You can mine sentences with an iron pickaxe, but I would avoid trying to mine sentences with a Hardness of about 50 or above. I would try to find diamond-quality sentences so you can craft a diamond pickaxe to mine different equipment with. Also, branch mining glosbe.com is pretty efficient, but if you don't mind a bit of risk and a challenge, I would go caving in the side of youtube with native speakers of your TL.
/uj I'm subscribed to r/minecraft and r/languagelearning, and seeing this in my feed, I had to reread it a couple times as I tried to figure out which sub it was from! Made me smile, thanks :)
You know that hot chick in class? Well you have to kidnap her use the blood of her(assuming she’s a virgin if not get another one) then you’ll summon the true demon: The Duo Owl. After smearing you name in blood and drawing pentagrams go onto 4chan and learn how to speak Furry which is basically from the same family tree. However after long enough, your body hair and testosterone will increase. If you did not have testosterone, you will now gain more than a JoJos character and you will hear the Duolingo Owl laughing as he drinks the blood of the virgin you sacrificed. He will then present you with the hidden course in his stashes full of unreleased Duolingo courses. If your lucky you can steal his Uzbek course and hopefully his Tajik course because Tajik is the real superior weeb Lang.
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>The problem for most learners is though, by the time they are introduced to this, they have YEARS of ingrained incorrect practice, and it is very difficult to overcome.
A lot of them learn it naturally. In fact, pitch is something more likely to be properly learned through immersion than higher level grammar. In terms of pitch, you want to be teaching that to people that already have good pronunciation. Yet from what I can see, the people most fired up about this are beginners that are deliberately "delaying output" at Matt's recommendation, and probably have terrible pronunciation. Someone that cannot properly enunciate vowels, eliminate a foreign accent, or flatten out their Japanese pronunciation to begin with doesn't have a hope in having standard pitch.
By the way, I would never bother someone living in Osaka or elsewhere about their pitch, either native or foreigner, unless they wanted a job on national TV or something.
>it's very time consuming and unnecessary to learn a language with no grammar study
I disagree - pidgins come about from this very thing, including the pidgins that people speak when they live somewhere with a heavily inflected, synthetic language, like the friend from my story. In fact, Melvyn Bragg contends that English itself came about from this very process, in marketplaces full of foreigners trying to make themselves understood, turning English from a heavily inflected, synthetic language to a mostly analytical, un-cased, un-gendered one.
>Natives still don't usually know anything even slightly more complicated, like gerunds or adverbs, but obviously they use them flawlessly.
Yes, native speakers do not have to know what's going on "under the bonnet" of the language they speak. Non-natives however, if they don't want to sound idiotic, have to learn it. Some claim to "not care" about getting it right, but they usually get by on the native's unwillingness to point out their mistakes and remain blissfully unaware of their shortcomings. Of course if the language is to be the substrate for a new pidgin or dialect, then this is immaterial, and a long, collective process.
>language will evolve in humans no matter what.
Agreed!
Hey brother, I feel you, and I can help you with this.
German is the first foreign language that I've managed to learn to a B2/C1 level, so I understand your struggles and how you feel.
You can check out my book about this and I'll be happy to make a call with you to talk about learning German: https://gumroad.com/l/yuejie
I don't personally use Anki and I reckon it's not necessary to use Anki to be a "master" in a language. There's other ways to learn. Details in my book: https://gumroad.com/l/yuejie
You don't need talent to learn a language, but you do need focus, consistency and discipline, among other habits. I can help you learn Japanese here: https://gumroad.com/l/yuejie
It's a paid version of "Learning with Texts" or "Foreign Language Text Reader" basically.
It's a way to track your vocabulary when reading a foreign language.
FLTR is basically the same but a standalone program which just requires Java to run. The only downside is that you have to add your own definitions if you want them there immediately, but you can work around that by clicking the buttons to bring up definitions via dictionaries.
A deleted post on /r/languagelearning:
>Screw it, guess I'm learning Japanese
>For context: I'm an American native English speaker currently learning Spanish, but have always had an interest in Asian languages. Two weeks ago I was in a Japanese book store near me that sells all kinds of imports from Japan, mostly manga. But I saw a Japanese textbook there for $20 USD that caught my attention, figured it could be a good gift, or a good resource if I decided to learn Japanese at any point, so I picked it up. Last week I opened it up and gave it a shot, and it was incomprehensible. It had a single chart for hiragana and no word key or anything, but asked me to write "good morning" in Japanese.
>I come to discover that it's a supplemental workbook to a larger textbook that costs $60, which it's basically useless without. I can either admit I wasted $20 on a useless book, or bite the bullet, spend the extra $60 on the main text, and try to get my money's worth. Well momma didn't raise no quitter, so I have now dropped $80 total on Japanese textbooks. Guess I'm learning Japanese now. Anywho, Japanese learners, got any tips or resources you'd recommend? I've always been interested in the language but not enough to study it until now, so any assistance is helpful. I don't necessarily want to be fluent, but am not opposed to the idea either.
>The textbook and supplemental textbooks I bought: https://www.amazon.com/Genki-Third-Integrated-Elementary-Japanese/dp/4889969446/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=genki+japanese&qid=1599021543&s=books&sr=1-3