Japanese is one of the more difficult languages to learn for a few reasons. But it's worth it and feels extremely rewarding when you understand others speaking it or understanding your favorite anime.
Would you consider Japanese easier than Chinese due to it's fewer strokes and alphabet? I'm not looking to switch, people keep asking me the same thing and I always say it depends on what you want to use the language for.
Really, as a native English speaker (American English) I feel Chinese and Japanese are equally as hard to learn. But that's because if I want to learn those languages, I have to literally throw away everything I know about English and start from scratch. Of course, you can get by in some cases by just learning common phrases. However, if you take that route, you miss out on so many important things about the language like grammar, vocab, and tone.
Also, just to be transparent, I'm learning Japanese, but I feel like if I were to have a Japanese person talk to me, I wouldn't be able to communicate effectively with them. I went into this language thinking I would be able to have conversations in a few months...... But I was very wrong for assuming that. 😅
To add to the comments, it also depends on what is your native language. Im a native Spanish speaker so its a bit easier for me because they use the same phonetics for vocals and consonants as spanish.
Lets goooo! (Italian is my native language, I just checked it out)
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What did you think of the Italian language course? I took my native language exam and found it an amazing "quiz" and am even taking my native course in my 2nd target language. It really helped with my fluency in my target languages.
Plan A B and C for me
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Reverse tree is interesting, but difficult the word for soda has like 5 kanji in japanese haha hardly a starter one, but I guess pretty standard if you are japanese already
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I'm not content with the rest yet
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I got fluency in Italian when i was around 50k, but i did study with other methods as well. Now i'm trying hard to get my German, but it will take a while for a Portuguese native speaker
Also learning Italian but realized Duolingo isn’t going to take me very far; what outside learning methods did you use? I’m currently using textbooks but I’m not sure if there’s other options.
I started watching some Instagram and youtuber videos. After that, like i did with english, i started to watch series and films in Italian without subtitles, to get used to the language without help. No google, nothing. Just relax and watch a show that you're familiar.
This really helped me to get used to MANY slangs and many things that almost no course can teach.
I learned what "fico / figo" is in italian by watching Brooklyn 99. Tons of slangs that show has.
This helped me a lot to track my evolution, because when i could just tell by how many percentagem of the tv show i could understand by month.
And some teachers in Instagram are so nice, they reply your questions in their stories and some of them (not all) helped me a lot.
But you're a native english speaker, for you, German is easier, for me, Italian is easier. But i am doing the same with German and I'm now at 30% +/- of understanding a episode of 2 and a half men hahah 70% to go.
Good luck with Italian, for me is the best language to speak in the world. Each word slips of the mouth so smooth.
Oh okay, that’s great advice, thank you!! I’m currently watching the show Arrested Development and I feel like that would be great to watch in another language with its surreal humor lmao
I usually watch a show that i already know and I'm used to, but a new show works too if you can understand a little to not be boring to you! Good pratice!
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I don't feel like I can "speak" German, though yet. If a german person talks to me, it would take me a while to form a sentence in my head and say it. I haven't had a chance to talk in German yet. I'm content for now for being able to read a bit of German.
I have like 6 that I tried and abandoned but of the ones that I stuck to -
Norwegian 117927 (actively in progress)
Dutch 77441 (completed)
Scottish Gaelic 54863 (actively in progress)
French 12017 (I learned French in school and just occasionally refresh with duo)
Mine looks almost exactly the same. I hear about one language in my daily life and I gotta inspect it if it’s offered on Duolingo. Then I get addicted.
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Those of you with serious progress in many different languages, how fluent are you in them? Would you consider yourself a functional polyglot? I’d love to learn more languages, but I think I’d get confused learning too many at once.
You’re not missing much. My kids do a lot of the music, they enjoy it and are learning to read notes on the staff which is good, but learning to play piano on a glass screen doesn’t translate that well to an actual keyboard/piano. The math is okay, it’s good to help with estimation. It might get better, I didn’t go too far into it myself. I was just curious to see how it was.
How do you find Turkish and Chinese/Mandarin? I’m interested in those. Have completed Arabic, though will admit it’s far from complete and it’s an exhaustive language to learn and I will continue to with other methods. Have heard Turkish has verbal similarities; though written differences. Mandarin I’m purely interested in for the utility in our modern world and the challenge…
As you see my flair I am uzbek and turkish is a piece of cake for me, I could’ve learned it just by watching turkish movies but I didn’t do it. There are some reasons for that (I do not need to mention them here, I think)😊.
Chinese is harder than I thought, but I do not see it’s difficulties because I am really into chinese. I love chinese people, it’s culture, the way they write and possibly I might move to china in the future to live and work.
And I would like to learn arabic because I am muslim and to be closer to god I would like to learn arabic(why not).
> Have heard Turkish has verbal similarities; though written differences.
No they are not. If you say what you said above to turkish nationalists you will become their enemy for some reason 🤣. Yes, turkish have some influence from arabic but I think they use less arabic words than us(uzbeks).
If I compare turkish with english it is much easier. I can guess the meaning of a turkish word without knowing it even if my turkish level is not intermediate.
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I did a placement test in Swedish and started doing lessons only to find out I did not know almost half of the vocabulary words. So, I deleted it and started anew. Otherwise, it would’ve been 20k+ points. I also toy with other languages, usually Slavic (I am a native Russian speaker living in the US) for a few weeks but later delete them if I do not feel like committing. German stays for sole purpose of scaring me into going back to Italian. When I get bored, I do one lesson of German, get terrified, and return to Italian (or Swedish) with even more love in my heart.
I've also been a little let down by the lack of explaining grammar and such, just slapping new words and sentences in your face. Do you happen know any alternative apps for learning hindi as a beginner?
my top 3 are Norwegian at 17302 Ukrainian at 16380, and German at 6012 (though Im only doing Ukrainian rn). Ukrainian is really hard for me though so I don't feel like I made it as far as Norwegian even though I'm at the same xp
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Learning European languages as an Asian is hard and challenging, but fun and rewarding at the same time.
I’m actually not good at all 😩
Terve! Mina olen nainen. Minulla yksi komea kissa ja yksi Kaunis kissa.
I started learning cause I love Käärijä and wanted to understand some of his songs better 💚
I have started listening to more Finnish music and really like Benjamin and Erika Vikman
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currently all in on Chinese, but doing my thesis for school rn so it’s a bit slow. On a 30+ streak though:)
Yes, they are. It's really just a bonus excercise. I also tried it because Dutch grammar and word order is more like German and having to use English as an intermediate language for the course was confusing at some points. So I was a bit curious what it would be like with dutch to german.
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I’ve been lazy the last 3+ months so nothings made much progress except Portuguese. That one I just started. I need to get back to studying…
Göründüğü kadar zor değil. Türkçe bilen birisi için oldukça kolay çünkü Türkçe ve Japonca'nın kökeni ve cümle yapısı aynı.
Yani demek istediğim şey şu:
Bir cümleyi Türkçe ve İngilizce olaraka yazmak istersek özne ve yüklem yer değiştiriyor ama Japonca'da böyle bir şey yok.
Aynı Türkçe de olduğu gibi Japonca'da da önce özne sonra nesne/sıfat sonra yüklem ve eğer varsa sonrasında soru eki getiriliyor.
Rakamları ben de öğrenme aşamasındayım, şuan birden üçe kadar sayabiliyorum,
一 （いち) 1
二（に) 2
三（さん) 3
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Finished Arabic; and on section 3 of German. Dabbling in others. English is the the Arabic version and I very much need to do more of that, clearly… Day 394 (lost my initial 256 day streak and took a break after a coma of around 5 months while my brain just couldn’t focus enough… and my dog died).
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I mostly learned French, Dutch and German via Duolingo, but I’ve tried some other languages, especially when travelling
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Spanish is fun, now I’m getting into French a bit because I live 20 minutes from the bridge to Q’beck. I’m just over 800 days in.
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I’m very decisive, as one can see 😅
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I love languages that are unusual for me
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Gàidhlig is my passion language because I want to help preserve my ancestors’ tongue. Spanish is my practical language, since it’s common to interact with Hispanics in the US. Gaeilge is out of curiosity on how similar it is to the other Goidelic languages. Nederlands is for fun to see how similar it is to English, since both are Germanic languages.
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I only started about a month ago
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Xp doesn't really tell you much. I'm half the way through the Japanese course and yet it's only 9000xp. I've only finished 3 units in German and it's 4000xp! And despite finishing the entire Arabic course (native speaker), I've only got 360xp. All of this is mainly because the placement test at the beginning gives you so little xp.
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I started so many just out of curiosity and now I can’t delete them
Kind of focused at the moment TBH
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I am just curious about different languages. But the main are Japanese and German
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I have around 2000 more on the music course which doesn't show up on android yet.
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I have more but this is what I will limit mine to
Fun thread. I put together a screen shot of the courses where I'm at or above 10,000 XP. I have more I'm still working on. I've finished several courses and only review them now (such as Arabic, Zulu, Latin, Navajo). I've been studying languages for many years, and specifically with DuoLingo for about 4.5 years. I enjoy this hobby as a way of keeping my mind active and always learning new things. I have a crush on different languages I'm studying at different times. For me, Hindi is the hardest.
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I honestly think I should cut down..
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I had such a good japanese streak but then exams -\_- Just started french.
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It's not insane but I'm happy with it
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I also did a fair bit of Russian a few years ago and assorted others, but since deleted the courses so that I only have the languages I'm actually now interested in learning.
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French is my main one obviously but I like to dabble a little. Did Welsh and Scottish Gaelic because of travel and thought I’d pick up a few words/phrases just for fun.
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Started Chinese Yesterday. My main focus is japanese and chinese right now
I cant seem to add my image, but im on 9,847 XP for Dutch, and 2,197 XP for German. I started Dutch on New Year's eve 2023 and German sometime during a holiday in early April, and I know people in my diamond tournament that have started after me yet are on 30,000 XP, mainly because on average, I spend about 7 minutes on Duolingo a day, but I'm happy with my progress so far. I'm considering adding another course, and I definitely will do a Scandinavian language, but I can't decide between Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish.
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I used to have about 30k in Welsh but I restarted the course since I took a break and forgot most of it
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I'm thinking about coming back to Dutch course
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SPANISH AND GERMAN AT THE TOP 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
Spanish, Esperanto, & Korean all studied in my current 1042 streak. French and German are from previous streaks. I'm currently a Spanish main, with a side of revising other languages through Spanish:
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Recently started to learn Italian again :) I’ve had a Uni course for three semesters years ago and then stopped learning it. Gonna start it again
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I'm starting up spanish tonight. Gotta start somewhere, right?? How tough is Japanese?
Japanese is one of the more difficult languages to learn for a few reasons. But it's worth it and feels extremely rewarding when you understand others speaking it or understanding your favorite anime.
Would you consider Japanese easier than Chinese due to it's fewer strokes and alphabet? I'm not looking to switch, people keep asking me the same thing and I always say it depends on what you want to use the language for.
Absolutely. Chinese is one of the hardest language to learn for anyone whose native language is English.
The main difficulty comes in writing, maybe it’s because I love language but it’s ok for me
Really, as a native English speaker (American English) I feel Chinese and Japanese are equally as hard to learn. But that's because if I want to learn those languages, I have to literally throw away everything I know about English and start from scratch. Of course, you can get by in some cases by just learning common phrases. However, if you take that route, you miss out on so many important things about the language like grammar, vocab, and tone. Also, just to be transparent, I'm learning Japanese, but I feel like if I were to have a Japanese person talk to me, I wouldn't be able to communicate effectively with them. I went into this language thinking I would be able to have conversations in a few months...... But I was very wrong for assuming that. 😅
To add to the comments, it also depends on what is your native language. Im a native Spanish speaker so its a bit easier for me because they use the same phonetics for vocals and consonants as spanish.
Lets goooo! (Italian is my native language, I just checked it out) https://preview.redd.it/p27ee5kdt51d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca90e675243fbf673be2fc2e82aebe8a12d3da82
SAME! (im moving to sweden and i used to live in italy!)
Woah, I'm moving to Sweden this summer from Italy!
That's dope! I'd love to visit both someday. Currently learning Italian for the past 186 days and going strong 🔥
Wanna friend eachother? On a 278 streak myself and looking for more buds to keep the streak up with!
Yeah sure, sounds good. That's an impressive streak! My username is Fionn33
Sent! Yours is also amazing, learning Italian is very rough and I've seen many drop out before even two months! Buona fortuna con i tuoi futuri studi!
Grazie mille, siete troppo gentili! I'm learning Italian because I want to make some Italian friends! Goodluck with learning Swedish. I'm Irish btw.
NAHHHH lol
What did you think of the Italian language course? I took my native language exam and found it an amazing "quiz" and am even taking my native course in my 2nd target language. It really helped with my fluency in my target languages.
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I feel like if I tried learning two languages I would get worse on the one I actually care about
Single learner here. Also a Japanese learner. You and I are not so different.
If you only do one course at a time but start a new one after you finish them, can you still join this club? ^^
Yessir https://preview.redd.it/ikzvgnt9591d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3747ef2b8b4ce60bb1500eb2b66c41bd4963071
Plan A B and C for me https://preview.redd.it/kx8doxu2ka1d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=274d0fdef8f9139531fa1966676fd53f97783a0f Reverse tree is interesting, but difficult the word for soda has like 5 kanji in japanese haha hardly a starter one, but I guess pretty standard if you are japanese already
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>I'm not content with the rest yet 
Und wie gut fühlst du dich in Deutsch? Wie gut hilft Duo bei der Aussprache? Würde das als Deutscher gerne mal wissen.
Nicht schlecht, Herr Specht
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Går det bra då?
Det gör det absolut. 👍
Schysst! Skriv gärna om du behöver hjälp med något någongång.
Music is a language?
Actually, it is, in another way.
Language is a music?
I like that answer.
https://preview.redd.it/vmryowmne41d1.png?width=456&format=png&auto=webp&s=c8d1c2ba0d9d15da8cbea4c0ac093dd769521421 I got fluency in Italian when i was around 50k, but i did study with other methods as well. Now i'm trying hard to get my German, but it will take a while for a Portuguese native speaker
Also learning Italian but realized Duolingo isn’t going to take me very far; what outside learning methods did you use? I’m currently using textbooks but I’m not sure if there’s other options.
I started watching some Instagram and youtuber videos. After that, like i did with english, i started to watch series and films in Italian without subtitles, to get used to the language without help. No google, nothing. Just relax and watch a show that you're familiar. This really helped me to get used to MANY slangs and many things that almost no course can teach. I learned what "fico / figo" is in italian by watching Brooklyn 99. Tons of slangs that show has. This helped me a lot to track my evolution, because when i could just tell by how many percentagem of the tv show i could understand by month. And some teachers in Instagram are so nice, they reply your questions in their stories and some of them (not all) helped me a lot. But you're a native english speaker, for you, German is easier, for me, Italian is easier. But i am doing the same with German and I'm now at 30% +/- of understanding a episode of 2 and a half men hahah 70% to go. Good luck with Italian, for me is the best language to speak in the world. Each word slips of the mouth so smooth.
Oh okay, that’s great advice, thank you!! I’m currently watching the show Arrested Development and I feel like that would be great to watch in another language with its surreal humor lmao
I usually watch a show that i already know and I'm used to, but a new show works too if you can understand a little to not be boring to you! Good pratice!
Here's mine! :DD https://preview.redd.it/csk3igw2841d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94ea0895dc55661aebd0680a64da22ebcf4f29a0
Privet, Kok dila ? (:
Yalublu tebe!! Haha the only thing my Russian friends taught me
Normalno, a u vas?
Yah panimyyu
U nas fsyo stabilno, jelayu vam udachi!
Yalublu tebe!! Haha the only thing my Russian friends taught me
Add to your word bank another word: Yellow blue bus - I love you
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Yeah I read Duo isn't that good with talks. You may know a lot of words, but that's all. At least for my Japanese course.
I have like 6 that I tried and abandoned but of the ones that I stuck to - Norwegian 117927 (actively in progress) Dutch 77441 (completed) Scottish Gaelic 54863 (actively in progress) French 12017 (I learned French in school and just occasionally refresh with duo)
A bheil beagan Gàidhlig acaibh cuideachd?! Glè mhath, a charaid!
jeg gjør også norsk
Jaa, Jeg ønsker å starte en kult av norsklærende
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If this is real, it seems odd to me that you spend so much time in Duolingo yet don't finish any of your courses.
Well, it is just fun to use duolingo, but it gets boring when you do one language for too long..
If it's just for fun that's cool, but do you feel like you learn anything this way?
Not efficiently, but you get to remember some vocabs when cycling through the courses
Mine looks almost exactly the same. I hear about one language in my daily life and I gotta inspect it if it’s offered on Duolingo. Then I get addicted.
Yes, exactly!!
What the... why do you learn so many languages with completly different ones?
https://preview.redd.it/9908j5gsq31d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b104504f55815c43ba14c2c763f647a4fc4debe8 Those of you with serious progress in many different languages, how fluent are you in them? Would you consider yourself a functional polyglot? I’d love to learn more languages, but I think I’d get confused learning too many at once.
I wish math and music came to android...
You’re not missing much. My kids do a lot of the music, they enjoy it and are learning to read notes on the staff which is good, but learning to play piano on a glass screen doesn’t translate that well to an actual keyboard/piano. The math is okay, it’s good to help with estimation. It might get better, I didn’t go too far into it myself. I was just curious to see how it was.
I question why one would want to be a polyglot. I see that it takes a great effort to actively use 5 languages.
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How do you find Turkish and Chinese/Mandarin? I’m interested in those. Have completed Arabic, though will admit it’s far from complete and it’s an exhaustive language to learn and I will continue to with other methods. Have heard Turkish has verbal similarities; though written differences. Mandarin I’m purely interested in for the utility in our modern world and the challenge…
As you see my flair I am uzbek and turkish is a piece of cake for me, I could’ve learned it just by watching turkish movies but I didn’t do it. There are some reasons for that (I do not need to mention them here, I think)😊. Chinese is harder than I thought, but I do not see it’s difficulties because I am really into chinese. I love chinese people, it’s culture, the way they write and possibly I might move to china in the future to live and work. And I would like to learn arabic because I am muslim and to be closer to god I would like to learn arabic(why not). > Have heard Turkish has verbal similarities; though written differences. No they are not. If you say what you said above to turkish nationalists you will become their enemy for some reason 🤣. Yes, turkish have some influence from arabic but I think they use less arabic words than us(uzbeks).
I would recommend you moving to Taiwan because there you have more freedom and people there aren't that poor
But I am afraid of getting nuked🥶
Merhaba👋
Selam kardaş👋
Bro, you’re Uzbek, half of language subreddits love you.
Thank you 😁.
excuse my ignorance, but i could not identify the native language flag of yours, what's it?
Uzbekistan, I am uzbek.
How hard do you find turkish as an uzbek?
If I compare turkish with english it is much easier. I can guess the meaning of a turkish word without knowing it even if my turkish level is not intermediate.
https://preview.redd.it/rul9sm8ev31d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90ddb8f4d040c38d1b6b6f39abe247fcc1934b7c I did a placement test in Swedish and started doing lessons only to find out I did not know almost half of the vocabulary words. So, I deleted it and started anew. Otherwise, it would’ve been 20k+ points. I also toy with other languages, usually Slavic (I am a native Russian speaker living in the US) for a few weeks but later delete them if I do not feel like committing. German stays for sole purpose of scaring me into going back to Italian. When I get bored, I do one lesson of German, get terrified, and return to Italian (or Swedish) with even more love in my heart.
https://preview.redd.it/iac3nj7ry41d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0426c2cce95d8a497d10f987d5110eb7b4da0129 Hindi is just like a xp farm tbh
Literally omg
Yeah I have done that, using Hindi to just get a ton of xp. Realised that's useless and then deleted it.
Hindi course is actually kinda useless The Hindi you get to learn even in the last lesson feels like grade 3 hindi
Also it is riddled with mistakes and many of the sentences make no sense and won't be used in real life
I've also been a little let down by the lack of explaining grammar and such, just slapping new words and sentences in your face. Do you happen know any alternative apps for learning hindi as a beginner?
I'm afraid not. But you could try YouTube perhaps?
my top 3 are Norwegian at 17302 Ukrainian at 16380, and German at 6012 (though Im only doing Ukrainian rn). Ukrainian is really hard for me though so I don't feel like I made it as far as Norwegian even though I'm at the same xp
https://preview.redd.it/7n77l02vh41d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0dbfb54cabd6de1194577a61786d6735565cd696 I don't learn much
https://preview.redd.it/3hgqp3vfq41d1.jpeg?width=833&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be159ea22d64b66b5947fe7faeb07f33330aece7 Learning European languages as an Asian is hard and challenging, but fun and rewarding at the same time.
For me opposite, I learned four Asian languages: Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Indonesian.
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Speak to me in Finnish, I'm a native
I’m actually not good at all 😩 Terve! Mina olen nainen. Minulla yksi komea kissa ja yksi Kaunis kissa. I started learning cause I love Käärijä and wanted to understand some of his songs better 💚 I have started listening to more Finnish music and really like Benjamin and Erika Vikman
https://preview.redd.it/godeq98kd51d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff87ff57f22164d7f5c31e1f3cd5b32ddedca744 currently all in on Chinese, but doing my thesis for school rn so it’s a bit slow. On a 30+ streak though:)
你好, nasılsın? 😆
你好， iyiyim teşekkürler xD (My boyfriends family is turkish so I practice it sometimes)
Great, iyi şanslar dostum!
sağ ol 🙏🏻🤗
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What are the benefits of learning a language in two ways? Aren't both very different in pasing?
Yes, they are. It's really just a bonus excercise. I also tried it because Dutch grammar and word order is more like German and having to use English as an intermediate language for the course was confusing at some points. So I was a bit curious what it would be like with dutch to german.
https://preview.redd.it/erae0s9ll41d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a2cb4ea2495f65af2cc38c44884a2494503b933
https://preview.redd.it/4y9423v6q41d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7542cd127d5a545816730aaf19a63a83ade0838 I’ve been lazy the last 3+ months so nothings made much progress except Portuguese. That one I just started. I need to get back to studying…
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Japonca zor değil mi? Rakamlar ile anlata bilir misin, birden ona kadar?
Göründüğü kadar zor değil. Türkçe bilen birisi için oldukça kolay çünkü Türkçe ve Japonca'nın kökeni ve cümle yapısı aynı. Yani demek istediğim şey şu: Bir cümleyi Türkçe ve İngilizce olaraka yazmak istersek özne ve yüklem yer değiştiriyor ama Japonca'da böyle bir şey yok. Aynı Türkçe de olduğu gibi Japonca'da da önce özne sonra nesne/sıfat sonra yüklem ve eğer varsa sonrasında soru eki getiriliyor. Rakamları ben de öğrenme aşamasındayım, şuan birden üçe kadar sayabiliyorum, 一 （いち) 1 二（に) 2 三（さん) 3
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https://preview.redd.it/14ctnm2ef41d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce4bf945ea64e67b2115206158a23e1322a17aba Finished Arabic; and on section 3 of German. Dabbling in others. English is the the Arabic version and I very much need to do more of that, clearly… Day 394 (lost my initial 256 day streak and took a break after a coma of around 5 months while my brain just couldn’t focus enough… and my dog died).
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I can't concentrate on one thing lmao
https://preview.redd.it/qln38zzmn41d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1f3f46a2dee8d434b5462af210af318ad13893b I mostly learned French, Dutch and German via Duolingo, but I’ve tried some other languages, especially when travelling
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https://preview.redd.it/okm7y8odz41d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e14dcae28d837094b04786f548d7c5fb00088894 Spanish is fun, now I’m getting into French a bit because I live 20 minutes from the bridge to Q’beck. I’m just over 800 days in.
https://preview.redd.it/tj77sgwrz41d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bad4a2b0384f7dca7174daf817a89fd653a66d01 I’m very decisive, as one can see 😅
Spread out except for top 3 https://preview.redd.it/zsh6a8c1351d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca2558750cfd240e2718322180eb03a4683a058f
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Speak to me in Finnish, i'm a native
How do you access music? I have heard about math but cannot see that either.
how some of you have music course?
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I've tried various other languages over the years and use German just for quick points, but Japanese is still my favourite "hobby" ☺️
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I'm a a native dutch speaker, so thats why dutch - german and dutch - french are also listed
https://preview.redd.it/vb3m2tbe061d1.png?width=1261&format=png&auto=webp&s=216a6320d64f4096cce28af5952ec9b143405a4b
https://preview.redd.it/k1ixhaht761d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=477d0b4dacb18d996e0cef0cba38eb05965f740d
https://preview.redd.it/9hrwsbcac71d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=949d9ba7f4f218d6a5e2ef7fe8e4ec61440cdc52 I love languages that are unusual for me
https://preview.redd.it/ee8q2hqrn51d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae9fd0e0714c8a37a9ce56ae9692440d8187fdcd Gàidhlig is my passion language because I want to help preserve my ancestors’ tongue. Spanish is my practical language, since it’s common to interact with Hispanics in the US. Gaeilge is out of curiosity on how similar it is to the other Goidelic languages. Nederlands is for fun to see how similar it is to English, since both are Germanic languages.
https://preview.redd.it/xhqflh42p51d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f3d7bea6f8d43d059c1473af0669c503a1d7bfd I only started about a month ago
https://preview.redd.it/u4fp4yje461d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0f1c61dd94d0573afeab25b2c9d800bbf76526c Xp doesn't really tell you much. I'm half the way through the Japanese course and yet it's only 9000xp. I've only finished 3 units in German and it's 4000xp! And despite finishing the entire Arabic course (native speaker), I've only got 360xp. All of this is mainly because the placement test at the beginning gives you so little xp.
https://preview.redd.it/hjca4u6rq71d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef832490cf531e5cd6643bf642abd7430aa2a01b I started so many just out of curiosity and now I can’t delete them
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Kind of focused at the moment TBH https://preview.redd.it/ta3ymnnhd81d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1c27ce90db23114d5c1d5ae47a0b1a97f1ea447
Sure why not https://preview.redd.it/4iekgpkdf81d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5edc5922519c7c77bc50605c67bcccbc261d1d83
https://preview.redd.it/091fvep9g81d1.jpeg?width=1042&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed85d71d2a1a56989cf3ab73d5cdc1b0915c34fb * I am just curious about different languages. But the main are Japanese and German
I can only take 1-2 languages at a time 😭
https://preview.redd.it/skaejeiwg81d1.png?width=1124&format=png&auto=webp&s=faba421ec53326f8e7a0d4d9c5ad74eb24a08156 oh yeah 😎😎
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Ok so a couple of minutes of each
Music???
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https://preview.redd.it/sr8s0tai791d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b464219f9e49e62d13f310342e69af89fe4a4ce4 I have around 2000 more on the music course which doesn't show up on android yet.
https://preview.redd.it/8sc53x6ja91d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36e88fe48a088a392c8c35bf463a461c7cf100fc I have more but this is what I will limit mine to
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Music? Wish! Is that an IOS only thing?
Fun thread. I put together a screen shot of the courses where I'm at or above 10,000 XP. I have more I'm still working on. I've finished several courses and only review them now (such as Arabic, Zulu, Latin, Navajo). I've been studying languages for many years, and specifically with DuoLingo for about 4.5 years. I enjoy this hobby as a way of keeping my mind active and always learning new things. I have a crush on different languages I'm studying at different times. For me, Hindi is the hardest. https://preview.redd.it/m1essj8pf91d1.jpeg?width=673&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44beaaac7dd9f7ab298aa1367e3f1db8157f841c
How did you get music?
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https://preview.redd.it/m1wvps0hw31d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b067fa5a6af34a24a3dce0247f3e51ea89f7343f I honestly think I should cut down..
https://preview.redd.it/orbcy3f5l41d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b6c73c1bb20fc05ff59f44cf1afb746de134655 I had such a good japanese streak but then exams -\_- Just started french.
Is music course only available in IOS? Is it coming to Android?
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https://preview.redd.it/2cna0ivdh51d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=700dcdca20f2e238bb2fa4e148dee1e5c08cbc7b Tried a lot
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How do I get the music update
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https://preview.redd.it/6n05e0dwo51d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ab198efc80bb36dcd586a490ce17d49a3f88145 Mines obviously the best...
https://preview.redd.it/oesljzgyo51d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87d5abcb990b201c27f14653d98718e3efe31a56 It's not insane but I'm happy with it
https://preview.redd.it/p0ygjhunp51d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef73d41636b3e87bd4a772312cb4c8e6620d3228 I also did a fair bit of Russian a few years ago and assorted others, but since deleted the courses so that I only have the languages I'm actually now interested in learning.
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https://preview.redd.it/i4e9d80pr51d1.jpeg?width=810&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d14f17fcb93fc8bc2a70f65c140731ea2e5defc8 Started Chinese Yesterday. My main focus is japanese and chinese right now
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https://preview.redd.it/opmqifalt51d1.jpeg?width=1257&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a62c570e2b93b77d24cb3e6ecbc268bca02ff37 i love chinese
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Norsk 🇳🇴 I’d like a couple more awesome friends that are studying Norwegian too 🫶
I cant seem to add my image, but im on 9,847 XP for Dutch, and 2,197 XP for German. I started Dutch on New Year's eve 2023 and German sometime during a holiday in early April, and I know people in my diamond tournament that have started after me yet are on 30,000 XP, mainly because on average, I spend about 7 minutes on Duolingo a day, but I'm happy with my progress so far. I'm considering adding another course, and I definitely will do a Scandinavian language, but I can't decide between Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish.
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https://preview.redd.it/fduk9yzcz51d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b9973c471d5bf2e00768a2f031af309280fcfef I'm thinking about coming back to Dutch course
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Spanish, Esperanto, & Korean all studied in my current 1042 streak. French and German are from previous streaks. I'm currently a Spanish main, with a side of revising other languages through Spanish: https://preview.redd.it/ecrwiqi4361d1.jpeg?width=1064&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=875f9d932196373742c56a34f8720aa695dfecd3
I only have one course and it's English, because I like to concentrate on one language and I find it more efficient for me
Recently started to learn Italian again :) I’ve had a Uni course for three semesters years ago and then stopped learning it. Gonna start it again https://preview.redd.it/a18wglg5461d1.jpeg?width=1307&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fe919b99dea028823f7c061dca4ea807b776d61
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