would you call it een waarachtige woordenboekworsteling?
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 9 February 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
Ik weet het waarachtig niet!
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 February 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
Chinese anyone?
― cakelou, Sunday, 10 February 2019 03:33 (five years ago) link
Wil je nog koffie?
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 February 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
Mandarin course is pretty good but after battling through the third checkpoint I took a long break and haven’t really been back.
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 February 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
― nathom, Sunday, 10 February 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
― nathom, Sunday, 10 February 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
_would you call it een waarachtige woordenboekworsteling?_Never heard of that. Sounds "stiff"
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 February 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
‘twas
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 10 February 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
Some discussion here of why Japanese is the hardest of the hard and more difficult to learn than Mandarin. https://www.reddit.com/r/foreignservice/comments/7eqk7t/language_difficulty_ratings_according_to_fsi/#thing_t1_dq6u69a
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 February 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
Actual FSI site has only four categories and no asterisks. There German is not in its own category but lumped in with the slightly harder languages. Not sure who modified the categories and added asterisks but I agree with them.
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 February 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
Just learned about the so-called circumpositions in Dutch.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 March 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
Een voorbeeld: ik loop langzaam naar hem toe.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 March 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
So I usually watch netflix with the english subtitles on because we get a lot of street noise when the windows are open. Sometimes the shows or movies only have spanish subtitles. Last night I started watching a french movie with the spanish subtitles on and my brain couldn't deal. It was really bad.
― Yerac, Sunday, 3 March 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
I haven’t tried this yet but it seems like it could be useful.
https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 3 March 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
Xpost this is what it feels like learning w duolingo. I mean, shit, my English is pretty good (eyeroll) but in my head I'm thinking about how sth gets lost when I have to translate to dutch. And I'm "content" is happy but in dutch we use the same word anyway. Gah
― nathom, Sunday, 3 March 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
There can be something very confusing about hearing and reading subtitles in two closely related languages.That extension does indeed look useful, Ed, thanks.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 March 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
Ed, thanks! Yeah, I basically tuned out the french and was just reading the spanish and then getting confused about what language I was hearing. It also probably didn't help that I was drinking wine.
― Yerac, Sunday, 3 March 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
I used the non-extension search for Dutch and when I restricted availability to the US it gave me too small of a set, leaving out films that indeed I can see.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 March 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link
Thanks to subtitles I learned English as a kid. Here in Belgium we never dub films. Been on duolingo for ab 40 days. Hurrah
― nathom, Sunday, 3 March 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
Gefeliciteerd!
Maybe the point of that site is to only tell you videos with both audio and subtitles available in the target language.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 March 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
I can't stress enough the importance of watching movies w subtitles. It really is a good way to learn a language. A dialogue goes much quicker and you have diff ways of speech/pronounciation.
― nathom, Monday, 4 March 2019 10:35 (five years ago) link
Just remembered that when I was nipper I would read from a Dutch book in translation, Paulus and the Acornmen.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 March 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
Oh man, Paulus de Boskabouter, that takes me waaaaay back in time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNaJ19bTqoEWe had this flexi disc at home when I was a kid (apparently it was a freebie that came with washing powder or something in... 1964) I must have listened to this a thousand times back then. All the characters were voiced by writer Jean Dulieu himself. “Even? Even? Dacht je dan dat dat zo gemakkelijk ging?”
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 9 March 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link
And these were on TV:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9eTyUKDcPA
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link
Wow, thanks!
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link
Thank you for reminding me!
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 9 March 2019 03:06 (five years ago) link
Tu n’as validé aucune unité lors de ce testNe t’inquiète pas ! C’est en forgeant qu’on devient forgeron.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 March 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
Haha I can sort of understand this. Have to say I'm less hesitant to address french customers. Yay
― nathom, Saturday, 9 March 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link
Surely a Flemish speaker the correct way to address French customers is with disdain.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 9 March 2019 22:30 (five years ago) link
I've got to the stage where my French vocab is pretty good but my grammar is sorely lacking. I'm working my way through this textbook although I wish it would stick in my head better.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51PYHL3xDbL._SX376_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
Has anyone made any grammar breakthroughs recently?
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
A grammar breakthrough would be great - in my Spanish evening class we've learned three past tenses now (he hablado, hablé, hablaba) and have been collectively struggling for weeks to get to grips with the nuances of when each is to be used. Plenty of times it is obvious, but there are so many subtleties and I can't quite get the hang of it yet.
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
― nathom, Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
Ah yeah breakthrough. I'm just studying what I learned in (and subsequently forgot after) high school. So no breakthrough. I wonder if I finish duolingo, what I should do? Read Rimbaud? Or start memrise? Are there any apps that go further than duolingo? Je veux etre capable de seduire un Parisien. 😂
― nathom, Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
N’oublie pas Johnny Hallyday!
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
But I really came to post interesting expression I just came across that I don’t quite get:een boterham met tevredenheid - du pain sec
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 March 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
Maybe something easier than Rimbaud, but I’m finding reading native material is really helping the Japanese. I joined a couple of reading groups on a Japanese learning forum. Find something that interests you and start to read. There are a bunch of browser extensions that allow you to look up words in browser which makes things faster although the built in Japanese-English dictionary on the kindle is terrible.
If I were doing French I’d be reading Asterix in French.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
Oh good idea! Maybe they have Asterix on kindle Et il y a aussi VanDamme. Wat is een boterham met tevredenheid?!? Ik ga nu opzoeken.
― nathom, Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
Oh wow! Een boterham met tevredenheid is just a slice of bread. Nothing on it. So dry bread. Pain sec.
― nathom, Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
It seems to have a figurative meaning too, which I can’t quite parse:Schaars inkomen, schaarse middelen waar men het maar mee moet doen
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
Oh I think I see
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
Daar gaan we weer!
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 March 2019 13:01 (five years ago) link
Weer of geen weer.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 March 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link
Neem me niet kwalijk.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
Oefening baart kunst.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2019 12:01 (five years ago) link
I love the last saying. It's not used enough imo (in mijn opinie lol)
― nathom, Thursday, 14 March 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
It's raining cats dogs: het regent pijpestelen.
― nathom, Thursday, 14 March 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
Een bord pasta of een bord met pasta?
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link
Wat is het addertje onder het gras?
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2019 11:49 (five years ago) link
Okay this is just weird:Wil je dat Duo je stiefvader wordt?
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link