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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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[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

jag lära svenska för många år sedan. but never been any more motivated so my skill is very limited.

I learned to read cyrilic last year because I had to read some papers about central asian history written in russian, but I didn't learn russian.

while at that, I found out that hangeul is a very simple writing system and it is, I figured it out immediately but I still had to look up the tables to write. russian cyrilic is still more intuitive to write. But I also didn't learn korean.

تعلمت اللغة العربية 10 سنوات. But then I never use arabic anymore. It's pretty cool somtimes to be able to read arabic writing and calligraphy. I used to won several arabic calligraphy contest.

and then I also can understand 2 local languages when people around talk, but I can't speak it well.

Basically I never get motivated enough to be good at anything even in everything not just language :/

[–] thymos@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

I started learning Swedish yesterday. My native language is Dutch. I started by reading a pronunciation guide, but (and this is so childish) I had to put the book away for laughing so hard after reading the Swedish word for meatballs: köttbullar.

ProfanityIn Dutch, the word "kut" means "cunt". It isn't as profane as the English word and is also often used for the well-known genitals. The guide explained that Swedish "ö" is pronounced like Dutch short "u". After this I opened my Swedish story book and the first picture had the word köttbullar in it. I then heard myself very carefully enunciate what in Dutch sounds like "cunt balls". Couldn't stop laughing.

Today I will make a second attempt. I hope I can keep it contained to a short chuckle.

[–] StickyDango@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm learning Irish. My schedule is crazy busy, but I do a lot of driving for work so I listen to Irish speaking lessons. I also do this only while I'm on the road because my Irish boyfriend has no idea I'm doing this so I can speak Irish on our wedding day.

I can say things like where I've been yesterday, where I am today, where I'll be tomorrow, what are you doing, what were you doing, it was great craic, I don't know, I'd like a pint of Guinness, please.

I'll probably get made fun of for speaking the Ulster dialect (his family is all Dublin), but my favourite instructor that I've found is from Belfast and at least I'll be able to speak it. ☘️

[–] v01dworks@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I’ve been learning Russian for a few years, I’ve also started learning Serbian and Ukrainian a little bit.

I can speak Russian pretty decently, it’s my girlfriend’s first language so I’ve had a lot of regular practice with it, I don’t consider myself fluent at this point but I can hold conversations with native speakers without too much of an issue

With Ukrainian I can understand quite a bit but I haven’t had much practice speaking it with other people at all yet. I have the basic phrases memorized, things like привіт, будь ласка, доброго ранку, добрий вечір, дякую, як справи, etc. but I don’t think I could hold a conversation speaking only in Ukrainian. I’ve been studying it kind of off and on for a year or so, and I listen to some Ukrainian music fairly often

Serbian I’ve been struggling to learn, I’ve been working on it for about 5 months. I think learning Russian first made it weirdly harder since the sentences are structured fairly differently. When it’s written, I can understand quite a bit, but if someone walked up to me and just started speaking Serbian I’d be completely lost

[–] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nederlands (Dutch), my native language is Portuguese and I also speak English.

"Hallo, ik ben Cally en ik spreek een beetje Nederlands." probably translates to "Hello, I am Cally and I speak a bit of Dutch."

I kinda suck at learning languages so I'm still at what I assume is A1 level, I think my pronunciation is ok, though. Idk how to speed up language learning but I have set my phone to Dutch and that kinda helps. For example, "Instellingen" means "Settings"

[–] Snikkelbaard@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Lekker bezig!

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

J'apprends le français, C''est ma troisième langue. Il va ça va, et je suis A2 après ~8 mois, mais j'ai un amie qui m'aide aussi

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Bonne chance! Avoir un ami aide toujours.

C'est quoi tes deux premieres langues?

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

L'espagnol et l'anglais. L'espagnol m'aide plus que l'anglais lol

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ouais c'est deux langues latines, donc ça passe bien. Je veux aussi apprende l'espagnol bientôt.

[–] Stubb 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Je suis en train d'apprendre le français aussi. J'espère que je comprendrai cette langue bientôt et que je pourrai écrire un paragraphe plus long. J'espère que vous passez un bon moment avec cette langue.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Bonne chance!

Je découvre que j'aime le français :) C'est difficile mais très intéressant. Mon français n'est pas parfait (et je fais beaucoup d'erreurs), mais j'apprends quelque chose nouveau touts les jours et je voudrais bien parler en français avec mes amis québécois.

Maintenant, je lis un petit livre de fantaisie sur les lieux hauntes. C'est bon et pas dur!

[–] pan0wski@infosec.pub 3 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been learning Japanese for a long time now. The funny thing is that I started at the wrong end by learning kanji first and then moving onto grammar and vocabulary in that order. Avoid what I did unless you want to be proficient at reading it without understanding it!

Although not all is lost, because I'm getting used to reading news and Wikipedia articles without much aid or effort anymore, and spoken Japanese is slowly getting easier. Understanding it is still proving to be a bitch from time to time but that's on me!

Btw, does anyone know of great websites to read Japanese? I browse Gigazine.net quite a bit and many news outlets, but I'd like to mix it up and move away from politics and news in general. I'm still a bit shy about online forums, but maybe I should do that next.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

I've been learning Portuguese (Brazilian) off and on for a while. I'm mostly okay-ish at reading it, but it's nearly impossible for me to understand it when spoken.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

lol keren, aku gak sangka bakal ketemu orang yang belajar bahasa indonesa di fediverse

[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 2 points 21 hours ago

I am learning German and I can read simple sentences with context, I still can't understand it by listening

[–] duckworthy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours 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.

[–] grinka@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

I'm learning English and a little bit of Czech (stopped a while ago because of my lazyness but want to start learning Czech again). I think I'm still speak badly in English but I understand it very good.

I'm from Ukraine btw

(Also does programming languages count? I love Rust)

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