A D V E N T U R E S

Hello! A lot of you have been asking me where and how I’ve learn multiple languages and well, after a few hours of digging through my browser history and bookmarks, I was able to collect all of these resources. I have personally used all of these, so I can assure you they are useful! If there is something wrong with a website or a link, please let me know. Also, if you have any questions or if you want a learning buddy, my ask box is open. (I speak English and Spanish. I’m learning Korean, German, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, and Esperanto)

Note: Learning a new language requires a lot of dedication, more than you actually think! Especially if you’re learning multiple languages at the same time. It isn’t impossible, but it will take time. And by time I mean months and/or years! So please, be patient. Take your time. Don’t rush. Keep in mind that you will mess up and that’s okay. Practice as much as you can. Practice out loud. Talk to yourself if you can. It doesn’t matter if people think you’re crazy. They won’t be thinking the same when you become a polyglot, so don’t mind them. This is for you and your future.

Get started:

Everything listed below is FREE! Some sites do require you to sign up, but that’s for you to keep track of your own process.

Tips to get you started

Language Hacking tips (blog)

More language hacking tips (blog)

The Polyglot Project (Library with foreign books that lets you translate while reading)

How to Learn Any Language

Effective Language Learning

Ankidroid (flashcard maker)

Multiple languages, one website

Duolingo (Latin American Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Ukrainian, and Esperanto)

BBC Languages (40 languages)

Learn A Language (18 languages)

Conjuguemos (French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish)

L-lingo (21 languages)

101languages (167 languages)

Languagepod101 (31 languages)

Foreign Services Institute (44 languages)

My Languages (95 languages)

Surface Languages (43 languages)

Lingualia (Spanish)

Linguanaut (16 languages)

OmniGlot (All languages [basic info for some of them])

Memrise (Various languages) (flashcard system)

Livemocha (Various languages)

Polyglotclub

Sharedtalk

Interpals (specify in your profile you only look for language exchange because there can be some creeps in this one)

Couchsurfing

Babbel

Specific Languages

Korean:

Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes! - Really helpful as well

Learnkoreanlp - Focuses on grammar

k-is4korean

Talktomeinkorean

Learn-korean

korean-flashcards - Focuses on vocabulary

Easytolearnkorean

Korean.go.kr/ - Focuses on pronunciation

Lang-8 - Community to correct your entries

Dongsa - Conjugations for verbs

Howtostudykorean- EXTREMELY helpful when it comes to learning hangul and writing structure!

hangulpractice - This blog has some useful posts.

letstteok-korean

Talktomeinkorea (YouTube channel)

fluentkorean

sweetandtasty

seoulistic - For culture lessons

GenkiKorean

Korean Word Game

English-Korean Vocabulary Quizzes

Hangul Keyboard - This is also EXTREMELY helpful with Hangul/romanization. It also converts any romanized syllables into hangul

Korean - Reddit threat

Chinese/Mandarin:

Hackingchinese

Chinese-tools - Pretty helpful with pronunciation.

Chinese Open courseware

Chinese Language - Reddit threat

Chinese Textbook

Chineasy

Learn Mandarin

Chinese Hacks

yoyochinese

How can I learn Chinese

Why is Chinese so damn hard?

Japanese:

Learn Japanese I / II - YouTube

Guidetojapanese

Free Japanese lesson

Japaneseclass.jp

thejapanesepage

Japanesepod101

Tofugu

Erin’s Challenge!

Jplang

Yesjapan

Marugoto - Includes culture lessons

Kana Invaders - Fun game for learning Kana

Another great masterpost for Japanese - So many resources!!!

Esperanto:

Note: I did a research and supposedly Esperanto is an easy-to-learn language that helps you with other languages.

Esperantofre

Esperanto “library”

Esperanto Grammar

Esperanto (Duolingo)

German:

Learn German Online

German Language Guide

Mission Berlin - Mystery adventure game

Basic German

Deutsch Lernen

Slow German

Kids’ Games - For vocabulary

Italian:

MIT Open Courseware

Italian Language Guide

Italian Grammar

Italian For Beginners - YouTube

Latin:

Some Latin grammar

Latin Course - YouTube

Portuguese:

Oneness

Ta Falado

Portuguese (Duolingo)

French:

Learn French Guide

Coffee Break French

University of Texas: Francais interactif

Podcastfrancaisfacile

French Language Guide

Lingopolo/french

Le Journal en français facile

News in Slow French

Francolab

Cliffs Notes

Native French Speech

French Podcast

Spanish:

Spanish - About.com

@spanishskulduggery

Study Spanish

Cliffs Notes

Destinos

One Minute Spanish

One Minute Spanish (Latin America focused)

Thai:

Learn Thai Podcast

Woman Learn Thai

Let’s Talk Thai

Thai 101

Lingopolo/thai

Arabic:

Books to Learn Arabic

Mandinah Arabic

Arabic Verbs (PDF)

al3arabiya

Arabic Pronouns (PDF)

Arabic Alphabet / Also Here / And Here!

Arabic For Language Exchange

Peace Corps

Hindi:

A Door Into Hindi

Learning Hindi

NYU Hindi Course

Quillpad - Great for typing

Namaste Dosti

SU Hindi Course

ispeakhindi

Hindi Script

Vietnamese:

VietnamesePod101

Survival Phrases

seasite.niu.edu

Learn Vietnamese Online

Greek:

Some Greek Grammar (New Testament)

Romanian:

Rolang

One Minute Romanian

Welsh:

Say Something in Welsh

Welsh Vocab

Dutch:

Lingopolo/dutch

Learn Dutch

Russian:

Speak Russian

Russian Alphabet

Taste of Russian

Master Russian

Russian Open Courseware

Russian Handwriting

Swedish:

Klartext

SwedishLingQ

Survival Phrases

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lundi, 5 mars; 16.25

I found this quote browsing, and as I had an extra page, had to jot it down. I’m actually really happy as to how it turned out, looking messy and stuff. I like it

It’s bizarre how at 6.32, the world seems so hard to enter, how unwilling my brain, and my eyes are to accept the new day. But only 9 minutes later, at 6.41, I’m ready to jump straight in and start the day with full force. Perhaps if I had fallen asleep only 9 minutes earlier, I would have been fine. 

Nonetheless, the morning was accomplished as expected, with slight change however, the morning study session was replaced with a “registering for classes” session which went smoothly, and resulted in a free tote bag. 

Then, despite my best efforts, the homework for tomorrow was submitted, but the assignment for next week was not started.

An unexpected phone call from a classmate, letting me know of a simulator lab half hour later really messed up any plans, however slight they were. 

Lunch was had, at 3, but no memories remain, as my brain has turned to mush, somehow exhausted from the day or sitting around. 

For the rest of the day, languages remain on the horizon. Norwegian on duolingo, Italian on Rosetta stone. Then french class. 

03.08.2017

First, remember that everyone is different, so study tips that work for me might not work for you! It’s important to mix and match other people’s tips until you find a set that works for you. If something sounds like it might work, try it! If it doesn’t, try something else!

1. Make not studying impossible: I struggle a lot with staying away from twitter and tumblr. The Forest app is quite well-known by now, but I recently discovered that it also has a chrome extension! I use the app and extension at the same time so that there’s only one thing I can do: study!

2. Divide what you’re doing in smaller pieces: this is so important you guys. Summarising twenty pages seems really difficult, but summarising a five-line paragraph doesn’t. Divide and conquer y’all, divide and conquer. Five lines done is five lines closer to being finished.

3. Remember you’re choosing: this is obviously a lot easier said than done when you just can’t focus (we’ve all been there), but when you’ve been scrolling so long that you’re refreshing one post at a time, you’re not even enjoying yourself. So, make the conscious choice to study, even if it’s just for 10 minutes, and think about what you can do after you’re done! Read a chapter of that book, watch an episode of that cool new show! These are things that you won’t have time for if you keep hanging in that not-studying-not-having-a-good-time-either-limbo! pick one!

4. If you can’t focus, do something else: sometimes I just keep staring at a paragraph for half an hour because it just. won’t. get. into. my. brain. If this happens, just skip it! Make it very clear that you’re not done with that part yet, but just start on the next one. It’s no use staring and crying until it’s 3am and you hate yourself.

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El Presente

To be used when currently doing the activity

AR                                ER                           IR

o                                    o                                o as                                  es                              es a                                    e                                e amos                             emos                        imos áis                                 éis                             ís an                                  en                             en

Common Verbs, Irregulars and Stem Changers

·       SER; soy, eres, es, somos, sois, son

·       ESTAR; estoy, estás, está, estamos, estáis, estan

·       IR; voy, vas, va, vamos, vais, van

·       HACER; hago, haces, hace, hacemos, hacéis, hacen

·       TENER; tengo, tienes, tiene, tenemos, tenéis, tienen

e.g. I speak       Hablo

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El Pretério

To be used the same as English simple past; ‘ed’

AR                            ER                           IR

é                                   í                                í aste                              iste                           iste ó                                   ío                              ió amos                            imos                         imos asteis                           isteis                         isteis aron                              ieron                         ieron

Common Verbs, Irregulars and Stem Changers

·       SER; fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fuisteis, fueron

·       ESTAR; estuve, estuviste, estuvo, estuvimos, estuvisteis, estuvieron

·       IR; fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fuisteis, fueron

·       HACER; hice, hiciste, hizo, hicimos, hicisteis, hicieron

·       TENER; tuve, tuviste, tuvo, tuvimos, tuvisteis, tuvieron

e.g. I spoke      Hablé

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El Imperfecto

To talk about something that ‘was’ happening

AR                                ER                           IR

aba                                ía                                ía abas                              ías                              ías aba                                ía                               ía ábamos                         íamos                        íamos abais                              íais                            íais aban                               ían                            ían

Common Verbs, Irregulars and Stem Changers

·       SER; era, eras, era, éramos, erais, eran

·       IR; iba, ibas, iba, ibamos, ibais, iban

·       VER; veía, veías, veía, veíamos, veíais, veían

e.g. I was speaking        Hablaba

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El Perfecto

To talk about something that has happened/ Can also be used to say I have just…

1) Use the present tense of HABER (to have)

HABER he has ha hemos habéis han

2) Form the past participle

AR-ADO     ER-IDO     IR-IDO

3) Place together

e.g. I have (just) spoken       He Hablado

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El Pluscuamperfecto

To talk about something that had happened

1) Use the imperfect tense of HABER (to have)

HABER había habías había habíamos habíais habían

2) Form the past participle

AR-ADO     ER-IDO     IR-IDO

3) Place together

e.g. I had spoken       Había Hablado

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El Futuro

to say I am going to…

1.     Use the verb IR (to go) ; voy, vas, va, vamos, vais, van

2.     Follow it with an ‘a’

3.     Use an infinitive e.g. Hablar (to speak)

e.g. I am going to speak        Voy a hablar

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El Futuro

to say I will…

*These are added on to the infinitive*

AR/ER/IR

é ás á emos éis án

Common Stem Changers

·       HACER-Har+

·       TENER-Tendr+

e.g. I will speak      Hablaré

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El Condicional

to say I would…

*These are added on to the infinitive*

AR/ER/IR

ía ías ía íamos íais ían

Common Stem Changers

·       HACER-Har+

·       TENER-Tendr+

e.g. I could speak       Hablaría