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⌈ Secret Post #2583 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Tell me what you like about yourself, FS

[inkdust]

My French is best, followed by German (formal classes and time spent in both countries), and most recently I'm working on teaching myself Italian. It's going well, duolingo.com is awesome. After that I think I'll go for Dutch, but it'll be harder to find resources for that. The most difficult one I'm interested in is Russian - we hosted a Russian exchange student for a year in high school - but I think it'll be a while before I start that.

Re: Tell me what you like about yourself, FS

[iceyred]

That is a lot of languages. Do you want to work in a field that requires knowing lots of languages, or do you learn them just for fun? I have the duolingo app on my phone and was thinking of signing up.

Re: Tell me what you like about yourself, FS

[inkdust]

I just love them. It would be great to be able to work with them for a living, but writing novels actually wins out for me in terms of dream career. I just love languages, and I have this really romantic inclination to believe that learning to live in a different language brings us closer to knowing ourselves.

I can't recommend Duolingo enough. Given, I'm strong with languages to begin with, but I find their system very effective. They don't offer much in the way of grammar explanation, but some users link to helpful sites in the exercise comments. I've used nothing but Duolingo, about.com, and a verb drills book for my Italian, and I'm very pleased with my competency at this point.

Re: Tell me what you like about yourself, FS

[sarillia]

Thanks for mentioning duolingo.com. I love languages too and I like to study them on my own. I kind of doubt I'll ever be fluent in anything but English because I have too much fun hopping around from one fascinating language to the next but I'm okay with that.

I would love to learn Russian too. I know the Cyrillic alphabet at least. I've made a hobby out of teaching myself to write in various writing systems and that was one of the first ones I learned.

Re: Tell me what you like about yourself, FS

[inkdust]

I've tried to do the same with writing systems but only with limited success. I still remember some Cyrillic but I didn't stick with it long enough to really get them down. And I'd really love to figure out the Arabic system, but it's overwhelming! I was actually most successful in middle school when I taught myself Tolkien's Tengwar, lol.

Re: Tell me what you like about yourself, FS

[sarillia]

Arabic is actually one of the ones I've taught myself. I started with the Persian alphabet because I got into Iranian film and poetry.

Like most things, I've found the trick is just a lot (a loooooot) of practice. I just take random words and transcribe them into whatever alphabet or syllabary I'm working on. It's basically my version of doodling.

I'd love to learn Tengwar too. It looks so pretty.

Re: Tell me what you like about yourself, FS

[sarillia]

Thanks again for mentioning Duolingo! I started doing the German lessons and I just got to level 4. I'm looking forward to seeing how much I remember tomorrow. It'll be interesting to see if I stick with this.

Re: Tell me what you like about yourself, FS

[inkdust]

Glad you like it!!

One of the best aspects of it, in my opinion, is that it's really easy to just do a lesson or two (or lesson practice or two) if you don't have much time. And repetition is of course the most important part.