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

  • v01dworks@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 个月前

    I’ve been learning Russian for a few years, I’ve also started learning Serbian and Ukrainian a little bit.

    I can speak Russian pretty decently, it’s my girlfriend’s first language so I’ve had a lot of regular practice with it, I don’t consider myself fluent at this point but I can hold conversations with native speakers without too much of an issue

    With Ukrainian I can understand quite a bit but I haven’t had much practice speaking it with other people at all yet. I have the basic phrases memorized, things like привіт, будь ласка, доброго ранку, добрий вечір, дякую, як справи, etc. but I don’t think I could hold a conversation speaking only in Ukrainian. I’ve been studying it kind of off and on for a year or so, and I listen to some Ukrainian music fairly often

    Serbian I’ve been struggling to learn, I’ve been working on it for about 5 months. I think learning Russian first made it weirdly harder since the sentences are structured fairly differently. When it’s written, I can understand quite a bit, but if someone walked up to me and just started speaking Serbian I’d be completely lost

  • StickyDango@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 个月前

    I’m learning Irish. My schedule is crazy busy, but I do a lot of driving for work so I listen to Irish speaking lessons. I also do this only while I’m on the road because my Irish boyfriend has no idea I’m doing this so I can speak Irish on our wedding day.

    I can say things like where I’ve been yesterday, where I am today, where I’ll be tomorrow, what are you doing, what were you doing, it was great craic, I don’t know, I’d like a pint of Guinness, please.

    I’ll probably get made fun of for speaking the Ulster dialect (his family is all Dublin), but my favourite instructor that I’ve found is from Belfast and at least I’ll be able to speak it. ☘️

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 个月前

    I’ve been learning Japanese for a long time now. The funny thing is that I started at the wrong end by learning kanji first and then moving onto grammar and vocabulary in that order. Avoid what I did unless you want to be proficient at reading it without understanding it!

    Although not all is lost, because I’m getting used to reading news and Wikipedia articles without much aid or effort anymore, and spoken Japanese is slowly getting easier. Understanding it is still proving to be a bitch from time to time but that’s on me!

    Btw, does anyone know of great websites to read Japanese? I browse Gigazine.net quite a bit and many news outlets, but I’d like to mix it up and move away from politics and news in general. I’m still a bit shy about online forums, but maybe I should do that next.

    • emb@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 个月前

      Kanji first sounds pretty good to me. You didn’t feel like it worked well?

      I went through Genki I with Kanji mostly sidelined, and I felt like I wished I’d known Kanji better first. Having to look up how to write every character is a drag, and I don’t think using kana is a much better alternative.

      You say you could read but not understand… I feel like that’s a step up from the reverse! (That being, “I’d totally understand thus if I could read it”) And I find that learning Kanji now is making it way faster to remember vocab.

      I guess the lesson is just that it’s all important, skipping or putting off any of it doesn’t work so well.

    • Luna@ani.social
      3·
      5 个月前

      For reading practice, I like using satori reader, the full service is paid but it has really nice grammar breakdowns and i like being able to click on words to see their definition/readings

    • Valencia@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      5 个月前

      I know you said transition away from news sites but Easynhk.com is always a staple

      Twitter is honestly great since there’s so much variety, not to mention there’s a lot of artists who’ll post full chapters of manga. You just have to curate who you follow to avoid musk stuff.

      I’d also say just watch some YouTube videos. It’s a good way to practice listening and most YouTubers will personally subtitle their videos as well so you can follow along while reading. A particular favorite way for me is to watch videos of Japanese people travelling/living in America/English speaking places. It’s fun seeing their experiences with everyday stuff for us; a channel I watch a lot is called Kira Kira USA. They post videos frequently, use a lot of day to day Japanese, and get to see viewpoints from the various family members.

      Good luck!

      • Lemminary@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 个月前

        Thank you for that! Kira Kira USA sounds a lot like what I’m looking for. I really liked Miku’s Real Japanese Pocast so this is right up my alley. Hehe

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 个月前

    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
      3·
      6 个月前

      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

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 个月前

        Das ist doch schon gut. Welche Muttersprache hast Du, und über welche Themen möchtest Du reden?

        • CoolThingAboutMe@aussie.zone
          1·
          5 个月前

          Es tut mir leid für die lange zeit. Ich habe zu viel Arbeit.

          Meine muttersprache ist Englisch. Deshalb Ich dachte wir reden könnten. Ich bin Australier. Habst du Ideen für Themen? Ich mag politik, nachrichten, gaming. Was magst du?

          • Treczoks@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 个月前

            Soll ich Deine Sätze korrigieren, oder willst Du einfach durch Beispiele Satzbau und Rechtschreibung lernen?

            Politik und Nachrichten sind immer interessant. Beim Thema Gaming kann ich nicht mithalten, Zeit für mehr als Solitär habe ich im Allgemeinen nicht.

  • Havatra@lemmy.zip
    31·
    6 个月前

    Здравствуйте все!
    I’ve been actively trying to learn Russian for about two years now, and I’m still not very capable of having even simple conversations, due to the great difficulty of constructing sentences in my head. I guess I let the grammar get to me, with all the various prefixes and suffixes, so I choke. That, and the positioning of the words in a sentence. And also the concept of cases (all 7 of them). I know English and Norwegian from before, none of which has this slavic sentence logic/rules, so I find it incredibly difficult to remember/associate words/variations with their use.

    I use Duolingo, Babbel, and sometime Rocket Language, in addition to trying to expose myself to having to read/listen/reply to other native speakers, but man am I having a hard time. Any suggestions?

    • v01dworks@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 个月前

      I had the same problem when I started learning Russian and honestly the only thing that helped me improve was just speaking and writing in Russian more

      the grammar is also really hard, but I found it best to just not overthink it and just get used to speaking and making mistakes but improving over time. It’s easier to focus on correcting grammar when you’re more comfortable just constructing sentences in that language in general and don’t have to think as hard for each word you want to say

    • Ember James@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      6 个月前

      I would suggest going to the Library and seeing if they have a Russian language course, or finding one at a book store if you can afford it. I find having an actual structured course helps me in my learning, and it will usually include resources like audio.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    3·
    6 个月前

    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.

  • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 个月前

    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.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
      1·
      6 个月前

      If you ever need a language buddy, let me know.

      There is also a Learn Dutch discord that is fairly active.

      Duolingo sucks ass for learning languages. Dutchpod101 is pretty good, but the best is a combination of dutch books + listening like dhtchpod101 or some simple news podcasts or so.

  • Typewar@infosec.pub
    8·
    6 个月前

    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.

  • faltryka@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 个月前

    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.

      • faltryka@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 个月前

        Honestly I love language and languages in general, so I rarely need an excuse to go study one haha.

        That said, Mandarin Chinese was attractive to me for a few reasons.

        Firstly, a LOT of people in this world speak it, so it has high utility potential and may even come in handy for me professionally.

        Secondly, I think the culture and history of China is interesting and that my default lens for it is likely heavily biased. I’ve always found that reading source material and opposing positions or narratives has helped me understand the truth of a matter with more (albeit still imperfect) clarity.

  • percent@infosec.pub
    5·
    6 个月前

    I’ve been learning Portuguese (Brazilian) off and on for a while. I’m mostly okay-ish at reading it, but it’s nearly impossible for me to understand it when spoken.

    • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      6 个月前

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

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 个月前

    I’m currently learning Catalan, doing Duolingo until I find some class (which there should be one in a couple of months). It’s relatively easy for me since I already speak fluent Spanish and Portuguese and understand almost everything in Italian.