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Your post lacks what region you will be in, what level you French is at, what things you could like to know about French culture.....
Within a week eh.... Well if you are serious, buy a book of verbs and or a work book and memorize as many as you can in the present tense (2 hours a day) http://duolingo.com/ (3 hours a day) https://www.busuu.com/enc/# (1-2 hours a day building vocab) https://www.youtube.com/results?q=francais+simple (1-2 hours a day watching youtube videos)
It will be hard but if you put in a good 30-50 hours you will have some basics when you land.
Just focus on the present tense and building your vocab and pronunciation.
The French like food. They work to live. Don't mention the war.
There is cool stuff to see all over.
I completely agree about duolingo being great but not enough. I am learning Spanish, so in the States it is pretty easy for me to converse with native speakers, but I can understand where German would be harder. Still try really hard to find a native speaker to talk to. You will be super nervous, but get over it, the other speaker will understand and try to work with you and the small conversation will be worth more than a whole week in duolingo.
As for other resources.
https://www.youtube.com/trendsdashboard#loc0=pri
This lets you view what is trending in other countries. Really useful because you get really involved in a countries pop culture and it becomes easier to speak the language
Busuu is another language learning site that is not as good as duolingo but has a really great feature that I wish Duolingo would put in. Learners can speak with natives through "Busuu talk." It is really great because you can practice your German with a native speaker and they can practice their English with you too.
Finally, just try and immerse yourself in the language as much as possible. Change your computer and your phone into that language. Listen to music in that language. Read kids books in that language. Watch movies and youtube videos in that language. But more valuable than anything is still speaking with a native. Good luck with your language learning!
Sorry, it's not what you looked for, but you can download Busuu. It has a few Languages, including German, and you can ask the Community about your German. It helps me too learning Japanese (:
Since it's not a letter we have in Turkish, I would read it phonetically, which would be something like "Dabılyu".
I'm not sure if there's an official way to pronounce it in Turkish but on the busuu website, they gave it as "dabılyu /ˈdʌbəljuː/".
Nothing to add to the environmental engineering questions, but I want to stress what u/FlummDiDumm said: Learn German as much and as early as possible if you want to increase your chances in the job market. Especially since you are moving with a partner who is not a native German speaker either (I assume), you need to make an effort to learn it on your own.
A few things you can do now, before moving:
- Learn with an app when you have time to spare, such as during a commute or if you'd just be browsing social media otherwise. I recommend Busuu for taking actual German lessons and Anki for studying vocabulary. The latter takes a bit of work to understand but it's worth it!
- Take a German course with an accredited school. I have no recommendations for someone in the US. Once you come to Hamburg, I could share some opinions.
- Watch German shows with English subtitles to train your ear for the language. You can also watch shows in English but put on German subtitles to learn some expressions and vocabulary. My wife taught herself some vocab by translating song lyrics with a dictionary.
- Join the r/German subreddit, where a lot of questions about learning the language can be answered.
Best of luck with everything! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions (language, apartment hunt, dealing with German culture...). My wife (American) and I (German) moved from the US to Hamburg in December so I have some experience with your situation.
I’ve seen lots of comments along the lines of “people just make it up”. That may be true for some and some commenters have confirmed that. I use Busuu as part of my learning, which lets you complete a level test once you’ve completed the material for that level. It’s not an official qualification but I’m assuming it’s fairly accurate given it’s certified by McGraw-Hill Education. It’s one of the reasons I moved over to Busuu.
Kombinira li itko duolingo sa sličnim siteovima? Recimo, busuu daje uvid u neke fraze koje po meni nedostaju duolingu, više je prilagođen konverzaciji. Nažalost nije potpuno besplatan (neki djelovi nisu dostupni).
Što je s izgovorom, ima li netko preporuku - youtube ili...?
Those two websites are the only ones I've actually used. A website that I heard should be a good starting point is busuu, but I can't tell you anything about it since I've never actually used it. There's also livemocha, which I heard focuses more on letting people communicate in the language they're learning. A friend also told me about Babbel (can't link it right now - for some reason it won't open?) but she also said that it sucks. Again, I've never tried it, so I wouldn't know :D
There are also subreddits dedicated to learning languages. I'm pretty sure the main one is /r/languagelearning. There's some help if you need any in the subreddit's wiki, and there are also subreddits for specific languages, which are listed in the sidebar of /r/languagelearning. So you can try searching there for the language you're trying to learn.
I don't really know many other websites. If you ever get stuck when it comes to grammar in a language, google is your friend. I hope this helped at least a little, and I would've replied earlier but I wasn't logged in :D
hey all, heres my study plan to help me go from high A1 level to B1. Please let me know if you think its clearly missing something, or too much focus is in one area
30 min/day - Study [busuu](https://www.busuu.com/) from A1 to B1 level (all the time)
- to practice grammar and verb conjugations and pronunciations
- Get base knowledge/exposure to grammar
- Practice writing, and get feedback from other leaners
20 min/day - Study [jpdb](https://jpdb.io/) , みんなの日本語 deck (in between italki lesson and review/textbook exercise session)
- to practice vocab
- Help make italki lessons smoother
- Improve pitch accent
8 hours/week - Study みんなの日本語 textbook
- Read aloud sections a, b, c and check in the answer book.
§ Mark out difficult parts/questions to go over with tutor
- Manually write out the 問題 / problem sections, and check with tutor/my japanese friend
- Review grammar of the section with tutor.
1 hour - 1 x week - Study みんなの日本語 with iTalkie/verbling to practice grammar and pronounciation
- goals
○ Clear up things I have mis-learnt with grammar
○ Speaking practice
○ Pronunciation practice
○ Go over 問題 section from みんなの日本語
○ Go over difficult grammar/clear up stuff from みんなの日本語
Total: 14.833 hours of study per week.
Minna chapters are meant to take 4 hours each (minimum)
15 hours/week is a lot. Though im hoping to get to a decent level before May/June when I'm hoping to travel and meet a friend and their family in japan.
No no, you're absolutely fine.
So a particle separates parts of the sentences grammatically.
は pronounced "wa" when it's a particle, marks the topic of a sentence.
が (ga), marks the -checks notes- subject of the sentence.
And を (wo), marks the object of a sentence. (That's the thing that the verb does stuff to).
And if that heavily grammatical explanation panics you, don't panic. I absolutely did not pass parts of speech very well, and Japanese has not made me any better. I mostly learned through patterns and explanations I made up....
Like I refer to が as the "indirect object marker" because that makes it easier for me.
But anyway.
So the way it works is the particles help you break apart a sentence. (Especially because they have no spaces)
(subject) は (object) を (verb)
かれ は りんご を たべる
Kare wa ringo wo taberu
He (wa) apple (wo) eats.
He eats an apple.
それ は ほん です。
Sore wa hon desu.
That (wa) book is.
That is a book.
Ah.... short sentence that end in "desu" like this one, don't have a second particle between the object ( ^or ^whatever ^it ^is ) and the verb "desu" ( ^which ^is ^a ^copula ^and ^I ^don't ^know ^what ^that ^is )
There's quite a few particles out there besides は が and を like:
- に: ni: at/on/in/to
- で: de: in/on/made of/ by
- へ: he (pronounced "eh"): to/towards
- の：no: (possessive particle, shows ownership like 's)
- か: ka: (shows that something is a question)
- と: to: with, and (complete list), (quotation marker)
- や: ya: and (non complete list)
- も: mo: also
:) so yeah, を (pronounced "oh") is a particle and お is not.
And don't let the list of particles scare you. It might feel like "Oh no how will I know what's a particle and what's part of a word?!" Don't worry it becomes pretty easy to tell what's a particle and what isn't fairly quickly.
Also check out this website I thought they explained some things pretty well. :)
I find correcting peoples sentences on busuu to be highly enlightening, like you said there isn't any direct translation between languages, grammar and vocabulary dictates a lot of our culture and we can't but help take that with us when we are learning another language. For instance some French "fancy" doing things and they use a lot of commas.
https://www.busuu.com/es aca estoy aprendiendo portugues BR y turco, tamb tienen ruso de este solo aprendi el alfabeto cirilico por que estaba aprendiendo los otros dos.
This question is still VERY broad as I am sure you are aware; I suggest asking the internet first before you ask a forum for this kind of question.
を has a pretty specific use, but the others are used in so many sentence types and situations that it would take a reddit user forever to give all of the examples.
The below site has a basic explanation of each particle's use, I suggest you read through this and download a nice textbook for general questions like this.
I'm learning Spanish too. Here's what I use. It's very fun https://www.busuu.com/dashboard#/learning/course/start/objective\_es\_complete\_a1\_29/unit\_es\_complete\_a1\_29\_4/activity\_es\_a1\_29\_4\_1/exercise\_10
Here's an assignment that I have my students do each week. I don't give them a topic, but let the conversation go naturally. Since this isn't for a grade, you could decide on weekly themes for your conversations. Good ones include: Sports, food, family, work, home, hobbies, free time, grocery shopping, transportation, your neighborhood and neighbors, religion (only to learn about other ones, not to dispute points of doctrine), and some of my students like talking about what school is like for the other person.
> You will be required to use social media to converse in Spanish with native speakers (Brazil is not a Spanish-speaking country!) for 30 minutes each time. You will complete one of these per week.
> You may use any one of the following social media sites:
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> Mixxer (free)
> Easy Language Exchange (free)
> Speaky (free)
> Papora (free)
> https://www.busuu.com/enc/ (may cost money)
> After completing the conversation, answer the following questions in SPANISH in the Blackboard AssignmentBox: > > 1. Name of social media platform > 2. Name of person with whom you talked. Where is that person from? > 3. Start time of conversation / End time of conversation > 4. Summarize what you talked about in 2 to 4 sentences. > 5. What did you learn that you did not know before? (new words? new information?) >
I have been using Duo for years but now I started using Busuu It's a much better platform
Maybe this will help: 9.99 eur right now, 30 day money back guarantee This language learning youtuber I follow really recommends Busuu
Good luck!
Yesterday I created https://www.busuu.com account, it seems ok. My current understading is ~B1understanding, and I want to improve my knowledge. I was hooked with Duolingo but with my problems (log in) I can't use the app.
Now I'm tempted to buy a subscription, because i can't access all the features and I would like to get the best of it.
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Also, I'm opened to suggestions.
No, if you bothered reading or if you can even read you’d actually understand what I said.
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/online-english-courses
Sure mon pote, I've seen a few people mention https://www.italki.com/ I've used a little bit of https://www.busuu.com/
but I guess check out this and see what's going to work best for your needs :) https://www.linguasorb.com/blog/10-best-language-exchange-sites
https://blog.prepscholar.com/how-to-improve-reading-comprehension
https://www.busuu.com/en/course/learn-english-online
Looks like you could really use these as you're struggling immensely! You're so ignorant and stupid it's unbelievable. I guess it's rather fitting now that the advice you gave was awful because everything you've said since then has made me lose braincells reading. 🤣
Busuu is social network for language learning and you can write in the language you're learning and native speakers can help you. https://www.busuu.com/enc/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSoohsItzeM