Hello everyone,
I thought it might be interesting to have regular catch-ups (e.g. weekly posts) to discuss progress everyone is making on their languages.
That’d be a good idea! There’s very little activity in this community and I’d like to have some sort of language learning community here in Lemmy. Especially with how much of a presence the fediverse has in European countries like Germany and the Netherlands.
I’ll start: I’ve started learning Dutch very recently. I started by studying grammar from a website, but since I’ve had some impossible months at work I haven’t had time to do anything other than a daily Duolingo session (up to streak 90-something). I’m aware Duolingo is not enough but I’m using it as a stopgap to not stop thinking about the language while I have this busy period. I’m also gathering some courage to send a few texts in Dutch to a Dutch friend (we’re not close enough for a phone call, unfortunately).
If anyone has any TV shows in Dutch that I could put in my backlog for when I have more time, I’m all ears!
TV shows in Dutch
Interesting, I know a bit of Dutch too. Do you want to learn the Netherlands Dutch or the Belgian one? The pronunciation and accents are quite different.
Truth be told, I have been studying Netherlands Dutch because I may have a job there in the future… But suddenly Belgium is also an option so both would be beneficial hahaha
But I’d still like to focus on the Netherlands Dutch as it still seems more likely that’s where I’ll go.
I recently started to learn some Mandarin with the Hello Chinese app. Speaking wise it’s not too bad. However, learning the character is pretty rough.
For characters I usually memorize which strokes go after one another. And I write them down physically on paper to get it into my muscle memory. If you do this for a couple of hundred characters, you’ll be exposed to most of the strokes there are, so every new character you learn can be represented as a series of strokes you already know.
I use Clozemaster to acquire new vocabulary with daily repetition (on a 949 day streak), but it only works if you know the grammar fairly well and have the basica under your belt as is the case with my Greek.
But I decided to learn Welsh a few days ago. It’s really hard to find resources, so I’ve been using duolingo. I’m not much of a fan of the app, but I can’t start drilling vocabulary with clozemaster if I have to look up every word in a sentence.
I’ve been slacking off with German though. But generally I read the news in German and add some interesting words I didn’t know into my anki deck.
