The Answers to Discussion Topics

[MCK74]

Q. Why are you learning our language?
A. as part of my plot for world domination, BWAHAHA!

Q. Why are you learning our language?
A. none of your @%$#ing business!

[Soclydeza]

Q. Why are you learning our language?
A. Well, you asked me in English so perhaps I should be asking you the same thing

[Iversen]

A path for Modern Greek?
Η Γερμανία είναι προς αυτή την κατεύθυνση - παρακαλώ να χρησιμοποιήσετε την πίσω πόρτα.
Germany is in that direction - please use the rear exit.

WikiTongues - Language preservation group
A branch of cryogenics

How do I set up a language plan?
Step 1: don't make detailed language plans

Team Nordic [study and support group]
With a mobile first aid unit and a compassion unit for post hoc consolation

Tristano's log 2016: everything that is not Dutch
Like politics, religion, cooking and mountaineering

Is grammatical knowledge the best way to create output, or is it the other way around?
It is definitely not the other way round: "output create to way best the knowledge grammatical is" is not even grammatical

Scriptorium questions
Please only submit handwritten enquiries

Best Spanish and French translations of Tolstoy?
Spanish: Tolstói, French: Tolstoï

Is there anything comparable to French in Action or Destinos for Russian?
I have never seen "Action or Destinos" in Russian so I don't know whether there is something comparable to French in it

Meaning of French Term
It basically means '(a) word in French'

Fighting Interference
Of course it fights back when everyone wants to eradicate it!

[Serpent]

Q: Proven ways to get a native-like accent
A: Being a native speaker

[tarvos]

Judeo-Spanish online festival?
- Is that like the Day of the Dead?

[Expugnator]

Reading out loud
So honey now
Send me info on your flashcards
Hit the mute on the panel of our car
Turn your head to my flipping mouth
I'm reading out loud
Maybe we drilled languages right where we are


Living Language Generation
Living Language generation,
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Living Language generation,
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon yeah,

(whistling.....)

Living Language generation,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Living Language generation,
Ooohhh

Don't worry about a thing,
It's gonna be alright

[tomgosse]

Q. Proven ways to get a native-like accent?
A. Total head transplant!

[kujichagulia]

Q: 3 essential language learning mindsets; what else?
A: Oh, and a large Coke, please.

Q: Starting Japanese
A: I think somebody beat you to it. Japanese has been around for a thousand years.

[thomas_dc]

How to learn a spoken language?

Extensive reading is the best method. Read 10.000 pages, then speak.
After tackling a spoken language, do try a sung or a yelled language. These are best if you live in a single-family house. The process is the same. 1. Read 10.000 pages, 2. Speak/Sing/Yell it out.

[kujichagulia]

2. Speak/Sing/Yell it out.

Speak, sing, yell it all out
These are the things I can do without
Come on, I'm talking to you, come on!