きな [B]X[/B] わ [B]Y[/B] です?[/QUOTE]
I think [url]http://www.sharedtalk.com/[/url] could be helpful for that.
[QUOTE=ashxu;38100841]Is there a forum or something where I can ask people to check if what I wrote in Japanese is correct?
I'm trying to figure out how to say "My favorite x is y"
Would it be わたしの好きな [B]X[/B] わ [B]Y[/B] です?[/QUOTE]
I can confirm that for you.
わたしのすきな「事」は「事」です。
事(こと) being "thing" and は being pronounced as 'wa' and used similarly to the English "is".
[editline]19th October 2012[/editline]
And すき just means "like" or "favour" whereas いちばんすき means "favourite".
[QUOTE=ashxu;38100841]Is there a forum or something where I can ask people to check if what I wrote in Japanese is correct?
I'm trying to figure out how to say "My favorite x is y"
Would it be わたしの好きな [B]X[/B] わ [B]Y[/B] です?[/QUOTE]
Well the clostest thing i know of is [url=http://lang-8.com/]Lang-8[/url]. You simply write up something in japanese or almost any language you can think of, and have it corrected by native speakers. In return for for correcting the work of non-native english speakers.
I'm on my third year in my high school's French class. Read the title no problem, when it's something I learned the first year.
J'ai vraiement envie d'apprende l'italien. C'est une langue extraordinaire, la pronociation est unique est simplement belle. Cette année j'ai appris certains mots et phrase grâce à ma copine italienne, malheuresement nous sommes séparés.
Ich würde so gerne italienisch lernen. Es ist eine außerordentliche Sprache, die Aussprache ist einzigartig und einfach wunderschön. Dieses Jahr habe ich einige Wörter und Sätze gelernt dank meiner italienischen Freundin. Unglücklicherweise sind wir nicht mehr zusammen.
Ech geif sou gären italienesch leiren. Et as einfach ein hammer Sprooch, d'Aussproch as eenzegarteg an wonnerschein. Dest joer hun ech puer Wirder an Sätz geleirt weinst menger italienescher Frendinn. Leider sin mir netmei zesummen.
I would really like to learn italian. It is simply an amazing language, the pronoucation is unique and beautiful. This year I learnt quite a lot of words and sentences because of my italian girlfriend. Unfortunately we are not together anymore.
[QUOTE=junker|154;38107201]J'ai vraiement envie d'apprende l'italien. C'est une langue extraordinaire, la pronociation est unique est simplement belle. Cette année j'ai appris certains mots et phrase grâce à ma copine italienne, malheuresement nous sommes séparés.
Ich würde so gerne italienisch lernen. Es ist eine außerordentliche Sprache, die Aussprache ist einzigartig und einfach wunderschön. Dieses Jahr habe ich einige Wörter und Sätze gelernt dank meiner italienischen Freundin. Unglücklicherweise sind wir nicht mehr zusammen.
Ech geif sou gären italienesch leiren. Et as einfach ein hammer Sprooch, d'Aussproch as eenzegarteg an wonnerschein. Dest joer hun ech puer Wirder an Sätz geleirt weinst menger italienescher Frendinn. Leider sin mir netmei zesummen.
I would really like to learn italian. It is simply an amazing language, the pronoucation is unique and beautiful. This year I learnt quite a lot of words and sentences because of my italian girlfriend. Unfortunately we are not together anymore.[/QUOTE]
Did you use google translate for the german one? Because it is coming out with some words that are overly complex. The final sentence past tense is quite correct conjugation-wise, but should be simple past, not present perfect. You have the spoken form. The correct one is;
"Dieses Jahr ich lernte einige Wörter und Sätze dank meiner italienischen Freundin"
Conjugation for written german past is super easy. I am too tired to type it out though, so I'll make a post if anyone wants tomorrow
Is it true Yiddish and German are mutually intelligible? Other than the alphabet obv
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