#language translator app

[games2go]

google play : https://lnk.bio/s/incinet/translate_app

[selfloathingextraordinaire]

With what's happened with Duolingo, I'm looking for a new language app, but need some help.

Is there a Japanese language app that is:

Great for people with learning disabilities (my brain struggles with language and has to learn it very slowly)

Kid friendly

Colorful

I've seen a bunch of posts with all these recommendations, but it's super overwhelming and I have no idea where to start.

[la-galaxie-langblr]

me knowing logically that immersion will provide more long term gains for language learning vs 5 new vocab flashcards and some grammar exercises go brrrrrrrrr

[morallygreys]

i just found a fellow callie stan on the other side of the earth 🥹

our people are everywhere if we just look for them

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Russian Poetry!; Or, Birthday Gifts, Plus Some.

I studied Russian in college and, despite my Duolingo efforts, miss it, so I figured the most approachable way to Get Back Into That was to read dual-language poetry. Rationales: It's nice to have someone (read: the translator) hold your hand when you're out of practice; Poems Smaller than Novels or Short Stories and therefore bite-sized/less intimidating; I can do a couple poems a session without risking Losing The Plot like I might for fiction (and isn't that how you're supposed to enjoy poetry anyway??); I can take notes and jot down new vocab words in this handy little journal! (Do I read much poetry in English? No. Are we ignoring that? Very much yes, thanks.)

The three books on the top are Actually Dual Language, with Russian on one page and English facing. THIS IS US LOSING COUNT is contemporary, but Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva are decidedly not, so I'll be starting with LOSING COUNT.

The two on the bottom are English only, but the whopping 948-page complete Akhmatova as All Her Poems, plus context, which will definitely be helpful (the Selected Akhmatova above is a companion volume!), and the Parnok is a combination of context + translated poems and she was a lesbian, Harold.

I'm planning on making a year(s)-long (however long it takes!) study of this, and chipping at it regularly. Expect to see volumes pop up in my "Books of [Year]" posts intermittently!

[screechingsandwichhologram]

guys i'm making a language (again) (for real this time) (hopefully)

give me stuff to translate !!

[orpheuslament]

soit j'apprends bientôt le français soit je me [redacted]

[existennialmemes]

It's distressing how deep I have to get into a suggested video before I understand whether I'm looking at food, soap, or wax melts.

"And now we're pouring this luscious Rose Vanilla into the mold" ok but can I lick it?? Or more pertinently, am I supposed to lick it??

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

I don’t get why people feel like the Duolingo owl is threatening, if I ever feel like he is I just get mad at him. I could fight an owl. I don’t know if I’d win, but I don’t think I’d lose (two things that can apparently coexist). I think I’d survive at least and that’s not really winning but also not losing.

You wanna be so threatening? Da bør du drepe meg!

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

going back to home country (unfortunately) for summer so customizing AAC board for first/native language and many feelings and Do Not Like

[oodlenoodleroodle]

Watching Super Sketch Show 2 for Yu Hewei, end up falling in love with this bald asshole XD

[chasani]

get me a language learning app that teaches you words along side their sign language counter parts

[actual-corpse]

Yes. We should ALL BE TAUGHT SIGN LANGUAGE!

But... what if someone doesn't have use of one of their arms? I straight up do not know. Please tell me.

But I WILL FIGHT ANYONE who bitches about phones EVER. They are VERY helpful for communication....

Language barrier

Hard of hearing

Can't talk

Convince me that phones suck.

[blkkizzat]

Me gusta mucho como tienes tus… ¿decoraciones? No se como decirlo pero como arreglas tu perfil y tus publicaciones cuando haces un fanfic se me hace tan bonito y creativo! Quedé muy impresionada con como está echa “The nursery” los banners de Netflix? El video donde se selecciona a Toji? Muuuuy bueno!!!

Hola nonny!! (i don't speak any spanish besides that and calling choso "chosito" fkhfsdkjhbsjkd so im so sorry thats all i can say😭😭. i took japanese in school)

AHHH TYSM!! I love creating banners. I originally wanted to be a graphic designer but in college my design program (i didnt go to an art school) was basura (wait i remembered another word!) so i just did advertising and photography. But honestly I have the banners done way before the story since I like creating them so much.

The netflix one is one of my favorites. I wanna do a hulu and a youtube one too!

Thank you so much pookies!!

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Day 2 of trying to recover from the state of panic that rage and overworking have reduced my body to. I guess I'm feeling slightly better, my chest hurts just a bit now

[rigelmejo]

Okay for some reason my brain has forgotten how to figure out percent, so just correct me if I'm wrong ToT

I read 默读 chapter 1 last night. I wanted to see if I understand more this time, compared to around a year ago when I read some of it. I read while listening with Microsoft Edge's Read Aloud (best TTS voice), and then opened up 默读 in my KursX Smart Book app (which I recommend as a parallel reading tool). The Smart Book app gives me statistics like: how many words I looked up, how many words I read per minute, percentage of the book I finished etc.

I read 135 words per minute, for 12 minutes, looking up a word (on average) for every 7 words. I did look up some words I knew (since I am refreshing my memory lol on rusty words I once knew in reading) and I mainly looked up words in descriptive 4 hanzi chunks because I've forgotten the meaning a lot of those types of phrases and wanted to listen to them a few times to remember their pronunciation . Since during the initial read in Edge, I was just guessing those 4 hanzi phrase meanings. So 1 lookup for every 7 words means... okay how the fuck do i do percentage? So 7 is in 100 a little over ~14 times, and so 14/100 is the amount I did not understand %14, so the amount understood was 86%. Is that how to calculate that?

And then... based on my own judgement, I did lookup some words multiple times or vaguely knew them and was just confirming, So lets guess my actual comprehension at 90%. 1 because I'd like to be optimistic... but 2, because I really did understand it fine while reading in Edge - except for 矛盾, and a few 4 hanzi descriptions. Or of course, I could just stick with the lower estimate of 86% understood and focus on trying to improve from there.

To compare: when I read 镇魂, I only look up a word for every 23 words. So... for percent comprehended that is... 23 is in 100 about ~4.35 times, 4.35/100 is about 4.35% i did not understand, or 95.65% of the text I do understand. So for me 镇魂 is within the range of 95-100% comprehension where a person can read extensively (not look words up) without intense effort and can understand what is going on and pick up new words. I was already aware my comprehension is around 96% of the text, because back when I was reading the print version a lot i manually calculated how many hanzi I did not recognize per page versus did.

So on the upside? I only need to work on learning 9% more words (whatever that ends up being in actual count) to read 默读 comfortably in print, or just without feeling the need to look words up.