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Duolingo Quarterly Earning Call Short Ticker: DUOL edition

>What language(s) are you learning?
>Share language learning experiences!
>Ask questions about your target language!
>Help people who want to learn a new language!
>Participate in translation challenges or make your own!
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Read the wiki:
https://4chanint.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Official_/int/_How_to_Learn_A_Foreign_Language_Guide_Wiki

Useful links:
>Free language‐learning book archive:
https://mega.nz/folder/INlRkAQC#CthKI9-_kmDNyrOx12Ojbw
>Books on linguistics and language courses:
https://mega.nz/#F!Ad8DkLoI!jj_mdUDX_ay-8D9l3-DbnQ
>Assorted language resources and some nice visual guides:
https://pastebin.com/ACEmVqua (embed) (embed) (embed) (embed) (embed) (embed) (embed)
>Torrents with more resources than you’ll ever need for 30 plus languages:
https://archive(dot)ph/x0dFH
>Russianon’s list of comprehensible input resources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wXd0V32TjCFsr1-F_en_lA4MI-i7JtyYf26cWLtPRec
>Massive collection of textbooks on various languages, sorted by family
https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/
>/lang/ inpoot torrents
https://rentry.org/inpoot
>Refold Anki decks
https://rentry.org/refold

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>>213549020

First!

Thanks for the gold kind stranger!

ARIGATOH!!!

>>213616087
Macte virtute, Germanicule! Tibi gratulor tantum laborem perfecisse!

>>213616087
https://voca.ro/1iQwpZaimlPq
Thoughts on my Aussprache?

Nescio utro in filo loqui oporteat. Hoc eligo. Flocci non facio quid putetis.

>>213616087
what is the most reddit language?

>>213616937
Pretty good 7.5/10, somewhat foreign, intonation is a bit off but not really obviously Russian.

>>213617398
The reddit trio is Spanish, french, and Japanese.

>>213617398
Technically, it's English. The most reddit TL is probably French or Japanese

>>213617398
toki pona
no need to elaborate

obliterate the Russian language

whatever happened to demotivationals?

>>213617897
uh that's a bit russophonic don't you think, chud?

>>213617944
Russians think the same

Have you ever tried to correct native speakers in your TL like this?
>>213618954

How did it go?

>>213617426
https://voca.ro/13kdGxAlEQVq
Thank you for your feedback. This is the first sentence with extra clarity, can you find any flaws in particular?

>>213617876
100%. Toki Pona and conlangs in general are full of the type of people that do shit like complain about Interlingua (a conlang specifically intended as a simplified neo-latin for maximum comprehension by romance speakers) claiming that it’s “too eurocentric.”

>>213617398
हिंद रेड्डीज है।

>>213619209
I think he actually killed himself

मछली .
|..........|
|..टπб><..| <<<<< (मछली)
|..........|

>>213619209
Kek. It really betrays how rent-free we are in Euro brains when they do shit like attempting to correct our grammar.

It’s because grammar is something they can latch onto as either “correct” or not, so if they autistically memorize English grammar in compulsive education they think they can flex on Americans. All along their accent is shit and their usage of vocabulary is often bizarre and stilted sounding because they don’t read or watch enough stuff in English. Like, anything moderately upper register, formal, or classic literature in English will say “a BLANK people” or “the history of the Germanic peoples” for plural. It just shows that, for all their swaggering pretensions, the ESL’s reading level is at-or-below many American middle schoolers.

How hard is it to just be humble and not overstate your abilities guys? You don’t have to be better than us at English, we know it’s not your native language.

>>213619209
I like to be in the reverse situation.

I say something gramatically correct that most people think is wrong, and then correct them that actually im right.

i have one stock phrase that i use to troll people in this way.

>>213620072
I'm interested to hear what this phrase is, if it's not a secret

I made this OP pic btw. Rate my OC

>>213620072
its a portuguese phrase. (I'm PSL). The phrase is just the verb ter plus any regular past participle for verbs that have 2 past participles.

There are some verbs with multiple past participles -- one regular, one irregular.

The general rule is that two verbs (ter and haver) always use the regular participle for forming compound tenses, and other verbs that can make use of participles (ser, estar, ficar) always use the irregular form.

Using ser:
>Eles foram pagos (correct)
>Eles foram pagados (incorrect)

Using ter:
>Eu tinha pagado (correct, but many people will say this is wrong. This is my trolling tactic)
>Eu tinha pago (coincidentally, this is actually correct, because this participle is exceptional, and tends to also be used for the verb ter)

So to troll I just use ter with pagado and oftentimes I get corrected. Then when I give other examples of other verbs, and their participles, the person realizes I'm not wrong.

>>213620379
meant for >>213620164

Learn akkadian.

>>213622182
>try to practice akkadian
>preserve clay tablets by putting them in a kiln
>accidentally burns down house
Truly the hardest language...

>>213617398
English, unfortunately.
But also Spanish now

>>213622788
bump before snoozing but definitely a conlang for 'the' reddit language

.

>>213622322
That's why you carve stuff into rocks instead.
Less room for error.

>>213620368
It's alright, but it's too true to really be that funny. But if it's serious, the red part should be the longest part, taking up 90% or more of the total width, or indicate on the X-axis that it isn't to scale.
Kind of reminds me of pic-related.

>>213617398
Any celtic language

>>213625007
Ankigooning, textbooks and classes are way to high. In reality they are little better than duolingo (anki alone is probably worse).

>>213626448
Anki is good if you use it correctly (audio front, matching TL text back) and don't overdo it.

Russianon has convinced me to forget my native American and learn English.

Any resources on speaking RP? Besides RP, what’s the most absurdly upper class accent in existence?

>>213626623
Trying to learn words out of context like that is incredibly hard.

I choose languages to learn by the amount of native speakers because I am the ultimate NPC only interested in economic-rational factors

>>213627617
Oh yeah I forgot to say they shouldn't be individual words

>>213627705
I check the GDP growth and labor market conditions of countries that speak a certain language before committing to it, I can't jeopardize my linguistic quarterly profits by picking a language with a sub-optimal economic outlook.

My opinion:

Popular languages are simply popular for a reason. Now that I have learned some of the major ones up to C-Level you learn to appreciate the easy access to media, presence of huge diaspora populations and the abundance of counties to travel to. There already is a steep drop-off in accessibility just by avoiding the major colonial languages. Imagine learning the language of a country that publishes 2 books and one movie a year with unpleasant people with a country where there is nothing to see.

>>213628309
If it isn't an individual word in the front you risk learning the context instead of the word.

playing your fav games in tl (especially text heavy games) is really good for expanding the vocabulary and it doesn't take much effort

>>213629589
Except that games only ever get translated into like 8 languages and at most have full dubbing in only ever like 5 languages.

>>213628843
The only languages that are worth learning for original content are english and japanese.

>>213629589
>KOTOR was never translated into Spanish
I suffer

>>213629483
I used an N+1 audio deck I found, and it it does happen. Not really a big deal to suspend a card every once in a while, but dialogue can be surprisingly generic - you may be surprised how rarely this comes up.

>>213628843
What langs?

>>213617398
Any language that I currently dont like

>>213617398
Esperanto, Klingon, Elvish, Dothraki, High Valyrian etc. basically any fake ass conlang that some nerd invented.

>chaud
>le CHAUDron

>>213629846
Just learn one of those languages, easy

>>213627617
no it's not