Message from @Rick

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2017-12-13 18:37:02 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 18:38:12 UTC  

But they have to go back

2017-12-13 19:11:18 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 19:11:57 UTC  

@Kingfish ecclesiatical Latin, medieval, or Ancient Latin?

2017-12-13 19:17:48 UTC  

Ceart go leor! Is maith liom é!

2017-12-13 19:29:09 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 19:29:32 UTC  

I wager its probably unlikely that it's ancient Latin

2017-12-13 19:34:50 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 19:50:45 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 19:53:18 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 19:55:48 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 20:01:50 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 20:10:55 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 20:15:03 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 20:16:48 UTC  

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.

2017-12-13 20:17:50 UTC  

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.

2017-12-13 20:21:39 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 20:43:53 UTC  

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

2017-12-13 20:47:34 UTC  

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

2017-12-14 00:46:33 UTC  

Guten Tag!

2017-12-14 01:39:08 UTC  

Hallo @Rick

2017-12-14 05:29:34 UTC  

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

2017-12-14 14:11:34 UTC  

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

2017-12-14 17:43:27 UTC  

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

2017-12-14 18:19:34 UTC  

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

2017-12-14 18:29:50 UTC  

Mein Deutsch ist nicht gut.

2017-12-14 18:30:38 UTC  

Du must üben.

2017-12-14 18:32:13 UTC  

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

2017-12-14 18:35:19 UTC  

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

2017-12-14 18:35:42 UTC  

2017-12-14 18:35:59 UTC  

Nice work @this_that5553 , thanks

2017-12-14 18:38:15 UTC  

Я говорю можно по русский

2017-12-14 20:04:09 UTC  

Noice I have a pin

2017-12-15 02:33:47 UTC  

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

2017-12-15 02:43:31 UTC  

It's standard.

2017-12-15 02:44:49 UTC  

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

2017-12-15 02:50:46 UTC  

I can teach some basic Irish if you guys want

2017-12-15 02:51:06 UTC  

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

2017-12-15 03:14:58 UTC  

@Deleted User added to sticky

2017-12-15 03:15:28 UTC  

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