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ZombieParts posted:Yeah, but once you start having to write essays and give speeches the teacher starts to iron out a lot of that stuff you won't actually use or at least gives you a much more gooder way to say it Probably true, but what I know is that 8 years of french lessons in the ontario school system (lol) and when I actually went to speak to french people, i'd agree with them by saying that equivalent of "I concur" instead of just "yah" and I was calling everyone vous like some sort of human being (not to get into the obvious fact that we learned France french despite the fact quebec is like a three hour drive away). Of course maybe this is bias from learning french in canadian public schools which teach the language in the most begrudging passive aggressive way possible lol. Edit: Three weeks of hammering 500 words of spanish into my head with memrise and then spending a few months in south america got me as far in spanish as I got with several years worth of french classes.
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jackyl posted:how has nobody pointed out that hitler literally spoke German? Study up and you can deliver a posthumous and postmodern beatdown to him just by opening your mouth.
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You should have asked for Muzzy instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD9i39GENWU
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Xlorp posted:He did not use it with grammatical precision. Rudolf Hess, his private secretary, supposedly carped endlessly about having to correct his writings. Hatin on Hitler volume 267
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icantfindaname posted:No that's called actually learning the language as opposed to some travel phrases and poo poo 4 years of German, I can ask where the Bathroom is. The most important phrase in my book. As for conjugating, sexed, nouns, I'm loving USELESS! That I would pay good money to learn, from a native.
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that depends can you already speak english
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Icantfindacitation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemannic_German they may try to fool you by writing in standard german, but none of them actually speak it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyN5bz1xaC0 seriously what the gently caress is this poo poo edit: as for the naziism i need no citation icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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VendaGoat posted:4 years of German, I can ask where the Bathroom is. The most important phrase in my book. german sex ed is mostly just human sex ed with more poop and floggers, if that helps
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Steampunk iPhone posted:duolinguo is free and just as effective (ie not at all) it is a little effective The benefit to duolingo is it has decent pacing, can be moved through rapidly, and works across devices, so you might actually use it regularly, whereas Rosetta Stone is so... loving... slow and is a clunky piece of poo poo regardless of the platform. language acquisition is impossible however, learn math instead
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I had a 74 year old German teacher born in southern Brazil (lol suspicious) for 6 months and learned enough to get by as a tourist. But I actually cared at the time. I tried to learn Japanese from Rosetta Stone :files: but it was garbage. I mean complete garbage. I learned lots of Japanese with a study partner, both just studying from modern textbooks filled with amine, taking in 4 "semesters" in maybe a year. Consider Japanese is a shitload harder for an english speaker than German. Man I could go on and on about my German teacher. friend of the family knew 9 languages included dumb poo poo like Latin because he was a catholic human being. He also had a 40 year old Korean girlfriend that for reasons known did not look 40. Why? He spent 16 years in Korea for some dumb reason like nazi-persecution (NO SERIOUSLY HE SAID SOUTHERN BRAZIL WAS BEING RAIDED LIKE CRAZY FOR ANY GERMAN FAMILIES AFTER WW2 BECAUSE YOU KNOW NAZIS) so anyways he was a pretty cool little old raisin who taught me and two other white bastard assholes what the gently caress is up with german. He also taught English to mexicans. This was a whole different style of teaching though. It's funny because going from English to German you only have to learn two or three new (very guttural) sounds but with Spanish speakers he had to begin with a lesson on vocals and how to pronounce the same vowel two different ways. Being an English/Spanish speaker this really opened my eyes. I was amazed by people's simple inability to just make different sounds on a regular and even predictable basis. Really Japanese has all the same sounds as Spanish but German oh my no Imagine being a barbarian during roman times saying pussy. That poo poo doesn't sound so cute. So anyways after that I went searching for crazy things hard to pronounce and found some indian tribe with their own language with vowels or sounds or whatever that just sound like singing turtles. There was a point to this somewhere.
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thats some good japanese you learned
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gary oldmans diary posted:thats some good japanese you learned i like to think his textbooks were filled with noxious gases
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VendaGoat posted:4 years of German, I can ask where the Bathroom is. The most important phrase in my book.
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Giving any language the old college try is a waste of time. Either move there for 1+ years or give up all hope. edit: Study before you move there too.
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 I'm imagining your avatar using this as a pickup line in a German dyke bar and scoring so drat hard
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Seizure Robot posted:are you a neo-nazi op? be honest, and if not please explain why the gently caress you dream of learning german To star in German Shizer videos, duh!
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I tried a bootleg copy of Rosetta Stone to learn Russian, but after a few weeks I just got frustrated that I learned gently caress-all about how the language actually worked.
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I stand by Pimsleur
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Twitch posted:I tried a bootleg copy of Rosetta Stone to learn Russian, but after a few weeks I just got frustrated that I learned gently caress-all about how the language actually worked. i will 2nd the russian modules are 100% loving worthless.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Yeah so I've talked about my desire to learn German for a couple years now but because I'm a lazy rear end in a top hat I haven't actually tried anything. On his own my dad just spent hundreds of dollars for the complete level 1-5 package as a gift and like an idiot I told him how excited I was and registered the serial number with him. So my question is how much of an idiot is my dad/me? Daddy, ichbin Schwul.
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should have learned from muzzy
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Every civilized country makes their kids learn English so they can talk to us when we visit and do business so why bother learning another language when you already speak the best one?
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kevin trudeau's mega memory worked for me
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I took Spanish in high school and college and remembered some of it, but memrise is pretty tits. I've been using the app on my phone during spare time, and it's good so far. BUT...I have a foundation of Spanish, so that's not a good litmus test. I'll try the Italian next and see how well I do. I wonder if there are any online skype-like things where you can talk with others speaking a different language and learn. Conversation is still the best way to learn. Except Puerto Rican Spanish, which I can't comprehend at all when they speak. They murder the language. Hector Beerlioz posted:Every civilized country makes their kids learn English so they can talk to us when we visit and do business so why bother learning another language when you already speak the best one? I see someone doesn't enjoy the benefits of illegal migrant labor.
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icantfindaname posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemannic_German Allemania dialects encompass German-speaking Switzerland and Vorarlberg in western Austria. Austro-Bavarian is a whole nother animal, but after living there for a year you get used to it as long as you have some groundwork in standard deutsch. As for Nazis, everyone I met in Austria were bleeding heart liberals, so I unno 
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I don't know op, no one wants to talk to you in english so I don't see why it would be different in another language
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Business Octopus posted:Most language classes in an academic setting suck balls and teach you how to speak like a 100 year old posh human being in whatever language they're teaching. that sounds kinda cool, I would learn to speak like the old posh human being and call myself Armando
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i got some use out of the korean version, though i already spoke a little korean and knew the structure/alphabet. it was primarily a nice way of building a vocabulary
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