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submitted 1 week ago by Arkouda@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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[-] Quazatron@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I'm learning Python. Not bad, but I prefer C.

[-] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I have no experience in C, but I do like Python.

[-] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I’ve been learning Dutch, since the Netherlands seems like a nice place to go if I ever have to flee the US. Thinking about joining some Dutch communities here so I can get more “natural” language exposure.

[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

こんにちは!日本語を勉強しています!

I'm 90 days into learning Japanese. Most of that has been learning kana and I'm now working on kanji and grammar. It's very different from English but I really like the way information is conveyed. I'm struggling with grammar stuff right now pretty bad, particularly conjugation, but it'll click eventually. Also the lack of spaces is definitely something to get used to.

[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Watashi no nihongo wa warui desu yo.

[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Watashi mo, but getting better every day.

[-] imkeepingthem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What tools are you using to study?

[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I started with Duolingo and while it has all the regular duo problems, I think it actually does a good job with the kana stuff. You can turn off the Romaji too, forcing yourself to read. It doesn't teach grammar, though, so I bought Genki Vol 1, working my way through that, and wotaku.wiki has a lot of good resources.

I really like the Cure Dolly stuff for grammar (though she can be difficult to understand, use the youtube transcripts or if you prefer reading a book someone helpfully wrote it all up). Her approach is totally different from the Genki methods, but I find it easier to understand.

I am also using Anki with the Kaishi 1.5k Kanji deck for kanji and vocabulary. This is honestly pretty painful, I've been doing it for like 10 days now and I feel like I'm doing badly every time, but I am improving. I could probably stand to study the radical stuff to understand more how the kanji is constructed but I haven't found a good resource for that just yet.

[-] karasu_sue@pf.korako.me 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

{日本人|にほんじん}です

{漢字|かんじ}、{助詞|じょし}、{敬語|けいご}あたりが{辛|つら}いとよく{聞|き}きますが{日本語|にほんご}はそこまで{厳密|げんみつ}に{喋|しゃべ}らなくてもある{程度|ていど}{通|つう}じちゃったりもします

{漢字|かんじ}を{理解|りかい}するのに{部首|ぶしゅ}からいくのはいいですね、{部首|ぶしゅ}と{旁|つくり}についてある{一定|いってい}の{意味|いみ}を{覚|おぼ}えたら{読|よ}めなくても{意味|いみ}を{理解|りかい}するのが{簡単|かんたん}になります

{小学生|しょうがくせい}レベルで1026{個|こ}ある{漢字|かんじ}をとりあえず{覚|おぼ}えれば{日常|にちじょう}で{困|こま}らないレベルになると{思|おも}います

{頑張|がんば}ってください

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

ありがとう。

私は質問があります。なぜあなたがフルストップを使わないですか。ドイツ語にはたくさんフルストップがありますから。

[-] Schwim@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

2,337 days in on learning German. My goal is to understand all of the band Rammstein's library of work without needing a translator.

[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

If you want that, then I'd suggest usinh Bussu and Memrise

[-] t_berium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Und, wie läuft es?

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I just gave up Duolingo at 1770 days for French which hurt to do. I was mostly just maintaining a streak at this point and with the news of them using AI to replace their employees (even if they retracted it), I decided to quit.

I’ve switched to Babbel now which has been really good so far

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm learning English. I think I can manage. I'm reading more and faster than most native speakers.

Meine Muttersprache ist Deutsch.

[-] CoolThingAboutMe@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Möchtest du mit mir sprechen? Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut, aber ich will es lernen. Ich war im 2003 in Hesse, ich liebe Deutschland

[-] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der BRD

[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

はい、私は日本語勉強します。(Yes, I'm studying Japanese.) I've been doing it for the past year but not consistently. I can say and understand basic phrases but I'm far from being able to hold a conversation.

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Damn, I've been learning for half a year and was thrilled to try and read that, but I'm missingbthe Kanjis 勉強. I assume they are the Kanjis for learn (minus the shimasu at the end). And why did you use the Hana 語 Kanji to say JapanESE ? Is it pronounced go there for form Nihongo? Sorry, don't have the Japanese alphabet loaded into my keyboard yet

[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

From what I understand (Don't take what I say as correct as it may be wrong) but when 語(はな) hana, which is derived from 話す(はなす) hanasu which is the verb to speak, is paired with a nationality, with some exceptions of course like English which is 英語(えいご) eigo, it describes a language. So, pair 語(はな) hana with 日本(にほん) nihon, Japan in Japanese, then you get 日本語(にほんご) nihongo, meaning Japanese. Another example is French which is フランス語 (Furansugo).

And 勉強 is the Kanji for べんきょ(benkyo) which means study.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

話 and 語 are different kanji though. One is talk and one is language. 語 does not seem to have 「はな」as a reading according to jisho.org

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[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that was what I assumed. For now Duolingo still uses the ご hiragana for the go part in Nihongo. And the Kanji for べんきょ wasn't introduced yet

[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm using Busuu along with Anki and independent stuff I find online. I used Duolingo for a big part of my study but when I switched to Busuu I quickly realized I didn't know anything about sentence structure, grammer, or even kanji. So, in my opinion, Duolingo is great for learning words and the three writing systems but not so great about learning everything else.

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

That's my impression as well and I've only been at it for half a year. In the beginning you would also get grammar help at the start of new chapters, but that stopped relatively quickly, so now it's mostly diy grammar rules by analyzing the sentences. Maybe I'll have a look at Busuu

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

I'm studying Japanese for over a year now. I recently had another motivation spike after seeing my favorite singer, Ado, live for the first time and understanding just enough to understand that I don't really understand. I have been doing mostly kanji and vocabulary practice with Wanikani over the past time, but since about 2 weeks, I'm going strong again with daily studying.

I think I'm currently reaching the tipping point where my sentences start to become meaningful, but still take some time to formalize. Having made it a habit to write a few short sentences in 日本語 is something I would definitely recommend, at any level probably. It helps train the learned stuff and adds an immersion factor that is very fun.

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[-] Typewar@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

I have pretty much been studying a language every day for the past 4 years, 3 years with Japanese and now 1 year with German.

[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Und wie weit bist du mit deinem Deutsch?

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

我的汉语越来越好,写,说,简单的没问题,但是比较复杂还要多的练习。其实说最近练习地不周到。

[-] CoolThingAboutMe@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ich lerne Deutsch, und

opiskelen suomea, ja

estoy aprendiendo español también.

Furthest along with Deutsch, because I did it at school (decades ago), not making huge progress gains with any of them because Duolingo, but it fits in my day so easily and the repetition is effective I think.

[-] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Been studying French on and off since high school, but still don't feel far along at all. Ha. Much better than my Spanish and German though!

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm learning Esperanto because everything I do has to be esoteric. I understand the fundamentals of the language and my pronunciation is perfect i'd say. I've been learning for a few months and I can read and write basic sentences. I also want to learn Spanish (mostly to flirt) but it's hard to find the time. I'd also like to learn Indonesian, German and Afrikaans.

Edit: I'd also love to learn Polish but it's so fucking hard.

Edit 2: Oh and Finnish. I really like languages and I get excited about them.

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

A few years ago I considered learning Greek. Abandoned the plan because Greek has the triple whammy:

  • quite a hard language, with tricky grammar and different alphabet (phonetics easy tho)
  • only spoken in one small country - not very useful (tho good for general culture - 6% of English lexicon comes from Greek)
  • the locals all speak English (coz tourism) so you'll have trouble getting a chance to progress

So: good luck.

[-] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I found the alphabet and grammar easy to understand personally, which is why I am able to read before I can do basically anything else.

Greek is spoken in Greece and numerous other countries because of the Greek diasporas in the world.

Coming from a Greek family, while the locals may speak English they generally prefer to and appreciate speaking in Greek especially in Greece.

Thank you for the well wishes.

[-] faltryka@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’m about a month into learning Mandarin Chinese. I expected the character set to be the challenge but really it has been the inflection and intonation that I’ve had the hardest time with so far.

[-] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

French; Next is to start B1 level

Μιλάω ελληνικά, το πιο δισκολο είναι η συγγραφή.

[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

*δύσκολο Συγγραφή would be used to describe authoring a book. You could use γραφή or γράψιμο or a verb construction να γράφεις "to write".

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Tried learning Spanish in school but I never really had a reason to stick with it or keep going. Recently started relearning some vocab and grammar and phrases because there are places I'd like to visit that would be much easier with even just some basic phrases and books I'd like to read in the author's original words and phrases.

[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I've been learning Portuguese for well over two years now. I think I've got a pretty good handle on sentence building. The grammar of verb tense is sometimes still somewhat confusing and I think I've got a lot of words to learn still.

But if I read posts on Lemmy in Brazilian Portuguese, I kinda get the gist of it.

[-] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm learning Japanese. On and off for years, but mainly the last couple. I'm still only at the advanced beginner stage, trying to work on my Kanji, reading, and listening.

Also learning Spanish, but I feel like I'm in a better spot with it. I took classes in school and have a decent foundation, just need way more practice. It's on the backburner since I'd rather build on my Japanese.

For fans of this thread/topic, check out !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz . They have a weekly thread for progress and a few active folks. Lemmy also has more specific language learning communities that could stand to be more active.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Да, я изучаю русский язык, но не знаю какой у меня уровень, может быть где-то B1-B2. К сожалению мне не с кем говорить в последнее время 😪

I am also trying to improve my English recently, mostly because I am pretty bad at speaking, and pronouncing stuff correctly.

I want to learn another language as well, maybe I will return to Czech (I was learning it for 1 month some time ago, and don't remember much, although I understand fairly amount because I am Polish).

[-] Signtist@bookwyr.me 1 points 1 week ago

I've been doing a few Duolingo lessons a day in Japanese for a couple years now. At the rate I'm going it'll be a decade before I'm even slightly able to understand the language, but I don't mind - it's already been well over a decade since I first tried to learn it, so as long as this pace is sustainable, I'll still be a lot further along than if I'd tried too hard, gotten burned out, and quit for a decade again.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

If you looked at my Duolingo, you'd think I was pretty fluent in Japanese. But if you look at me talking to a Japanese person, you'd think I knew very little Japanese.

[-] Waldelfe@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

I'm learning a bit Dutch. We're quite close to the dutch border and have been going there for vacation and shopping for a while now and would like to be able to at least order food/ask for the toilet etc.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

I started Korean a few days ago. I am still in the "learning how this all works" phase. I'm frustrated by my slow reading speed and inability to find something to help that readily.

[-] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Am I learning a new language? No.
How far along am I? About halfway.

[-] grinka@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I'm learning English and a little bit of Czech (stopped a while ago because of my lazyness but want to start learning Czech again). I think I'm still speak badly in English but I understand it very good.

I'm from Ukraine btw

(Also does programming languages count? I love Rust)

[-] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago

tryin to learn Korean, not very far since I JUST started learning lol

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