Black American Working on my fifth language(Amharic).

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Not on my japanese keyboard right now but very impressive. Studying N3 material now and can truly say I know how to study now.

Sentences, learn the kanji readings and plug in and play with the grammar.

If I miss a day my ear drops drastically. Have to keep Spoon (app) running on my phone whenever I can.

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Found a gossip website that keeps me heavily interested in reading natural forms of natives.

Any resources you wanna drop?
 
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George Gooney said:
I speak english, spanish, japanese, and msa arabic. English is obviously my first language. I grew up in the bronx surrounded by latinos, I've ever had a good ear so i picked up alot of spanish from my surroundings. During Junior High My spanish teacher was sexy and I was trynna suck up to her so I was her best student. Her lessons plus my upbringing pretty much ensured me to be a fluent speaker by the time I graduated 8th grade(took her classes for two years). I Taught myself Japanese during college using a method very similar to Khatzumoto's(look him up!) AJATT method even before I knew who he was. Japanese took me about 16 months to reach business level fluency because I was immersed in japanese media for that whole time period. Arabic came to me naturally growing up muslim and reading Quran and such. Some dialects are hard for me to understand tho but they understand me just fine because I speak a formal dialect while they speak regional ones while also being educated in formal arabic.


My advice for learning a language is to immerse yourself in media of the target language for a minimum of 16 hours a day(Sleep hours count. Play media in the target language while you sleep. This helps your brain familiarize with the sounds and accents of the language. Study sentences and not vocabulary. Meaning learn a word in its context and not as a stand alone. The definitions for the english words "Place" and "Site" are virtually the same but you wouldn't say "I Work at a construction place" instead of a construction site. Mistakes like that are very common when we only learn language vocabulary and not context.
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Smart guy. You took advantage of your surroundings. I commend that. :salute:
 
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George Gooney said:
You got this breh. Learning languages is what we humans do. Light work
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Why not learn new languages. You did it! I believe that communication helps human relations. Plus, it helps on your resume to be multilingual.

For me, when I travel, I want to be able to communicate with the people of that country. Saves from being taken advantage of and I have seen on YouTube how people's whole attitude changes once they learn that you can speak their language.

Maybe one day you will be able to speak 50+ languages. Lol
 
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BA DOS Af pr
Smashius Clay said:
No, soy afroamericano. Aprendi espanol estudiando como usted, y viviendo en suramerica por como 2 años.

Pero bueno, queria aprender chino pq es obvio esto va a estar importante en 10 o 20 años.
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Eso depende. He oído esto por largo tiempo, y no dudo k sería gran ventaja para hacerlo, pero ya no 'toy convencido k es--mas k algo como Español, o Ruso, tampoco. Mi opinón
 
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