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https://mexica.ohui.net/curso/1/ is a nice start if you know Spanish.

http://ikindalikelanguages.com/labs/lesson.php?id=264 is good since it kind of makes you use the grammar as you learn it.

Also, there are some decent Memrise lessons for it for vocanulary and some grammar if you search. Some better than others of course. You should do a Google search for that to see what you find best, since I don't know if you want to learn a particular modern dialect or Classical Nahuatl. A good "Memrise Nahuatl" would do the trick.

I have a couple other resources for it saved on my computer, but since I don't have access to it right now, I'll have to give them to you at another time.

Hope that suffices for now though.

> https://mexica.ohui.net/curso/1/ is a nice start if you know Spanish.

This has a lot of mistakes. Among other things:

• The grammar and vocabulary seems to be mostly based on Classical Nahuatl, and yet they use a modern orthography and their spellings don't match the Classical pronunciation (e.g. they consistently have a single l where Classical Nahuatl should have a double l).
• They omit tons of saltillos. E.g. ká "está" should be káj. (And yet they remembered the saltillo at the end of kátej "están".)
• They say in is a definite article. It isn't.
• They say you can omit ca and cateh (wait a minute, they're not even consistent with their own orthography!) from statements of existence/location, which is not true. E.g. they have ¿Kámpa átl? which is ungrammatical.
• They use plural verbs with singular nouns. E.g. Níkan kátej óme káli "Aquí están dos casas.". This is ungrammatical, káli is singular and must take singular verbal agreement.
• They say the 3rd person plural possessive prefix is in-, and give the example inamox "su libro de ellos". The prefix is actually im- (though it assimilates to in- before consonants) and the example should be imamox.
• Their description of the formation of the past tense is wrong. They don't write the final saltillo for any of the verbs that have it in the past tense. They have a list of "Otros pretéritos" that they treat as if they're irregular but actually they only seem that way because the rules presented are wrong.

I could go on...

> http://ikindalikelanguages.com/labs/lesson.php?id=264 is good since it kind of makes you use the grammar as you learn it.

This is very short and yet they still managed to include a few mistakes and a whole bunch of neologisms. Itallān for Italy? Teutontlālpan for Germany??? I sincerely doubt these are in real use.

I recently found the site ikindalikelanguages.com, where I've checked a bit of the Esperanto and Latin courses. I think that sites pedagogy is interesting (inspired by the socratic method, or what was it?), the Latin course is probably a good example.

Likewise, learn.esperanto.com, based on the Zagreb method, seems to be good/very promising.

Slang arabic wasn't necessarily what I had in mind (although eventually, after achieving some level of fluency, having common modern idioms in my lexicon certainly would be helpful), but rather what is considered the Egyptian dialect/variety of Arabic, as opposed to, say, MSA, classical Arabic, Gulf Arabic, etc.

If we can't find formal training beyond our language tapes (or even if we can, really), we'd certainly benefit from chatting and practicing with someone else and working on our accents and pronunciation! It's very kind of you to offer! :)

I would recommend starting with http://ikindalikelanguages.com/learn/Lithuanian, there are some beta courses in the "labs" section too, I personally found that those courses aligned with how I learn. You could try bliubliu.com too, it's made by Lithuanians, but it's annoying without premium. For Lt you won't get around learning grammar most likely (it helped me a lot) I also used memrise at the start, you'd have to look on their website as they now hide user-made courses.

Also I'll explain anything, so you can just write me. I have a discord server too for just that, although not much learning happening and more lithuanian meming.

I wouldn't recommend learning Swedish if you're using it as a "head start" for Norwegian. Switching over from Swedish to Norwegian will be frustrating (at least initially). While many words are quite similar, you'll be used to writing "jag" instead of "jeg," "inte" instead of "ikke," etc. If you really want to get a head start, I would suggest Danish over Swedish; written Danish is much more similar to written Norwegian than it is to Swedish. As they say, Norwegian is written like Danish, but sounds like Swedish.

You could also head over to /r/norsk; there are a lot of useful links in the sidebar, like this one.

I'm about halfway through the Danish skill tree, and I can understand quite a bit of Danish in Disney songs--the lyrics are fairly basic, which is perfect. God Help The Outcasts (Swedish) is a good example of this.

Some benchmarks for different proficiency levels in French (for English speaking learner): http://ikindalikelanguages.com/blog/how-much-time-is-it-realistic-to-learn-a-language-in/

If someone already speaks a romance or Germanic language, then time amounts to learn English should be similar to the above. It might be slightly longer, because of some grammatical elements and lack of consistent phonetics in English. Say 900-1000 hours to C2 proficiency. Definitions of A1,A2,B1,B2,C1,C2 proficiency linked.

If one does not come from a Romanized alphabet, then expect a bit longer (extra 100 hours?). Say you are teaching in China or Korea, some pronunciation issues (new sounds in the English language) may add even a bit more time (another 100 hours?).

Obviously the above are rough estimates, and how focused/motivated one stays during classroom hours greatly affects the time to proficiency. But I think 1000-1200 hours of classroom time is a reasonable estimate for C2 proficiency.

• 20 hours per week in classroom ~ 1 year
• 10 hours per week in classroom ~ 2 years
• 5 hours per week in classroom ~ 4 years

Immersion in the language could definitely accelerate the process. 20 hours per week in the classroom with no immersion...one should be careful about retention rates, because 20 hours per week in the classroom is a very intense pace. 1 year may be slightly optimistic in that case.

Edit: Also the this link. Estimates by the USA's State Department to amount of time to language proficiency for certain languages for English speakers.

I don't mind at all. :) For us, it's not really about what we find most interesting (although we do find Egyptian Arabic very interesting), but rather about what would be most practical for our purposes.

Apart from that, though, it seems like would be a good choice for someone to do a class on, since it's often considered one of the most "useful" for people who really don't have a reason to pick any particular specific dialect but who just want to learn "to speak Arabic." For one thing, Egyptian Arabic is not only among the most commonly-spoken dialects, but is also arguably the most widely understood dialect in the Arabic-speaking world due to the fact that most modern Arabic movies, TV shows, music, etc are in this dialect (see, for example). Seems like it would be very UniReddit-friendly. :)

Yes, although note that I have put at least 500 hours into it so far this year, between Duolingo, Anki, meetups, videos, and reading. That much effort (applied intelligently) really should be enough to reach B2.

http://ikindalikelanguages.com/blog/how-much-time-is-it-realistic-to-learn-a-language-in/

Where do you get those tables from? What is your resource? I WANT IT! :D

I would love to learn Norwegian (well, I would love to do all three languages but it would be hard..), but all those courses just making me sick.. I want raw data, the best course I took was here: http://ikindalikelanguages.com/labs/courses.php?id=36

Unfortunately it's very short and do not cover any pronunciation :( (but it's still great for an engineer mind - because it's explain things in really clever way ;) )

And thank you very much! ;)

Jesus Mary Joseph this is confusing please tell me you know a little bit more about this website (http://ikindalikelanguages.com/labs/lesson.php?id=187) like something i can click on that has someone saying this word. You said it's pronounced "jæ" but i don't even know how "æ" is pronounced, i haven't found anything about pronunciation on that website, nevermind the alphabet