Thread 16685511

You say you're smart, how many languages do you speak?

God's own language, (english)

>>16685522
No that's Hebrew

>>16685511 (OP)
why would I waste my time on learning irrelevant languages?

>>16685556
Yeah just play vidya and jack off to anime instead

>>16685511 (OP)
it would be hilarious to see a video of that person having a conversation with a native swede or frenchie

>>16685511 (OP)
Is this rage bait?
Nobody who finished a Duolingo course can even form a simple sentence in the language he "learned"
Only way to learn is the old fashioned way, study through textbooks, practice with others and consume media

>>16685584
There are thousands of weebs who learned japanese with duolingo

>>16685511 (OP)
>smart
Just means you're good at memorizing and have a large brain capacity. I like to learn other language solely for the fact that I can flex on other people, cause honestly that's the whole point.

>>16685588
source: my anus

>>16685599
>faggot tries not to talk about his prolapsed anus
>impossible challenge

>>16685606
you are the one who claims to personally know thousands of weebs
you know them cause you they fucked your fat ass while you were screaming "oni-chan" and that makes you both fluent in Japanese

>>16685511 (OP)
3-4

English and Spanishcin my house

Considered learning French since it seems like France is the only other non cucked country and a brownoid like me could probably snag a B cup french baddie with a bob cut

>>16685796
Go back home miguel, you are not welcome here

>>16685511 (OP)
French but I've gone rusty

1 because im not a fucking pinko communist who lets foreign tongues corrupt my pure american thought.

>>16686046
lolmao

>>16686046
based

>>16685550
Can't be.
Hebrew is a modern invention of the last 200 years.

>>16685511 (OP)
speaking multiple languages doesn't mean you're smart

>>16685511 (OP)
It's out really a different language of they are all from the same root?

>>16685796
>France
>non cucked country

>>16687437
he is a spic, his iq is low

>>16687439
It's a step up from his current hellhole anyway

>>16685960
Why would you even want to speak French? Do you want to banter with africans?

>>16685511 (OP)
those are all variations of the same language

english + mandarin would be way more impressive

>>16689875
true, there are only three different language families there (germanic, romance and russian) and they are all branches of the same tree
if you want to claim you're smart and brag on the internet, pick at least one from each major family: indo-european, uralo-altaic, and sino-tibetan

>>16685584
>no an app can't help you learn a foreign language because... because... because it just can't for some reason

>>16690770
Do you know any other languages apart from English and can you hold a lengthy conversation in any of them, anon?

>>16685511 (OP)
>they're all indo-european languages.

>>16690776
I used duolingo to learn French. I can now "parlez vous" if you will

>>16685556
so you speak mandarin, french and spanish then?
>NOOOO I JUST WANT TO TALK TO OTHER PROTESTANTS

>>16690783
You can now "do you speak"?
I think you meant to say "je vous parle"

>>16685511 (OP)
4
only fluent in 3

>>16691250
Based. Same.

>>16685511 (OP)
i know english, the hardest language to learn on this earth. i am therefore by default smarter than everyone who knows only one language that isn't english. i learned old norse once for fun then completely forgot all of it because it had no use, and i'm currently learning japanese because im a weeb.

If you aren't regularly using it you will forget it anyways.

>>16691425
>he doesn't have a Chinese GF to practise with

>>16685588
I'm a Japanese speaker (half Japanese by birth) and the Duolingo Japanese course is particularly bad. I think it actually teaches really badly and for the time you'd spend on it, you'd be better off learning formally. Might be biased because I can already speak it, but I had the feeling it's far behind other courses they have.

>>16691436
It already takes me about 10 hours of screen-staring a day just to keep up with English language media. The idea of adding a 2nd or god forbid 3rd language into the rotation is impossible.

>>16691486
>he keeps up with The-Current-ThingTM
read picrel pls
>https://fs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Arthur-Schopenhauer.pdf

>>16691250
I wonder how the portuguese feel about this one.

>>16685550
No, thats Sanskrit

>>16685511 (OP)
French (native), Arab, Berber (family), English (scientist) and more or less Spanish (school)

>>16691727
>French (native), Arab, Berber (family)
ah a typical frog

>>16691729
Damn

>>16685511 (OP)
Two fluently, two more or less conversationally, three at a basic level (can order food, ask directions, read with the help of a dictionary).

>>16687425
Then what language is the Old Testament written in?

>>16690766
Not only are they branches of the same tree, the languages of Europe have spent centuries influencing each other's structure by being spoken together. For example, Latin and Proto-Germanic both lacked the use of "have" to indicate the perfect aspect, but French and German both have it.

>>16690770
It's not that no app possibly can, it's that Duolingo in particular sucks as a way to actually learn a language.
>>16691412
>english, the hardest language to learn on this earth
It is not.
t. has degree in linguistics

>>16691524
If it teaches Brazilian Portuguese rather than European Portuguese, it would be misleading to label it with a Portuguese flag.

>>16685511 (OP)
.98

>>16693997
Why does duolingo in particular suck? It goes through vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, speaking, and writing. What more are you looking for? You get out what you put into it. I guess you're not really interacting with a live person, which i see as the only major drawback.

>>16694020
It focuses too much on direct "conversion" between your language and the target language. Also its examples are contrived. On the mobile app it doesn't explain grammar.

>>16694021
All valid criticisms. I usually use another resource and listen to a lot of external media in the language im learning.

>>16694020
It moves too slow. After a couple solid weeks of it you're still on "yo quiero dos manzanas rojas".

>>16693997
>It is not.
>t. has degree in linguistics
Seconding this. English has some odd peculiarities but overall it has pretty simple grammar, phonology and all that, plus you can fuck it up pretty badly and still be understood.

>>16694033
I would think the latter is more due to English-speakers being regularly exposed to mangled English than e.g. Polish speakers are to mangled Polish (because a lot more foreigners have reason to learn English than Polish) than any intrinsic property of the language.

>>16685563
*Read and publish more english language papers instead

>>16690783
Anon, I don't want to be mean to you but language "gadgets" are shit. I can speak 4 languages, and the best method I've found is going head-in, watch youtube, talk to normies online and read. There's no shame in using dictionaries or being corrected all the time.

As a side note, my worst language that I have some knowledge in is French, and that's the one I've tried to "practice" with Duolingo, lmao.

>>16691168
kys

>>16693999
that still implies that brazil is more relevant than portugal in the world stage (which is true in 2025)

>>16685511 (OP)
four, and I read three others.
now I have a question: are you an american? it's usually americans who cannot understand that knowledge of languages does not equal being smart. where I come from everybody is at least bilingual but many are trilingual, and that does not include the languages taught in school.

Why do languages other than english still exist?

>>16693994
It was originally a sort of greek, history is confusing

>>16695134
the new testament was originally written in greek, and that's because it was an absolute hoax

>>16695138
No, I mean what I said, and I am talking about the old testament.

>>16695130
we did not get the memo until it was too late.

>>16695134
The Septuagint is a translation.

>>16695130
Why would people suddenly switch to speaking English even to their children at home, even assuming they are part of the sixth or so of the world population who speak English?

>>16695138
Don't respond to the troll.

besides English what else is there?

>>16695472
no, I'm talking about way earlier, when the thing they cal yhwh entered the lands of canaan's baal worshippers.
turns out this yhwh was some sort of extension of the greeks that supplanted their original gods.