#language lover

[witch-is-writing]

If you study German and struggle especially with the grammatical genders - let me tell you what I always tell the people comming to me for help with German.

Grammatical genders can be tricky. If you have to do declension on the articles, adjectives and nouns respectively according to the nouns gender - it can go wrong quickly if you dont know what (randomly assigned) gender it has. Or well... what case to use.

And you know what? Thats fine. Don't care too much about it all for now. If your goal is to be able to hold conversations and understand as much as possible - so normal everyday language use - and not write 100% perfect accademic essays ... it doesnt matter that much.

We will be able to understand you just fine even if the grammatical genders are all over the place. When you listen more and more to natives you will automatically get the hang of der, die, das with some time.

[moonenthusiastartichoke]

Sooo, sorry for the random question. Hello first of all.

But I've been wondering, how many languages do you speak? And to what level?

If you don't mind sharing. Because it feels like I see you talking about them all the time and that's super cool.

I love languages and yessss. So I'd love to know, haha!

Feel free to ignore this ask if you don't wanna share :)

Hello!

I don’t mind sharing it as much as you’re aware that I don’t learn languages for vanity and for the taste of saying “I know so many languages so I’m cooler than you!”. But I learn languages because I’m genuinely interested in them and I like discovering new cultures. And they may always turn out useful, right?

Also, I won’t judge anyone struggling with learning languages and/or knowing lesser languages. Each one of us has their own learning processes and interests.

Let’s start with Italian, my native language. Then come English and French -I’m at a very confident level.

At a lower level of confidence come Swedish, German and Spanish. (There may be some cheating here because, as an Italian, I find Spanish easily understandable. And a lot of vocabulary is similar😜).

I’d also like to learn some new languages, including some non-European ones! I’m way too curious.

And yes, I find knowing several languages super cool! Although sometimes my mind mixes words and structures, that’s very impractical.🫠

[babooshkaa]

ways to make duolingo useful

1. jump units

in the new "tree" all the new vocabulary is in the first lesson, then duolingo makes you study it for like a week if you're lucky, so if you're confident you've learnt all the new words just jump to the next unit (I also find myself remembering my mistakes better if I make them while trying to jump than when I make them in regular lessons)

❗after jumping always come back to the stories you missed, they're like the most useful thing there is in the app

2. use other resources

I know this is a post about duolingo, but people, mostly beginners, seem to think that they only need duolingo to become fluent. my mom has a 700 days strike and she still can't keep a simple conversation in english or understand an episode of fucking teletubbies, that should tell you everything. read content for beginners, watch youtube videos, tv-shows, use other apps, I promise the owl won't kill you for it

3. stop when it starts slowing you down

trust me you don't need to use duolingo when you're intermediate, it's just not worth it. leave it for the days you can't study properly and want to do at least something

[chiara-klara-claire]

Polyglot meet-ups 🇪🇺

With other people based in the Netherlands I am trying to organize Polyglot meet-ups. If you live in the Benelux or neighbouring areas or can come to NL feel free to message me!

🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 🇱🇺

Meet-up locations will be based off the whereabouts of people joining.

Currently making a WhatsApp group of people who joined the Polyglot Gathering.

[neristudy]

Sharing my language learning apps!~

I am not such a fan of "1000 and 1 app for every language" tbh, because mostly, i am just getting overwhelmed. I don't even use those every day, exept for 3 or 4 - and it's okay~

But anyway - my apps and their uses!

GERMAN // top and bottom row

Babbel - my main app, the best app for learning German for me, esp because there's a German course for Ukrainian learners. Also, it can be used w/o paying and w/o hella annoying adds. I love it.

Flashcards - basically for me, its Anki but better. Oh, but how can something beat The Anki? Answer is simple, because oh my siblings in Christ, how miserable I was, trying to set up Anki. It's long, its sad, and most of the time there's no sound! Flashkards, in turn, can be set up in minutes, even less, and has voice overs! In any languages! So I can even set up German/Ukrainian decks! Really useful, and, again, no ads.

Clozemaster - my gamification/listening stuff. I even have a guide for it!~

Tutor Lily - the least annoying chatbot for me, so I can train german speaking&writing. A bit silly, but a lot better for my anixiety than speaking to a real person! Has only 10 free messages per day, but if you speak/write a lot, you can really make them count.

Deutsche Welle - I honestly don't really love their explanation and find them a bit lacking, but I wanna use their german course as a bit of a crutch to my real life one!~

LEO - it's not a learning app per ce, its a dictionary. And really good one, at that! Really useful for me to find those pesky articles xD

CHINESE // second row

HelloChinese - my main app. And really, it's the app that brings me the most joy. It has native people speaking, it has a funny mascot, and honestly, it's first language learning app where I really think about buying premium at some point. It's really good, and fun!!

Lingodeer - a bit less fun and more focused. I find it a lot more "school-like", if that's make sence. Almost no fun, 100% concentration on a study. I am using it from time to time, but it's a lot harder for me to stay commited to it.

Immersive Chinese - basically a character drill app. A lot of concentrated knowlege and uses for a specific characters, I honestly use it and Lingodeer pretty interchangebly.

JAPANESE // third row

Renshuu - my main app. It has character drills, it has fun, it has everything. Honestly, one can use this as their main app, and with some books an youtube get pretty good, I think!~

Learn Japanese - kanji & hiragana drills, a bit extra to rensuu ones!

YuSpeak - basically a bit extra, as well, but in sentences and learning. Haven't use it as much as Renshuu and Lean Japanese, but it's a lot similar to HelloChinese (even from the same developers? Not sure) so hopefully will use it more in future~

Please, note that no app, even the greatest app in the world, will teach you the language by itself. But it can always be a fun hobby, give you a really strong foundation for a future course, or even just give you a bit of a taste for language to understand, do you want to commit or not, and it's tottaly, 110% okay.

Just make sure to not get unrealistic expectation of "I finish course in app X and will be fluent". It does not work like that, nor should it.

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

“She’s everything, he’s just Ken” is made all the more hilarious knowing that ken literally just means “who?” in at least 8 languages

[flamingo-studies]

日本語ブログ　ようこぞ！/ Welcome to my Japanese language blog!

日本語で：初めまして！　フライともうす。　5年くらい前に日本語が勉強している。日本へ行ったことがないんだけど、ぜひ行きたいやねん。いつか日本で勉強したいも。今自分で習っている。趣味は　漫画を読むとか、犬と散歩に行くとか、カンピンやねん。

漢字が少し難しいんだけど、おもろいと思う。そして関西弁がめっちゃおもろいやねん。

私は　スペイン語とか、英語とか、日本語が　はなせる。イタリア語少しんだけど。

英語：Hi! My name is Fry. I''ve been studying Japanese for 5 years or so. I've never been to Japan but I definitely want to go. I'd like to study in Japan someday as well. Right now I'm studying on my own. I like to read manga, walk my dogs and go camping.

Although kanji is a bit hard, I think it's pretty cool. Also Kansaiben (Kansai's dialect) is very cool too.

I can speak Spanish, English and Japanese. And just a little bit of Italian.

Like/Reblog if you're another langblr, or studyblr in general or post any of the following, so I can follow you!

haikyuu, jujutsu kaisen, demon slayer, fullmetal alchemist, one piece

anything japan related

nature or plants

art, literature

any variety of academia blog