• Codex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    Ich lerne jeden Tag Deutsch! Still getting in my daily Deutsch lessons (on Duo, I don’t just mean trying to decipher !ich_iel@feddit.de posts!)

    I kind of miss studying Chinese as well but I wasn’t getting much use from it and a casual watch of any actual Chinese speakers convinced me that Duo was not really teaching me the right way to say things.

    Maybe I should get back into Spanish though… it’s weird but learning multiple different languages as once actually seems a little easier; it gets the language center of the brain making lots of new connections.

    Though, I’m still salty about duolingo changing the free-form lessons into the “learning path” and don’t feel motived to work on other languages much. I keep up with German because I’m nearly to a 1000 day streak and my ocd wont allow me to let it drop! Help, the green owl is holding me prisoner with my own mind!

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      Just so you know, ich_iel (initially it was a german version of me_irl on reddit, but it kind of became its own weird thing) posts make deliberately terrible direct translations as their primary characteristic. In fact, everything must be translated literally.

      Comments do this too, so anything you learn from there you should take with a grain of salt because it is often not how words are actually used. Probably similar to your chinese experience in that regard.

      There are some other communities on feddit.de that don’t do this though, those might be more worth checking out

    • valentinesmith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Viel Erfolg beim weiteren Lernen! Wenn du es schon so weit geschafft hast, wirst du es bestimmt auch bis zum 1000. Tag schaffen auch wenn ich hoffe dass es eher aus Freude an der Sache passiert und nicht nur wecen deinem OCD.

      Und ich habe auch schon öfter gehört, dass mehrere Sprachen gleichzeitig lernen leichter sein soll. Mich hat Chinesisch als tonale Sprache immer eher abgeschreckt aber Spanisch mochte ich auch gerne lernen :)

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    I’ve been working on Spanish for 4 months or so now and can speak about simple concepts and can get the gist of most everyday conversations.

    I’m using Dreaming Spanish which uses comprehensible input- just listening no studying grammar or vocab. It was a bit of a slog in the beginning because I could only understand things so simple that they were uninteresting. But after two months at three hours a day I started watching dubbed shows (usually kids shows) like Avatar and Pokémon and could mostly keep up with it. I think a few more months and I’ll be able to have a decent conversation without tripping up. If I keep my responses somewhat simple I can already do a lot. I have a lot of Spanish speakers at work and they have said my pronunciation is very good, and sometimes don’t believe I’ve only been at it 4 months.

    The method is really great IMO. I’ve tried Duo and other traditional methods in the past and never got even close to this far. It definitely helps my listening comprehension miles better. With the other methods speaking and reading seem like math problems where you’re trying to conjugate and put things in order… to me some things just sound “right” and I’m not sure why/couldn’t quite explain it.

    I’ve been working on Spanish for 4 months or so now and can speak about simple concepts and can get the gist of most everyday conversations.

    I’m using Dreaming Spanish which uses comprehensible input- just listening no studying grammar or vocab. It was a bit of a slog in the beginning because I could only understand things so simple that they were uninteresting. But after two months at three hours a day I started watching dubbed shows (usually kids shows) like Avatar and Pokémon and could mostly keep up with it. I think a few more months and I’ll be able to have a decent conversation without tripping up. If I keep my responses somewhat simple I can already do a lot. I have a lot of Spanish speakers at work and they have said my pronunciation is very good, and sometimes don’t believe I’ve only been at it 4 months.

    The method is really great IMO. I’ve tried Duo and other traditional methods in the past and never got even close to this far. It definitely helps my listening comprehension miles better. With the other methods speaking and reading seem like math problems where you’re trying to conjugate and put things in order… to me some things just sound “right” and I’m not sure why/couldn’t quite explain it.

    But now I’m hitting that intermediate plateau where it seems the more I learn, the more I know that I don’t know. If that makes sense. A lot of work ahead.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Latin. I took Latin way back in middle school but had to drop it because I was an asshat (probably also undiagnosed adhd). I’ve since started a serious Roman coin collection and in order to study and appreciate them more fully, a basic command of Latin seemed key to me. If it works out, I might try (ancient) Greek next, but I realize that’s a whole other can of worms still.

  • Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Only Spanish for me, but I’ve spoken it for almost 10 years now. Don’t really feel like learning another because I know I won’t learn it to the extent of my Spanish

  • codeman869@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’ve been learning German on and off for a few years now. Made a meme for ich_iel, so I feel somewhat accomplished in that sense. I recently thought I’d go back to Japanese, took 4 years in high school and I’m surprised at how much I remember.

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyzMEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Also does programming languages count?

      Only for the sleep deprivation and caffeine addiction.