/lang/- Language Learning General

Different factors such as the age of the average speaker, the lack of access to the internet or even to education due to poverty, the absence of an unified dialect or the prominence of another more spoken or politically more dominant language that acts as the lingua franca between speakers.

ofc people speak it. don't think there are all that many native speakers though, at least not in sweden but norway should have some. But there are many beginner courses in universities here. Unknown if there is any material in english or forums, maybe some discord server

What is your stance on learning more than one language at a time? Personally, I don't see it working even if you have multiple languages under your belt. You only have so many hours in a day and will only learn so little between those two or more languages.

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But when do you stop with learning a language? There is always something to learn.

>Estonian

Huh, surprised to see that. I've been noticing more Estonian support on apps and language-learning programs. Has there been some push for business in Estonia?

>We already have significantly different cultures using English, which shows that culture can be decoupled from language: India (which had to choose English over several mutually unintelligible dialects), the United States (many subcultures), the UK, Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand.

How would you approach studying academic texts in a language you're B1 in for a class?

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If inpooooting is considered learning then yeah it’s doable

I'm learning French and German at the same time and they'll both be my second language. It's going fine i.m.o.- I'm obviously learning each one half as quick, but I'm catching on to both pretty well. One day I want to learn Russian and Japanese; both of those I'd learn individually, but German and French are so close to English I haven't had trouble with them and don't think I will.

What would be a good source to learn Italian? I speak Spanish and Catalan.

...yes?

Depends on if you have time, if you can only reserve a couple hours a day to language learning (including input) it's best to stick to one at a time

Italy

There are so many languages! It would take forever to learn them one by one...

Thanks for additional corrections.
>jesteś takowy
taki
>nawet go zaczęła lubić
nawet zaczęła to (że życie jest ciężkie)/je (życie) lubić
>musiałeś wyszukać pracy
musisz znaleźć pracę
>więc przeżyjesz, kiedy
żebyś przeżył, gdy cię wyrzucę z domu
>uczucie ludzkiego kontaktu
poczucie ludzkiego kontaktu
>uczelnich studentów
student is by default a college student, school students are called uczniowie
>o ich przyszłości
co do swojej przyszłości
>większość nich to jakoś zaradzi
większość z nich jakoś z tym sobie poradzi
>kiedy był dzieckiem
you could say w dzieciństwie too or gdy był mały
>obiecującym żywym chłopcem
ruchliwym, if you left żywym the sentence would sound as if he was dead
>to ani nie powiedziałbyś
wcale byś tak nie powiedział
>był posłany
został wysłany
>i rzuciła
we don't really use 'i' for emphasis, at least not to the extent it's used in e.g. Czech, I'd translate that part as "przez to nawet dziewczyna go rzuciła"

This is a brilliant article, really opened my eyes. In fact, we should take it a step further. Why bother with English at all, as it stands? We should create a new language, something that can bind all of us together; a "Newspeak," if you will. We could do away with all those annoying grammar rules and pesky, confusing "big words" with complex meanings.
For example, this big and confusing sentence:
>I'm getting sick and tried of this totalitarian regime run by that tyrant violating my personal liberties!
would be fixed by turning it into:
>I get doubleplus bellyfeel for BB, he give doubleplus good and make me crimestop in joycamp
When everyone is talking like that, we'll all be truly equal.

I think it takes about as long to learn a language when you're learning at the same time. And if they're especially complex and removed from your native tongue studying them in unison would only slow you down

Just learn the conjugations and start to read easy things. As a spaniard you can learn it in no time.

I don’t even know if I’m a B1 after a year of being into an “easy” language. Should I kms?

Na, ja...

I'd say A2 takes about a year for someone with a life, and the step to B1 is pretty big so it looks ok by me

I put 2 hours into chinese and 1 hour into french a day, I dont have energy to put 3 hours into a single language every day so when I tried that with french I just had so many off days...
I dont think there's a right system thats same for everybody, we all have to find whats suits us best personally

There aren't any easy languages, only easier ones
Keep in mind that there are countless people who take years of actual language classes and can't even count to ten by the end of it. You're doing fine

Dzięki dzięki

>6 years of spanish in school and I dont know any words other than gracias and un vino

To be fair I didnt really attend the lessons but still.. I went to a trash school and know like 1 or 2 out of the hundreds/thousands that went to school actually learnt the language