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Submitted 4 months ago by graphito@sopuli.xyz to memes@sopuli.xyz
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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 4 months ago
TheBat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
backyard
Maison derriere, duh
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
I’ve been learning Spanish using a method called “Comprehensible Input” in which basically you just… watch and listen to things in Spanish. That’s it. No translation. No grammar study, no vocab memorisation. I’ve been at it about 9 months, and almost 800 hours of listening/watching time. (Which is about half of what supposedly well get you to conversational fluency)
It works. I can understand day to day conversation easily. I’m watching Breaking Bad with a Spanish dub. I can read YA novels (and listen to audiobooks). I miss some words and phrases here and there of course, but I still get the meaning from context most time and that helps me learn.
My speaking lags significantly behind my comprehension skills of course, as I’ve only practiced that a small fraction of the time. But it’s grown leaps and bounds. I can speak 10x better than I could a month ago. Supposedly it doesn’t take nearly as long to develop that skill once you start racking up listening/reading hours and that’s been my experience.
The beginning is a slog though since you have to watch things you can understand… Which basically amounts to videos of people talking at you like a baby with drawings and hand gestures so obvious that you can understand what they’re saying even if you muted the audio, but once you get to the point that you can understand actually interesting content it becomes SUPER easy. You just replace all the time you spend watching and listening and reading things with… Watching and listening and reading things in the language you want to learn. Once you reach that point it doesn’t take effort. Learning Spanish has changed from something I’m trying to do to an inevitability. It’s honestly like magic. If I’ve gotten this far in less than a year I can’t imagine where I’ll be in two.
If you’re interested in the method check this playlist and this guy can explain in detail (turn on English subtitles if you don’t understand Spanish): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlpPf-YgbU7GrtxQ9yde-J…
I’m not trying to advertise for the site he runs, you can totally apply the method through free resources (and he has hundreds of free videos for this too). But it is an incredible resource that’s super cheap and can get you past the beginning stages. I’ve moved past their content at this point but it was invaluable in the beginning.
dadGPT@lemmy.world 4 months ago
yo necesito memes por favor
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 months ago
This hits far to close to home ...
BassaForte@lemmy.world 4 months ago
저는 아기아 먹시니다
teft@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The thing that got me when finally speaking to natives was how fast natural speaking is. You think you can understand things fine but that’s because the teachers and apps are speaking clearly and slowly and waiting for you to parse each sentence. Natural conversation isn’t like that.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m sorry for foreigners, I never learned how to properly pronounciate my owl language. It’s OK not to understand me, other natives struggle too XD
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 4 months ago
Is ‘my owl language’ the language you’re learning using Duolingo? Or is it a typo and you meant ‘my own language’? It’s interesting because normally I’d assume the latter, but in the context of this thread, the former makes some weird sense.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Accents as well. You can have the rain in Spain falling mainly on the plain as much as you want, but it’s not going to help any foreign visitors to Newcastle or Liverpool.
Graphy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Slang as well. Apparently my grandma was hood af so when I tried to use what little German I knew my teacher was like that’s some informal shit.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
And local colloquialisms as well. I can tell you the secret to a Boston accent is to replace the r after a vowel with an h, and that’ll help you pahk the cah at Hahvahd yahd, but won’t do a damn thing when somebody tells you the food at a restaurant is wicked pissah, but warns you that it’s raining fecking hahd out deyah so yeh better off takin’ the T to Southie.
Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Everyone I talk to says watch TV shows in the language, you get better at hearing and understanding more fluently, for my dad English was his second language and he gave me a lot of tips about getting fluent with a language. One learn all the swear words, avoid accidently saying them, and know when people are attacking you, let go of translating, gato isn’t cat, gato is gato. Don’t translate, that’s a skill in and of itself that’s very challenging to aquire. His brothers made fun of him for making faces on sounds, particularly sounds not found in his native language, don’t avoid that, sink IN to sounds outside your language roll those rr’s until you sound like your purring, hit those gutteral sounds hard, and soften those native sounds that don’t belong. LET GO of feeling embressased, be a goof, say things you don’t understand, make people laugh, you can’t be precious about it. Dork it up! My dad still had an accent, but he was one of two out of his four siblings that had complete fluency.
Michal@programming.dev 4 months ago
I dont think i had this problem, but then again i had been learning a few years by watching movies and listening to songs before i met some actual English speakers. The benefit of a two way conversation is you can always ask them to repeat.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
this made me realize how different learning is via lessons and immersion, i never had that experience when learning english since i did it by watching english media, it was just that one day it stopped being gibberish and started being language.
teft@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think that day is awesome for any language learner. When you realize you actually understand what someone is saying instead of trying to translate in your head. 🤌
30p87@feddit.de 4 months ago
I can’t even manage that in my native language.