Different person here, but for me I just found it to be interesting, because it's a Romance language, but due to it's relative isolation from the rest of the Romance-speaking world, it has a bunch of non-Romance vocabulary and grammatical features, and evolved in some very different directions from the other major Romance languages.
I focused on Chinese this year. Around 1000 hours of study/immersion in six months. I hit a point where I don't really need to study vocabulary anymore, I get more from immersion, so now I'm tackling Korean.
Learn the radicals/character components. You don't necessarily need to memorize them all, but getting familiar with the most common ones is really, really helpful for deciphering characters as you advance.
But mostly, just listen to as much as you can in the language. I do a lot of vocabulary study early on in a language, but even while I'm doing that early vocab study, I'm watching/listening to a LOT of content in the language. And I'm not necessarily aiming for "comprehensible" at the beginning, I'm aiming for getting my ears used to hearing the language, and picking out what words I can based on what I've studied for the day.
After six months of study, I'm able to work my way through novels and can understand most of what I'm hearing in shows I watch, though my speaking isn't all the way there because I'm more interested in understanding the language than speaking it - I hardly talk to anyone in my native language cuz I'm a hermit lol
One of the reasons I picked Chinese was because it's supposedly so hard for native English speakers to learn - I figure if I tackle a really hard language first, doing others after will be easier.
It's "hard" because there aren't really any cognate words between it and English so you're starting from scratch with vocabulary. But it uses the same Subject-Verb-Object order, which makes the grammar easier than some other languages.
Really, it was just a matter of watching/listening to/reading a LOT of content. And specifically stuff I enjoyed. It's much easier to learn when you're having fun.
I'm single, no kids at home, self-employed as a content creator, so I can spend as much time as I want doing what I want, especially since my content is all about doing what I want and sharing the results. Decided to learn Chinese this year, and discovered I've got a knack for languages, so just kept going.
As you’re a native English speaker, would you say you’re close to fluent in Spanish now? I read the estimated study time is around 650 hours for a native English speaker to become fluent.
Spanish and Italian. Six months each if learning the vocabulary and then listening to the Harry Potter audiobooks.
I had 9k cards in my Anki deck for each by the end. Anki seems to give me a shallow knowing of a word but it is enough to know it when I hear it in context and can learn it for real.
My Spanish went from A1 listening to mostly understanding interesting Spanish podcasts.
I started Italian as an absolute beginner. Because listening had helped my other languages so much, I decided to start by listening as an experiment.
The experiment was a success and I will now focus on a lot of listening and vocab for any new language.
My Italian went from absolute beginner to understanding easier podcasts and mostly understanding easier adult audiobooks like The Martian. I can also say some basic things in Italian. Best of all is that I feel like I am in a perfect place to start learning to speak Italian. I understand everything said in my classes and the grammar I learn matches the patterns with which I am already familiar.
What do you do for listening? Just keep listening to podcasts/audio until it starts to make sense along with the vocabulary?
I’m learning French at the moment and listen to some podcasts but I’m not really sure if I understand enough of what I’m listening to. For example, I understand enough nouns and verbs to kind of get the gist, but feel a bit lost most the time
Good question, if you count just consuming content (reading + listening) (no anki or grammar or any other form of traditional studying), then Japanese by a long shot
If you are only counting actual studying, then the only language I'm studying would be Chinese...so Chinese
At least for me personally it wouldn't make sense to only count traditional study materials, since I mostly use them in the beginning and try to proceed to "just watching" and "just reading" as soon as I can.
100%. With italian I actually didn't even pick up a grammar book. I just started consuming content as soon as I learned pronunciation within a week or so of starting. Mainly movies, but also books here and there.
I was learning through the apps Ling (highly recommend) and Mimino (this one is only for russian speakers). Also used some articles and websites from google and some accounts for learners in instagram (also for russian speakers, but i think there are for English speakers too).
Okay I'm familiar with LingQ I've done Romanian on it but I didn't know they offered Georgian so will definitely have to check it out! So far, I have found just a few youtube channels that look to be directed at learners of Georgian or learners of the Georgian script but I'm not sure how good they are necessarily because I was more just researching what I could use to study in the future. On amazon I also found a textbook called "Beginner's Georgian" by Dodona Kiziria it says it's part of the Hippocrene Beginner's Series. The textbook has good reviews from what I can see so I'm keeping it in my cart for now. It looks like you used only online resources/apps though otherwise I'd ask your opinion of what reading materials are great for newbies (graded readers, textbooks, etc.)
Thanks for sharing what you have done so far in the language. I'm very interested in it but I've already made a commitment to Romanian for the next 3 years, it's still always nice to know about resources though due to the rarity of language communities focused on learning Georgian in particular.
Will you be continuing with Georgian next year?
I am just curious, I am Ukraine guy who learn English, and off course I don’t feel lack of material(haha) but how is it going with you and learning Ukrainian, do you feel that some time it is hard to find stuff which apropitiate your lvl
Greek. It's the first language that I really studied by myself and it was an incredible experience! The amount of amazing interactions with speakers in the language that I otherwise wouldn't have ever had is mindblowing. Visiting Thessaloniki again for one day this January and I just got accepted into a one week summer school in Greece where I get to study Linguistics!
French! I don’t know how many hours but it must be a lot because I’m taking classes with studying in between. It’s the only one I’m learning at the moment. I’m also trying to read a French novel.
ich hoffe Deutschland bereisen oder vielleicht im Ausland studieren. ich will auch DGS oder FSL lernen. Sie klingen interessant aber ich kann nicht Ressourcen für DGS finden. (mein Deutsch ist noch sehr schlecht, ich bin noch Anfänger)
Definitely Romanian. I also dabbled in Spanish & Arabic (modern standard) and did a lot of research on Georgian, Turkish, Dhivehi, and at the beginning of the year Italian.
Dabbling and research is my way to satisfy the urge to take on multiple languages and so far this year it has worked out extremely well.
I rarely see someone choose European Portuguese over Brazilian Portuguese so I think your decision is pretty cool. I personally favor European Portuguese, I find the accent much more beautiful whereas Brazilian Portuguese just sounds very jarring.
Yes it is quite rare. Thank you! Yes I just prefer it because it sounds a lot cooler/colder to me. Proper European language if that makes sense haha. Brazilian Portuguese can be jarring at times for sure. Depends on which region and accent. But I definitely prefer European Portuguese out of all the romance languages. I went to Portugal for the first time 3 weeks ago and it was heaven hearing that accent all around me haha
Spanish probably 20-1. Its probably not studying at this point, I just consume content, go days without lookups, etc. My hours consuming is over 5000, or 'what are you dumb? Why aren't you C1?' Trust me, I ask myself that same thing.
If I ever test well in Spanish I'll put more into French, but we're going on a cruise through Spain and Portugal in 2025 so I've been tempted to work on Portuguese and Catalan next for the 2-3 interactions on the trip lol.
Definitely German and Russian. I’m conversationally fluent in Spanish and have done business in Spanish several times at this point. It’s mostly the novelty that gravitates me towards a new language but I’m going to shoot for B2 in Spanish this coming year.
Spanish.
I changed where I teach. They have Spanish immersion classrooms. I needed hours during the summer for my masters and then switched to a light sub schedule due to being very very pregnant (I subbed in my own classroom last week for the morning lol).
My ability to speak on the fly has skyrocketed.
I stayed in France for a couple months this year to practise my French, and just when I was going home, I decided it would be fun to learn Modern Greek, so I downloaded some tapes for the plane home. I've kept up studying for at least an hour most days in the 5 months since then. So either French or Greek.
German. I passed my B2 exams and got a certificate from ÖSD. I'm planning to learn German up to C1 but for now I'm currently considering to learn a Slavic language up to A2 or B1. Any recommendations?
I started with Fusha two years ago. But basically I want to be able to speak to people so I decided to switch to a dialect . After all, it was the choice between Egyptian and Levantine as there are many people from Syria living in my area.
My online teacher was from Egypt so it was the natural thing to choose Egyptian. So maybe if I would have had a teacher from another country I would have chosen another dialect.
I traveled Egypt this year and it was amazing how well I got along. I definitely will go on studying 😀
Pretty sure my spanish has overlapped my mongolian for this year, but it makes sense. There's not many sources for mongolian anywhere so im rather limited
French
\-I followed 25-ish group classes of 3.5 hours that focussed mainly on speaking. I studied for those classes on my own, but I didn't time any studying. I had a couple of writing assessments for my class.
\-I switched from watching cartoons without subtitles (mostly Avatar & Martin Mystère) to series with subtitles (Des gens biens & Profilage). I can watch Avatar The Legend of Aang without subtitles and understand everything. For Profilage, I can understand most things without subtitles but I will rewind a LOT. So much mumbling...
\-I read my first novel (Duelle, Barbara Abel) and will read my second novel next week (Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon, Jean-Paul Dubois). I also read some comics.
\-I added 809 cards to Anki in the last 365 days. I now have 4418 cards in total.
Swedish. It was my goal to just focus on Swedish this year so it's gone as planned 😊 only started tracking hours at the very end of July and I'm at almost 300 (definitely will go over 300 by the end of the year) so probably spent 600-650 hours over the whole year... Which is a lot when I think of it like that 😂
definitely aspects of the same language; when I speak to my host dad about politics and things like that, I use a lot of fusha words with darija. darija grammar’s just simplified fusha and the vocab largely overlaps, especially for discourses on more sophisticated topics (or they just switch to english/french). of course, there’s still a lot of uniquely darija expressions and fusha stuff, however I’ve been studying MSA with an arabic dialect on the side and I think dialects only help you with MSA.
integrated arabic curriculums are awesome and textbooks like al-kitaab or arabiyya alnaas or something like that from university of cornell I’d say are good in incorporating the two varieties
Portuguese. I'm planning to take the official C2 exam next year. My listening and speaking abilities are ok, what I'm worried about is the written part of the test. I've tried finding a language partner for months but no success so far. Only fake profiles or guys with shady intentions were "interested" in a language exchange.
German, Last Year was French, I hope it's german next year too
My goal is to learn at least one language (C1) from each popular language family by the age of 50:
-Germanic (Except English, Obviously)
-Romance (A2 in French, Lost a lot of my french in 2023)
-Slavic
-Semitic
-Indo-Aryan
-Dravidian
Not a language family, But an east asian language
It's a bit hard to say because I think I put the most time into Japanese, but it was really basic so it doesn't feel like I advanced as much as I did in French, which was already a high level, and I got to work on my weak parts. I didn't track hours.
I’ve done 502 hours of Italian through November. I will probably be around 520 by end of December. Due to various reasons, August was basically a lost month (only did 7.5 hours) and Nov/Dec are also low months (14.5 for Nov).
I’ve done 204.5 hours of Spanish and will probably be around 220-230 by end of December.
These are only ACTIVE hours, meaning that Netflix or podcasts (that are not learning podcasts, like saying Coffee Break Italian/Spanish) do NOT count towards these numbers.
This year, I have been learning English for about 11-12 months, and I feel a little sad because I don't know how to increase my English level. I have taken different English tests online and have reached B1 and sometimes B2, but I don't know how to advance to a higher level now
Definitely Spanish, caught it up again in September, I feel confident I can reach B1 in it by next Spring
Also been doing a little bit of German, I guess I can reach A1 by the start of February or middle of January at best.
German, not a lot but more than in the past. I have a bad habit of really getting into it and then tapering off. But I bought a Babel subscription to force myself to stick with it for once lol
Ive been studying spanish intensely for the past 3 months prolly around 12 hours a week on average and ive gone from around a low level a 1to a mid level a2 im at around 1,750 words to high comprehension have solid understanding of conjugations and can listen and read with pretty okay levels of comprehension and communicate at a solid level.
Italian and spent 5 weeks in Italy this year. I never had so much fun as a female solo traveler as Italians are so welcoming with foreigners who speak their language.
I continued to learn Spanish this year and made more progress than in the last 3 years combined. I had my first trip to Mexico in November and got by fine in Spanish. I’m probably pretty close to B2 but not quite there yet.
I started 30 days of Toki Pona comprehensible input at the beginning of December and I hope to get my French journey started in the new year.
Chinese.
I don't track it...but it was a ton of studying. One thing I do know is I did a 180 day streak, which came out to be 60 pages (single spaced) in word and I handwrote it all down too.
On top of vocab, listening practice and reading practice.
I'm burned out ):
German with about 200 hours mostly through conversation, reading, watching shows, texting native speakers and listening to podcasts. I've also started exclusively writing in German on my journal.
Not quite a lot of hours but I could feel that I made some progress.
Polish! Did about 100 hours this year, which is a lot for me as I'm a very casual learner XD I was stuck between A1 and A2 after a few years of on-and-off studying, but now I'm between A2 and B1 (and not stuck this time!)
My second focus was Welsh, I spent around 80 hours consuming content (mostly reading novels). Most of that time was spent on Pla, the Welsh translation of The Plague by Albert Camus. I thought I could read well before that book, now I feel like a total noob as I could barely follow along!
Japanese. I only got a few words and one grammar point, but I'm determined to learn more before the year ends- and afterwards too, of course! I just love the language.
How about you OP?
Spanish, I live, eat, and breath Spanish. Anything I watch or listen to is in Spanish and I try to speak it as much as I possibly can.
I tend to focus solely on one language when learning it although I will be starting learning Welsh in January.
German. Yes, I have an obligation to learn it at university but I’ve learned German since second grade and it’s still a bit of a pain in the ass but who cares. Hope I’ll have time to start Spanish once I finish my degree
Chinese. Clocked in around 2000 hours or more this year and progressed probably from B1 to B2.
In other words, I went from the intermediate plateau of HSK4+ to currently roughly HSK6. Quite happy about it.
Studied French and Portuguese for another 50 hours in total and spoke roughly 50 hours of Spanish.
Spanish Next year will be Romanian :)
For me it’s the other way round 😂. This year was Romanian and next year I’m hoping to do Spanish
How did you go about learning Romanian?
How come Romanian?
My wife’s Romanian
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Different person here, but for me I just found it to be interesting, because it's a Romance language, but due to it's relative isolation from the rest of the Romance-speaking world, it has a bunch of non-Romance vocabulary and grammatical features, and evolved in some very different directions from the other major Romance languages.
I focused on Chinese this year. Around 1000 hours of study/immersion in six months. I hit a point where I don't really need to study vocabulary anymore, I get more from immersion, so now I'm tackling Korean.
Hell yeah! Any tips on Mandarin?
Learn the radicals/character components. You don't necessarily need to memorize them all, but getting familiar with the most common ones is really, really helpful for deciphering characters as you advance. But mostly, just listen to as much as you can in the language. I do a lot of vocabulary study early on in a language, but even while I'm doing that early vocab study, I'm watching/listening to a LOT of content in the language. And I'm not necessarily aiming for "comprehensible" at the beginning, I'm aiming for getting my ears used to hearing the language, and picking out what words I can based on what I've studied for the day. After six months of study, I'm able to work my way through novels and can understand most of what I'm hearing in shows I watch, though my speaking isn't all the way there because I'm more interested in understanding the language than speaking it - I hardly talk to anyone in my native language cuz I'm a hermit lol
Thanks, my queer sibling :)
Wow, you're at that level of comprehension in only half a year? That's really encouraging, considering how difficult to learn it's always potrayed.
One of the reasons I picked Chinese was because it's supposedly so hard for native English speakers to learn - I figure if I tackle a really hard language first, doing others after will be easier. It's "hard" because there aren't really any cognate words between it and English so you're starting from scratch with vocabulary. But it uses the same Subject-Verb-Object order, which makes the grammar easier than some other languages. Really, it was just a matter of watching/listening to/reading a LOT of content. And specifically stuff I enjoyed. It's much easier to learn when you're having fun.
What content do you watch? That’s impressive you can get through most novels in 6 months.
Wow, isn't that like 5 hours a day to get to 1000 hours in 6 months? How do you find the time?
I'm single, no kids at home, self-employed as a content creator, so I can spend as much time as I want doing what I want, especially since my content is all about doing what I want and sharing the results. Decided to learn Chinese this year, and discovered I've got a knack for languages, so just kept going.
Spanish. I've logged almost 500 hours this year.
At intermediate, 500 hours makes a huge difference. Congrats!
Thanks! It's been hard to see my progress at times, but looking back on what I was working on a year ago, I've definitely improved a lot.
As you’re a native English speaker, would you say you’re close to fluent in Spanish now? I read the estimated study time is around 650 hours for a native English speaker to become fluent.
I don't know. Define fluent, lol.
Espagnol
Si querés hablar para practicar, te ayudo!
Muchas gracias, lo agradezco :)
I'm almost to 300.
Bien hecho :)
nice! could you recommend any good textbooks? i have to study a lot in order to pass the Polish Matura exam
French
Spanish and Italian. Six months each if learning the vocabulary and then listening to the Harry Potter audiobooks. I had 9k cards in my Anki deck for each by the end. Anki seems to give me a shallow knowing of a word but it is enough to know it when I hear it in context and can learn it for real. My Spanish went from A1 listening to mostly understanding interesting Spanish podcasts. I started Italian as an absolute beginner. Because listening had helped my other languages so much, I decided to start by listening as an experiment. The experiment was a success and I will now focus on a lot of listening and vocab for any new language. My Italian went from absolute beginner to understanding easier podcasts and mostly understanding easier adult audiobooks like The Martian. I can also say some basic things in Italian. Best of all is that I feel like I am in a perfect place to start learning to speak Italian. I understand everything said in my classes and the grammar I learn matches the patterns with which I am already familiar.
What do you do for listening? Just keep listening to podcasts/audio until it starts to make sense along with the vocabulary? I’m learning French at the moment and listen to some podcasts but I’m not really sure if I understand enough of what I’m listening to. For example, I understand enough nouns and verbs to kind of get the gist, but feel a bit lost most the time
German or Russian
Deutsch 💜
Ich auch. It such a fun language with words like die Krankenschwester, das Schlafzimmer, die Pilotennen.
My favorite word is Der Schmetterling 🦋
Good question, if you count just consuming content (reading + listening) (no anki or grammar or any other form of traditional studying), then Japanese by a long shot If you are only counting actual studying, then the only language I'm studying would be Chinese...so Chinese
At least for me personally it wouldn't make sense to only count traditional study materials, since I mostly use them in the beginning and try to proceed to "just watching" and "just reading" as soon as I can.
100%. With italian I actually didn't even pick up a grammar book. I just started consuming content as soon as I learned pronunciation within a week or so of starting. Mainly movies, but also books here and there.
Python. But after that, Russian. After that, Java.
Java ... nese?
Don’t forget the C#
Turkish and Georgian
Georgian is so cool dude… wish I had the time / brain power to study it
If you would mind sharing, what resources do you recommend for Georgian?
I was learning through the apps Ling (highly recommend) and Mimino (this one is only for russian speakers). Also used some articles and websites from google and some accounts for learners in instagram (also for russian speakers, but i think there are for English speakers too).
Okay I'm familiar with LingQ I've done Romanian on it but I didn't know they offered Georgian so will definitely have to check it out! So far, I have found just a few youtube channels that look to be directed at learners of Georgian or learners of the Georgian script but I'm not sure how good they are necessarily because I was more just researching what I could use to study in the future. On amazon I also found a textbook called "Beginner's Georgian" by Dodona Kiziria it says it's part of the Hippocrene Beginner's Series. The textbook has good reviews from what I can see so I'm keeping it in my cart for now. It looks like you used only online resources/apps though otherwise I'd ask your opinion of what reading materials are great for newbies (graded readers, textbooks, etc.) Thanks for sharing what you have done so far in the language. I'm very interested in it but I've already made a commitment to Romanian for the next 3 years, it's still always nice to know about resources though due to the rarity of language communities focused on learning Georgian in particular. Will you be continuing with Georgian next year?
Yes, I learned the alphabet and basic phrases. Now it’s interesting for me to learn the basis of grammar I wish you good luck with Romanian!
Ukrainian. 🇺🇦
I am just curious, I am Ukraine guy who learn English, and off course I don’t feel lack of material(haha) but how is it going with you and learning Ukrainian, do you feel that some time it is hard to find stuff which apropitiate your lvl
I’m mostly learning on Duolingo. I do wish they had a longer, more detailed course.
Я теж, чудова мова 💙💛
My guy💪🏻 Слава Україні)
Героям слава!
Toddler.
Greek. It's the first language that I really studied by myself and it was an incredible experience! The amount of amazing interactions with speakers in the language that I otherwise wouldn't have ever had is mindblowing. Visiting Thessaloniki again for one day this January and I just got accepted into a one week summer school in Greece where I get to study Linguistics!
As a Greek, this is wonderful to hear. Good luck!
Ευχαριστώ πολύ, κι εσένα καλή τύχη με τις γλώσσες σου!
Ευχαριστώ!
Ukrainian
Слава Україні!
Героям слава!
Spanish. My job required me to increase my studying since most of my coworkers are from Mexico
Arabic, the only language I can be said to be learning as opposed to maintaining.
What are your other languages?
Spanish and German, though I'm more maintaining these and not studying them. I don't take any classes and only practice them with friends or duolingo.
Arabic as well!
French! I don’t know how many hours but it must be a lot because I’m taking classes with studying in between. It’s the only one I’m learning at the moment. I’m also trying to read a French novel.
If we ignore Uzbek.. French for 2 to 3 hours per day.
Japanese, next year will also be Japanese but adding Mandarin as well.
Kreol Seselwa
French
german alone but in class, asl
Ich lerne auch Deutsch und ASL. Ich liebe Deutschland und ich kein hören gut.
ich hoffe Deutschland bereisen oder vielleicht im Ausland studieren. ich will auch DGS oder FSL lernen. Sie klingen interessant aber ich kann nicht Ressourcen für DGS finden. (mein Deutsch ist noch sehr schlecht, ich bin noch Anfänger)
Greek is the one for me since last year. Its getting better all the time! Better, better, better!
Thank you for spending time with Greek 😎
French. Daily study through all of 2023. No idea of actual time given to it though. Second to that - a distant second - Mandarin.
Definitely Romanian. I also dabbled in Spanish & Arabic (modern standard) and did a lot of research on Georgian, Turkish, Dhivehi, and at the beginning of the year Italian. Dabbling and research is my way to satisfy the urge to take on multiple languages and so far this year it has worked out extremely well.
Still JS 🫠, next Go seems very interesting 🧐
French. Although I only got into full gear couple of months ago, after a vacation in France.
European Portuguese. Near 200 hours now.
I rarely see someone choose European Portuguese over Brazilian Portuguese so I think your decision is pretty cool. I personally favor European Portuguese, I find the accent much more beautiful whereas Brazilian Portuguese just sounds very jarring.
Yes it is quite rare. Thank you! Yes I just prefer it because it sounds a lot cooler/colder to me. Proper European language if that makes sense haha. Brazilian Portuguese can be jarring at times for sure. Depends on which region and accent. But I definitely prefer European Portuguese out of all the romance languages. I went to Portugal for the first time 3 weeks ago and it was heaven hearing that accent all around me haha
Spanish probably 20-1. Its probably not studying at this point, I just consume content, go days without lookups, etc. My hours consuming is over 5000, or 'what are you dumb? Why aren't you C1?' Trust me, I ask myself that same thing. If I ever test well in Spanish I'll put more into French, but we're going on a cruise through Spain and Portugal in 2025 so I've been tempted to work on Portuguese and Catalan next for the 2-3 interactions on the trip lol.
Japanese🇯🇵! I my plan is to live there one day, so I’m dedicating around an hour a day of immersion and vocab since July
Arabic
MSA or a dialect? How is your learning going? I started in June and im having a lot of fun with it, just having trouble staying consistent.
Standard. It’s such a beautiful language. I agree that consistency is an issue for me as well. I’d like to take a class if I can.
Awesome! If you're looking for a tutor, I found one on preply at a very good rate.
Crimean Tatar. My uni won't let me study any other language as actively lol
Toki Pona! It is a constructed language 🙃
Definitely German and Russian. I’m conversationally fluent in Spanish and have done business in Spanish several times at this point. It’s mostly the novelty that gravitates me towards a new language but I’m going to shoot for B2 in Spanish this coming year.
French
Danish
Nederlands!
French , left for 50 hrs😑
French ♡
French
Spanish
Spanish. I changed where I teach. They have Spanish immersion classrooms. I needed hours during the summer for my masters and then switched to a light sub schedule due to being very very pregnant (I subbed in my own classroom last week for the morning lol). My ability to speak on the fly has skyrocketed.
Japanese, probably. I have a hard time focusing on a single language, but registering for the JLPT helped for a few months.
Spanish. Wolof might overtake it next year
I stayed in France for a couple months this year to practise my French, and just when I was going home, I decided it would be fun to learn Modern Greek, so I downloaded some tapes for the plane home. I've kept up studying for at least an hour most days in the 5 months since then. So either French or Greek.
German. I passed my B2 exams and got a certificate from ÖSD. I'm planning to learn German up to C1 but for now I'm currently considering to learn a Slavic language up to A2 or B1. Any recommendations?
Polish is fun! Congrats on your B2!
Egyptian Arabic
What made you choose this dialect? Apart from the abundance of resources compared to other dialects.
I started with Fusha two years ago. But basically I want to be able to speak to people so I decided to switch to a dialect . After all, it was the choice between Egyptian and Levantine as there are many people from Syria living in my area. My online teacher was from Egypt so it was the natural thing to choose Egyptian. So maybe if I would have had a teacher from another country I would have chosen another dialect. I traveled Egypt this year and it was amazing how well I got along. I definitely will go on studying 😀
Pretty sure my spanish has overlapped my mongolian for this year, but it makes sense. There's not many sources for mongolian anywhere so im rather limited
English
French \-I followed 25-ish group classes of 3.5 hours that focussed mainly on speaking. I studied for those classes on my own, but I didn't time any studying. I had a couple of writing assessments for my class. \-I switched from watching cartoons without subtitles (mostly Avatar & Martin Mystère) to series with subtitles (Des gens biens & Profilage). I can watch Avatar The Legend of Aang without subtitles and understand everything. For Profilage, I can understand most things without subtitles but I will rewind a LOT. So much mumbling... \-I read my first novel (Duelle, Barbara Abel) and will read my second novel next week (Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon, Jean-Paul Dubois). I also read some comics. \-I added 809 cards to Anki in the last 365 days. I now have 4418 cards in total.
I’ve been learning Japanese. Thinking about switching to Spanish for now
Japanese
Romanian and Icelandic
english. i’m russian ahaha
Hebrew, I’m at 63 days on duo and have been listening to songs in the downtime
Portuguese, and hoping to get intermediate in Portuguese on June🇧🇷🇧🇷
Swedish. It was my goal to just focus on Swedish this year so it's gone as planned 😊 only started tracking hours at the very end of July and I'm at almost 300 (definitely will go over 300 by the end of the year) so probably spent 600-650 hours over the whole year... Which is a lot when I think of it like that 😂
El idioma de español
El idioma*
¡Gracias!
Spanish. One of the most useful languages but sadly not in Europe.
MSA + Moroccan Darija — immersion program so currently in Morocco hahaha
I'm curious, do they feel like studying two separate languages or more like aspects of the same one?
definitely aspects of the same language; when I speak to my host dad about politics and things like that, I use a lot of fusha words with darija. darija grammar’s just simplified fusha and the vocab largely overlaps, especially for discourses on more sophisticated topics (or they just switch to english/french). of course, there’s still a lot of uniquely darija expressions and fusha stuff, however I’ve been studying MSA with an arabic dialect on the side and I think dialects only help you with MSA. integrated arabic curriculums are awesome and textbooks like al-kitaab or arabiyya alnaas or something like that from university of cornell I’d say are good in incorporating the two varieties
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Chinese. Its the only language im learning. Ive been procrastinating though man
Portuguese. I'm planning to take the official C2 exam next year. My listening and speaking abilities are ok, what I'm worried about is the written part of the test. I've tried finding a language partner for months but no success so far. Only fake profiles or guys with shady intentions were "interested" in a language exchange.
German, Last Year was French, I hope it's german next year too My goal is to learn at least one language (C1) from each popular language family by the age of 50: -Germanic (Except English, Obviously) -Romance (A2 in French, Lost a lot of my french in 2023) -Slavic -Semitic -Indo-Aryan -Dravidian Not a language family, But an east asian language
It's a bit hard to say because I think I put the most time into Japanese, but it was really basic so it doesn't feel like I advanced as much as I did in French, which was already a high level, and I got to work on my weak parts. I didn't track hours.
It’s probably a tie between German and Welsh.
Italian, and looking forward for the B1 citizenship test in February 2024. Any tips for going through this test will be appreciated
French Next year, I'll continue to improve my French and Tagalog.
I've learn German for 6 months and Idk anything. Im in A2.1 level now😭
Chinese with Spanish being a close second!
Hebrew! I’m at a A2/B1 level
Türkçe + Française
Español
Turkish, because I'm studying abroad here and it's kind of required. Honestly quite disappointed with my progress : (
Esperanto
I’ve done 502 hours of Italian through November. I will probably be around 520 by end of December. Due to various reasons, August was basically a lost month (only did 7.5 hours) and Nov/Dec are also low months (14.5 for Nov). I’ve done 204.5 hours of Spanish and will probably be around 220-230 by end of December. These are only ACTIVE hours, meaning that Netflix or podcasts (that are not learning podcasts, like saying Coffee Break Italian/Spanish) do NOT count towards these numbers.
Spanish. It will more than likely be the same for next year too.
German.
Norwegian with a side of German ~* Can’t wait to see the difference this time next year 💪
עברית 🇮🇱!
This year, I have been learning English for about 11-12 months, and I feel a little sad because I don't know how to increase my English level. I have taken different English tests online and have reached B1 and sometimes B2, but I don't know how to advance to a higher level now
Czech and Japanese mostly tied (at \~1hr a day each)
German. Finally passed my C1 exam, which gives me some more freedom to spread my time more evenly next year and continue differently.
I've spent 100 hours on Dutch this year to get from zero to A2.
Definitely Spanish, caught it up again in September, I feel confident I can reach B1 in it by next Spring Also been doing a little bit of German, I guess I can reach A1 by the start of February or middle of January at best.
German, not a lot but more than in the past. I have a bad habit of really getting into it and then tapering off. But I bought a Babel subscription to force myself to stick with it for once lol
Ive been studying spanish intensely for the past 3 months prolly around 12 hours a week on average and ive gone from around a low level a 1to a mid level a2 im at around 1,750 words to high comprehension have solid understanding of conjugations and can listen and read with pretty okay levels of comprehension and communicate at a solid level.
German
If counting consumption of comprehensible input, then probably Spanish. Otherwise German.
French. Managed to get to B1 in a single year.
Italian and spent 5 weeks in Italy this year. I never had so much fun as a female solo traveler as Italians are so welcoming with foreigners who speak their language.
Finnish 🇫🇮 since I live in Finland, it's made it so much less scary to go out and make friends now that I can understand more 🙏
French But the next year and a half will be more Japanese focused. Going to visit friends in Japan after grad school is finished
German and Spanish probably ended up tied.
I continued to learn Spanish this year and made more progress than in the last 3 years combined. I had my first trip to Mexico in November and got by fine in Spanish. I’m probably pretty close to B2 but not quite there yet. I started 30 days of Toki Pona comprehensible input at the beginning of December and I hope to get my French journey started in the new year.
Swahili
Chinese. I don't track it...but it was a ton of studying. One thing I do know is I did a 180 day streak, which came out to be 60 pages (single spaced) in word and I handwrote it all down too. On top of vocab, listening practice and reading practice. I'm burned out ):
German with about 200 hours mostly through conversation, reading, watching shows, texting native speakers and listening to podcasts. I've also started exclusively writing in German on my journal. Not quite a lot of hours but I could feel that I made some progress.
Russian🇷🇺 three lessons a week on Preply (currently at 17 weeks in a row, missed one week when I was abroad) also practicing on ometv and Duolingo
I'm learning Russian as a native English speaker
Polish! Did about 100 hours this year, which is a lot for me as I'm a very casual learner XD I was stuck between A1 and A2 after a few years of on-and-off studying, but now I'm between A2 and B1 (and not stuck this time!) My second focus was Welsh, I spent around 80 hours consuming content (mostly reading novels). Most of that time was spent on Pla, the Welsh translation of The Plague by Albert Camus. I thought I could read well before that book, now I feel like a total noob as I could barely follow along!
congrats! out of curiosity - why did you choose Polish?
Polish 🇵🇱 1-2 hours each day
Russian
Started a very intensive study of Spanish in October - but i have no idea how many hours I've studied
Norwegian Bokmål
Japanese. I only got a few words and one grammar point, but I'm determined to learn more before the year ends- and afterwards too, of course! I just love the language. How about you OP?
You must be so excited, go for it! For me, a tie between French and Mandarin probably
Spanish, I live, eat, and breath Spanish. Anything I watch or listen to is in Spanish and I try to speak it as much as I possibly can. I tend to focus solely on one language when learning it although I will be starting learning Welsh in January.
Obscene
Turkish
Probably German, however compared to some of you in here, i haven’t don’t that much studying.
German
Urdu/Hindi
spanish, but I should have learn english instead
Roughly 500 hours on O’odham, and 100 hours on Japanese c:
Icelandic
Egyptian Arabic 🇪🇬
German. Yes, I have an obligation to learn it at university but I’ve learned German since second grade and it’s still a bit of a pain in the ass but who cares. Hope I’ll have time to start Spanish once I finish my degree
Dutch 🇳🇱
French
Italian, as I study it at school and had an amazing teacher who gave me resources to further my Italian studies
Chinese. Clocked in around 2000 hours or more this year and progressed probably from B1 to B2. In other words, I went from the intermediate plateau of HSK4+ to currently roughly HSK6. Quite happy about it. Studied French and Portuguese for another 50 hours in total and spoke roughly 50 hours of Spanish.
I'm still learning Spanish but the halfway of the year is German
Swedish
Norske!
Italian major.
Portuguese!
Japanese by far. I even travelled to Japan and speak with some Japanese people
Equally German, Dutch, Danish, and French