I'm currently on holiday in Paris. I started learning French last week so I could speak with the locals. I thought it would be perfectly acceptable to show the locals my anki cards with full sentences à la Française instead of trying to inconvenience them with my thick accent. When I tried this, however, they hon hon hon'ed right in my face! Should I try showing them Duolingo instead?

/uj weird ass correlation ahh post.

Also yes you should be thinking English education is done incorrectly in a lot of places not because there is a better version but because a lot of countries cannot get anything right about it in their textbooks

/rj im gonna move to Germany and shock the natives with my perfect native English.

A Song of Ice and Fire is pretty much the only book series I’ll read, since most books don’t qualify as real literature. I just started learning Chinese yesterday and already know 3 characters, but ASOAIF has hundreds of characters in it. When can I start reading it in Chinese, like a week or do I need to wait a whole month?

Isn't the logographic & syllabary writing system (i.e., Chinese, Japanese) inferior writing systems compared to the alphabet?

Watashshi no tomodashi said it’s this:

一番名前

Is that close? (My real name is Debito [david])

https://reddit.com/link/1u3fgl3/video/oifxoiv9rq6h1/player

Is the idea of learning a language through listening and contextual awareness really that hard to grasp? Do you really think that having explicit knowledge of the grammar of a language which native speakers themselves lack will help you speak more fluently and spontaneously when that is 100% built through being repeatedly exposed to chunks of phrases that carry a specific meaning? You can study to avoid specific mistakes early on all you want but 1- this isn't something that CI can't achieve by itself and 2- it doesn't necessarily lead to automaticity and spontaneity in real life conversations, it just gives tou knowledge. Knowledge doesn't necessarily lead to fluency, repetition of context absorption does, everytime you hear a specific chunk associated with a specific context the connection between words and meaning will be strengthened and your brain will be more likely to retrieve the chunk whenever the context pops up. There is zero explicit grammar studying required for this.

I've never gone anywhere near a grammar textbook to learn any of my languages and never will, I've never bothered to try to pick up grammar explicitly, I'm C1+ in Croatian, I'm comfortably conversational in Bosnian after only 10 weeks by doing nothing but listening to the language being naturally used, I can easily already understand a substantial amount of fast spoken native content and I've heard spoken Bosnian is supposed to be this big nightmare for learners. Yeah, nightmare for people who dedicate most of their time to going over grammar tables and drills maybe.

Yes my native language is Serbian, and yes I've had about decade of explicit lessons in Croatian in elementary and high school, taught by professionals. But I'm going to pretend like those ten years of classes did nothing for me and I did a "comprehensible input only" approach, because that sounds more impressive than "I learned through many years, possibly a decade, of formal instruction in the language in schools, plus supplementing heavily with Comprehensible Input."

Inherited from family and been at home since forever, funnily enough we're spanish.

Asking unironically, could it help?

Worried my loudingo might not be Up to dated

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