I have a friend that has more than once started a language that I have put on hold or abandoned and they usually end up outstripping me, at least in the short run.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
There is also some aspect of I don’t really know until I try what language really wants to be learned deep inside the Solaris ocean of my mind.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 December 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
Maybe 2021 is the year to try italki
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 January 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
Drops 90 Day challenge is on.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 January 2021 00:42 (three years ago) link
Let me share my iTalki link
https://www.italki.com/i/DG6EeD
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Saturday, 2 January 2021 03:45 (three years ago) link
Ah, thanks, but I forgot about that and already signed up earlier.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 January 2021 03:54 (three years ago) link
I am assuming you are using it for Japanese. Do you have a teacher you like? Don’t feel like pursuing Japanese right now, but might change my mind. Can’t figure out how to follow you either, assuming you don’t mind me following you.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 January 2021 05:23 (three years ago) link
Hm, looks like I can follow someone through the posts on the community wall, but not otherwise.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 January 2021 05:30 (three years ago) link
I have a woman called aikiko based in Melbourne, she’s one of many young Japanese in Australia trying her best to dodge going home for ever. We mainly do conversation practice and read magazine articles, it works pretty well.
I’ve never posted anything on the community wall.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Sunday, 3 January 2021 07:53 (three years ago) link
Also trying to see the different ways to search for teachers, tried to find your teacher for example but couldn't.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link
Anyway, tried a lesson yesterday which was kind of interesting, tried to schedule another one for today, but that teacher didn't respond but yet another one did so we will see.
Okay I tried some more lessons. Think I found a really good guy for Hungarian who lives in South America thereby also teaching Spanish and is low-cost that I think I would recommend if someone is interested.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 00:33 (three years ago) link
A bunch of these people speak or teach multiple languages, so it is possible to do something like learn a new language and reinforce one you already know with the same person.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
I've never tried this. Only japanese.
All I can say though is everyone is crazy undercharging for the effort they put in.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 03:59 (three years ago) link
Yeah.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 04:02 (three years ago) link
Just compare it to what you would pay for, say, music lessons.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 04:03 (three years ago) link
Ed, do you use the italki classroom? Or Skype? Or Zoom perhaps?
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 January 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
Zoom typically, no teacher has ever been able to get the italki classroom to work.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Saturday, 9 January 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
Ha, I think it worked for me once or twice but yeah.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 January 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
How long of a lesson do you typically do?
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 January 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
Normally an hour, sometimes I regret that as it’s scheduled after work and it can make for a long day.
I’m really using it for general conversation, and my fallback is to have some stuff to read together. Which can still be taxing, still not perfect with kanji.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Saturday, 9 January 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
https://uusikielemme.fi/finnish-grammar/grammatical-cases/the-partitive-case-partitiivi
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 January 2021 03:30 (three years ago) link
Hey, so I just finished the Finnish tree.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 January 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
cool! one run through? how many nodes are there?
I'm in the latter part of my third run through the French->Italian tree. still having more fun with French->German, but I have a lot more context for German in my work, so a lot of words & even grammar are like, oh yeah, people argue about how to translate that word into English from Kant.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 18 January 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
34 nodes maybe. Think I will spend some time on this with Clozemaster next. I hear you about German.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 January 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
Wirklich!
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 18 January 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
Just looked at Scottish Gaelic and there was a huge update which seems to have started rolling out in December.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 February 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
There are a lot more languages with English than with French!
I'm on my fourth round through the French->Italian tree. It's getting routine. This is good, but not always much fun. But I am a devoted student.
I'm probably 1/3 through my first run through the French->German tree. It's very much not routine. But it's more enjoyable now than Italian, because every lesson is an a-ha! moment. It will become routine too I imagine.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Thursday, 18 February 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
Do you guys have any Instagram pages you like to follow for languages?
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
My friend likes dw_deutschlernen for German.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link
I don't use instagram. I've ordered a German children's book, having asked a German friend for something her child enjoys, because right now that's a level of German I'm striving for. I read cooking sites in German (chefkoch.de) and Italian (lacucinaitaliana.it) because I like to cook.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
Greek just got a major update.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 February 2021 03:32 (three years ago) link
I like Deutsche Welle too. Not instagram, just their website. They've got a little educational telenovela where every episode is just a few minutes long, and the News in Slow German is good as well. I should get back on learning German; I've really been letting it slide during the pandemic.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 27 February 2021 03:57 (three years ago) link
Recent courses I just discovered: Esperanto from FrenchFrench from Dutch
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 February 2021 12:04 (three years ago) link
Greek course seems to be an improvement
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 February 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link
thanks for the Deutsche Welle reference !
― All cars are bad (Euler), Sunday, 28 February 2021 11:01 (three years ago) link
I follow a bunch of Japanese stuff on Instagram but it’s not language learning, it’s just content in Japanese that I’m interested in, it make me read.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Sunday, 28 February 2021 11:07 (three years ago) link
So the word “Mezzogiorno” came up on another thread. Do you know how to pronounce the “zz” in that word, Euler?
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 March 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
zz like in pizza no, with a bit of t ?
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 1 March 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
btw I finished #1 in my Diamond division this week! first time I've finished #1 in any division, let alone the top division. I ended with just under 4500 points. Usually Diamond takes 6-8k points to win. I got a good draw this week. But I also had a more active week than usual for reasons independent of my ranking (had to stay up late with other people & grinding through this was a way to stay happy). Now I don't have to think about that again.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 1 March 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
no, common mistake
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 March 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
more like a dz in this case
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 March 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
https://forvo.com/word/mezzogiorno/
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 March 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
ha, oh well. my Italian friends will correct me. already, one told me that I have to stop using a castellano accent for Italian.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 1 March 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
heh
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 March 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
Think I finished #1 in Diamond League twice so far but of course the only time that really mattered was the first. Believe I got relegated once but then it was impossible to stay relegated so I try to wait a little bit after the reset before hitting Duolingo directly- I do some other review instead- to avoid at least some of the crazies.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 March 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link
I really wish the Words feature was better, have probably complained about it before.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 March 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
Like I wish it didn't list the super basic words I just practiced, only the harder ones, many of which seem to go missing. At this point I don't really need to know I just practiced the word for "a" or "the" or "no" or "and."
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 March 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
What is the words feature?
― All cars are bad (Euler), Monday, 1 March 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
The ones that the lesson is actually about.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 March 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link