#Learn German language course

[ashs-nerd-den]

I have a 434 day duolingo streak and my widget just said that it was a 1 day streak!!! The fucking jump scare!!!

When I went into the app it showed the correct streak, but holy shit 🙈🙈🙈

[tolkienreader1996]

I’m taking German on duolingo and my mum is taking Latin and sometimes we speak sentences that we learn to each other which leads to some funny moments.

Me: “hast du einen Mahn?” (Do you have a husband)

Mum: “Minime sum femina.” (No I’m a woman)

[arcanewebs]

does. anyone else experience the language learning pipeline of like

yeah why not seems kinda fun -> (optional step) the writing system is crazy bro -> damn theres no WAY im gonna remember any of this shit -> genuine interest and fascination with the differences between languages and needing to Know more

and its because of the stupidest reason for starting learning it in the first place

[skitskatdacat63]

Please god, can someone give me the strength to write ANOTHER 900 word essay in German, I DON'T WANNA I DONT WANNA PLEASE NO

[koussevitzky]

My prof still hasn't chosen a time for our Latin seminar I truly can't take it anymore (guy who needs to know when everything is to plan his life around it months in advance)

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

@blurryreality remember when I said Dutch is a drunk mix of German & English? 🤣

and another fave (sorry Im hyped about the fact how much they have in common) ->

[ifyourereadingthisblinktwice]

conflict of sticking with my environmental planning degree plan and a potentially more stable/well paying job vs wanting to go for an arts degree in literature analysis and writing and history and culture because i love it so so much but know it wont be considered ‘useful’. FIGHT

[seinfeldforlife]

*actively forcing my brain to think about anything other than the fact ill be speaking 6 languages by the time i finish my degree*

[icharchivist]

Wait French grammar is close to Spanish????

Oh man

I think I officially tagged out when we got to the conjugation of verbs in indirect speech. I had Spanish in school and I was fine before that and then it just got wayyyy too much

lmaoooo rip anon

yeah French/Italian/Spanish/I think Portugese too? and a few others latin language, are all built on the same latin root logistic so the grammar works very similarly.

i picked on Italian in middle school but it's more the vocabulary that never stuck, and i picked up Spanish at uni, but same, didn't really stick.

though it means also i can somewhat read Spanish/Italian ahah

Like, English is simpler in term of just writing/grammar. (English's real challenge for Latin rooted language is the fact it's a tonal language, compared to French that's syllabic. Means English's accentuation of the words tend to focus on one syllab as the center of the word to pronounce but the rest will be muted. But that's also something i know English speakers don't realize, hell, i didn't realize either until i started to study English Linguistic and suddenly it made sense why, if you're from a language with more focus on syllabic, English comes off way harder. Point is that the real challenge for a Latin rooted language will be more on prononciation than on grammar. ) So it is easier to pick up when you don't have a native english background, but English to other language will be more challenging.

Conjugaison in French/Spanish/Italian follow similar logistic even in term of how many exceptions you have to remember. mostly because we slap everything on the suffix of the word. English will use modal words to mark various level of intentions, except in past tense. And in French/Spanish/Italian the suffix are also influenced by which pronoun is used (in Italian at least there's also the fact you can drop the pronoun all together if the verb is clear enough in its conjugaison about who you're talking about). And there's also the whole "the language is inherently more gendered so any attempt at a neutral comes with its lot of problem to discuss".

ironically despite being called Latin languages, this specific conjugaison rule doesn't apply to Latin itself, which has the same basis as German: the suffix aren't influenced by the pronouns, but by the role the word has in a sentence.

I picked up a bit of latin in middle school, didn't stick as well but i remember this sticking out.

English is just.... drastically simpler in the sense that conjugaison is stripped to its bare minimum and the pronouns use will do the heavy lifting in a different way. It's just that English is also working on difficult phonetic rules that aren't instinctive to follow, but yeah.

so yeah. rip you anon o7

[static-radio-ao3]

how many languages do you speak?

i'm fluent in my native tongue and in english but i actually did latin + modern languages in high school so i learned latin (duh), english, french and german! BUT unfortunately my french + german have gotten quite bad over the past few years :(( mainly bc i didn't keep them up after graduating high school and also all of uni + most of my hobbies + most of my social life are in english..... but maybe once i have some more free time i'll pick them up again!!

> inbox me one thing you wanna know about me

[cosmogyros]

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[seawitchkaraoke]

So when does french actually use "on"? I was taught back in school that it's equivalent to the german "man" which we basically use as a passive third passive singular kinda like "one shouldn't do that" (which obviously english doesn't use much but it exists)

But I'm now doing the duolingo french course from english and there they consistently translate "on" with "we". In some sentences both versions make sense, but I just got "Ils savent qu'on va en Australie" which the english translation "they know we're going to Australia" makes sense but the translation I learned back in school for this would be smth like "they know, one goes to Australia" (or "sie wissen, dass man nach Australien geht*)

Which.... Is a completely different meaning that doesn't make a lot of sense like "one goes to Australia"? What? Is that just a common thing one does? Would only make sense for like, idk if this is about middle class germans doing a gap year after high school, bc yeah sure there going to Australia sure is a common thing to do

But if my french teacher was wrong and it's actually always "we" then... When do I use "nous" and when "on"?

Languages are confusing and I am doing three way translations here trying to make sense of everything, it's hard lmao

[misfitrambles]

Have I already told you that I'm a total language freak? 😅

Since March 2021, I'm learning Spanish on Duolingo daily, and I have some Spanish-speaking friends with whom I can practice my language skills, which is very helpful.

In 2022, I decided to brush up on my French as well. I studied it in Business College about ten years ago, but didn't really have the opportunity to practice it afterward, so I forgot a lot. 😟

Since my French seems to be better than I thought, and I'm making progress with my Spanish as well, I've started with Indonesian now. It's the language I want to learn most of all because I have a weakness for all things Indonesia.

And when I have a bit of time left, I dabble in Chinese and Dutch. But just for fun. I tried to learn them before but forgot the most.

As I said, I'm a total language freak ... 😂 PS: English is my second language, btw. My first is German.

PPS: In case you wanna be friends on Duolingo, my handle is queerintrovert 😊

[culmaer]

holy shit sina ken toki e so many fucking languages

i applaud you

ah, well, so about that. most of the languages in that list are supposed to be crossed out ! back when I made my blog you could do a few html things in the blog description, but it doesn't show up anymore, especially not on the app/mobile. so now it just looks like a long list of languages which is a bit misleading

I am definitely interested in all those languages, and have taken a few classes or self-studied most of them over the years, but I definitely don't speak all of them

should probably be edited/updated, but I'm not even sure I'd still remember how to do that...

[tolkienreader1996]

Just got to fifty days on my German lessons.

If anyone wants to chat with me in German please feel free I don’t have the opportunity to talk with any German speakers where I live

[skiddo-xy]

looking for full-time jobs for foreign service officers/diplomats in canada is very neat but also very confusing and stressful. no matter how many times i tell little kids "we'll cross that bridge when we get there" i forget too many times that it applies to me as well...