Curious to see how many people can attribute watching TV to their grasping of a foreign language that they have learnt.

I am learning German and watch a decent amount of German tv shows with German subtitles but feel like I don’t get much out of this. How can I maximise the usefulness of doing this? Any tips to help make this a better learning exercise would be appreciated!

Recently decided to try to improve my Spanish with the game. I have something like A2 now and very often t's not easy to get what the NPCs are talking about, but so far I like it. And what your experience with open-world RPGs, is it useful or mostly a waste of time?

Mine is understanding every single word in a relatively long sentence, but still not being able to make sense of the whole thing lol

I've been binge watching polyglot language learning videos on Youtube, and I guess the trendy contrarian thing now is to discuss why you shouldn't use flashcards and memorize vocab lists to learn a language, since it's all about "immersion" and "acquisition". I agree that there's probably some benefit to learning through visual and audible cues like how babies learn their native language, but in my personal experience, my German got a lot better very quickly when I made flashcards and memorized 100 of the most commonly used words. I was also able to read and roughly understand posts in German a lot easier than before. Maybe it just depends on the difficulty of the language you're trying to learn?

What do you think of this quote? The more languages I familiarise myself with, the more I relate to this.

Hey guys! I start a new job on Monday and it has to do with the fact that I speak another language. Now obviously, I am not a native speaker of said language, but I have my college degree in it, I have been learning it for over 10 years, and even native speakers of the language have told me that I speak it really well! I just am so nervous about this job and that I might not measure up because I’m not perfectly fluent. Any advice people could give me to stop stressing and worrying so much? I’m just so anxious about underperforming at the new job in general. Not that I think I will, it’s just the nervousness coming through. Thank u all!

I've done a couple short introductory courses in BSL and would like to continue to develop my proficiency, but there are very few readily available resources, and proper taught courses have high expectations and are pretty expensive.

The problem is, my whole life I've been a pen-and-paper-preferred learner - I just don't do as well with learning (and remembering) by doing (especially in terms of practicing between lessons). I feel lost without notes, but it's pretty hard to "record" signs in writing. I would hate to part with hundreds of pounds only to struggle to keep up and pass courses...

(I also struggle with spatial rotation, so I would need extra practice in comprehension vs production and/or methods to help me "translate" between the two.)

Does anyone have tips or resources for learning and practicing signs outside of in-person lessons with these issues in mind?

I am 25 and have an older lady friend who is in her 80s. I’m learning German and she says she understands German (but I don’t think she really does) as when German shows play she never gets it and the only thing I’ve heard her say is ich verstehe deutsch…

Anyway. I’ve got a German tutor weekly at 5am and read the language daily for about 20 minutes. She usually asks me about it and then proceeds to make these snarky or rude faces and I can’t get over it.

Learning a language is hard enough and getting this idk feeling of disproval or snarkiness is getting to me

What can I do?

From my perspective, I think when it's very hard for me to live in the country where my target language is spoken, I can just immerse yourself in that language wherever I am. Do you have any similar experiences? Or how do you perceive this quote?

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I've met several people that live in a foreign country for a long time and speak the language in their daily lives but somehow their language ability doesn't seem to improve after a certain point. like when people first move to a new country they seem to get better for the first few years but even those who've been in a country for ten years many of them say their language ability is more or less the same as 5 years ago. why is this?

How should a study session look like/ How to structure it

I've been using Baselang for several months and I think it's great. I've learned other languages when I lived abroad by immersing myself, by just listening and talking. The thing is, I'm an introvert. Living abroad, I had no choice except to interact in the target language. Currently, I'm just learning Spanish for something to do. But sometimes it takes monumental effort to force myself to log on for a lesson. And when I do start a lesson, sometimes it's excruciating! But I don't want to give up. This is just a crazy rant. BTW I also do Dreaming Spanish, but I don't think this is as effective as 1:1 speaking lessons.

I am minimal knowledge about Thai and I wonder if I just listen to Thai channel all the time, will I become better?

I was under the impression they’d been removed as a whole because all I ever saw was people saying they’d been removed, but I just learned that they’re still up on a separate “community courses” page!

I’ve been trying to learn Māori and am disappointed by the lack of resources. I knew there used to be Māori Memrise community courses, but I thought they’d been taken down and the Māori community course links I’d seen crop up in my Google searches never worked.

But they still exist! Now I have access to a ton of Māori vocab, including content from NZ university courses. There is also a bunch of stuff I can use to supplement my German studies [I’ve almost finished the regular German Memrise deck. I’m also using some Anki decks, so it’s nice to be able to pair those with community course decks], which is great.

Now I can die happy.

Hi! I have tried many topics on the explore tab, but this "Explore Categories" objective never gets achieved. Does anyone know how to fix this error?

When does language learning journey end?

im learning french right now would it be possible to also learn chinese while doing it?

Hey,
I am currectly learning german, and since german and english are similar in terms of structure, I thought it would be a good idea to practice writing by translating texts / paragraphs from english to german.
The reason why I thought so, is because whenever I try to practice writing about some topic, I either don't have any ideas for sentences, or I do have some ideas, but they all have simple and unchalleging grammar. So translating will help me avoid these two problems. What do you think? Is this smart and useful?

Is Duolingo great to start?

Some adults may not like it, but children’s books explain things better than books for beginners.

In my language, the letter ‘x’ has the exact same pronunciation as the Arabic letter ح which is a ‘h’ but it’s like a ‘h’ that comes from your throat area. People tend to be surprised when I use x in a word, especially those that are familiar with how the letter sounds.

Another language being Turkish. It took me a little while to get used to the fact that the ‘c’ is pronounced like a ‘J’

I have a 4 and 6 year old who want to learn German. My mom is fluent but she only visits twice a year, and despite my many requests, mostly just uses English because it’s easier (she didn’t even keep it up when we were kids! Hence I lost the German I knew when we moved to the US). We’re using Duolingo but the reading and writing aspects are too difficult for their age, plus I’m not interested in the writing & grammar aspects of foreign languages, as this is pretty useless in the practical real world (coming from my experience living abroad in Honduras and Morocco). Are there any apps that are kid friendly that emphasize speaking and comprehension? I’m willing to spend a little money (like $10-$15/ month) if I know it’s good quality. I just don’t want to send my dollars to something that is frustrating or just doesn‘t work.

My english teacher makes a lot of mistakes during class and i have to attend their class just because its mandatory. Im worried that her mistakes will pass onto me subconsciously somehow. Do yall think it's possible for my english skills to stay at this level and not degrade?