A Second Soul

Credit to @japanese_with_josh

Finally back to chewing some Japanese again! 😎🇯🇵

[Chuuya doesn't seem happy to be used as example. ごめん, Chuuya.]

//That's difference! シ look a bit like し

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Something that helped me a TON with learning Kana was having my lock screen be a chart for either Hiragana or Katakana. Having the repetition of looking at the chart over and over will lock the information deeper into your consciousness. It’s a simple trick that gives you a little extra push to your existing routine.

I tried finding lock screen wallpapers for the kana charts online, but I didn’t find any that I liked that were clean, bold, or fit my lock screen well.

So I made my own!

I know it’s nothing special, but I figured I’d share incase anyone wants it.

While I’ve always been more of a textbook kinda girl myself, I do have a folder on my phone of language learning apps, so I thought I’d share some of my favourites with you all! These are mainly with Japanese or Korean in mind since that’s what I’m learning, but some of them are available for other languages too! I’m thinking of doing a more in depth video review of some of these apps, so if that’s something you’d be interested in let me know! Links included, faves are in bold.

Mondly

Set up kinda like Duolingo with the different topics and lessons, it has over 30 languages available. It also has a desktop version. There’s a wide range of topics covered and every day there is a new daily lesson with weekly and monthly tests, and you can add friends to ‘compete’ against in the leaderboard, lots of competitive fun if you ask me

Memrise

I’m pretty sure you all know this one. It’s like virtual flashcards, and there are sooooo many courses to choose from, not just languages. Personally I use this for vocab a lot, again you can add friends to make learning a little less lonely

HelloTalk

Super easy way to meet native speakers. You can chat to people directly or make ‘moments’ for people to correct and respond to. There are some great built in features too like a dictionary, text to audio and audio to text converters.

LingoDeer

A good app if you’re learning Japanese, Chinese or Korean, or all three. Easy to follow along with and has quite a lot of content to cover. It starts with kana/hangul so is great for complete beginners. Grammar explanations are good for each lesson. There’s also a kind of revision test feature which is ok but not my favourite personally

ChineseSkill

This is only for Chinese but it’s a great little app imo. It’s basically the same as Lingodeer in terms of content and layout but it’s more colourful and I prefer the revision games in this app. If you’re looking for an app just for Chinese I’d recommend this one over LingoDeer tbh

Jsho

The same thing as Jisho.org but as an app (idk if it’s “official” tho) Really useful if you just wanna look up a word or kanji, I use this app pretty much everyday

Beelinguapp

English - Xhosa - Zulu

Bird - Intaka - Inyoni

Cat - Ikati - Ikati

Cow - Imazi - Inkomazi

Dog - Inja - Inja

Elephant - Indlovu - Indlovu

Fish - Intlanzi - Inhlanzi

Horse - Ihanshe - Ihhashi

Pig - Ihagu - Ingulube

Rabbit - Umvundla - Unogwaja

Sheep - Igusha - Imvu

Edit- I added the visualizer for this piece on my YT, check it out here

Hyplern

Language Crush

Readlang

Vocab Tracker

(these posts are not my own!)

THE HOLY GRAIL of language learning (-> seriously tho, this is the BEST thing I’ve ever come across)

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Tips on how to read in your target language for longer periods of time

Tips and inspiration from Fluent in 3 months by Benny Lewis

Tips for learning a sign language

Tips for relearning your second first language

How to:

how to self teach a new language

learning a language: how to

learning languages and how to make it fun

how to study languages

how to practice speaking in a foreign language

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how to make a schedule for language learning

How to keep track of learning more than one language at the same time

Masterposts:

Language Study Master Post

Swedish Resources Masterpost

French Resouces Masterpost

Italian Resources Masterpost

Resource List for Learning German

Challenges:

Language-Sanctuary Langblr Challenge

language learning checkerboard challenge

Word lists:

2+ months of language learning prompts

list of words you need to know in your target language, in 3 levels

Other stuff:

bullet journal dedicated to language learning

over 400 language related youtube channels in 50+ languages

TED talks about language (learning)

Learning the Alien Languages of Star Trek

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