/kc/ - Krautchan

 >>/24437/
yes if you for example know one germanic language its very easy to learn others. words in swedish and german for example are almost identical. 

Mother
Mamma
Mutter

Good morning
God morgon
Guten morgen

 >>/24444/
Mamma is a newish word Moder is more to mutter

dragihski nycihski bogdah paabathikoff

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Why Murricans say sub-zero temprature? Should they use sub-32 instead?

 >>/28097/
*Shouldn't
fix'd

 >>/28097/
> Huh?

Because they mean what they say just how they say it.

You grasped the idea they are out of step with the rest of the world by their reliance on an outdated system. What you fail to grasp is their feel for it.

32'F, like 0'C, is not all that cold. 0'F and below is. The idea being conveyed being, "it's really fucking cold," not, "it's just a bit colder than the point of freezing."

 >>/28102/
t. Murrican who likes to commute into work on her motorcycle throughout the month of December.

 >>/28102/
Nope. They really use it in context as below the freezing point of water. For example just today I heard it used such way in Alone.

The original definition of 100 F was useful but 0 F was completely random and arbitrary. Who cares about the melting point of some brine?

bump

One more push.

 >>/22691/
Icelandic one again proves to be superior.
Learning Dansk, not telling why.

 >>/35959/
Really?

 >>/35960/
Ja mand

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> mfw someone turns a voiced dental fricative into a voiced dental stop

 >>/36027/
Scandal.

Is there any other resources than duolingo for learning?
I want to post on brazilian imageboards but the learning method used with that doesn't feel proper, maybe if I used some books

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 >>/36043/
How hard can be for you to learn Portuguese tho?
Learning grammar rules, get a book and memorize them. Make exampless endlessly with each rule.
If you want to expand vocabulary drill it with cards.

Found this. Dunno if it's free or not.
https://www.babbel.com/

 >>/36044/
Reading portuguese once you find the intrinsicacies isn't that difficult, the problem comes to writing on the language since you carry your methodical thinking of the once you already know.
Will check it out

I'm learning Japanese through Wani Kani but only half heartedly. I get distracted too easily, otherwise I would learn through other means at the same time.

 >>/36045/
Understanding and using is two different things ofc. Practice is much needed.

 >>/36046/
I have reservations to learn Japanese due to the writing systems. I think the language itself would be easier than fellow Uralic languages.

 >>/36044/
nvm that's just the same as duodingo

 >>/36049/
Shame. Your best bet is books. Get exercise books too.

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 >>/36044/
Maded some improvements.

 >>/36047/
Yes, it's the most annoying part although it's needed because of the ridiculous amount of Homophones in the language. However, as a counter to that the Japanese language doesn't have as large and diverse a vocabulary as English(but English itself has a larger vocabulary than most languages I suppose).

 >>/36052/
Are you doing courses for english speakers or hungarian?

 >>/36060/
Neither. I just found a funny list of learnable languages on that site. It paired English with USian flag, Portuguese with Brazilian, and Spanish with Mexican. And I thought I make more "corrections".

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 >>/36065/
3/3

Can anyone recomend some app/methods that work? trying to learn french

 >>/36734/
Get a private teacher.
How the grammar differ from Spanish? I would check that.
Also drill words. Building vocabulary is important.
Listen and read.

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 >>/36736/
> Get a private teacher.
Yeah that's what I planned to do. But with this whole quarantine thing I can't get one 
So I want to at least have some basic knowledge, so that I don't have to start from scratch
> How the grammar differ from Spanish? I would check that.
Since it's a Romance language I don't think It will be that different
> Also drill words. Building vocabulary is important.
with lexic they are pretty close, altrough catalan is more useful in this case

Thanks for the recomendations

 >>/36737/
> Since it's a Romance language I don't think It will be that different
So you have an advantage to learning French. Which makes your job easier, you just need to learn a couple of exceptions, a couple of points where it differs (and if it really matters, when spoken I doubt one have to be anal about it and some leeway is allowed).
Which also means to understand and use French, you mostly have to learn words. As I suggested drill them, make cards or use an app. But since vocabulary as well isn't that alien, pronunciation is what you really have to train. From what I know about French, it's shit but at least they don't as inconsistent as English (although a lot uglier).

 >>/36734/
> french
of all the languages you could learn, why french?

Also, have you tried that rosetta stone thing?

 >>/36739/
Thanks, I'll also try to watch some shows in french
 >>/36741/
> of all the languages you could learn, why french?
It's widely used and French is easyer than German since it's a romance language
> Also, have you tried that rosetta stone thing?
what's that?

 >>/36742/
I taught myself chinese with it. https://www.rosettastone.com/

 >>/36744/
Link is kaput

 >>/36744/
How does it compare to Duolingo?

 >>/36748/
Not used lingo but Rosetta is offline which is handy.

 >>/36747/
It works for me.

 >>/36748/
It's different. I used it many years ago the refresh my Italian, but stopped before I could get to anywhere.
Back then it was a fairly large program with language packs. I used Duolingo a little as well (to refresh my German, but I stopped before I could get to anywhere..., hmm I see a pattern forming here... anyway) and it is really different. Rosetta should be more professional.

 >>/36751/
Checked again and it seems like it's working. Might have been down when I checked

I'm learning Chinese. I hate Chinese people. I'm just doing this to impress other people with the fact that I can speak/read/and write in Chinese. Learning their language has only made me hate them even more. Whoever came up with their writing system is a fucking retard. Nobody knows that I'm learning Chinese except for two "friends". I'm not going to let anyone know until one day I'm at a Chinese restaurant with my family and start having a conversation in Chinese with my waitress. I better have a reaction like those Youtube videos, or else I will be severly disappointed.

 >>/38035/
Why not just imitate Chinese to waitress, her reply doesn't matter since noone knows Chinese and won't know what either of you sad.

 >>/38036/
*said.

 >>/38036/
Because she'll eicher think I'm mocking Chinese people and kick me out or reply in English that she doesn't understand what I'm saying.

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 >>/44780/
Have you picked up some Russian since then?

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Esperanto

 >>/44790/
Can you use it?

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Yaghan is one of the tiniest languages as far as the amount of speakers goes, and its sole speaker died just now, essentially the language died with her. She said previously there are others who know it some but none use it as well as she. We can just accept her word that she was fully master of it. When does a language die? While some people understood her, wouldn't a language alive when an intelligible conversation can be done with it, where both sides are active speaker, and one of them isn't just a mere listener?
Yaghans are/were natives in the regions of the southernmost Chile and Argentina. They were hunger-gatherers in the past, now they do what South Americans do I guess.
https://www.omniglot.com/writing/yaghan.htm
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2022-02-18/cristina-calderon-chiles-last-known-yaghan-speaker-dies-at-93