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what languages does /lit/ know, is learning, and wants to know? I'll start
>know
English
French
Latin
>Learning
German
>want to learn
Russian
Japanese
Mandarin
Ancient Greek
Spanish
Arabic

>> No.17530563

>know
English
>learning
German
Russian
>want to learn
idk, probably arabic or farsi

>> No.17530581

>>17530547
>know
english
>want to learn
Spanish mostly; I took Latin in high school, and Spanish seems like it would be the most applicable as there are a lot of Spanish-speaking people in my area, and there's lots of literature written in Spanish that would be nice to read in its original language

>> No.17530595

>>17530547
Japanese.

I can read some Latin and Greek.

>> No.17530605

>>17530547
>know
English
Irish
French
>learning
Nothing
>want to learn
German
Russian
Ancient Greek
possibly Spanish

>> No.17530611

>>17530547
I can speak, read, and write in English and Kurdish and I have been able to do so for as long as I can remember. I'm learning Arabic, I can speak well enough, I just need to improve my sentence structuring and enlarge my pool of vocabulary. I plan on learning Farsi, French, and Mandarin, mainly for the literature of those cultures. The existence of the Coleman Barks' translation of Rumi's poetry keeps me up at night, you can't trust translators for poetry.

>> No.17530615

>know
English
>learning
none
>want to learn
I mostly wish to continue learning French some day.

>> No.17530679

>>17530547
>Know
English
Spanish
>Learning
German
Japanese
Want to Learn
Latin
Greek
Dutch
Romanian
Polish

>> No.17530701

>>17530547
>know
English
Spanish (not extremely fluent, but I can read just fine)

>Learning
Russian
French

>want to learn
Norwegian
Maybe German someday

>> No.17530707

>>17530547
english and lisp are all i need

>> No.17530716

>>17530701
oh I also know a little bit of Yiddish

>>17530605
Are you from Ireland or did you learn to speak it? If you learned, what was it like?

>> No.17530735

>Know
Italian
English
Latin

>Learning
I'm working in Baden-Württemberg in order to become fluent in german

>Want to learn
Mandarin
Japanese
French

>> No.17530745

>>17530547
I know Afrikaans English and a decent amount of Japanese.

I really want to learn German one day, when I was younger I tried to learn Latin but I think I got stuck because I used inefficient study methods (Wheelock).

>> No.17530753

>>17530581
Florida or Texas?

>> No.17530778

>>17530716
I'm Irish and went to an Irish only school so I learned it there. Though, because of that I have no discernible accent and rarely speak or write in the language anymore sadly. Also, here they teach it like any other "foreign" language so it's a very unnatural way to learn it.

>> No.17530843

>>17530547
>know
English
>learning
Nothing
>want to learn
Japanese
maybe one more between Russian, German, and French

>> No.17530844

>>17530745
what's wrong with wheelock?

>> No.17530860

I'd like to recommend anons wanting to become fluent in a new language the MIA method (Mass Immersion Approach).

>> No.17530884

>>17530860
What language did you use it to learn? Would it work for French?

>> No.17530894

>know
English
Spanish
French
Latin
>Learning
Modern Greek
>want to Learn
Italian
Ancient Greek

>> No.17530895

>>17530547
>know
Spanish
English

>learning
None

>want to learn
I'm thinking Japanese or Italian, both languages attract me for their culture and literature

>> No.17530915

>know
English and French.
>Want to learn
None. I got the 2 best.

>> No.17530992

>>17530547
>Know
Spanish
English
German
>want to learn
I need to brush up on my German
Japanese

>> No.17531338

>>17530547
>know
english
japanese
>learning
french
>want to learn
german
arabic
russian

>> No.17531348

>>17530547
>know
English
French
Spanish
German
>Learning
Italian
>Want to learn
Basque

>> No.17531397

>>17530547
>know
English
Hindi
Korean
Urdu
>learning
Spanish
>want to learn
Latin
German
Hebrew
French
Italian
Russian
Japanese

>> No.17531564

>>17530860
how do

>> No.17531577

>>17530547
>know
English
Spanish
German
>Learning
Mandarin Chinese
>want to learn
Sanskrit
Greek
French

>> No.17531598

>>17530547
>Know
French
English
German
>Learning
German (I know enough of it to read german and to speak it, but I'm still working on it)
>Want to learn
Arabic
Greek
Latin
Russian

>> No.17531612

I’m learning French. I do not know if I will do anything else, it’s such a time investment. The two classical languages have a certain appeal, as does Russian.

>> No.17531626

>>17530547
>know
english
>learning
nothing yet
>want to learn
Torn between useful language and cool languages. French is the only one that would be useful for me, but Russian Arabic and Italian are so much cooler. Maybe even Greek. I can't decide what to learn.

>> No.17531674

>>17530547
>know
English
>Learning
Russian
Spanish
Latin
>want to learn
Polish
German

>> No.17531689

>>17531626
Go with italian. It's important that you pick a language that you like to keep you motivated and it's much easier than russian and arabic.

>> No.17531719

>>17531689
Is there any good Italian literature? I can't imagine what I'd use it for. It is a very nice language though

>> No.17531724
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17531724

Do people really learn multiple languages at once
I struggle learning just one, god I'm a brainlet...

>> No.17531746

>>17531719
Eco and Dante are the first that come to my mind, but trust me, there is a lot of good italian literature.
> I can't imagine what I'd use it for.
I don't mean to be rude, but with a bug mindset like that you will only speak english until your deathbed. Learning languages isn't about usefulness.

>> No.17531803

>>17530547
>English
>French
>Latin
Holy trinity. Very patrician, anon. Once you've learnt German, you'll be set.

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>>17530547
>know
Portuguese
English
Spanish
>learning
Norwegian (useless)
Italian (the power that Portuguese and Spanish give me over Italian is so big that I'm afraid of getting soft and lazy when I try to learn a language out of the Romance or Germanic roots)
>want to learn
Russian
German
French
Latin
Esperanto
maybe Japanese or Chinese, I was convinced that it would be Japanese but my interests in anime are fading over time and I might as well welcome our new chinese overlords in their own language to farm some social credits, desu this is a lifetime project, I can try to set goals but shit happens, maybe one day I'll get a gf pregnant and we'll have twins and I'll become trapped in a job that doesn't pay well enough and I'll become too tired to even think about dead and constructed languages

>> No.17531974

>>17531746
I guess you're right. It's from listening to my parents tell me that it's pointless to learn a language if it isn't useful. I shouldn't listen though because if it's not interesting I won't learn

>> No.17531986

English
Swearing at Spics, Chinks, and Poos

>> No.17532010

>>17530547
>know
English
French
Latin
>Learning
none atm
>want to learn
German
Hebrew
Ancient Greek
Spanish
Italian

>> No.17532507

>Know
Dutch
English
German
>Learning
Italian
>Want to learn
Brush up high school French
Brush up high school Latin
Spanish

>> No.17532823

>know
None
>learning
English
>want to learn
Latin
Ithkuil

>> No.17532856

I'd like to learn Babylonian so I can talk to demons

>> No.17532981

>know
English
Hindi
Regional language
Japanese
>learning
Japanese
French
>want to learn
Russian
Spanish
Latin

>> No.17533505

>know
English
French
Italian
>learning
Spanish
>want to learn
Nihongo

Gave up on German. Their grammar is dogshit. At first I was like, what the fuck is this shit? Then I was like, I'm not gonna let some kraut tongue beat me, then finally I was like, I'm getting no joy from this, the grammar is donkey brains bananas, fuck this mess, I'm outta here.

>> No.17533607

>>17533505
filtered by german. many such cases (literally)

>> No.17533635

>>17533505
I'm a brainlet and I found German grammar easy. The hardest part is the vocab. What is with people claiming the grammar is too hard. Just give yourself a bit more time and it'll be simple

>> No.17533648

I want to learn russian, farsi, german
I speak 2 languages(gotta polish my english vocab and grammar) is it unrealistic to learn those 3 languages ?

>> No.17533651

>>17533635
They have 16 ways to say the word the. Yeah, nah.

>> No.17533661

>Know
English
Dutch
French
German
Frisian
Latin
>learning
none
>want to learn
Spanish

>> No.17533672

>know
english
>want to know
russian
>don't want to know but am learning it anyways
french

>> No.17533678

How the fuck do you achieve fluency in speaking?
>go to the target country and immerse...
Apart from that. Although being an autismo sperg I'm not sure how helpful asking a shopkeeper for cheese once a week would really be.

Seriously, apart from dumb shit like 'Je regarde les drapeau maintenant' I can't think of anything to say.

>> No.17533680

>>17533651
It sounds harder than it actually is, and it actually replaces English prepositions in certain cases. Like instead of saying "to the", it just becomes a different form of "the."

Also, it becomes intuitive when you have a fluid memory of the gender of the noun. Many instances of "the" also double up. Den can be masculine singular accusative and plural dative, and many other such cases

>> No.17533681

>>17532856
currently learning Babylonian

>> No.17533691

>be me la creatura asquerosa
>know
czech
slovak
german
turkish
spanish
english
>wanna know
portuguese

>> No.17533706

>>17533680
>Den can be one thing and another completely different thing
>and that's a good thing

Plurals are the awful too.

>> No.17533719

>>17533706
Like I said, if you know the genders it actually makes it really simple. This is why they also tell you to learn a gender as if it's a part of pronouncing the noun. The plurals are admittedly funky compared to English, but there are general rules which make it easier.

>> No.17533739

>>17533678
Watch lots of media and mimic their speaking patterns and get used to the way your mouth moves speaking the language until it becomes second nature. Only way to do it unless you go there and speak the language every day

>> No.17533746

>>17533719
Ah whatever. Unless der Führer comes back from his Argentinean grave I think German will stay on the shelf collecting dust.

>> No.17533763

>>17533746
That's fine, but don't be afraid of it. Loads of people go in thinking it's too complicated, but they come out the other end quicker than they thought. That's the point where you reach the problems with vocabulary, and then you realize grammar was the tip of the iceberg.

>> No.17534208

>know
English
>want to learn
Latin
Koine Greek
Russian
Japanese

I have the texts to begin working on Latin, Koine Greek, and Japanese, but I've been having trouble motivating myself to set time away daily

>> No.17534221

>Know
English, French

>Actively learning
Mandarin

>Want to learn
German, Japanese, Russian

I don't know if I'd be able to maintain near-fluency in more than 3 languages. It's a shame to be locked out of reading some of my favorites writers in their native language, but what can you do.

>> No.17534239

>>17533691
>6 languages
Bruh...

>> No.17534250

>know
English
>want to learn
Italian
Russian
Greek
Latin

Is learning Russian for literature a meme? Some people on /lit/ say Russian literature actually sucks but I think they’re fags, I’m still obsessed with Dostoevsky after years of reading him.

>> No.17534274

>know
English
French
Latin
Ancient Greek
Hebrew
Arabic
Aramaic
>learning
Mandarin

>> No.17534277

>>17534250
You get contrarian freaks about everything. Russian literature is timeless.

>> No.17534286

>>17534274
liar

>> No.17534296

>>17534286
jelly

>> No.17534312

>>17530547
>know
Greek
Latin
English
Italian
French
>Learning
Spanish

>> No.17534331

>know
English
Latin
Greek
French
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
German
Dutch
Russian
Polish
Basque
Sanskrit
Pali
Arabic
Hebrew
Aramaic
Syriac
Babylonian
Sumerian
Classical Chinese
Japanese
Classical Japanese
Korean
>want to know
Swahili

>> No.17534334

>>17530547
>know
German
Persian
English
>want to learn
Greek
Arabic
Sanskrit

>> No.17534338

>>17530547
>Know
English
>All other languages
Are a joke.

>> No.17534359

>know
English
French
German
Greek
Latin (eh but I can read it)
>Learn
Spanish
Turkish
>Want to learn
Russian
Persian
Arabic

>> No.17534389

>>17531724
Don't worry anon. Most people on this board think going through a duolingo course constitutes learning a language

>> No.17534394

>>17531724
Italian and Spanish are basically the same...

>> No.17534420

>>17534338
Care to elaborate?

>> No.17534462

>>17530735

Any tips for learning German?

>> No.17534468

>>17530915
>I got the 2 best
>French

No, you don't.

>> No.17534483

Where did this meme come from, that everyone claims to know Latin all of a sudden?

Are you seriously this delusional?

>> No.17534492

>>17534483
it's just christcuck larping as usual

>> No.17534512

>>17534331
Bullshit

>> No.17534513

>>17534420
No.

>> No.17534514

How do you become motivated to do things like learn language

>> No.17534547

>>17534483
Why is this unbelievable? It was standard teaching for centuries because of how useful it is for literature, and it's not like it's particularly hard to learn or anything since LLPSI is a pedagogical masterpiece.

>> No.17534553

>>17530547
>know
Croatian
English
German (also in learning category, since I'm working on expanding my knowledge)

>want to learn
French

Had to take some Latin in high school, but the learning style didn't sit well with me, so that knowledge went out the window as soon as school was over. Sometimes I feel bad about it, but Latin wouldn't really fit my interests anyway.

>> No.17534561

>>17534512
cope

>> No.17534566

>>17534483
I've been shilling LLPSI here for a while it makes sense

>> No.17534579

>>17534514
a small amount of effort, consistently is the trick

>> No.17534630

>>17534547
If you can’t hold a conversation in Latin, you can’t claim to know the language. I’ve had French in school, I know many French words and sentences. It’s pathetic to claim that I know French.

>> No.17534652

>>17534630
Bruh it's a dead language. Apart from a small group of dedicated autists, no one speaks Latin conversationally anymore.

>> No.17534678

>>17534630
If I can read Latin, I know the language. Cope and dilate

>> No.17534691

>>17534630
Ok? I don't get what your point is. Latin is useful and not hard to learn, your disbelief at many people here knowing it just comes off as massive brainlet cope.

>> No.17534697

>know
English
Japanese
German
Dutch

>Learning
French, improving nip

>want to learn
Not sure. Korean maybe. Greek would be kinda cool for historic reasons, but when I gave it a try I ended up not very intrigued by the language. I studied Russian when I was younger, would love to pick that one up at some point.

>> No.17534717

>>17534691
Rewrite your post in fluent Latin and I believe you

>> No.17534742

>>17534717
No. Stay mad.

>> No.17534749

>>17534742
>t. larper

>> No.17534762

>>17534742
Like clockwork.

>> No.17534793

>>17530547
Portuguese is my mother tongue, I know English very well and I know some Spanish.

>> No.17534824

>>17530547
>know
english
german
>learning
dutch
spanish
>want to learn
russian
mandarin
arabic

>> No.17534843

I’m surprised by the amount of Japanese. Even my own family thinks it’s weird I’m learning Japanese. Apparently, lit understands.

>> No.17534853

>>17534742
BTFO

>> No.17534856

>>17534843
It IS weird, but you're on a weeaboo website retard

>> No.17534862

>>17534678
Except you can’t.

>> No.17534909

>>17534843
Japanese is useless.

>> No.17534928

>>17534856
This. I always find it funny how Japanese learners lack so much self awareness. Of course it's weird you're learning the language of an archipelago likely thousands of miles from where you live just because they make cartoons you enjoy.

>> No.17534968

I don't know any languages

>> No.17534977

>>17534968
Then how did you write this post?

>> No.17534986

>>17534977
Pure chance. Monkey on a typewriter situation. As with this post if it is at all comprehensible

>> No.17535022

>>17534986
Based metaphysical linguist

>> No.17535061

>know
Polish
English
Dutch
>learning
Hebrew
German
Yiddish
>want to learn
Italian
Latin
Russian

>> No.17535071

>>17534742
he got you, bro

>> No.17535516

>>17530547
irish
>tá mé cúpla foicail agam

>> No.17535527

>>17534856
>>17534909
>>17534928
>NOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST LEARN A LANGUAGE FOR THE JOY OF DOING SO!
bugmen

>> No.17535548

>>17535527
Gigantic cope

>> No.17535616

>>17534856
How is it weird?

>> No.17535628

>>17534928
You are literally just assuming it has anything remotely to do with cartoons for some bizarre reason. This is a literature board ffs. Have you considered that maybe it has something to do with LITERATURE?

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17535694

>know
English
>learning
Latin
>want to learn
Ancient Greek
Old Norse
Old English
German

>> No.17535735

>>17530547
Know English
Ich lerne Deutsch.

>> No.17535798
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17535798

>>17535628
>>17535616
>Japanese literature

>> No.17536211

>know
spanish
galician
english

>learning
nothing

>want to learn
greek
latin
french
italian
german

>> No.17536228

>>17536211
Are we going to pretend that you don’t speak Portuguese?

>> No.17536282

>>17534483
t. went to public school

>> No.17536290

>>17531397
> Korean
Let me guess, K-pop?

>> No.17536325

>>17534338
Bilingual here. I second this.

>> No.17536465

>>17536282
t. lives in a third world country

LMAO

>> No.17536475

>>17536228
yeah I guess I know portuguese too and also understand Catalonian

>> No.17536479

>>17534986
Kek

>> No.17536647

>>17536465
Yeah, I would call the USA third world. The land of overweight Q schizos and public school educated monolinguals.

>> No.17536654

>>17530547
I am a native English speaker and want to learn German.

Got pretty good at it but life got in the way and I dropped the class and study. I was put off by my trips to Germany and having Germans seemingly seriously offended by my talking German to them implying to them that they couldn't speak perfect English.

I noticed such an immense difference learning German in the late 2010s compared to my attempts to learn in the early and mid 2000s that I decided technology will make it even easier and more fun in the future so I'm happy to wait.

>> No.17536765 [DELETED] 

>>17530547
.gg/G9tDBzsxby

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>>17535798
>はい

>> No.17536834

>>17536647
Q schizos are still more intelligent than American leftists

>> No.17536879

Know:
English
Spanish
Latin

Learning:
French

Want to learn:
German
Italian
Esperanto

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>>17530547
>know
English
Italian
>learning
None
>want to learn
French
Spanish
Latin
Maybe russian and german

>> No.17537286

>>17530547
>know
Italian
English
French
Spanish
Latin (done at school years ago can still translate)
>learning
Chinese
>wants
Greek
russian
japanese
biblical languages

>> No.17537439

>>17530547
>Know
English
Turkish
French
Latin
>Learning
Attic Greek
>Want
German
Russian
Arabic
Hebrew
Modern Greek

>> No.17537452

>>17530753
Kentucky actually

>> No.17537456

>>17530547
>Know
English
>Learning
Spanish
>Want to learn
Italian
French
Mandarin
Russian

Just started Spanish. I was awful at language in school so I'm hoping I stick with it. I wanted to pick something easy for this reason.

>> No.17537864

>>17534331
What do you do with Basque?

>> No.17537880

I love whoever made that pepe, its just perfect

>> No.17538195 [DELETED] 

>know
Scots
English
Gaelic (can only read it)
>learning
Latin

>> No.17538414

>>17530707
Lisp is the most powerful programming language

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>>17533607
>many such cases (literally)

>> No.17539299

>>17534742
fucking rekt

>> No.17539974

>>17530547
>Know
English
>Learning
English
>Want to learn
English

>> No.17540238

>know
English
Italian
A good level of Greek
>learning
Ancient Greek
Biblical Hebrew
Middle Egyptian
>want to learn
French
Maybe Arabic

>> No.17541350

>>17532823
The ability to learn languages disappears after puberty if no language has been learned. Just like Eugenie the feral child case. What is your native?

>> No.17541362

>>17534331
Being able to use google translate =/= knowing a language

>> No.17541371

>>17534338
English lit is retarded. You will never appreciate the better french, german and russian literature.

>> No.17541382

Any good suggestions for books that teach french?

>> No.17541422

>>17541382
Le petit prince, Le petit nicolas, Poil de carotte, La gloire de mon père, Les contes de Perrault, Les fables de La Fontaine. Just read kid's books.

>> No.17542157

>>17541382
There's millions of textbooks available, I'm planning to start with the Collins series of books, it seems to be organized well, so I'll see where it takes me.
I also have French for reading by Sandberg and Tatham in my folder, I faintly remember someone recommending it.
The author of French for dummies, Eliane Kurbegov, also wrote French grammar drills. I don't know how good "dummies" book is, seems to be a bit of a mess to me, but this other one at least gives you chances to practice.
And of course, don't limit yourself to just books, you can't get proper pronunciation from them.

>> No.17542549

>>17530547
>Know
English
Indonesian (Native)
>Learning
Russian
>Want to Learn
Not sure yet

>> No.17542736

>>17538827
Unironically a great video to learn some spanish

>> No.17542740

>know
AAVE
>know to some degree
English, Mandarin
>learning
Classical Chinese, Gaelic

>> No.17542768

>>17542736
Woah, I just checked the comments. Apparently our laughing meme friend get his leg amputated on 15 September 2020. Holy shit.

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17542795

>>17541371
>fr*nch

>> No.17542807

>Know
English
Japanese
>Learning
---
>Want to learn
Spanish

Finished Japanese, don't think I'll ever be truly done "learning" but I'm at decent point.
Planning on doing a full Spanish immersion for 2-3 months, I hear it's significantly easier than Japanese.

>> No.17542999

>>17542795
>>fr*nch
>lit board
read more retard

>> No.17543066

>Know
English
Middle English
Romani
Bits of Sanskrit and Hebrew and Chinese
>studying
Hebrew
>want to learn
Hebrew
Greek
Italian
Sanskrit
Chinese
Latin
German
French
Hell even Japanese

>> No.17543124

>>17530547
>Know
Australian (aka Cuntenese/Cuntlish)
>Learning
German (Only know the basics, learning for fun)

Being Australian makes learning other languages hard, as there is no practical reason to learn one.
>No neighbouring countries, closest countries can't be easily reached and interacted with
>Aboriginals have 300 different languages and none of them are widely used, except for the occasional Aboriginal word that found its way in to the Australian lexicon
>Kiwis speak English as well
>Have considered learning Mandarin due to the high amount of Chinese here
>Will learn French if we get CANZUK one day
>Would have learnt neighbouring countries language if I lived in Europe

>> No.17543134

>>17543124
Eh personally I only care about other languages for reading purposes since there’s works that just aren’t translated or are known to be not translated properly. Aren’t there books in other languages you’d wish you could read in the original?

>> No.17543189

>>17543134
It would be interesting compare some books to their original language as some ideas/concepts can't be explained in English properly, but it's not a huge priority for me. I'm more interested in being able to interact with others in their own language. I used to work in a factory where I was the minority as an English speaker. Everyone else spoke Mandarin and had shit tier English. To have been able to instruct them in Mandarin would have made everything way easier.

>> No.17543213

>>17543189
Fair enough. I’m in New York so everyone’s English and any language I learn will have folks I could talk to with it pretty much. If I wanted practicality it would probably be Yiddish or Spanish.

>> No.17543246

>>17535516
any decent resources for actually learning irish alone?

>> No.17543249

>>17542999
Easy on the gay Latin, kid.

>> No.17543322

>Know
Spanish
French
English
Portuguese
>Learning
Modern Greek
>Want to learn
Russian
Latin
German
Guarani

>> No.17543385

>Know
German
English

>Learning
Italian

>Want to learn
Dutch
French
Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic
Spanish
Russian
Japanese


>>17530735
Basierter Italiener. Woher stammst du? Ich plane, wenn ich etwas Geld gespart habe, nach Verona auszuwandern.

>> No.17543464

>>17530547
>know
english
spanish
>learning
latin
>want to learn
french,italian and romanian, since I already know a bit of them all. greek would be awesome,too

>> No.17544228

>know
English
French
Spanish
Punjabi
Hindi
>Learning
Ancient Greek
>Want to learn
Russian
Japanese
Chinese
Latin
Tibetan

>> No.17544524
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17544524

>know
english
arabic
punjabi
(mixed race, half white half arab/asian)

>learning
japanese
spanish

>want to learn
russian
taiwanese

>> No.17545230

>>17530611
>I plan on learning Farsi, French, and Mandarin, mainly for the literature of those cultures
Same. I want to learn to appreciate poetry that has a literary tradition not influenced by Greco-Latin (excluding French). Chinese poetry is definitely one of the furthest from English and probably gains a lot from being read in the original.

>> No.17545275

>>17534547
>>17534566
>LLPSI
is there something like this for ancient greek? or what's the best way to learn it?

>> No.17545462

>>17530547
>know
Polish
English
>learning
German
>want to learn
Mandarin
French

>> No.17545488

>>17545275
Alexandros or Athenaze (get the Italian version since it has double to reading material than the English one) are the closest thing you can get to LLPSI for ancient Greek but inferior

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17546041

>know
English
French
Spanish
>want to learn or learning
None, learning french and english was hard enough don't want to go though that shit anymore

>> No.17546059

>know
English
>learning
Latin

>> No.17546074

French , Russian , Italy and latin

>> No.17546085

>>17531724
They are just larping anon, only way to be really good is to live and work in that language. I moved to Canada and it took me years to be good in French and English

>> No.17546106

>>17534274
Sure you do

>> No.17546133

>>17534338
I speak english, french and spanish and I agree. English is the lingua franca of globalism that's why everyone is writting english right now. Only good reason to speak something else is if its the local language where you live.

>> No.17546155

>>17536769
Reading the sailor who fell from grace in the sea right know. I wonder how much is lost in translation

>> No.17546488

>>17534462
I find usefull Sandsberg's German for Reading.

>>17534483
Latin is mandatory in italian liceo (high school), amerinegro.

>>17543385
Vengo da Napoli e attualmente mi trovo a Ulm.

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17547148

>>17530547
i desperately want to learn mandarin to get the fuck out of the utterly collapsing west
i dont think i can tolerate the total degeneration of my own society anymore.
>inb4 "You will never be a Han"
i fucking know, but i don't want to be stuck here when in a couple of years they start taxing white people for repatriations towards minorities.

>> No.17547495

>>17546488
basado

>> No.17547599

>>17545488
damn, I'm gonna learn Italian and greek with the same book

>> No.17548548

>>17543246
i took classes but once you master the pronunciation it's pretty straightforward. irish has extremely regular spelling. you could probably very easily learn the sounds from youtube and the rest from an irish grammar
>https://pastebin.com/XEENGRuM

>> No.17548576

>>17530547
Know
>French
>Latin
>German
>Italian
>A smattering of Koine Greek
Learning
>Russian
Want to know
>Finnish
>Arabic

>> No.17548923

>>17541350
Doubt it.

>> No.17548935

>>17530547
>know
English and French
>learning
Arabic
Latin

>> No.17549012
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17549012

Interesting to see how many of you want to learn arabic. I just started learning it myself. Why are you guys interested in it? For me, I'm curious about Islamic history, philosophy, poetry, etc. It seems like there's a ton of arabic literature out there that isn't translated, and that hasn't gotten much attention by Western scholars. Plus arabic calligraphy is beautiful and kinda fun to draw. I think I have bit of a case of Orientalism, especially after reading the 1001 nights, but the medieval islamic world just seems so surreal. I'm half convinced that learning it is a waste of time, especially with the middle east in its present state, but there's something to be said for the sheer amount of people on earth who speak it (or its dialects) or otherwise hold it dear.

>> No.17549686

>know
Hebrew, English
>learning
Russian, on and off
>want to learn
Arabic, German, Yiddish, Japanese

>> No.17549855

>>17549012
literally the same as you
>large amounts of books, music, philosophy, etc
>a shit load of arabic stuff is untranslated
>practical, knowing it lets me communicate with a large part of the world
>looks cool
>completely different class of language
>like brown girls
>ebin Arabic history
>want to read islamic texts in their proper language

>> No.17550158

>know
English and Arabic
>learning (slowly)
French
>want to learn
Hebrew and Farsi

>> No.17550163

>>17530547
how long did it take you to be able to read in latin?

>> No.17550179

I would like to be fluent in a second and third language but I can't treat cultural languages like programming languages, so they fall into disuse without appropriate problems to solve. Anyone have tips for studying languages and decent retention?

>> No.17551058

I recently started learning japanese and I'm getting the feeling that the grammar is still rather straightforward (if not even easier than enlgish), but I feel like for me to be able to think in it I would've to forget the the way I'm used to formulating sentences; counting sucks thogh.

>> No.17551319

>>17530547
Know German, English
Learning: none right now desu, but I tried learning Japanese once, and I had highschool trash tier spanish, and highschool Latin where I didn't really pay attention lol
Wanna learn in the future:
Japanese
Basic Spanish again
Polish and Russian
If there is time refresh Latin
Maybe some french if I get bored, same for Ancient Greek.

>> No.17551419

>know
Portuguese (native)
English
>learning
German
Russian
>want to learn
Ancient greek
Latin

>> No.17551566

Does translating occasionally into the student's native language hurt their learning of the goal language? Should the teacher aim for near total immersion?

>> No.17552079

>>17541382
>>17542157
Hey, I'm an Australian who's planning on teaching himself French from scratch. Found this Google Drive folder off r*ddit that has some good resources: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EWspriB7F8TlfEUe4i04H3zCjran38Yh

Any anons have some advice for someone learning their second language as a hobby while in university? I have a little prior experience from learning when I was 13/14 but have forgotten it all.

I'm a bit worried I won't have the time since I'm trying to get /fit/, am about to start a Computer Science/Philosophy degree, and I am looking for part-time/ casual work.

>Know
English
>Learning
French
>Want to learn
Spanish
Japanese (In order of importance to me)
Mandarin
German
Russian

>> No.17552331

>>17552079
Watch French with Vincent on YouTube. Go through the units. Yes, start at babby level.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZNV0gmRjgU_a1snwPuqik7puw6ygEUej

Also, download A Frequency Dictionary of French.

http://ekladata.com/6FxXu86fl5mQwo7lEyDS5hG9NTc.pdf

Then go play Skyrim in French or something.

>> No.17552419

>know
English, French
>learning
Latin (LLPSI)
>want to learn
Spanish, Russian, Japanese

>> No.17552427

>>17552419
>Latin (LLPSI)
What chapter fren

>> No.17552455

>>17530547
i know english
american
and im trying to learn scottish

>> No.17552559

>>17552455
Dude even Scottish people don't understand Scottish.

>> No.17552785

>>17552427
Chapter 3, just learned about it the other day

>> No.17553028

>>17552331
Cheers mate.

In terms of consuming media is playing video games going to help teach me another language more effectively than say watching a movie or TV show?

>> No.17553038

Know
>English
>Mandarin

Learning
>French

Want to learn
>Japanese

>> No.17554016

>>17553028
Videogames are longer, have more dialogue, are generally more engaging. With a movie you could half ass your way through, skip some sentences, not really follow what's going on. In a videogame you have to follow what's going on or you won't know how to progress. Also you've got menu screens and in game flavor text. If you're going to play vidya you might as well kill two birds with one stone and get some lingo. I had a notebook for a while where any word I encountered that was new I'd record which game I saw it in, which helped me remember them.

Try Metal Gear Solid in French. Tonnes of dialogue plus French Ocelot is hilarious. The fr version was actually recorded before the English one.

>> No.17554394

>know
English
French
>learning
Japanese
Russian
Esperanto
Gallo
>want to learn
Gallician
Breton
Ainu
Scottish Gaelic
Kurmanji
Latvian
Cantonese
Indonesian

>>17542549
any ressources to learn indonesian? if i learn malaysian will i be able to communicate with indonesian as well?
>>17546041
they say it gets easier the more languages you know

>> No.17554446

>>17554394
>Indonesian resources

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Matthias_Buchmeier/en-id-a

12000 entries. Unfortunately you'll have go sift through some garbage like proper nouns and other bullshit words but hey. If you copy/paste the list you could manually cater it to be more suitable if you can be arsed.

>> No.17554467

any advice to learn german?