/uj I unironically did this as a kid before owning a smartphone. Did work decently. Bonus points for a physical dictionary instead of a computer for searching up definitions. I feel old now.
I'm learning French by reading Le Français Par La Méthode Nature while doing Iversen wordlists for all the unknown words, and even though I haven't touched French in months I can still understand most of the words when re-reading chapters
You jest, but irl I learnt the animals on duolingo in Czech, thinking it was stupid, then entered a kebab store and needed to express what kind of meat I wanted
Aren't language learning classes also kinda bad and only get you very basic stuff? I remembered hearing about this but it could have just been big language app brainwashing me into using their app
you gotta download 47 apps, do Anki for 6 hours daily, watch Netflix with subtitles in 3 languages simultaneously, and most importantly tell everyone you're learning a language"
actually tho I just use My Mother Language and think through problems in the target language but that's not nearly suffering enough to be a real language learner
its like a forum with specific channels that can guide discussion on certain topics or with smaller servers you get just general chats and meme channels, and voice channels for playing games together, and you join one that is in the language you wanna learn, and start conversing in that language. i started by painstakingly translating each word with Wiktionary or Duden if that failed. eventually i could really start joining in discussions and not just reading along. Heute kann Ich in Deutsch mit starke Vertrauen reden :D
Apps are used by people with no time, old people and kids but I bet they are the minimum, the rest are bilingual larpers and lazy people who can't read more than 10 paragraphs of a textbook or a grammar guide after getting bored, they need flashy lights and streaks as stimulus to keep them motivated
I stop using flashcard apps (ideally with 0 gamification) around B2, i.e. when I absorb more vocab from reading books, watching and listening, not flashcard. Yeah, reaching this level feels liberating.
Demonising all apps and assuming any app user learns exclusively from Duolingo is ridiculous.
I know what sub this is, but there must be more to jerking than competitive shitting on DL.
god's strongest soldiers pirate grammar and exercise pdfs and then harass natives out in the wild
Watashi wa Johno Smithu. Como te lama????
who is watashi and what are they doing to that llama
ბროვ მას არ ვიცნობ
Don't forget to shock the natives so they'll be extra helpful (I always have my trusty 50k Volt taser with me)
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yes
Read a book and write every word you don't know in a physical wordlist like god intended
thats just me hand writing the entire book
That's a start.
/uj I unironically did this as a kid before owning a smartphone. Did work decently. Bonus points for a physical dictionary instead of a computer for searching up definitions. I feel old now.
That's how I learned English back in the day. I am still doing it with other languages.
I'm learning French by reading Le Français Par La Méthode Nature while doing Iversen wordlists for all the unknown words, and even though I haven't touched French in months I can still understand most of the words when re-reading chapters
Wrong. I was in Japan recently and my dog got in the freezer. I knew exactly what to say.
If the pig goes in the kitchen, you always will know what to say to the natives.
You jest, but irl I learnt the animals on duolingo in Czech, thinking it was stupid, then entered a kebab store and needed to express what kind of meat I wanted
What do you mean I have to pay for language classes aaaaaaaaaaa
You can always "borrow" the language classes
Aren't language learning classes also kinda bad and only get you very basic stuff? I remembered hearing about this but it could have just been big language app brainwashing me into using their app
Secrets Big Language doesn't want you to know
you gotta download 47 apps, do Anki for 6 hours daily, watch Netflix with subtitles in 3 languages simultaneously, and most importantly tell everyone you're learning a language"
actually tho I just use My Mother Language and think through problems in the target language but that's not nearly suffering enough to be a real language learner
Daily reminder that Duoliŋgo is a game, not a language learning app.
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I'm just guessing that you appear whenever someone says duolingo
Duolingo
😭😭😭
They added Luo? The nilotic language majorly spoken in the western part of Kenya, Tanzania and South Sudan?
Yes but only the rare dialect spoken in Australia, hence the reference to the dingo
Unfortunately I'm held hostage by the green owl, also it's pretty tough learning german on your own
Yeah me too. I accidentally paid for the annual subscription instead of the monthly. Here goes my japanese streak!
i reached a decent level of fluency just by fucking around in german discord servers and making friends :3
How does that work? I’ve never used discord
its like a forum with specific channels that can guide discussion on certain topics or with smaller servers you get just general chats and meme channels, and voice channels for playing games together, and you join one that is in the language you wanna learn, and start conversing in that language. i started by painstakingly translating each word with Wiktionary or Duden if that failed. eventually i could really start joining in discussions and not just reading along. Heute kann Ich in Deutsch mit starke Vertrauen reden :D
Apps are used by people with no time, old people and kids but I bet they are the minimum, the rest are bilingual larpers and lazy people who can't read more than 10 paragraphs of a textbook or a grammar guide after getting bored, they need flashy lights and streaks as stimulus to keep them motivated
Old person here. Can confirm.
Books are always better.
Frequency lists SUPREMACY
/uj unironically feeling like this after ending my duolingo streaks and ramping up on textbooks and grammar exercises.
you did the right thing
I stop using flashcard apps (ideally with 0 gamification) around B2, i.e. when I absorb more vocab from reading books, watching and listening, not flashcard. Yeah, reaching this level feels liberating.
Demonising all apps and assuming any app user learns exclusively from Duolingo is ridiculous.
I know what sub this is, but there must be more to jerking than competitive shitting on DL.
then how would you learn
How to success ding streak without duolingo get?
Funniest sub
How are you going to ask your cat to do the groceries for you now?