Q: Can you write something that would be published in your target language (s)?
A: Yes. I write in my native language and ask someone for a translation.
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- jeff_lindqvist
- Black Belt - 3rd Dan
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de, es
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fi, yue, ro, tp, cy, kw, pt, sk - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2773
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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
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- Green Belt
- Posts: 486
- Joined: Sun Oct 30, 2016 6:44 pm
- Location: Amerique du Nord
- Languages: Uses daily : Français (heritage) English
Reads : Castellano, Català, Italiano, Lingua Latina
Studying: Українська мова, Ελληνικά - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4860
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Q : What resources do you use to learn a language independently?
A : American ones.
A : Emancipated ones.
Q : How to help your significant other, spouse, etc. enjoy language-learning?
A : You people enjoy this? I thought it was just a hopeless addiction which no one could surmount despite the pain it inflicted. Am I alone then in my sleepless nights as visions of declension tables dance in my head?
Q : Using legal substances to enhance learning
A : Such as textbooks, dictionaries, reference grammars etc
Q : "Optimal path" to learn all languages
A : Step one, acquire the Philosopher's Stone.
Q : Bob’s your uncle! And Fanny’s your aunt!
A : I do, infact, have a great-uncle named Robert. I do not, however, have an aunt named Fanny, donc vous vous trompez, cher monsieur.
Q : I can't find romanian books
A : Try looking in Romania.
A : American ones.
A : Emancipated ones.
Q : How to help your significant other, spouse, etc. enjoy language-learning?
A : You people enjoy this? I thought it was just a hopeless addiction which no one could surmount despite the pain it inflicted. Am I alone then in my sleepless nights as visions of declension tables dance in my head?
Q : Using legal substances to enhance learning
A : Such as textbooks, dictionaries, reference grammars etc
Q : "Optimal path" to learn all languages
A : Step one, acquire the Philosopher's Stone.
Q : Bob’s your uncle! And Fanny’s your aunt!
A : I do, infact, have a great-uncle named Robert. I do not, however, have an aunt named Fanny, donc vous vous trompez, cher monsieur.
Q : I can't find romanian books
A : Try looking in Romania.
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Please correct my errors in any tongue.
"Зброя - слово." - Леся Українка
"Зброя - слово." - Леся Українка
- tommus
- Blue Belt
- Posts: 957
- Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2015 3:59 pm
- Location: Kingston, ON, Canada
- Languages: English (N), French (B2), Dutch (B2)
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Q: How have your languages changed since 1900?
A: Quite a bit. Back then, I couldn't even say Mama or Dada.
A: Quite a bit. Back then, I couldn't even say Mama or Dada.
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Dutch: 01 September -> 31 December 2020
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- Ogrim
- Brown Belt
- Posts: 1009
- Joined: Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:29 am
- Location: Alsace, France
- Languages: Norwegian (N) English (C2), French (C2), Spanish (C2), German (B2), Romansh (B2), Italian (B2), Catalan (B2), Russian (B1), Latin (B2), Dutch (B1), Croatian (A2), Arabic (on hold), Ancient Greek (learning), Romanian (on hold)
- Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?t=873
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Q: Keep Your Goals a Secret?
A: I cannot answer that, it is a secret.
Q: Decent Persian online dictionaries?
A: If there are any indecent ones I would like to know.
Q: What more does a student really need?
A: I don't know, maybe a car, an OLED TV and a jacuzzi?
Q: What is the simplest way to explain the importance of the "-ing" suffix?
A: Saying something interesting, fascinating, thrilling and inspiring.
A: I cannot answer that, it is a secret.
Q: Decent Persian online dictionaries?
A: If there are any indecent ones I would like to know.
Q: What more does a student really need?
A: I don't know, maybe a car, an OLED TV and a jacuzzi?
Q: What is the simplest way to explain the importance of the "-ing" suffix?
A: Saying something interesting, fascinating, thrilling and inspiring.
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Ich grolle nicht
- badger
- Green Belt
- Posts: 405
- Joined: Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:33 pm
- Location: UK
- Languages: native: English
intermediate: French
dabbling: Spanish - Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... p?p=135580
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Q: Can I speak like a native English speaker without reading much?
A: Plenty of the natives seem to mange it.
A: Plenty of the natives seem to mange it.
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- smallwhite
- Black Belt - 2nd Dan
- Posts: 2386
- Joined: Mon Jul 06, 2015 6:55 am
- Location: Hong Kong
- Languages: Native: Cantonese;
Good: English, French, Spanish, Italian;
Mediocre: Mandarin, German, Swedish, Dutch.
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Q: How have your languages changed since 1900?
A: They have been butchered by me since.
A: They have been butchered by me since.
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Dialang or it didn't happen.
- Iversen
- Black Belt - 4th Dan
- Posts: 4768
- Joined: Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:36 pm
- Location: Denmark
- Languages: Monolingual travels in Danish, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Romanian and (part time) Esperanto
Ahem, not yet: Norwegian, Afrikaans, Platt, Scots, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Greek, Latin, Irish, Indonesian and a few more... - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1027
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badger wrote:Q: Can I speak like a native English speaker without reading much?
A: Plenty of the natives seem to mange it.
seems so..
Q: How have your languages changed since 1900?
A: I didn't have any languages before the mid 1950s, so anything I may have done to them must have happened later.
Q: pronounciation of ng in english
A: It may be a word in some Asian languages, but definitely not in English
Q: A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers
A: The rest didn't bother to learn a second language
Q: Spanish Tapas log
A: Do the Spaniards really have enough types of tapas for a whole log?
A: Is the idea that you eat tapas while writing about other things?
A: Will it drip if you squeeze it?
Q: Has Benny Lewis discovered the new Spanish verb "recordarse"
A: Or did he invent it, only to discover later that it is considered an error?
Q: Mista's new perpetual log (currently French, Russian, Sami, Icelandic and Arabic + summer project Danish. romance lang.)
A: With such a list - plus whatever comes up along the way - it is bound to be perpetual
Q: How long did it take you to learn Chinese
A: It took a billion* Chinese all their life to learn just some of it, and second language learners probable will probably not even get near the endpoint of that journey
Q: 'Learning Languages with Netflix' Chrome Extension A
A: I didn't know that such languages existed...
Q: One country only, as much as you like, the rest of your life, which one?
A: If you have to stay within one country for the rest of your life then I guess you would have to stay there 100%
Q: Keep Your Goals a Secret?
A: None of your business
Q: Japanese is killing me
A: My sincere commiserations (PS: are you dead or alive now?)
* an American billion - Gott sei dank that it wasn't a European one!
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- Green Belt
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- Joined: Mon Apr 13, 2020 12:11 pm
- Location: Hong Kong
- Languages: Cantonese (N)
Chinese Mandarin (Semi-Native)
English (C1-2)
Spanish (B2)
Japanese (N1)
Russian (B1) - Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=16306
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Q: Japanese is killing me
A: My grandparents have a clear memory of such horrible event.
A: My grandparents have a clear memory of such horrible event.
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- leosmith
- Brown Belt
- Posts: 1341
- Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2016 10:06 pm
- Location: Seattle
- Languages: English (N)
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Portuguese (int)
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kelvin921019 wrote:Q: Japanese is killing me
A: My grandparents have a clear memory of such horrible event.
Yikes - is that a true story kelvin?
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- White Belt
- Posts: 33
- Joined: Mon Nov 09, 2020 6:26 pm
- Languages: English (N), Turkish (maintaining) Spanish (learning)
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Q: What resources do you use to learn a language independently.
A: I'll get back to you if I manage to learn one some day.
A: I'll get back to you if I manage to learn one some day.
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