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FAQ U: >How do I learn a language? What is the best way to learn one? How should I improve on certain aspects? Read the damn wiki >Should I learn lang Y so I can learn lang X? No >What is the most useful language? Your target language >What language should I learn? Your target language with a thick American accent
How fast can Chinese read hanzi? Is it slower than reading Latin alphabet? I turned on a movie with Chinese subtitles and I can't imagine being able to keep up with reading such a complicated script.
>Leicht Heute rannte ich. Vati schneidet Obst. Hast du Kaffee gemacht?
>Mittel ...! Lasst uns nach dem Strand gehen um Schalen zu sammeln! (Wenn ich gehe nach Hause, sage ich, ich werde spazieren, oder, ich werde gehen mit einem unspezifiziertem Transportmittel?) Manchmal weißt mein Hund wenn ich Traurig bin, und sie kommt nach mir und leckt mich. Die zwei Kinder verfolgten die Katze rund das Haus. Es passierte das sie eine Vase umstießen.
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Aaron Phillips
>Easy The newspaper is from yesterday. My grandpa likes good jokes. Can we have the menu please? What's your opinion on white wine?
>Intermediate When I opened the door, I saw something awful. The murderer stood right in front of me. He was pointing his pistol at me with a smile on his face. "Are you ready to die?", he asked grinning.
>Hard It is one of the brightest comets in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997. Prior to that date, the comet will be getting closer to Earth as it moves farther away from the Sun. For observers in the northern hemisphere, in the morning, the comet appears very low above the north-eastern horizon, below Capella. From the infrared signature, the diameter of the comet nucleus is estimated to be approximately 5 kilometers.
Jose Nguyen
I can read it pretty fast already. It's not really hard, theres a limited number of radicals used to create chinese characters. Once you know these theyre pretty easy to differentiate
Jacob Young
I read about this a couple days ago. They read 2 words a minute faster than English speakers. Not much different.
Matthew Foster
>Leicht Die Zeitung ist von gestern. Mein Opa mag Witze. Dürfen wir das Menu haben, bitte? Was denkst du von Weißwein?
vielleicht werde ich später die andere übersetzen, es ist jetzt Mitternacht
Matthew Cox
Can anybody with any knowledge of Arabic help with what it says here? It's written on this weird sword.
> Лeгкo Гaзeтa з вчopaшньoгo дня (є iнший cпociб cкaзaти цю фpaзy?) Miй дiдycь любить дoбpi жapти (бyлo б "хopoшi" бiльш звичaйним?) Moжeмo мaти мeню? Якa твoя дyмкa щoдo бiлoгo винa?
> Зaвичaйнo Кoли я вiдкpив двepi, бaчив oгидний piч Bбивця ж cтoяв пepeд мнoю Biн вкaзaв пicтoлeтoм(пicтoлeтy?) нa мeнe з ycмiшкoю нa йoгo oбличчi "Tи гoтoвo пoмepти?", вiн питaв пocмiхaючиcь
Gavin Sullivan
'I, Hlewagastiz Holtijaz, carved the sword'
Ethan Hernandez
thinking of getting some gum shields to stop me outputting during input
Carson Johnson
>Leicht top tier
>Mittel >...! Lasst uns nach dem Strand gehen um Schalen zu sammeln! Kommt schon! Lasst uns [zum/an den] Strand gehen, um Muscheln zu sammeln. "shell" has different translations. In this case the English word shell is just a descriptive tern, while German has a special word for the animal (though, tbf, the German word was just an early loan from the latin word for muscle). "nach dem XY" is an old fashioned way of expressing this and not used anymore, but you might find it in older literature. >(Wenn ich gehe nach Hause, sage ich, ich werde spazieren, oder, ich werde gehen mit einem unspezifiziertem Transportmittel?) I'm not quite sure what you mean by this, can you rephrase it? >Manchmal weißt mein Hund wenn ich Traurig bin, und sie kommt nach mir und leckt mich. Manchmal weiß mein Hund, wenn ich traurig bin und sie kommt zu mir und (sch)leckt [check out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_s-mobile if you're interested] mich ab. You want to use "jmd. ablecken" here because "jmd. lecken" has a very strong implication on licking female private parts... >Die zwei Kinder verfolgten die Katze rund das Haus. Es passierte das sie eine Vase umstießen. Die zwei Kinder verfolgten die Katze rund um das Hund. [Am Ende/Letztlich/Letztendlich/...] stießen sie eine Vase um. "They ended up" can't be translated directly as you noticed, but your translation doesn't work either, since it sounds unnatural. Also note the difference between "dass" and "das".
>Mein Opa mag Witze. *gute* Witze (prolly missed it) >Dürfen wir das Menu haben, bitte? What's meant here is the card or booklet where the various meals of a restaurant are listed and this is called "die Speisekarte" in German. "Das Menü" are the actual dishes served. >Was denkst du von Weißwein? "Was hältst du von XY" or "Wie findest du XY" sound a bit more natural. But since this is just an exercise you might as well go for the direct transl. "Was ist deine Meinung zu XY?"
Daniel Smith
Is that a shitpost? Cause that's actually a normal phrase. Or was it because of the subject?
Dominic Lopez
How the fuck do i learn vocabulary ive been doing flash cards on family names for like 40 mins and nothing fucking sticks when i try and think of each word without the visual clue
except i can't because i don't know any fucking words
Adam Ortiz
Get a list of basic words of the language that you are learning and move from there. For remembering them you can:
1. Write them down 2. Make correlations with the words of your language 3. Flashcards(you are already doing this but still) 4. Don't learn them without context, try to learn them in a phrase and it becomes way easier to remember it
Well that's at least what I do
Henry Hernandez
Flash cards with single words on them won't do shit. Your brain needs context to fully form neuron networks that make you remember words, simply put. You need more than just "look at word" and "look at word translation" because the brain won't treat that as important information because it's not connected to anything relevant so the memory is quickly discarded.
Try finding flash cards that use the words in a full sentence instead.
Luke Morris
thank you very much for actual good awnsers so far all i see is either meaningless rote learning or yeah bro im a polyglot i just like get straight into it and work SMART(tm) and immerse myself bro
Caleb Rivera
Good luck Also what language are you learning?
Levi Brooks
is Anki good yes or no
Adam Gomez
Only for RTK 1+3
Hunter Nelson
Indonesian. Its good because the grammar is even simpler than english and it has phonetic spelling
Jose Smith
If you don't think it will do miracles, yes
Josiah Rodriguez
What does RTK mean
Ryan Lee
yes it is very good
Nathaniel Hernandez
this is why I read books with vocab I dont know gibts zu vielen Zusammenhaenge
Alexander Nguyen
you could always have flashcards with target language dictionary definitions of the words, or pictures which illustrate them individually instead for words
