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>Jag gillar gör erbjudanden.
Jag gillar att göra affärer.
This would normally primarily mean to like doing business, but a business deal is also 'affär'.

>Om det är inte kul, vad är meningen?
Wanna toss the clauses around here.
Vad är meningen om det inte är roligt/kul?

>Nu för tiden, om du heter Donald Trump, alla i världen verkar som om de vill stämma dig (very rough on that last part).
Clausetossing again as well as some paraphrasing.
Nu för tiden så verkar hela världen vilja stämma en om man heter Donald Trump.

>Jag går sällan utanför, eftersom det vanligtvis är slöseri med tid.
Jag går sällan ut eftersom det för det mesta är ett slöseri med tid.

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Lads I have some questions about Portuguese
Is it right to use the imperfect tense to Express "would"?
Today I watched a video where a guy said
"Eu aceitava" which from the context could have only meant "I would have accepted" or "I would accept"
But wouldn't that be "eu teria aceitado" or "eu aceitaria"?
I also see just "ia" instead of "iria" alot

Also for the frase "quem me dera" I know it means "I wish" but I don't really see the connection in the words, is it like "who I would have given"? But wouldn't that be "quem me teria dado"?

Will I get in hot water legally for opening that mega folder or any of the files in it?

It had been French and for as long as you've been studying German for (8 months) but as of last week it changed, coincidentally, to German also as I realized that I internalized so many bad habits in French that I had no hope of speaking it correctly without completely forgetting everything and starting from scratch some years from now. Now I'm studying German but with an entirely different method and being extra cautious about bad habits.
I'm so new at it that there really isn't much I can comment on other than I'm waiting for more patterns to be noticed sub-consciously. It's just a bit of a stressful process for me because I'm still reeling from the 8 month time lost I had with French and I'm terrified and repeating those mistakes again.

What was your method with French? What bad habits did you have?

What made you choose French in the first place? And what made you switch to German?

Can't tell if this is a (You)-bait or not.

I don't know if ISPs track that sort of thing.

Essentially, before I had even begun learning French, I created my own method wherein I would get myself to the output stage as soon as possible. I played tons of vidya I'd already owned that had a French language setting to get used to how the language looked (I actually never really heard any French growing up surprisingly; I basically chose the language arbitrarily). Then after some days of this I learned what Anki was and downloaded a deck that had the 5,000 most used French words and drilled them everyday. A month later I would join FR discords with the intention of learning grammar by outputting a lot and being corrected.
I basically set myself up to reach a plateau of being just barely understandable and to never go much beyond it. I would read a lot of stuff in French but would never apply what I learned to trying to sound natural. In my mind, if they could understand what I wrote and I could understand what they wrote, then that meant there were no flaws. I also basically never did listening practice because... "I can't understand shit", oh but don't worry, I would be sure to get mad at myself about often. The sparing few times I attempted to listen to French without the aid of French subtitles, I'd be unable to fight the temptation to go back to reading because I would get too uncomfortable just listening.
>What made you choose French in the first place?
I heard it was easy, I had a lot of games that had a French language option, and it wasn't Spanish. All shit reasons.
>And what made you switch to German?
Discovering Matt vs Japan and his MIA / AJATT method inspired me to try something new when I realized that my French was never going to improve the way I was doing things. As for why German itself, it's actually a language that I had interest in learning as a teenager but never pursued due to laziness. It's also largely phonetic (at least more so than French and English) which makes listening a lot easier for me. (cont.)

>(cont.)
I've probably listened to more raw German these last few days of AJATTing (AGATTing?) than I had listened to raw French in the 8 months I spent studying that. There's also more stuff I want to read in German, mainly philosophy. There's more stuff I could say here but I'm mentally spent right now and I'm having a hard time concentrating.

are you using tinders currently free location feature to converse with qts in your target language?

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I understand haha, it's getting late and I'm pretty tired as well. Best advice I can give on the subject is to keep going. You will have times where you're really into learning, and times when you feel tired/like you're not making much progress. That's just the process with learning. Consistency is the key here. Viel Glück beim Deutschlernen.

Nibba, it's like a couple of hundred books on languages on an encrypted service so your ISP can't see shit anyway. Besides, no one would come to your ISP with a warrant and request IP logs over this even if it would have been unencrypted and 100% traceable to you. It's a bunch of books.

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I can teach people to speak broken, yesterday left english.

>tinder
You must be at least 18 to post here.

Thanks. I think focusing on input is the way to go now that I've seen what happens when that component is ignored. It's more lonely though, especially right at the start when you're lucky to understand 5% of the words of any given video.

True. I've heard they mostly focus on people downloading popular movies. Maybe I'm just paranoid.

What does a "logical" language mean? Lack of irregularities?
Some says german is one

i downloaded Yas Forums X. is there a way to get every comment/post translated into your TL and displayed below it?

Personally, I think German logical because it feels a lot like math. The rules of grammar are extremely consistent, so once you know the rules constructing a sentence is a lot like an equation, same with translating. Plus a lot of German words are kind of like puzzles because they're made up of smaller words that when combined create the new big word (thats also why German words can get so long). Anyways, that's just my autistic late night ramblings.

If German is logical because of that, then Japanese is even more logical because it has even less irregular verbs and everything obeys head-final order

Just learned the Cyrillic alphabet a few days ago, still confused between how you pronounce ч, ш, х, and щ. Also, any resources to improve Russian cursive?

Did you read the section on phonology in the Wikipedia article on Russian language?

I believe it’s a play on words to more visualize whatever city they’re in, in a straight block city it’s a main-street but with a city built without straitness in mind it’s a main-stem.

>made up of smaller words that when combined create the new big word
Latin, Greek, and Chinese all have words that do that. I wouldn't be impressed if Sanskrit, Arabic, and Nahuatl do too

I don't know much about other languages so I can't really talk about them. I was just telling the other user why I think German is a logical language

tech inglish pleas

¿Donde están mis estudiantes de español? ¿Que problemas han encontrado uds.? Pari mi, lo estan los verbos irregulares y los pronombres. Por ejemplo, porque todos los sustantivos son masculinos o femininas, es dificil decirle las cosas y las personas.

Es español su segunda idioma? Todas las idiomas son así. Nunca pensé en eso desu

Which is the best language for ASMR?

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What language sounds the most beautiful to you?

No, soy a nivel A1/A2. Es una bien cosa hay muchos hispanoparlantes en Yas Forums

Link reddit.com/r/russian/comments/fujfnj/i_want_to_become_a_russian_tutor/

Save a man from destitution. He could teach russian for whatever price you negotiate with him on any platform.

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Escuché hijo, no tengo mucho tiempo, me persiguen. La secreta para aprender español es

>somebody has to put down this filthy animal, he's downloading ebooks about learning Finnish. Good thing his ISP brought this scumbag to our attention

>ч
CHeap
>ш
SHeep
>х
Like ch in German ‘doch’
>щ
Yeah this one is hard

El silbo

Or, you know, there is Tandem eh.

But asking for feet pics is probably against the rules on Tandem

You can post pictures on tinder?

You literally swapped щ and ш.

The sound in sheep is in between ш and щ, it's equally wrong _and_ right for either sound.

>Ich es nicht für das Geld tue.
Geld is indefinite here. And the word order is a bit clunky
"Ich es nicht für Geld tue./ Ich tue es nicht für Geld."
>Ich liebe es, zu (handeln?)
deals could be translated with "Geschäfte"
"Ich liebe es Geschäfte zu machen."
>Ob es keinen Spaß machen kann, [ ]?
I don't know if it always holds true, but dirty little trick: If you can replace "if" with "whether" then you can use "ob", if not, rather use "wenn".
"what's the point": "wo liegt der sinn" "was ist der sinn" "wo liegt der zweck" and probably others. but generally, "what's the point" isn't as prolific an idiom in german as in english
now, depending on the context you would probably skip the "can't" part when translating. if the "can't" is because of the speaker in a sense of general apathy then you wouldn't say the "can't", but when it were because of the activity simply making fun impossible then you'd probably say "can't"
"Wenn es keinen Spaß macht [machen kann], wo liegt der Sinn?"

why are the apus so sad? :(

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I learnt english this way (except for the output page coming much, much later)
how old were you when you attempted this?

im learning vietnamese and it is basically impossible

Дaй чaльeндж

I hate seeing fucking cyrillic writing. Fuck sakes why can't russians just write in latin alphabet like normal human beings

Would be boring to see the same script over and over again

Are you the pt-pt or pt-br user?

>Se não puder ser divertido, qual é a razão?
...qual é o sentido
>Às vezes, paga ser um pouco louco
Às vezes recompensa - more natural
>Nestes dias se teu nome seja Donald Trump, todas as pessoas neste mundo querem te processar
"Nestes dias" works but "nos dias de hoje" sounds better
nome é Donald
querem te processar - either "querem-te" or "te querem"; the latter sounds better in pt-pt
>é um fabricante de negócios e água está molhado
"Fabricante" means manufacturer. In this case "fazedor de negócios" ou "fazedor de tratos" would be better although there isn't a proper, natural sounding translation to deal maker
>e água está molhado
e a água é molhada (água is feminine)
Verbo ser - something intrinsical to something; eg: ele é alto, o céu é azul, a água é molhada
Verbo estar - something temporary, eg: eu estou com fome, ela está bonita hoje, o desemprego está elevado
>não me levei muito tempo
"não levei" or "não me levou"
>não houve nada particularmente
não havia
>mais grande que a vida
You should use quotes there because this idiom doesn't really exist in Portuguese
also "maior" instead of "mais grande", everytime a native (usually kids) says "mais grande" he is immediately mocked by everyone around him

Pretty good desu, mostly just minor mistakes

Thank you, as always.

Sheep doesn’t sound like щ. If you are gonna be nitpicky, ш can be compared to sh in shark.

Фaк зe aнглo лeттepc

You're welcome