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.
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.
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.
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.
