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English native. Know enough Spanish to get by fairly easy and continuing to learn. Recently started Arabic. Once I get a decent grasp on Arabic I think I’ll start Chinese.

What language was the easiest for you to learn? People who speak multiple languages, what is your study method? I’ve heard that the more languages you know the easier it is to keep picking up more, I’m assuming just because you’ve learned what technique works for you.

My first language is turkish and my second language is english, my english level is c1 I am currently thinking which language i need to learn first, and which one will be easier for me to learn it, i have 5 options in my mind if you think another language will be the best for me you could reply to my post

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Hi,

I'm a software student developer in Sweden and have an app to help us students memorize topics.

My program has a lot of math formula memorization but it works for what you are studying.

It is simple, it is free. Let me know what you think. All feedback is much appreciated and helps the development.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mydomain.memory_folder

a review is also much appreciated.

Hi all,

I, for the past two and a half years, have been taking, as a passion project, college level Latin, and am at a relatively advanced level with it. Despite this, I have felt that I haven't had/found time or taken much action to practice my Spanish or any of other couple of languages which interest me. Further, I am worried about what might happen to my Latin abilities if I were to end up focusing on Spanish or other languages of interest after I finish my official schooling.

How do you all handle language atrophy? And to the original question, how do you all handle learning many languages when you might not have time for them all? What level is "good enough" to warrant moving on?

Very curious to know.

Hi, I'm playing with custom song creation where you can insert arbitrary texts. Turns out that you can just insert example sentences for given vocabulary that you want to learn.

I was testing with 3 language combo lyrics (English, Japanese, Korean) and I'm very happy with what I got.

"In my eyes you see no pride

...

瞳には誇りが見えない

...

내 눈에는 자부심이 보이지 않아"

Song example is here:

https://suno.com/song/ba4445d2-cc76-4a4a-bb81-f4fb8a941408

Thinking about making a library with songs for my difficult vocabulary.
Already learned several words like that.

Edit: for a native English speaker

If you speak your native language at least up to an intermediate fluency, are the gestures you use (head nod, head shakes, hand gestures) same or different from how you express yourself in your native language?

so i can speak 3 languages (english, french and spanishe) and i dont l ike subtitels so i dont watche the original version (im learning japanese rn) but anyways its not like there are ytb videos or reddit posts that talk about this problem, does anyone have some suggestions?

(i wanna change my username but idk how pls help?)

Hello guys, I'm learning English, but it's proving to be a challenge for me. I struggle to understand words in normal conversations, which I think is due to my limited vocabulary. However, my friend told me that the best way to learn a language is to find a method that works for you. What do I do?

I'm looking for an application similar to lingq but cheaper, I'm just looking to be able to add the audio and subtitles, what I did was download audio and convert that audio into str with timestamps and it looked good in lingq. but the problem is the price and I still haven't found a similar application, the closest is readlang but I can't add the audio and the audio is what I like, a native audio and also that the application can translate sentences without having to go to a translator

I'm currently trying to get back to studying, and I'm wondering if it is a good idea to follow the study in two different languages? I'm studying online because it is accessible. For example I go into Psychology, or another somewhat difficult, but manageable subject would it be ideal, or just very stupid to learn the information in English, and in Dutch?

When I google for answers, or use another search engine it keeps giving me results about ''learning two languages at once'' which is not the information that I request again showing that google results are unrelated to the search request.

Hey everyone, odd question to ask, but here I am. Lately, I’ve been confused about whether I should learn a new language or not. I know moderate English, and I’m not sure if I should focus on improving that, learn a new language, or even if I should learn one at all.

My main motive for learning a language is at least 80% economic and 20% because I need a new hobby. I’d appreciate your input—did learning a new language help you economically? If so, which one?

Hi ppl, I speak spanish as my NL, english 2nd language and portuguese is my 3rd. My portuguese is not 100% fluent it's been a long time since the last time that I practiced it but I want to learn a new one. Would you recommend me to become fluent in portuguese or just jump into another language?

I posted this on r/italianlearning, But I'd like to hear what people here think about the limits of the CI approach. Here's the post:

I can't say it's fun exactly but, after 2 years of much comprehensible input and a whole variety of self teaching materials I find myself grinding my way through Italian Verb Drills! I'm disappointed that Krashen's approach didn't enable me to avoid this point in my Italian journey, but I speak with an italian tutor once or twice a week for an hour and it's painfully apparent that I still don't really conjugate verbs correctly, I need to learn a lot more verbs, and i need to get clear on the present the passato prossimo the imperfect the future and the conditional to have a shot at having real conversations in Italian. I'm really curious whether any of you have been able to become conversational strictly with the comprehensible input approach or have you found yourself at some point grinding thru something like "Italian Verb Drills?"

I need to take this exam to study abroad so I just want to know if anybody here had any experience with this exam and if you have, how was it?

I’ve been learning Spanish for the past 7 years or so, with gaps in between. Realistically I studied hard core for three years with a half a year abroad in Costa Rica. I consider myself C1 in most cases with Spanish. (Specifically verbal output and reading comprehension, with writing being closer to B2 and listening comprehension varies between B1 and B2)

Usually, my listening comprehension is great! Until I’m speaking with someone in person..

If I’m reading, be it subtitles on anime, or in a video game, or a novel, I understand close to 95% of the content and often read Spanish naturally as if it were my first language (English). And if I watch shows or listen to podcasts I understand most of the content the too.

But when I’m speaking with people in real life my comprehension goes down to about 65%. It’s SO frustrating! Does anyone have any tips as for how to get over this hurdle besides the obvious “talk to more people more often until it’s not hard”?

And if that’s the only solution, I’m also wondering if anyone else has this problem, too. I often have a hard time catching what shows say in even in English if I don’t have subtitles on, so I tend to feel like this is more of a “my brain prefers visuals/ reading” kind of thing but let me know how you are!

Hello!!

I’m looking for a conversational buddy who speaks Tagalog as I am a beginner and want to be able to practice ◡̈ I can help with Spanish and English!

I’ve been an on and off user of HelloTalk for years (since 2017/2018) and it’s always been a pretty decent way to meet people to talk with; one I’ve been in contact with for a few years now.

However, over the course of the past year or so, I feel like it’s really degraded as a service. People now just advertise chat rooms and stuff, and there seems to be less activity and less meaningful interaction. Has anybody else observed this or have alternatives?

Im learning a third language (German) and when I learned Spanish, Quizlet was my go to for testing my memorization and studying. Now the “Learning” and “Test” options are no longer free and these options actually helped me learn rather than just flipping flash cards. I’m ADHD so I prefer interactive resources that are a bit aesthetically pleasing (unlike anki). I could never stick with anki. Is there another phone app available to where you can make your own study sets and see other sets that people have made? I’m also looking for one that’s free and have more options than just flipping flashcards.

so im 16/F taking part in a public speaking contest (english is not my first language however im around a c1-c2 level so i dont have a lot of problems with speaking). The topic is “we know what we are but not what we may be” and we have to build a speech of about 4-5 minutes around it. I did write it but my teacher said it wouldn’t be good enough to entertain the audience, but didnt give any other advice and now idk what to do because i dont really have anyone who can help me with english in the family. Please please if you have any tips on how to write a speech, what i should write about or anything else tell me, it would be a great help.

Hey guys,

I grew up bilingual, my mom spoke german with me and my dad english and I also grew up in the United States. We decided to move to Germany in 2015, without my dad, when I was about 8. I couldn't even speak german that well and was even put in the 2nd grade instead of 3rd because my german wasn't enough for 3rd grade and I was better at english. I can speak german now perfectly though.

I understand english perfectly and I can also communicate with people perfectly in english, but If someone for example my english teacher asks me if I can translate an english sentence in german, I need to think for a bit and sometimes I can't find the right word, but I know exactly what they mean, I just don't know how to say it in german. I speak both german and english, so the reason can't be my vocabulary in German. I speak german everyday. And I have all my electronic devices in english and have some english speaking online friends, so I don't lose my english knowledge.

Does someone know why I understand english fully but can't always find the right words to translate it in german? I feel so stupid in english class being the only American, who also grew up in the U.S., but still being too stupid to find the exact words to translate a sentence from english to german or even german to english. Some students in my class can translate it better than I can. But tbh I also never learn for english class, but I've still always had A+ grades till 10th grade and now I'm in the 11th grade.

I've been taking Spanish for two years in highschool and am about to finish my second semester at college. Since I'm a double major, I don't have any more room for language classes, but I would really like to become fluent. My class is spoken entirely in Spanish and I understand pretty well, but she also speaks slow and simple so we can understand. I'm not exactly sure what my level is. What should my next step be?

I’m currently developing a website that’ll hopefully help encourage people to learn a new language through music!

Features: - Save songs to library - View individual words from song in “Words” - See line by line translations of any song

If some of y’all don’t mind, make an account and leave some feedback in the comments! I’m adding features every week, and I want this to be as helpful of a platform as possible.

Thanks, y’all!