Language Learning

Hola,

I’m a native Spanish speaker from Spain (I live in the U.S., spoke English all my life with a native English speaking father and my English could be better than my Spanish). Since I am Spanish, we use vosotros. While I heard people in the U.S. learn “ustedes comen”, I would say “vosotros coméis”.

Usually online dictionaries provide the British English or American English pronounciation of a word. I am specifically looking for New Zealand English. Can anyone name a site where i can find this?

The youngest sibling born long after the other siblings were born in Norwegian is apparently an attpåklatt 😄

Gives me a little bit of life every time to see updates on everyone's journey. Where are you at with it this week?

I thought Duolingo was great before it enshitified. I genuinely learned more from Duolingo than from any other method. Will Babbel fill that Duolingo-sized hole? I want to learn Spanish to rizz goth latinas. Also because it's a beautiful language. I also live in an area with lots of people who speak it as a first language and I'd like to be able to communicate better. Thank you!

I am a native Turkish speaker who actively uses English, Russian, and German, and understands Arabic, Greek, and Bulgarian.

I am looking for colleagues and language partners, especially for language practice (voice recording and writing).To correct pronunciation errors, answer cultural and grammatical questions, and share resources, you can contact me via the email address below.

E-mail : gokayburuc@yandex.com

As an avid Japanese learner, I always wanted there to be a simple online trainer for learning kana, kanji and vocabulary by JLPT level for Japanese learners. So, I started working on a brand new, completely free and fully open-source app in recent months. It’s very new and still in its infant stages (and I'm looking to extend it to other languages too once it gets polished enough), but here are the features so far:

• Full JLPT vocabulary and kanji coverage, with more than 1000+ levels for you to play
• More than 25+ different fonts and font styles
• More than 100+ different color themes, with the ability to add and upload your own custom backgrounds
• 100% free and open-source, forever
• All learning materials 100% AI-free, sourced from reputable sources and available for full download and inspection

If that sounds interesting to you, you’re welcome to try it out and provide some feedback: https://kanadojo.com/

GitHub just in case: https://github.com/lingdojo/kana-dojo

ありがとうございます!

!learnnorwegian@thelemmy.club

I've been reading about PIE and i'm confused. As I understand, it is assumed to be the language spoken by Europeans 6,000 years ago. No written record of the language has ever been found so the language has been reconstructed through seemingly arbitrary means. So, In all likeliness actual PIE sounded very different. What makes this language (as it exists today) useful? This is essentially a conlang that is too complicated to learn. What am I missing? Sorry if I'm coming off as negative. I find PIE both confusing and fascinating.

Are you sticking with it?

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/48131421

Hi Everyone 👋

I’ve created an Italian-English language exchange XMPP room, and I am trying to get the community growing. If you’re a speaker of English or Italian and want to practice your skills in the other language, feel free to join 😎:

xmpp:italian-language-exchange@chat.disroot.org

I also created an experimental Mumble room that you can join here:

mumble://disroot.org/Italian%20%7C%20English%20Language%20Exchange

Interesting article about the FSRS algorithm

Sorry for the late post. It escaped me that we're back at Sunday already!

How has your week gone, learning-wise?

Are you still making progress?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/58317578

Ownership of open source flashcard app Anki transferred to for-profit AnkiHub

As always, let's take some time to reflect on and share progress. Any wins lately? Hit any setbacks?

The week was exhausting.... Because I tried my hardest to use my target language and it takes a lot of effort. But the week has been full of positive encounters and it went ok!

You all have had a good langlearning week, I hope?

I'm at the level where I must start forming sentences. The best exercise I've found for this is roleplay. So let's make a forum game out of this!!

In character roleplay will be done in German only. Meta-discussion (rules questions, edits, takebacks...) will be done in English only.

Rules:

1. No AI, make sentences of your own accord. Correct other people's mistakes with your own effort.

2. Set the topic to sort-by-new. Try to work off the most recent post.

3. Reply in a thread if you think someone else made a grammar mistake, explain the mistake in English so that we know it is 'out of character's. If making a correction post, please include your rough level (A0, A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, or native).

4. Wait for either 24 hours before replying to yourself (as the other character), or wait for some human to respond. IE: if two people are logged in at the same time, feel free to keep roleplaying with each other in German.

5. You may play both roles, as long as you aren't repeatably responding to yourself. (24 hour delay before responding to yourself as per rule #4).

6. Try to keep the roleplay words to the level of the topic. If A1 is too easy, make a new topic aiming for a higher level.

7. Start every roleplay with a character name, making it clear 'who is talking'.

Roleplay situation: Alice has just called Hanz, and Hanz has picked up the phone. Alice wants to invite Hanz and hang out over the weekend. Try to figure out the time and schedule of each other in German.

I'll start with

Hanz:Hallo. Ich bin Hanz.

I am so god damn proud of you all. Every week I read of wins and struggles and it's exciting and inspiring following your langlearning journey.

Everytime I get frustrated I come back to the weekly discussion thread and get that small spark of motivation that helps me push through that next pit of despair :)