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?

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?

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

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!

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.

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.

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

I decided to learn Spanish. So far, I speak two languages, and I would like to add more. I have been looking into different apps but got overwhelmed by the number of them. Maybe someone can recommend what worked best for them.

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?

What do you do to stay motivated ? I've been having trouble staying motivated to learn Spanish. I started 2 years ago and Arabic 1 year ago.

I feel like I think so slow when I’m trying to speak Spanish. It feels less like I’m learning a new word for an object and more like I’m trying to remember a code word for something. I wish I could just look at something & immediately think of the Spanish word for something in the same way you look at a pair of shoes & know that they’re “tenis shoes”, “sneakers”, or “trainers” as if it was just another word for the object. My brain makes a direct connection to the English word & the concept in my brain but when I’m trying to practice Spanish it feels like I get stuck trying to remember each and every words direct translation instead of it feeling like I’m moving smoothly through a sentence.

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?

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?

There is a large Filipino population where I live, some of them being my coworkers, so I have just recently decided to start learning Tagalog. I am willing to learn any language, and being around those who speak my target language would make learning so much faster.

But what does one talk about when their language level is on par with that of a 3 year old (maybe not even aha). Also, at what point should I start talking with them? An A2 level?

i've been finding it really difficult to find english shows with bosnian subtitles or bosnian shows with english subtitles and language learning apps don't usually have extensive courses. also if anyone has textbook or course recommendations please share!

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.

German is my third language I'm learning, but I also experienced this with the previous ones: sometimes while listening to something in a foreign language, and I finally achive that stage which I call "real time comprehension" it feels like it is percieved throught a different path in my brain, and I get so deeply impressed that I'll have tears in my eyes. It almost doesn't matter what the content was, so it might just be a wierd difference in processing that gives me that feeling, or is this the feeling when different parts of previous knowledge are making connection in my brain?
I'm wondering if anyone experienced this.

My parents immigrated to the US from a very small (pop: ~2 mil) country. The country at one point was a british protectorate so almost everyone there speaks English (it's technically the official language of the nation). Therefore, there aren't a lot of resources to learn the language because no one would ever really need to learn it outside of immersion (My parents get long, disappointed stares whenever a stranger realizes that I don't speak it).

That being said, I realized that the bible is translated into basically every currently spoken language and that it might be one of the best resources I have. It's the only thing I have that would have that I could read in my TL and English and as well as listen to.

My question is how exactly should I go about using it? I'm a Christian so I have no issue studying the bible I'm just not sure what to do. Should I make flashcards with verses? Should I just read/listen over and over again?

The idea of basically creating my own language course is so daunting but I'm just so tired of feeling so insecure about not being able to speak it.

p.s. I have been to the country with my family multiple times so if you'd like to suggest sitting around a fire and listening to people speak it for 3 hours, believe me I've done it before ;)

TLDR: how do i use the bible to learn a language there are sparse resources for?

*edited for formatting and TLDR

I’ve been using the app for a while now when watching kdramas and it has been very helpful with understanding Korean… but when I tried using it recently, it required for the Korean subs to show to upgrade to pro….

Is there a free alternative to this??? To be exact what I want is just for the accurate Korean subtitles to show along with the English ones… Not auto translated Korean subs of the English subs that is different but the accurate ones that correspond to what they say Is that possible??

I'm currently studying Norwegian using these resources:
A coursebook, Anki, a fiction book entirely in Norwegian, and Duolingo (I know it isn't the most optimal but it's too much fun I can't help it)

How would you divide 2 hours into these? (I never studied another language before!)