rebel dragon Newbie United States sevenlanguagenati Joined 3854 days ago 20 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Danish
| Message 1 of 5 08 May 2014 at 3:19am | IP Logged |
I came to this site a few days ago via a link from the Language Learning Reddit wiki. My previous history of language learning consists mostly of failures. I had a total of 3 Spanish classes in college, and made self-study attempts at German and Esperanto with LiveMocha. Within the last year, a group at my work decided to meet after-hours to study French, and I decided to give language learning another go. Fast forward to the beginning of 2014, when I decided that I was going to seriously devote some time and effort towards learning a language this year. I decided to stick with French, since the group was still meeting at the time. I figured my biggest problem was that I couldn't remember the vocabulary. Through some searching on the Internet on the question I found Memrise, which I promptly decided was awesome. From Reddit I rapidly found Duolingo, and between those two and a number of other resources, I've made more progress in the past four months in learning another language than ever before. With the help of Lingua.ly I can muddle through most articles on Le Monde. My current additional learning efforts are translating a book of French poetry (Le Luth Brisé) that I picked up at a book sale, and reading "Le Mort de la Terre" while listening to the audio version. I also watch BFMTV, and often listen to French music. I probably spend a couple hours a day studying French, on average.
My current plan is to mainly focus on French for 2014, possibly taking a couple months to learn Esperanto, and then learning German and Spanish next. After that, I'll have to pick another language (I have an entire wishlist!)
Anyways, glad to be here!
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 5 08 May 2014 at 10:51am | IP Logged |
Glad to have you here - welcome to the forum
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 3 of 5 08 May 2014 at 1:11pm | IP Logged |
Welcome to the forums!
I wish you lots of success and fun on your path.
P.S. Based on your nickname: Are you a new asset to the "subgroup" of GoT and other fantasy lovers on htlal? ;-)
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Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6062 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical)
| Message 4 of 5 09 May 2014 at 2:11am | IP Logged |
rebel dragon wrote:
Thanks! I am a fan of GoT, but I don't know what the htlal is...yet. |
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HTLAL is this forum: initials of how-to-learn-any-language. :P
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rebel dragon Newbie United States sevenlanguagenati Joined 3854 days ago 20 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Danish
| Message 5 of 5 09 May 2014 at 2:54am | IP Logged |
I just realized that...I can be stupid sometimes... Usually I blame a lack of caffeine... :P
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