I highly recommend focusing on one L2, then learning other target languages in your L2 when you're at the right level. Also don't learn similar languages at the same time.
I looked at Duolingo again recently for the first time in awhile because of the Kyle thread and it's way better now. But whether or not Duolingo is worth doing depends on the course. The European language courses are excellent it seems. I'm doing the Japanese > Korean course to brush up on what I did in college and it seems far better than the English > Korean course.
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Immersion is overrated, too. It's important, but some people talk like you're just going to magically sponge up a language without effort. It won't work. Languages have parameters that adult learners can't just pick up intuitively. You need a lot of output practice and explicit instruction on things like that. The reason immersion works is because it makes lazy people have to try. Not so much because we just acquire shit well when we're immersed.
I looked at it again but I got nowhere. This is what I typed out anyway:
Summary
Day 2:
We gotta figure out 626.
kampwoo na ŋkwuu shuunni na beetaanre na baani
I am very certain that /na/ is a conjunction that they use in words similar to English /and/ in one hundred and two. With that in mind, that means we have X and Y and A and B that somehow makes 626. We know pretty confidently that /baani/ is 6. So we have X and Y and A and 6. We have a /shuunni/ which also appears in /baashuunni/ (7). If our assumptions are correct about /baa/ being a base 5, then /shuunni/ should mean 2. We are pretty certain that 20 is /benjaaga/, so this /shuunni/ is not part of 20 I think. The only other thing I can think of is that it denotes "2 of /nkwuu/". If this is the case, then we have X and 2xnkwuu and A and 6.
I'm stumped so I'm just going to look at the questions.
kampwahii shuunni na ke
So this is X 2 and 10. I think we can safely assume that it probably isn't a number ending in "2" and then 10. As far as I know, languages add the last digit when necessary at the end. For example they would not make the number 94 by saying 47 x 2. Counting systems make the number to the rounded down 10th and then add the single digit number, in this case maybe 40 times 2 and 10 and 4. If I'm right about this, the /shuunni/ in this isn't just an added two, but a "2 of kampwahii".
Cracking 285 might be necessary first. figuring out that /taanre/ can lead to understanding /nkwuu/ and /bee/
@huber i am using duolingo and have at least one contact who is fluent or roughly fluent in all of them that i can ask questions or try to converse with weekly. i also am trying to pay attention whenever i am watching or reading something, and follow up with language specific texts or words.
i've spent a couple hours a day for two weeks working on roughly 6 languages and i can say that it's quite exhausting but i feel the returns are already worth it. i was absolutely floored to find that duo contains character writing practice.
i purposefully chose different and difficult languages that i felt would expose me to people and culture i am otherwise closed off from, but could probably serve me in greater regions
the biggest focus i probably have is chinese(mandarin) so when the others start slacking off, this will be more center. tho it is slower because it is quite obviously much more difficult for me to pick up than, say, spanish which i have spent years being somewhat involved with (spanglish) but i find mandarin to be the most fun to learn, personally.
the other languages are spanish japanese arabic latin and finnish (i decided to hold off on the french for now even tho i find it one of the most pleasant to listen to. i think it will be difficult for me to speak fluently and i think speaking chinese is going to be consuming, it is very difficult so i'd rather focus that type of learning on chinese)
i am particularly interested in being able to read and write arabic.
it's very beautiful text and fun to rewire reading from the opposite end
but i also am excited to read and write japanese and chinese
i wanted to be able to read things such as the 3 body problem in its original text or watch the best anime without subs because i'm a true weab
really, its only been 2 weeks, but i will probably start filtering in media/shows as i get a bit more vocab built up for each
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I think it's time for the no English allowed thread.
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If you are handwriting chinese or japanese at all to study, I definitely suggest printing out genko yoshi and writing with that only for a long time.
My time spent in Japanese schools has taught me that the reason that they have such amazing handwriting is because they keep the training wheels on for years and years and years.
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That is awesome
I would definitely think focusing on just one at a time will get you further in a shorter amount of time
But maybe studying multiple you get some cross language benefits. Learning to learn and all that
I would probably learn arabic if i had time for a super branch-out language. I understand it now at like the level of a dog (recognize words, can regurgitate phrases). But dont have time for study yet because I have several other things (loosely work related) to devote that time to
You're not welcome to learn our language.
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Our? Your language is ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
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Just completed the square.
Still no progress for me.
I've been on a trip and I also hate number ones
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nump
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Is this the rap thread?