Anyone else successfully learn a new language? (OFFICIAL COLI LANGUAGE THREAD)

[hoodheronova]

You gotta remove that mindset of "I gotta learn this in X amount of time"
It's possible to become fluent in less than 2 years though if you show up and put in the time. Basically you let Japanese consume you. Your ears are always hearing Japanese, your eyes seeing Kanji/katakana/Hirigana and you pretty much emulate a Japanese environment.

That's what I do. This is pretty much my desktop right now as I speak.

Yeah, looks daunting as I have all my windows open but this is pretty much a snippet of what I'm talking about. Random Japanese Zelda playthrough, some SRSing, Japanese OS etc. This dude pretty much put hella hours into immersing himself with Japanese watching videos, movies (no english subtitles), SRS(electronic flashcards for maximum retention and less work etc.



I've been "learning" it since December last year but the first 2 and a half months was learning and reviewing the 2046 Kanji. The main thing that keeps me going is that I do what's fun in the language. . Reading boring ass books about Mr.Tanaka and Suzuki San at a Izakaya ordering drinks is gonna cause you to just fall off and stop. I felt pretty when my Japanese "friend" told me to text her Mom(who doesn't speak English) while she's in the hospital since she'll be bored.
(her mom on the right chat)
*earlier chat*

I don't even feel like I'm studying or "learning" japanese. It's just normal. It's my life right now in a non obtrusive way. When people say "Japanese is hard man" I just smh. It's actually simpler in some aspects compared to English.

boss kijan m'ka mete tout afe mwen an creole? Es-que sa se computer ou? M'vle fe mem bagay

 

[Spade]

Learning Spanish. I read Spanish newspapers every morning, read the dictionary, and of course I have a textbook as well as notecards. After that, I'm going after Portuguese.

 

[Fatboi1]

boss kijan m'ka mete tout afe mwen an creole? Es-que sa se computer ou? M'vle fe mem bagay

Well I don't think Haitian creole is an official language in the windows language packs so you can't apply that here . You can still just immerse yourself in haitian media and text though.

 

[hoodheronova]

Well I don't think Haitian creole is an official language in the windows language packs so you can't apply that here . You can still just immerse yourself in haitian media and text though.

ok m'prale immerse myself in kompa

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

Fluent in English, French and Arabic. But I learn all of these as a youngin' and haven't picked up a new language as an adult.

I can more or less read Spanish, Italian and Portuguese on some elementary level, but I can't communicate using them. If maybe I put in some more work I'd be able to but I'm too lazy and unmotivated to actually do it.

@Fatboi1

Good work breh. I thought it would be cool to learn Japanese (mainly to read manga/play games that aren't translated) but never tried because of laziness, thinking the language is hard to learn and not necessity to really learn it.

Started Arabic but i need to take another class, its best learned while having an instructor. I'm actually not bad at reading it.

Learning arabic. randomly was practicing arabic in Starbucks on night and these Saudi foreign exchange students swooped down on me.

I want to learn Arabic. Took some beginner courses in college. My plan was to use a pirated version of Rosetta Stone that I download, immersion (basically study arabic related shyt everyday) and maybe taking some more classes.

I assume yall learning Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or regional dialects?

Madinah arabic book lessons 1-3. Free and teach you the Old arabic not modern. Your grasp on grammar will be amazing. Just practice with someone every single day if you can. Learning the alphabet helps too. Arabic is a language of signs and cursive writing help developmental understanding and early progression. I'm trying to fly to morocco next year

Old Arabic, breh? You must be interested in religious texts or classical arab literature/poetry? Even if you pick up MSA instead you should be gucci.

The thing about MSA is that it's used "officially" as in newspaper, medias..etc and as a means to arabic speakers (from different countries) to communicate with each other. On the other hand, it's pretty much never used in RL conversations and music or movies/series from different countries will have their own dialects instead of MSA. If you're going to Morocco you'll notice people speaking their dialects, berber or even french. MSA might be able to get you through but youd' have ore chance if you were able to understand Moroccoan (or Algerian) dialect or French.

 

[BigMan]

Fluent in English, French and Arabic. But I learn all of these as a youngin' and haven't picked up a new language as an adult.

I can more or less read Spanish, Italian and Portuguese on some elementary level, but I can't communicate using them. If maybe I put in some more work I'd be able to but I'm too lazy and unmotivated to actually do it.

@Fatboi1

Good work breh. I thought it would be cool to learn Japanese (mainly to read manga/play games that aren't translated) but never tried because of laziness, thinking the language is hard to learn and not necessity to really learn it.







I assume yall learning Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or regional dialects?



Old Arabic, breh? You must be interested in religious texts or classical arab literature/poetry? Even if you pick up MSA instead you should be gucci.

The thing about MSA is that it's used "officially" as in newspaper, medias..etc and as a means to arabic speakers (from different countries) to communicate with each other. On the other hand, it's pretty much never used in RL conversations and music or movies/series from different countries will have their own dialects instead of MSA. If you're going to Morocco you'll notice people speaking their dialects, berber or even french. MSA might be able to get you through but youd' have ore chance if you were able to understand Moroccoan (or Algerian) dialect or French.

What country youfrom?

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

What country youfrom?

Algeria, North Africa

 

[BigMan]

Algeria, North Africa

what up French Montana

Spoiler

im joking i know he from Morocco

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

what up French Montana

Spoiler

im joking i know he from Morocco

 

[BigMan]

hannnnh

 

[IronFist]

Partial in :

Spanish
Arabic
Kiswahili

 

[Fatboi1]

ok m'prale immerse myself in kompa

Question, where are you from?? You're American? Also is the kreyol you're typing is just off the top?

 

[newworldafro]

Arabic. On my way to being very close to fluency. I stopped
If I didn't do Arabic, I would have been likely fluent in Spanish. Bad decision making not trying to keep my language game up to par ...

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Fluent in English, French and Arabic. But I learn all of these as a youngin' and haven't picked up a new language as an adult.

I can more or less read Spanish, Italian and Portuguese on some elementary level, but I can't communicate using them. If maybe I put in some more work I'd be able to but I'm too lazy and unmotivated to actually do it.

@Fatboi1

Good work breh. I thought it would be cool to learn Japanese (mainly to read manga/play games that aren't translated) but never tried because of laziness, thinking the language is hard to learn and not necessity to really learn it.







I assume yall learning Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or regional dialects?



Old Arabic, breh? You must be interested in religious texts or classical arab literature/poetry? Even if you pick up MSA instead you should be gucci.

The thing about MSA is that it's used "officially" as in newspaper, medias..etc and as a means to arabic speakers (from different countries) to communicate with each other. On the other hand, it's pretty much never used in RL conversations and music or movies/series from different countries will have their own dialects instead of MSA. If you're going to Morocco you'll notice people speaking their dialects, berber or even french. MSA might be able to get you through but youd' have ore chance if you were able to understand Moroccoan (or Algerian) dialect or French.

MSA for me.

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

MSA for me.

Makes sense even if it might not help you in day-to-day interactions.

If you're good with it, you can move on to dialects. Egyptian and Levantine are good to go but avoid Maghrebi dialects (unless you got business there or work with people from there)