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A late-20s university grad living in the Bay Area with hopes of returning to the world of academia for Japanese or linguistics, or I'll run off to law school.
My obsessive-compulsions include stopping the microwave only when the time remaining is divisible by five and reading the fine print on commercials.
My first sip of tea was out of my baby bottle. I make one of the best cuppas you’ll ever taste.
Has anyone used the Hamiltonian system for language learning? Someone recommended it on the Tofugu Google+ page, but I can’t find examples on any blogs or sites.
I get the primary focus is to shift from grammar to vocabulary, and emphasize reading, reading, reading. But I’m skeptical.
Thoughts?
French
- http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/home - I absolutely love this website. It has everything!
- http://french.speak7.com/
- http://www.bonjour.com/ - Shows pronunciations of words/phrases (which is extremely helpful)…
Okay internet, you really have to take a look at this website. Information and statistics on every single effing language in existence.
“Overhear conversation in language you don’t speak” “Spend next twenty minutes analyzing the hell out of it”
Luxembourgish sounds like a blend of German and French. Possibly Danish and French.
Yes, I know it’s all stems from the Germanic language family.
This makes me wish there was a version of “Seven Degrees Of…” with languages.
Which Languages Are Harder To Learn.
As a native English speaker, I would certainly have to emphasize the “each learner is different” part of this post. The “Medium” and “Hard” tables certainly do NOT apply to me. Of the “hard” ones, I would leave Arabic and Korean there, but Chinese and Japanese haven’t ever been difficult for me to pick up at all. There are certain difficult parts to the languages, but there are parts of English that are difficult with English speakers as well. I would most definitely swap Japanese and Chinese with Hindi and Suomi. (I’m leaving Arabic there, even though it hasn’t ever been terribly difficult for me.)
I guess the “motivation” aspect plays a larger role with me. I’ve given Suomi a couple of chances, but before I had even three of the fifteen or what not cases solid, FuckThisShitByeth of April arrived and I was done.
That being said, I’ll probably give Suomi a third/239847th chance at some point.
Also, I based this off of written (and not really the speaking and listening) part.
Oh, and I can’t really say I’ve ever tried हिन्दी, but I have taken my dear sweet time with the letters — probably unjustly (or something) backburning it.That’s not true, because I’m only interested in Sanskrit anyway.
For all you other lang nerds. :-*
Two years after my first round, 62 points out of 150 - only 25 questions right out of 50. I did slightly worse than before.
Japanese: 41 points/150 - 18/50 questions. Consistent considering I have placed my studies on hold.
Meh… could have done a lot better.
Get schooled. Two, to, and too are NOT the same thing.
Language and foundation resource page.
