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Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.

I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to "how are you" and how to say "I am still learning Greek can we speak English". haha

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I started learning Russian 2 and a half years ago now maybe, mostly in uni classes. Haven’t done anything in a while though. I generally think slavic languages are cool and would like to learn another actually.

Я начинала учить русский может быть 2 с половиной года назад, в основном в универе, но ничего не делала за учение в последнее время. В общем я думаю, что славянские языки круто и действительно хочу бы учить другую.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Здравствуйте друг студент! I've been trying to learn it as well over the past 2-ish years, and it has proven to be a much slower progress than I had hoped for. How are you faring? And what methods do you use to learn?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Eh, as I said I haven’t been keeping up with it and I’m starting to forget stuff. I should get back into it. I did pretty good though when I was actively learning. I’d say even one of the best in the class that were learning it from scratch.

I went to Russian classes in uni for a bit over one year, and at home I did the exercises in the workbooks we had for the course + studying vocabulary with Anki. Basically the classic way to learn a language in school.

[–] Semjaza 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

我的汉语越来越好,写,说,简单的没问题,但是比较复杂还要多的练习。其实说最近练习地不周到。

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

French; Next is to start B1 level

Μιλάω ελληνικά, το πιο δισκολο είναι η συγγραφή.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

*δύσκολο Συγγραφή would be used to describe authoring a book. You could use γραφή or γράψιμο or a verb construction να γράφεις "to write".

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Learning Swedish now, since I already speak passable Norwegian, it's not the hardest endeavor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This might be a weird question, but: Did you have a particular reason to learn Swedish or Norwegian, or is it just for fun?

I've been interested in learning Swedish or Danish, but I haven't been able to find a practical reason to. I hear that almost all of them speak English pretty well, and will prefer speaking English with you if you visit their country. (The curse of being a native English speaker who likes languages.)

I would have had easy access to a native Danish speaker, but sadly, my Mormor ("mother's mother") passed away just last night. Her English was perfect as she lived in the US for >70 years, but her beautiful accent is what originally sparked my interest in Scandinavian languages.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Am I learning a new language? No.
How far along am I? About halfway.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Да, я изучаю русский язык, но не знаю какой у меня уровень, может быть где-то B1-B2. К сожалению мне не с кем говорить в последнее время 😪

I am also trying to improve my English recently, mostly because I am pretty bad at speaking, and pronouncing stuff correctly.

I want to learn another language as well, maybe I will return to Czech (I was learning it for 1 month some time ago, and don't remember much, although I understand fairly amount because I am Polish).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ich lerne Deutsch, und

opiskelen suomea, ja

estoy aprendiendo español también.

Furthest along with Deutsch, because I did it at school (decades ago), not making huge progress gains with any of them because Duolingo, but it fits in my day so easily and the repetition is effective I think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I started Korean a few days ago. I am still in the "learning how this all works" phase. I'm frustrated by my slow reading speed and inability to find something to help that readily.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

tryin to learn Korean, not very far since I JUST started learning lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Been studying French on and off since high school, but still don't feel far along at all. Ha. Much better than my Spanish and German though!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Здравствуйте все!
I've been actively trying to learn Russian for about two years now, and I'm still not very capable of having even simple conversations, due to the great difficulty of constructing sentences in my head. I guess I let the grammar get to me, with all the various prefixes and suffixes, so I choke. That, and the positioning of the words in a sentence. And also the concept of cases (all 7 of them). I know English and Norwegian from before, none of which has this slavic sentence logic/rules, so I find it incredibly difficult to remember/associate words/variations with their use.

I use Duolingo, Babbel, and sometime Rocket Language, in addition to trying to expose myself to having to read/listen/reply to other native speakers, but man am I having a hard time. Any suggestions?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I had the same problem when I started learning Russian and honestly the only thing that helped me improve was just speaking and writing in Russian more

the grammar is also really hard, but I found it best to just not overthink it and just get used to speaking and making mistakes but improving over time. It's easier to focus on correcting grammar when you're more comfortable just constructing sentences in that language in general and don't have to think as hard for each word you want to say

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I would suggest going to the Library and seeing if they have a Russian language course, or finding one at a book store if you can afford it. I find having an actual structured course helps me in my learning, and it will usually include resources like audio.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I just started taking Spanish classes. I had one year of Spanish in elementary school and I’m fluent in French, so it’s been pretty simple to understand Spanish but I need to keep working on speaking. I’ve also started watching Spanish language tv, to try to pick up more vocabulary.

Decided to take it to be able to speak with more people in my community, plus I love visiting Mexico and South America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I have been learning Polish on-and-off for a couple of years now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hmmm aku sedang belajar Bahasa Indonesia sekarang but I'm terrible at it.

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