Pimsleur is really a great system. It trains your ear so well. And that's a big part that is missing from other systems

For sure. It's more than just memorizing words. It's basically instant conversation.

@RevStench Since he was a kid? Does he just know the tribal languages of the region?

5 since childhood, Zulu, Afrikaans, Xhosa and two others before he graduated.

He worked for Mercedes and he picked up German fast, and Merc makes all employees learn German, based. Then he worked for some French company and Learned French due to him spending a lot of time in France. I forget what else he speaks.

My brother has 4 kids and I have the 3 oldest learning German already. It's so cool to watch how they pick it up.

I wish we were forcrd to learn a second language here in the states.

We kind of do, but it's bullshit. I "learned" French, but forgot almost all of it because the teaching sucked and the frequency of exchange was low

We don't start in grade school. I'm talking day one of your education you start learning a second or third language.

Guten Tag!

Hallo @Rick

Hello, if anyone is interested I'll translate articles from Russian nationalist site "Sputnik I Pogrom" into English. Just let me know.

@Nemets We have a Ukrainian learner if you know any of that @RevStench

@this_that5553 @Rick hat ihr bock ein monatlich sprach Abend?

@Prestor John Nothing yet. Getting a sense of who knows what right now. (I don't know German yet)

Mein Deutsch ist nicht gut.

Du must üben.

Language SMEs (WIP)

German
@Rick
@Prestor John
@prinzessin#7582
@JudenFrei#6240

Chinese
@FivePointPalm#1196

Spanish
@Matthias
@Mayor-Kleve- NE#4547
@Angoy-Saxon#2915
@Anthony Sealy#1725

Russian
@Nemets#3206

Irish
@Deleted User
@StrawberryArmada

French
@ophiuchus#8157
@Marseille#7875

Japanese
@ophiuchus#8157

Polish
@NotVlast#6354

Portuguese
@LLBacon#9794

Latin
@StrawberryArmada

@ThisIsChris If you want to pin that ^ we can edit it as we find more people

Nice work @this_that5553 , thanks

Я говорю можно по русский

Noice I have a pin

@RevStench what type of Ukrainian are you learning? The standard type they teach in books, or the mixed dialect that most people speak?

It's standard.

For those that have learned a 'foreign language' without moving abroad and being immersed in it-- how did you do it?

I can teach some basic Irish if you guys want

Or at least translate some stuff at random and help with word pronunciation

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@Deleted User I've gotten quite far with Michel Thomas and then writing/speaking with penpals from sites like Interpals

Personally, I wouldn't waste time on Duolingo. only if bored.

I would always recommend Michel Thomas esque systems for a beginner to get up to speed. Then I'd say "go for it".

Granted, it's tougher with certain languages to do that, but yeah.

Michel Thomas doesn't have an Irish course

Ah yeah, there’s some online courses for Irish though. Sponsored by Ireland gov I think

@Prestor John Wir können ein Gesprach auf Discord-Voice-Chat haben. Sagst du mir wann.

Ich spreche deutsch und ein bisschen niederländisch!

Sehr gut!

@Deleted User

Ich habe ein Server fur die Gotter.

Je veux apprendre l’allemande maintenant haha

There’s a lot of speakers here

Sprachen Zie Deutsch?