What are Reddit's favorite Language Learning Apps?

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I took Latin and Greek in High School and got A's and I guess it helps my vocabulary but I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese. I keep hoping to get time to study one of these - probably French because it is the easiest. I did Duolingo for awhile but didn't keep it up. Mark Zuckerberg amazingly learned Mandarin and did a Q&A with Chinese students - incredible.

Is this actually real? This can't be real. This has to be a parody.

Oh my god it isn't.

Okay, credit where credit is due. Using gamification to ~~trick~~ incentivize people with nothing else better to do to moderate your community without having to pay actual moderators or community managers is clever in a very manipulative sort of way. So good job with that.

But here's a question: have you thought about the sorts of people who will be attracted to this unpaid job? Because let's be honest, they're not joining you for the Heroes Convention or whatever it's called.

Edit: So yeah, here's a video that does a proper job of explaining this thing and its implications. I confess, I had no idea what the YouTube Creator Community was, and I just assumed that YouTube was handing out powers to persistent trolls. And that was far from the only thing I knee-jerked on.

Finally, I actually think that crowdsourcing captioning is a grand idea. I just wish they'd do it in a better way than this silly leveling system. Off the top of my head, partner with Duolingo. You learn new languages by translating things that people need translated. People in need of translations pay money for their translations, and people learning a language pay with their time and labor for their language education. From what I know, it actually works.

I highly recommend Clozemaster.com if you really want to get into learning other languages. It gives you a sentence in your target language with a word missing and the translation of the entire sentence written below, and then you have to select the correct word from four choices to fill in the blank. Once you know more of the language, you can turn of the multiple choices and type in the correct answer directly and score double points.

Here are the available languages to learn: https://www.clozemaster.com/languages

...and there's also a subreddit: /r/clozemaster

There's Duolingo. It's like a better Rosetta Stone, and free, but limited in how many languages it has. It is expanding, and will have more in the future. However, learning a language requires you to talk to someone at some point, so make plans to travel or find an online Skype buddy. I doubt you can truly be fluent without communicating with someone.

So it became clear I can't hear jack shit if I'm playing games with my headset on. So with a PI0w and super cheap voice detection board, I wrote a python script that sends a push notification to my phone via Prowl if my kid wakes up crying (or a pin drops).

Project link: https://www.hackster.io/Skyphoxx/sound-detector-with-visual-alerts-3997ab

UPDATE: Woke up to all the upvote love and genuine improvement comments! Thanks so much everyone!

Learning a language. Use a tool like Duolingo (free and has a mobile app), and just do 15 minutes or so every day when you wake up/before bed. I think if you stick with it and try to do at least one new lesson each day, you could easily finish an entire language course in a year. (I'm on day 563 of my streak, and have finished one course and am maybe 2/5 through another).

The other day I was reading someone's book over their shoulder on a tube journey, and it wasn't until I was halfway through a page that I realised I had been reading Italian. It was super satisfying, and made me feel especially proud of the progress I've made since day 1.

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Grammar Girl has a deeper explanation, but basically: "thou" went from informal (something you'd use among peers) to belittling (something you'd use to highlight someone is inferior to you). So when in doubt people started using "you" in all situations, no matter formality or hierarchy.

For anyone who wondered like I did, Tuesday is "Terça-feira" and the rest of the week days are numbered as well. Only the weekends (Saturday and Sunday) are not numbered. It has something to do with religious observances. Here's a link: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/9681881/Why-Are-The-Days-Of-The-Week-Different-in-Portuguese-Compared-To-The-Other-Romance-Languages-D

That's my sub! Thanks for the tag, I've got to make a post about this.

Here's what I could find for now:

Source video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS9A1JuOKE8

How-To Guide the creator posted:
https://www.hackster.io/Advanced/punch-activated-arm-flamethrowers-real-firebending-95bb80

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For anyone looking to learn a new language, check out Duolingo. I find it works very good to get the basics down, and it's pretty fun as well!

EDIT: Some have pointed out that it doesn't have all languages, but it does have a good portion: Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Italian, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish, Russian, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Polish and Welsh for English speakers

EDIT2: And vietnamese

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fuck subway all my homies hate subway

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munich subway or berlin subway?

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yes.

hier, das ist für dich https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/de/en/Learn-German

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Try Duolingo. It's available online and as an app. It's really useful when trying to learn a new language, and I'm pretty sure German is one of the courses that they provide. And it's free!

You can do it, go to this website. I'm just an average guy but I managed to learn English, well, enough to reply on Reddit. By the way, English is my third language. If I can do it, you can do it.

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People have already posted Duolingo, so I'm going to post italki. Italki won't teach you vocabulary and sentence structure like Duolingo would. Italki allows you to speak to people who know the language and write in your target language to then get edited by people who know the language. Italki gets you involved with real people! That's something you can't replicate by doing tests and drills.

You can definitely learn a language through the internet for free, but you have to involve yourself. You do not have to go to another country to learn a language. If you want proof, look no further than fluent in 3 months.

Source video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS9A1JuOKE8

How-To Guide the creator posted:
https://www.hackster.io/Advanced/punch-activated-arm-flamethrowers-real-firebending-95bb80

The remix of the soundtrack they use in the video is awesome too.

edit: The creator is on Reddit if you have further questions! Just message him at /u/AllenMPan.

There's certainly no lack of interest in Japanese on Duolingo, nor do I believe that there is any lack of contributors. After all, English for Japanese speakers is already in beta.

The reason it hasn't been added probably has more to do with the writing system(s). Duolingo is a forced-repetition engine, and adapted for teaching isolating languages with compact alphabets. Teaching Japanese to English speakers requires a different approach to be effective (although the system could still be used for vocabulary practice for people who already have some familiarity with the language).

On top of that, there are some technological issues that's keeping Duolingo from introducing Japanese for English speakers; see Kippis' response to this thread.

The couple in the comics are "放閃" (literal: ‎put/discharge flash), the word in English is PDA (Public display of affection).

"放閃" means a pair of lovers show off with their love or do lovey-dovey thing together in public. Anyone nearby need to wear sunglasses to protect their vision and to prevent blindness from those flashes.

Source (Chinese)

For anyone curious:

 

What Tzuyu wanted to write:

네이션 = "Nation" (Korean spelling of the English word using Korean phonetics)

 

What Tzuyu wrote:

네이년

네 = you

이 = this

년 = bitch

Source

Haaa it's me for the last few months. If you're interested in learning Japanese I'd really recommend WaniKani for learning Kanji, it's super helpful:

https://www.wanikani.com/

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I am currently learning Python (started about 2 months ago) while working a more than full-time job, though I am not new to programming. I use SoloLearn on my phone to practice and study when I have a few odd minutes throughout the day. I took the Automate the Boring Stuff class on Udemy for $10 and doing Colt Steele's course on there currently at night after work. I play around with the challenges on edabit.com and a few other places to reinforce what I have been learning, especially list comprehension.

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let's fight back. We aren't soldiers but neither are they.

Edit: I don't know if this link will work for you but you can learn russian for free on www.duolingo.com. https://www.duolingo.com/skill/ru/Alphabet-1/1

Here's the Duolingo thread for Irish, seems fairly popular.

Here's the announcement of creating an offline mode a year ago, and there's no mention of it being a paid feature.

And here is where they announced they were introducing a paid service, which was a whole 10 months after they introduced an offline mode.

http://freerice.com/#/identify-countries-map/899

Freerice is a website where you answer quiz and trivia questions for free, and for every correct answer, some rice gets donated to people around the world who need it.

https://www.duolingo.com/

Duolingo is fantastic, I'm currently learning Portuguese with it. It's also free.

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I've been a huge fan of the RPi 3A+ because it is: (i) cheap; (ii) has a really nice set of connections (full HDMI, USB, headphone) and 5Ghz Wifi; and (iii) more minimal power draw than the 3B+ or 4.

I don't really understand why this article doesn't compare the 3A+ to the Zero 2. According to this review, the 3A+ is pretty much the closest to the Zero 2.

It's a bit sad how the 3A+ is often forgotten in its utility.

We're adding some of the user suggestions given in this thread.

Since this means adding words, the progress rate went down a tiny bit, because each of these words requires three sentences which we need to come up with. (:

The return to 98% is actually a great thing and nothing to worry about: it means we're listening to you and improving/editing the course accordingly. :)

A guy 3D printed an actual camera lens Mount to game boy camera adapter - the project made for some nice images

https://www.hackster.io/news/give-your-game-boy-camera-a-canon-lens-mount-for-amazing-low-quality-photos-838cbbfd0e62

And: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/8o46ak/mod_game_boy_camera_canon_ef_mount_pics_and/

Duolingo has designers, engineers, marketers, community outreach specialists, a QA guy, and a finance guy. They don't have linguists on staff, as far as I can see. Available evidence suggests that they either don't know or don't care about the actual science of second language acquisition.

Duocon was an online conference put on by Duolingo. Oscar never spoke. You can watch the conference recording here. I watched parts of it, it was pretty interesting.

The badge thing was a way to advertise the conference, and motivate people to use Duolingo.

This looks pretty great. I know the site is a work in progress, so you are probably well aware of its current limitations, but I'll go over what I noticed after playing with it for a while:

The video player is a really great idea and has some great features. Audio and subtitles in the target language, instant translation on demand, and it keeps track of all the words in the video and whether you've seen them already or not. Now I just want a bigger selection of videos to choose from.

Duolingo import is cool and useful, but clunky. I can see what the function does, but pasting code into a console is something that people should be wary of. Is the same information not in the user's json data in duolingo? The json that is at https://www.duolingo.com/users/foo ? The data there is public, so all you would need is for the user to provide their username.

In text/learn/cloze: the feedback is confusing on correct vs incorrect answers. Whether or not you get the answer correct, three of the buttons turn red and one turns green. The practical result is that you click a button and see a bunch of red on the screen. So it feels like you got the question wrong every time. There should be some more positive feedback on a right answer. Maybe even just gray instead of red so that the green is more prominent.

Also, when you click finish after a close lesson, nothing happens. Yes, it brings up the summary overlay, but it really should launch the next lesson, or at least give you a easy choice of next lesson / do something else.

There is no information up front about what the contents of the site are. Fine, it's a work in progress, but all the content was behind a registration wall. Because of that, you got fake info from me. It would be great if you could use the site without registering, and then have the option of registering to record your progress.

A very promising start. I will certainly be checking back in to see how things develop.

Original link: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8699437$from_email=comment&comment_id=18372551

This is just an isolated post on a Duolingo thread, but since I'm living in Pakistan at the moment I thought it’d be fun to share some South Asian badling wholly unrelated to Sandscript (crazy, right?). This kind of badling, where Urdu’s relationship to Arabic and Persian is exaggerated, is extremely common among South Asian Muslims.

The most egregious badling in this is the claim about Urdu having almost all sounds simply for having adopted some phonemes from Arabic that weren’t previously present in most Indo-Aryan vernaculars. It’s true that normative Urdu has a number of phonemes that are optional in Hindi: namely, /z/, /x/, /ɣ/ and /q/. However, many Hindi actors and singers maintain all of them but /q/ (as is the case of most Urdu-speakers in Pakistan’s most populous province, Punjab), and /z/ at least is not uncommon in urban Hindi. This however is nowhere near the entire sound inventory that would be possible in a language -- (most) Urdu may have a couple more phonemes than (most) Hindi, but both certainly have less phonemes than Ubykh, for example. Puristic, Sanskritised forms of Hindi may also show phonemes that Urdu lacks, namely /ɳ/, /ʂ/ and /ɲ/. The idea that Urdu-speakers will be better at learning pronunciation in other languages is thus completely spurious.

The post also touches on the myth that Urdu has lots of Arabic and Persian loanwords because it was originally spoken in caravans and camps by Islamic conquerers. Colloquial Hindi is not much less Arabised than colloquial Urdu (the written language is another story), and other Indo-Aryan languages like Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi, etc. are also chock-full of Perso-Arabic vocabulary. Therefore, there’s no reason to posit a strictly military origin for Urdu’s loanwords, nor are English or Perso-Arabic loanwords unique to Urdu in the Indian subcontinent.

Spaced Repetition System i.e. you see a word once, then it comes up a day later, then a week later, then 30 days later, etc.

Anki, Memrise, Lingvist, Clozemaster are some examples.

For me I do 5-10 minutes of Clozemaster https://www.clozemaster.com/languages/learn-dutch-from-english

This is general vocabulary based on frequency used

I also use Readlang.com to read novels and it also has an SRS built in, which I only use for new words that I encountered while reading. Italian: https://i.imgur.com/9NOWBYX.png

Anki is fantastic. I also recommend Duolingo for whatever languages they have (incidentally Japanese is one of the few they don't have).

I learned from Duolingo in two months what university courses taught me in a semester, with extra vocabulary to spare.

Hi! Thank you for finding it out :) One of the course contributors / Duolingo staff here. Some updates:

1) We are not just teaching Romaji, we are teaching "real Japanese" with Hiragana, Katakana, and even some basic Kanji. We are working on a new, better way to teach scripts.

2) We designed our course very carefully, basing it on a research-backed CEFR-like framework called JS Foundations and also covering vocabulary and grammar for JLPT N5 (equivalent to CEFR A1). Every skill is thematic ('food', 'transportation', 'hobby', etc.), meaning there will be no boring 'grammatical skills' such as 'present verbs', 'prepositions', 'past tense' etc.

May 15th, 2017 is not just an estimate, it's a real target (I know it's aggressive). We are working hard to deliver a high-quality course as soon as we can.

And last but not least, we are looking for contributors! If you speak both Japanese and English and are passionate about teaching Japanese to the world, please apply here!

https://www.duolingo.com/comment/20648872

Heres a link to the guide(https://www.hackster.io/mportatoes/trading-card-scanner-organizer-84399a), the op is the type of spammer that used to spam the 3dprinting subreddit with links of shit he found to his own website.

Quoted from moeka518, one of the administrators: >We created a spreadsheet with all the words and some sample sentences. All we have to do is move those into the incubator, which is still a lot of work, but totally doable in three months.

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Hi Luis,

I was hoping you might be able to give us some insight as to exactly how new languages are chosen to be added to the incubator, as I'm sure you're going to be inundated with questions in this AMA from people wanting more languages added. I hope you understand that from our point of view, it seems like the way Duolingo builds courses by using volunteer contributors means that adding courses requires little effort from the Duolingo staff themselves. I'm sure that's not true, but I was just hoping you could explain why some courses are selected to be added to the incubator and others are not.

I'm aware that there is a section on the Duolingo forums explaining this, but that post says that voting for course suggestions on the forums will get them added. It's therefore confusing that the Finnish request post, which is the second most upvoted forum post of all time has seemingly been ignored by Duolingo.

So my question is: how do you make the decision on which courses get added to the incubator?

Congrats on passing the B2 exam! I'm working on a project for intermediate-advanced language learners that you might find useful, https://www.clozemaster.com. Its aim is to improve and expand vocabulary and comprehension skills in a productive and fun way. It's also free!

It's in the hardest language group to learn for native English speaker as seen in this image and i'd assume it goes both ways.

For grammar, Lingolia is probably your best bet. It's completely free, the site's design is immaculate, and there's at least one exercise for every single lesson, which really helps in revising and solidifying knowledge. Kwiziq is another excellent choice that offers pretty much the same thing, but with fancy AI stuff that provides tailor-made lesson plans just for you. The only reason I rank it below Lingolia is because Kwiziq is a paid service, but it's pretty much unmatched if you have the money.

In terms of vocabulary, I personally don't find Anki to be as effective as people touted it to be. Memrise has been much more effective in my experience, as they combine both spaced repetition with numerous other methods (such as matching words to definition, actually typing up the word, etc.) to aid with memorization. Definitely worth checking out.

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Just want to give a shout-out to the awesome and totally free language-learning site DUOLINGO!

I can now add to my LinkedIn profile that I am 18% fluent in Spanish. LOL! :)

Raspberry pi subreddit is a good starting point as they are used to output to the display.

Here is a tutorial how to do an Equalizer with a 64x64 display:

https://www.hackster.io/gatoninja236/raspberry-pi-audio-spectrum-display-1791fa

That post is from 7 months ago, I'm not sure if they still doing that. Recently the CEO of Duolingo explained here how they are experimenting different ways to make money.

If anyone else is looking for some serious kanji-learning tools, the last time a Japanese language learning game got posted I got fired up and started researching learning materials. I ended up getting really into WaniKani, which is a high-quality sort-of-gameified kanji learning website. It's a good "next step" for learning vocab if you are comfortable with hiragana/katakana and orders things in an easy to learn way. It ended up being surprisingly fun and smoothly integrated into my daily routine.

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I guess they typed https://www.duolingo.com/Swedish, maybe hoping to get to the page of the Swedish language, but it links to your profile as your username is Swedish, and links to user profiles are https://www.duolingo.com/username

It's not new - I've finished it a long time ago...

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but I didn't know that they've released an official Slovenian course:

https://www.memrise.com/course/2059404/slovenian-1/

Sure! The Genki I vocab course is here, and the grammar course is here. If you click on the link to the profile of the person who made the course, they have equivalent courses for Genki II.

There's actually a ton of user made content on memrise, it's the real meat of the site. Unfortunately if you're using the app instead of the website, you can't actually find any of the courses. You can work on them once you've added them from the website, but if there's a way to add them from within the android app, I haven't found it.

PSA: The app "Duolingo" is working on a korean course for English speakers. so keep an eye out for that.

Also, last time I checked it said it would be in beta around April 30th but they changed it a few days ago for some reason.

Found this: https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/3251083

They are the levels of politeness (different formality levels)

saranghanda is formal non-polite, informal(impolite used to the same age(friend), the children
(high formality / low politeness)

saranghae is informal or casual used to the same age(friend), someone younger than you, the children, lover, wife & husband
(low formality / low politeness)

saranghaeyo is informal (but still) polite used to olders, lover, wife & husband, parents
(low formality / high politeness)

saranghamnida is polite(more formal) used to elders, boss, army, wife & husband, everyone
(high formality / high politeness)

formality: formal / casual

politeness: polite / rude

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Personally, I like saranghamnida.

There was a family who set up a huge house wide automation that had its own blockchain currency for chores, etc. that could be spent to watch Plex, game console time, or gift cards I believe. Hugely overkill but the father was interested in learning blockchain.

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There's a website called edabit with a ton of exercises for Python (and many other languages), classified by difficulty level. I think people that are registered can submit new ones.

Have you tried DuoLingo?

It's a pretty good way to get the basics of a language down, after which you can inflict it on natives and get them to reflexively respond while they're staggered by the butchering of their tongue. I've been using it for Swedish and it's great.

From a little research: "chun-chun, as in the sounds of birds chirping and -maru means "circle", it's a suffix is very often at the end of many male names in the Japanese language and is often applied to words representing something beloved, and sailors applied this suffix to their ships.".

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I don't have any current interest in polish but damn I love how fast they're adding courses these days. Russian just came out, hindi, welsh and vietnamese are coming in the next six months, and after that we'll have swahili, indonesian, and korean before the end of next year. Not to mention catalan for spanish speakers is out and guarani for spanish speakers is coming.

Obligatory plug for /r/LearnDutch - recommended in the course mods' Helpful external material thread. We have plenty of learners at all levels, and a lot of helpful native speakers who'll gladly answer questions and give advice. We've seen a pretty nice growth recently, presumably the Duolingo course attracting new learners. Feel free to join us. :)

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Pasted from here (updated 4/29 with other poster's feedback):

Turkish 200

Ukrainian 209

Esperanto 241

Irish 292

Polish 298

Welsh 317

Vietnamese 320

Spanish 322

Swedish 325

Danish 340

Dutch 340

Russian 350

French 358

Italian 405

Portuguese 406

German 462

Norwegian 513

This is only the courses of English -> X.

Following this post last week calling for Duolingo to help out with the migrant crisis, and setting down in virtual ink the names and language levels of experienced people who were willing to commit themselves to this.

Looks like Duo was impressed with this group too! Brilliant news!

• I'm using Duolingo primarily. It's free and has a nice UI, but the best feature for me is that it keeps track of how many consecutive days you've used it; this motivates me to use it every single day. They have Norwegian too.

• I have a small book covering the essentials of Dutch grammar. It is a useful reference.

• I've recently started watching Dutch kids TV shows (with Dutch subtitles if available). I still can't understand half of what I hear.

• If it's an option I sometimes change the language on menus and interfaces (like the stair machine at my gym).

The couple in these Taiwanese comics/manhwa are "放閃" (literal: ‎put/discharge flash), the word in English is PDA (Public display of affection).

"放閃" means a pair of lovers show off with their love or do lovey-dovey thing together in public. Anyone nearby need to wear sunglasses to prevent blindness from those flashes.

Reference (in Chinese)

/u/EllaEnigma

Duo's listening and speaking resources aren't very good in any language. You may want to find additional audio resources, like podcasts or a cheap copy of Pimsleur or Michel Thomas Portuguese.

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Thanks for your comment. Yes, you are right, the pi alone can handle reading an analog sensor with an Analog-to-Digital converter such as MCP3008. But, in this project, I wanted to cover the topic for beginners - how to read analog sensors with Raspberry Pi via Arduino. So, Arduino is not a necessity for replicating this project but only an AD converter.

In my following project, if interested, I cover how to read analog sensors with an AD converter - MCP3008.

https://www.hackster.io/kutluhan-aktar/raspberry-pi-adjustable-air-quality-detector-running-on-gui-b7fb75

Hello! I highly recommend the Foreign Service Institute’s free courses. They have one for Lao:

https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/FSI/fsi-lao.html

The FSI courses can be a little old-fashioned, but they are good quality and free. This is literally what the United States government used to train diplomats serving in Laos. I’ve used a few of their courses (can’t speak for the Lao one though, never tried it).

Sok dee!

http://steven-kraft.com/projects/japanese/

This link is all you need. Seriously. Beyond a lifesaver. Drill it into your brain by power of sheer rote force.

That said, if you use memrise, this course covers some of the slightly more advanced common conjugations (and one or two uncommon ones): https://www.memrise.com/course/1593496/conjugation-mastery/

(Incidentally, the te-form is fairly easy to remember once you know the simple past form. Just change the た or だ into て or で. Example: 食べた becomes 食べて and 読んだ becomes 読んで, etc.)

Here's a link: https://www.duolingo.com/course/nl-NL/en/Learn-Dutch%20(Netherlands)-Online

I can't click the start course button. It doesn't work.

I feel I should of course give credit to /u/CJ105 for having the common sense to post a link instead of a picture like I did

ooo, have you ever seen the OpenCat project ?

Looks pretty cool with similar stabilization and personality tech. Personally out of my price range but I’d love to make one some day.

/u/tagus, nu jävlar kommer du få ta del av de fuktigaste memesen på jorden, la crème de la crème, eller gräddens grädde som man brukar säga. De gräddigaste memesen du nånsin stött på, snubben. Lita på't!

p.s. Jag kan starkt rekommendera Memrise om du vill lära dig ett ordförråd som kommer ta till månen och tillbaka:

https://www.memrise.com/course/99412/8000-most-common-swedish-words-part-1-of-four/

(It's a link to the best way to learn the 8000 most used Swedish words, in case I was talking too much gibberish.)

I would also recommend http://www.codeacademy.com for learning programming skills easily. That or https://www.duolingo.com for basic understanding in other languages.

Both of them and KhanAcademy are great resources for self improvement.

That is not at all true. The Turkish and Russian teams are dealing with the issue of having to teach a language that is very different from English. The incubator is not flexible or advanced enough for them to fully create a course (of the right quality) yet and there are issues with teaching the alphabet also. It's not as easy for them to make progress at this point.

I thought Selcen's explanation about the causes of the perhaps rather slow progress that Turkish is making, in this thread, was very enlightening: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/3310174 :)

Yes, some of the team members of these teams may be busy, but so are some of ours. Often this has little to do with motivation but merely reflects life catching up with you. ;)

This is the sort of thing that starts he story arc of learning Korean and travelling to a new country. Learning to read Korean letters and words is pretty simple from what I can tell. Its totally phonetic, and not like Chinese.

https://www.duolingo.com/course/ko/en/Learn-Korean

A member of Duolingo actually addressed this issue in the first comment of this post about the English for Japanese learners course:

> The biggest problem, I think, is that Japanese does not use spaces to divide words, and it's extremely difficult for making the computer recognize individual words automatically. We're kind of cheating in this course, by treating every single hiragana, katakana or kanji as an independent word, and by registering blocks of letters as idiomatic phrases when we want to add popup hints. This has to be fixed when we're creating a Japanese course, which is going to take a while.

> There are other problems, which we're actually suffering from right now. At least half of the English sentences in Duolingo have more than a thousand possible Japanese translations, many of which exceed 3,000 - and the Duolingo system doesn't allow us to have more than that number of possible answers. In order to get around this, they've adopted a system that converts kanji into hiragana, and also an auto-converter for common synonyms, but it often doesn't go well.

> However I'd like to stress that Duolingo is working seriously for the realization of a Japanese course.

We were just talking about this yesterday. Apparently it's a score based not only on how many words you know, but how well. Here's an explanation from a Duo employee.

Belter creole is amazing and there's a lot of ressources out there, just thought I'd try and show some of it - although my translation is... lacking.

"Inners always thinks belters are weak".

These are great: https://www.memrise.com/course/1102952/belter-creole/1/ and https://www.memrise.com/course/1476694/lang-belta-belter-creole-phrasebook/

And if you know some german and spanish, it's not too hard to pick apart.

Actually the app is right. While I do agree that it does need a 'Report a Problem' feature, in this case, your answer is actually wrong. Check this out to understand better. There have been several discussions about this on duolingo itself in the forums like this one. I hope this helps.

>Not only that, but there are many testimonies of older folks who have preferred the change to vernacular compared to the Latin Mass as it reinvigorated their faith due to better understanding,

The Church has shrunk massively since Vatican II, and outright rejection of Church morals - among Catholics, in Catholic institutions, and among clergy - has skyrocketed.

Now and then we can find people who live to 100 and they cheerfully attribute their longevity to their laid back attitude with smoking and drinking. People who died at 68 to lung cancer can't really reply.

>The Latin Mass has a special place in the Church. It has been used for a long time and carries a long line of tradition behind it, but I gotta say that hearing "This is my body" rings truer and more powerful than "Hoc est corpus meum", because it's as if I was there at the table of the Last Supper

Christ didn't speak English. Nor Spanish, for that matter. Will you feel dissatisfied with "Este es mi cuerpo"? If the answer is 'Yes', welcome to problems with "The Vernacular", because that doesn't mean "English". If the answer is "No", then Latin should either be no problem, or even better.

Really, the "Christ spoke to the Apostles in their language" view doesn't last in a world with so many languages. Latin is the language of the Church (and science and medicine, historically - with a lot of that carrying meaning now). If we really want to understand Latin, we also live in a world where all it takes is time and dedication to do so, for free.

And just think if you did: then you'd understand everything Christ was saying, and the traditional mass would be back. Best of both worlds. It covers every base you mentioned.

Try Clozemaster! https://www.clozemaster.com/ It's built for exactly this post-Duo phase and it's aim is to learn language in context through mass exposure. Hope it's useful! Also I'm the creator - let me know if you have any language requests or feedback!

Do you mean in real life or online? If there were an Ulpan type class near you, I would say try that. But there are also plenty of online resources like https://www.duolingo.com/course/he/en/Learn-Hebrew-Online and https://www.loecsen.com/en/learn-hebrew

• Editing Wikipedia.
• Transcribing your favourite music.
• Transcribing your favourite movies into script-form, maybe comparing what you wrote to what the actual script looked like.
• Games night with friends and/or family, playing cards, charades, and so on.
• Learn a new language on Duolingo.
• Playing free-to-play (or just free) video games.
• Drawing.
• Writing short stories, poetry, etc. (maybe do a first draft of your autobiography)
• Gardening.
• Baking cakes.
• Going for walks.
• Swimming.
• Fishing.
• Visiting an animal shelter and playing with the kittlets and pupplets.
• Volunteering in some form, charitable work etc.
• Wanking.

• Je reste positif
• Je tente de la fermer
• Je mange veg/bio/local/de saison dès que possible
• Je consomme si possible chez l'artisant ou en coopérative
• Je code en MPL2 ou GPL
• Je seed
• J'apprends l'esperanto (5/10 minutes par jour sur Duolinguo)
• Je partage mes connaissances dès que possible
• Je combats l'hégémonie du grand capital

Thanks, I learned it for 15 years in school. When I started with English I could not believe how easy it was compared to German.

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If you're a Spanish speaker, Italian is pretty easy to learn (and vice versa). There's a very very high lexical similarity coefficient.

https://www.duolingo.com/comment/9584000/Lexical-similarity-extent-of-languages

https://www.duolingo.com/ is pretty damn good for people who want to learn Swedish. After you've gotten a solid grasp of the basics I can recommend hopping on #sweden on IRC to chat, trying your best to keep it to Swedish. Don't be afraid to speak english though, plenty of people do that there as well.

Once you're comfortable reading and writing the next step is speaking, and the only way to practice that is to talk to Swedes. For that I can recommend taking a trip to Sweden.

Here is a statement by the founder himself. It's only on the Duolingo forums, so I don't blame you for missing it. Sadly, it looks like the gems and the annoying health mechanic are here to stay.