Language Learning

I know that for example, Japanese has words starting or ending with りゃく, りょう or りゅう which is difficult for English speakers to pronounce when they are learning the language. There are words such as 遠慮 (えんりょ), 留学生 (りゅうがくせい) or 略奪 (りゃくだつ) to mention a few, even Japanese names that have those sounds (i.e. 久常涼 or ひさつね・りょ) but they often mispronounce them (り・よ / や / ゆ) which are separate sounds in Kana but clustered together from り (like り + よ becomes りょ).

Hope all you fine folks are doing well with your studies this week. Share your experience so we can all celebrate or commiserate with you!

Hola,

I’m a native Spanish speaker from Spain (I live in the U.S., spoke English all my life with a native English speaking father and my English could be better than my Spanish). Since I am Spanish, we use vosotros. While I heard people in the U.S. learn “ustedes comen”, I would say “vosotros coméis”.

The youngest sibling born long after the other siblings were born in Norwegian is apparently an attpåklatt 😄

Usually online dictionaries provide the British English or American English pronounciation of a word. I am specifically looking for New Zealand English. Can anyone name a site where i can find this?

Gives me a little bit of life every time to see updates on everyone's journey. Where are you at with it this week?

I thought Duolingo was great before it enshitified. I genuinely learned more from Duolingo than from any other method. Will Babbel fill that Duolingo-sized hole? I want to learn Spanish to rizz goth latinas. Also because it's a beautiful language. I also live in an area with lots of people who speak it as a first language and I'd like to be able to communicate better. Thank you!

I am a native Turkish speaker who actively uses English, Russian, and German, and understands Arabic, Greek, and Bulgarian.

I am looking for colleagues and language partners, especially for language practice (voice recording and writing).To correct pronunciation errors, answer cultural and grammatical questions, and share resources, you can contact me via the email address below.

E-mail : gokayburuc@yandex.com

As an avid Japanese learner, I always wanted there to be a simple online trainer for learning kana, kanji and vocabulary by JLPT level for Japanese learners. So, I started working on a brand new, completely free and fully open-source app in recent months. It’s very new and still in its infant stages (and I'm looking to extend it to other languages too once it gets polished enough), but here are the features so far:

• Full JLPT vocabulary and kanji coverage, with more than 1000+ levels for you to play
• More than 25+ different fonts and font styles
• More than 100+ different color themes, with the ability to add and upload your own custom backgrounds
• 100% free and open-source, forever
• All learning materials 100% AI-free, sourced from reputable sources and available for full download and inspection

If that sounds interesting to you, you’re welcome to try it out and provide some feedback: https://kanadojo.com/

GitHub just in case: https://github.com/lingdojo/kana-dojo

ありがとうございます!

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Hello everyone. I am looking for individuals in the US, UK and Canada for some online task. It will take you less than 1 hour to set up and roughly 1 hour every week. Pay is 30 USD per week. If this sounds like something you can give a shot,lets talk

I've been reading about PIE and i'm confused. As I understand, it is assumed to be the language spoken by Europeans 6,000 years ago. No written record of the language has ever been found so the language has been reconstructed through seemingly arbitrary means. So, In all likeliness actual PIE sounded very different. What makes this language (as it exists today) useful? This is essentially a conlang that is too complicated to learn. What am I missing? Sorry if I'm coming off as negative. I find PIE both confusing and fascinating.

Are you sticking with it?

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/48131421

Hi Everyone 👋

I’ve created an Italian-English language exchange XMPP room, and I am trying to get the community growing. If you’re a speaker of English or Italian and want to practice your skills in the other language, feel free to join 😎:

xmpp:italian-language-exchange@chat.disroot.org

I also created an experimental Mumble room that you can join here:

mumble://disroot.org/Italian%20%7C%20English%20Language%20Exchange

Interesting article about the FSRS algorithm

Sorry for the late post. It escaped me that we're back at Sunday already!

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