Language Learner's Thread - Cunning Linguists Welcome.

[ConcreteBath]

[QUOTE=MedicWine;48046648]how do you even go about finding and getting into japanese schools? I dont dont even know how to do that in my home country but id kill to be a ryuugakusei[/QUOTE]

Your university should have an exchange program, look up it's exchange partners online as there probably should be a list. If you don't go to university it's impossible to go over and study there.

[donny]

posting here for the canada flagdog

[MedicWine]

[QUOTE=The Aussie;48048322]Your university should have an exchange program, look up it's exchange partners online as there probably should be a list. If you don't go to university it's impossible to go over and study there.[/QUOTE]

community college :C

[Sanjuaro]

[QUOTE=MedicWine;48055049]community college :C[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure if there's many in Japan, but you could try looking into a workaway program. Hell, even being an au pair may work.

[fartparty]

Any Arabic speakers here down to teach me how to ask this girl out in Arabic?

[SentientToilet]

I'm so glad Facepunch played a big role in my current knowledge of the English language.
Baci e abbracci dall'Italia!

[Funky Mummy]

[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;48070582]I'm so glad Facepunch played a big role in my current knowledge of the English language.
Baci e abbracci dall'Italia![/QUOTE]

Molti peni per tutti.

[SentientToilet]

oh baby

[lyna]

Fellow Mandarin Chinese language learners, what resources have been most helpful to you?

[AxeI]

[QUOTE=lyna;48085613]Fellow Mandarin Chinese language learners, what resources have been most helpful to you?[/QUOTE]
I use chinenouvelle.com but that's in French.

[thefreemann]

[QUOTE=lyna;48085613]Fellow Mandarin Chinese language learners, what resources have been most helpful to you?[/QUOTE]

Probably an English-Chinese dictionary. You have to learn pinyin first though. I had the privilege of going to an actual Chinese school and on top of that my parents speak it with me. I basically went through a dozen workbooks since I was a kid, which I think is effective but it's expensive.

[Cypher_09]

Another dump of awesome language facts:

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1. In Germany, Rice Crispies don’t go ‘snap, crackle and pop’ - they go ‘Knisper! Knasper! Knusper!’
2. In France, they go ‘Cric! Crac! Croc!’
3. In Spain, they go ‘Cris! Cras! Cros!’
4. There are 108 words for describing ‘sweet potato’ in Hawaiian, and 47 for ‘banana’, including ‘palaku’ - a thoroughly ripe banana.
5. The Finnish language has three of the world’s longest palindromic words :
‘saippuakivikauppias’ - a soapstone seller, ‘saippuakuppinippukauppias’ - a soapstone trader and ‘solutomaattimittaamotulos’ - the result from a measurement laboratory for tomatoes.
6. The Danish for jeans is ‘cowboybukser’.
7. The little dot above lower case ‘i’s and ‘j’s is called a tittle.
8. ‘Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo’ is a grammatically correct sentence - as ‘buffalo’ can mean the large animal, the city in New York and also a verb - ‘to bully’.
9. The concept of ‘Tingo’ (Pascuense language of Easter Island) means to borrow things from a friend’s house one by one until there is nothing left.
10. The Tashlhiyt dialect of Berber (North Africa) contains vowelless words like tzgr (she crossed) and tftktstt (you sprained it).
11. ‘Bel hevi’ (Tok Pisin, Papua New Guinea) describes the sinking feeling that accompanies sadness, literally translating as ‘belly heavy’.
12. ‘Mamihlapinatapei’ (Fuegian language from Chile) describes the shared look of longing between two lovers, where both know the score but neither is willing to make the first move.
13. ‘Drachenfutter’ (German) translates as ‘dragon fodder’ - meaning the peace offerings brought by guilty husbands to placate their wives.
14. In Afrikaans bees don’t buzz, they go ‘zoem-zoem’.
15. In Malay cats don’t miaow, they go ‘ngiau’.
16. In Bengali cows don’t moo, they say ‘hamba’.
17. In Thai owls don’t hoot, they go ‘hook hook’.
18. In Albanian pigs don’t oink, they go ‘hunk hunk’.
19. In Vietnamese sheep don’t baa, they go ‘be-hehehe’.
20. Nine languages don’t have words for colour - they only differentiate between black and white. For example in Dan (New Guinea) things can be ‘mili’ (darkish) or ‘mola’ (lightish).
21. In Hindi, the word for ‘yesterday’ (‘kal’) is the same as for tomorrow. The tense of the attached verb tells you of the meaning.
22. In Amharic (Ethiopia), ‘aye’ means ‘no’.
23. In Yiddish, ‘finger’ means ‘toe’.
24. In Georgian, ‘mama’ means ‘father’.
25. In Indonesian ‘air’ means ‘water’.
26. ‘I’m a dot in a place’ is an anagram of ‘a decimal point’.
27. In Albanian there are 27 words for ‘moustache’ including ‘dirs ur’ - meaning the newly sprouted moustache of an adolescent.
28. In Hawaiian, the verb ‘pana po’o’ means to scratch your head in order to remember something you’ve forgotten.
29. In Sinhala (Sri Lanka) the word ‘ayubowan’ means ‘good morning’, ‘good afternoon’, ‘good evening’, ‘good night’ and ‘goodbye’.
30. In Masai, the name of a dead child, woman or warrior is not spoken again. If their name is also a word that is used every day, then it is no longer used by the bereaved family.
31. In Japan, four (shi) and nine (ku) are considered unlucky numbers, because the words sound the same as those for ‘death’ and ‘pain or worry’.
32. Because of this, some hospitals don’t have room numbers 4, 9, 14, 19 or 42. Forty-two (‘shi-ni’) means ‘to die’, 420 (‘shi-ni-rei’) means ‘a dead spirit’ and 24 (‘ni-shi’) is double death.
33. The Russian word for a railway station is ‘vokzal’. This is because when a Russian convoy visited Vauxhall in South London in 1840, they confused the name of the railway station there for the general name of the building. From then on, railway stations in Russia were called ‘vokzal’. Although this story has been contested.
34. ‘Achaplinarse’ is a Spanish (Central American Spanish) word which means to hesitate and then run away in the style of Charlie Chaplin.
35. “Así te tragues un pavo y todas las plumas se conviertan en cuchillas de afeitar” is a Spanish curse, meaning ‘may all your turkey’s feathers turn into razor blades’.
36. The Romanian proverb ‘dacă doi îți spun că ești beat, du-te și te culcă’ translates as ‘if two people say you’re drunk, go to sleep’. Which is just good advice.
37. When a word spelled backward (such as ‘pots’), creates another word (‘stop’) it’s called a semordnilap, which is ‘palindromes’ backward.
38. A pangram is a sentence which contains every letter of the alphabet only once. For example: ‘Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz’ which means ‘carved symbols in a mountain hollow on the bank of an inlet irritated an eccentric person’.
39. ‘Sgriob’ (Scottish Gaelic) denotes the itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whiskey.
40. ‘Lampadato’ (Italian) describes a person who gets tanned using a sun lamp.
41. ‘Katahara itai’ (Japanese) means laughing so much that one of your sides hurts.
42. ‘Backpfeifengesicht’ (German) means a face that cries out for a fist in it.
43. ‘Zastrich’ (Russian) means to cut one’s nails too short.
44. ‘Vogget’ (Cornish) means to hop on one leg.
45. ‘Guuguu’ (Japanese) describes the sound of someone in a deep sleep, snoring.
46. ‘Viajou na maionese’ is a Portuguese phrase meaning ‘to live in a dream world’ (literally to travel in the mayonnaise).
47. ‘U’ (Samoan) means an enlarged land snail.
48. ‘U’ (Xeta, Brazil) to eat animal meat.
49. ‘U’ (Burmese) means a male over 45 (literally an uncle).
50. In Somali there are 43 words relating to camels (for example, ‘cayuun’ meaning ‘camel spit’.)
51. ‘Ben’ (Turkish), ‘Ami’ (Bengali), ‘Fi’ (Welsh), ‘Jo’ (Catalan), ‘Mama’ (Sinhala), ‘Mimi’ (Swahili) and ‘Man’ (Wolof) all mean ‘I’.

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[Thelurker1234]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/I04Htqt.png[/IMG]

Kind of interested about the clicking fact, and why, and if it's true. If I had to guess it'd be due to muscles that need to be developed, much like how rolling your rs makes use of muscles that take time to develop (though even adults can learn to do it even if they've never done it before).

[reevezy67]

[QUOTE=lyna;48085613]Fellow Mandarin Chinese language learners, what resources have been most helpful to you?[/QUOTE]

Chinese Skill and Pleco. They are apps for both Android and iOS.

[reevezy67]

I made a Memrise group if anyone wants to join, that way we can compete and stuff.

[URL]http://www.memrise.com/group/9823509/[/URL]

I added a couple basic courses but there probably wont be any you want in there, If you want a course added let me know.

[B]
Edit:[/B]
You can study a course that isn't in the group and let me know, the points you earn in it even while it isn't in the group counts towards the group leaderboard once I've added it.

[KOS-MOS]

Any good books or other good materials for learning Spanish?
I know some decent Spanish but I want to learn more and expand my Spanish vocabulary.

[écuyerq]

i am going to be taking classes for french, something i should've gotten around to doing years ago with how important it is to me.

i'm very excited, but also nervous - and this is for the same reason that i've put off learning it; i'm scared that i'll be one of those people who just can't grasp a second language

[reevezy67]

Nah, that's stupid. Anyone can do it, as long as you are passionate about learning.

Memrise has French courses if you are interested [url]http://www.memrise.com/group/9823509/[/url] ;) I want to get a group going, competition breeds motivation.

[reevezy67]

干吗？

[donny]

I'm back from Vancouver

Canadian are nice :)

[editline]5th July 2015[/editline]

Except that one crazy hobo that yelled 'THIS IS CANADA SPEAK ENGLISH' which then I cursed back at him in Cantonese

[reevezy67]

Cool.

请问。

我能用 "可怕" 这里吗？
我的中文非常可怕。

Or am I literally just saying that my chinese is very scary?

[editline]5th July 2015[/editline]

I wish I could do the chinese quotation like brackets on this keyboard.

[editline]5th July 2015[/editline]

Oh I can. It's just very very well hidden. 「可怕」

[thefreemann]

[DEL]Well yea, but it's a really tongue and cheek thing to say. [/DEL]
Actually no, you're pretty much saying it's scary, not correct.

Are you trying to say your Chinese isn't that great? Or..

[reevezy67]

Well yeah.

Stupid Pleco.

[MatheusMCardoso]

Later this year the confucius institute is supposed to begin establishing itself in my university and next year start offering mandarin courses.

I'm hyped

[peep]

[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;48129724]Later this year the confucius institute is supposed to begin establishing itself in my university and next year start offering mandarin courses.

I'm hyped[/QUOTE]

start now!
get on qq and add me im 2485773405

[editline]5th July 2015[/editline]

qq exchange everyone?

[donny]

431231215

[xVENUSx]

I'm having a hard time with learning Japanese, I can't friggin remember the hiragana characters.
Urghhhh... help me guys

[reevezy67]

3239388219
Why not make a group? I'd do it but I only have my tablet at the moment.

[thefreemann]

[QUOTE=reevezy67;48129694]Well yeah.

Stupid Pleco.[/QUOTE]

我的中文不太好。
"My Chinese isn't that great"

我的中文很差。
"My Chinese is really bad"

QQ ID: 2987344571

[reevezy67]

真差

[editline]6th July 2015[/editline]

你们都是大学生吗？