I lived in Mexico for one year. Was raised by illegals for 3 fluent in Spanish speak, read, and write. Let me know if I can be of assistance

But they have to go back

I speak bits and pieces of German and Italian, and I'm going to be learning Latin to fluency starting in January so I'd be more than happy to share resources and lessons with anyone interested in learning what is left of Latin

@Kingfish ecclesiatical Latin, medieval, or Ancient Latin?

Ceart go leor! Is maith liom é!

@ThisIsChris well id hope it's ancient Latin however I'm not sure. I'll know more in January

I wager its probably unlikely that it's ancient Latin

https://www.clozemaster.com/

@Kingfish I started reading this, it's interesting.

I use the Pimsleur method.
http://www.pimsleur.com

My African cousin is a polylinguist, dude speaks 9 language's.
I can understand a little Ukrainian and Afrikaans.

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