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This for Anglo-Saxon or Old-Norse speaker. In Scots there is was -o and -um augmentives, so horsie means small horse and horso means big horse. -o for substantives and -um for adjectives. Is this from Anglo-Saxon?
Nathaniel Morgan
>Anglo-Saxon It's still Old English, nibba; we've been over this, and no, OE does not have that kind of augmentative.
Where does the expression "lui faire sa fête" come from? Same with all the variations like "te faire ta fête". Reverso has it as either violent or sexual along with the direct translation.
Brandon Sanders
>Busuu offers free live-streamed language classes (that are usually paid) for kids during the pandemic busuu.com/en/keep-kids-learning
Are you going to be joining the watch party, lads?
Oh no not another weeb edition Stop using weeb pics for /lang/
Ethan Foster
10 years from now, what will be the 3 most important languages to know?
Owen Wilson
English, Chinese, Hindi.
Brayden Parker
What's the fastest way to fix a low vocabulary? It's basically the one big impediment in listening comprehension once the ear gets used to the language's prosody
That's true but there is going to be a push for Hindi over the next ten years.
Nathan Turner
I feel very proud of myself for learning a meagre amount of japanese こんにちは
Grayson Walker
can anyone link me a live stream of some german news?
Landon Young
J'étudie français maintenant, et j'ai une question. Comment puis-je différencier entra la pronuntiation de "mer" et "mère"? Je ne peux pas remarquer la différence.
Julian Adams
You have the "langsam gesprochene Nachrichten" each day.
Josiah Scott
Je pense qu'ils sont homophones
Logan Thompson
you mean other than DW? cause otherwise: >youtube >"nachrichten" >Live filter
Oliver Turner
Oui, ça est ce que je pensais.
David Bailey
i forgot about DW. thanks
Logan Price
why are you learning German btw?
Jaxson Brooks
i like the language and country. rich cultural history, substantial scientific and philosophical contributions, amazing engineering and infrastructure in their cities
Landon Smith
Bump
Lucas Thomas
German is actually an extremely popular language among polyglots. Like whenever you have those people doing videos with speaking in 10+ languages, you're almost guaranteed German will be one of them. I'm also in numerous polyglot and language-learner groups on Facebook and most people seem to be learning German, from all parts of the world, not just central and eastern Europe (where it's taught in schools). It's quite interesting honestly.
Nicholas Watson
Very strange that Old English doesn't have it. I have no idea where it is from. Thank you from your answer.
I need to stop playing video games and actually study. The entire world is on pause and I am wasting it.
Nathan Sanchez
Fuck it, bros. From now on I'll just do 1 exercise and 1 lesson on Duolingo everyday. The rest of the time I'll be consuming media while looking up for words I don't know and consulting grammar points.
Parker Evans
Yes. Just imagine. You could -practically- become fluent in Scots during this break but you are wasting it.
How in the FUCK do you roll your r's (trill)? Fuck me I've developed a had habit of making some weird guttural sound that kind of sounds like it but it sounds more like I'm choking on something. Ik there's tons of guides online but which ones a good one?
What's so hard? I couldn't trill in Russian too until I was about 13 when I decided one day that I should learn how already and stop sounding like a retard. Literally took me a day. If you're curious I used to pronounce it as [ʁ]. If you are American try saying "put it up" repeatedly as fast as you can, some other burger reported it helped him.
Tyler Sullivan
I think it's the fact I developed this bad habit that's making it hard, keep falling back to it to make the sound. Hopefully with some practice in quarantine I'll get the hang of it
Evan Bell
>amer/cae thocht ordit.
Matthew Wright
I learned to roll my r when i was like 6 I was so happy when i finally figured out how to make that sound
Samuel Turner
Kind of funny how people here actually struggle to not trill their R's while speaking English. It's one of the things I have to consciously remind myself to do while speaking English. Also this is one of the reasons why I kept getting "hard" and "soft" consonants mixed up in Russian. We usually say we want to "soften" our R's so I thought that soft sounds came from moving your tongue back not the opposite.
Connor Hill
just posting for reference
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Liam Campbell
>How in the FUCK do you roll your r's (trill)? The key is to stop thinking of /r/ as anything like [ɹ]; [ɹ] is quite an oddity in the /r/-spectrum, and [r] and [ɹ] are pronounced in fundamentally different positions in the mouth. This whole mentality applies to any phoneme btw; one should strive to not settle for approximations.
Now to the practicality: Put the tip of your tongue against the upper part of your front teeth, where they meet the roof of your mouth. From there, pull your tongue-tip back a bit, to where you can feel the roof of your mouth getting higher. Then blow air. Grats, you can now trill.
German is what got me interested in languages. Back when I only had English classes, I thought all foreign languages other than English were useless and boring. Mandatory German classes quickly made me change my mind and even sign up for French because I wanted more. Dunno about other countries but here like 90% of people hate on German because they think it's hard, boring and ugly. People who like or have a talent for languages don't have this sort of prejudice of the language though, they don't really hate on any languages.
Anthony Sanchez
ok I think I'm getting it...
sorry if this autistic lads but does this sound like a trill or am I doing gutteral sounds again voca.ro/bycbfxM5k3N
Josiah Ward
It sounds like your trilling from your throat Don't obstruct your throat user, your thrill has to come solely from your tongue
Michael Robinson
>It sounds like your trilling from your throat Exactly this. Make sure that the vibrations are located solely between the Alveolar Ridge and your tongue.
fuuuuuck that's the bad habit I was talking about, will practice more... thanks bros
Isaiah Carter
I want to learn russian but i think german will be more useful,also want to learn swedish because there is a chance to go there.But in the end i don`t do nothing What do ?
Jace Price
I don't think I do a very good job but I basically just started trying to pronounce it randomly (in public too) until I got ok(?) At it, most of my coworkers probably think I have autism though I could send a vocaro maybe, I might be pronouncing it poorly
Brandon Rogers
>your thrill has to come solely from your tongue sounds kinky :^)
Have a variety of study materials Develop a routine you can stick to Collect media in your target lang that interests you Find excuses to use the language even if it's just shitposting
Brandon James
>suga I'm just triggered by the infinitive verb being used here rather than the imperative 2bh
[spoiler]I reckon you were just posting profanities for the sake of it[/spoiler]
Dylan Jones
Ana aia zici ca a mancat uraniu de dimineata si dup-aia s-a dus sa-i faca poza pt ambalaj
