Duolingoโs been in the news for going all AI. Of course, if AI is your bag, thatโs cool. But if youโre interested in learning language from resources made by real native speakers and humansโฆ
Here are some suggestionsโฆ
Speaking/Listening
-Innovative Language (known for JapanesePod101, koreanclass101, spanishpod101 and their collection of 30+ language programs - teaches languages through conversations (you listen to a convo between two native speakers and then get it explained). Lessons are about 5โ10 min on average in audio/video format https://www.innovativelanguage.com/online-language-courses
Pimsleur - similar approach as above but lessons are longer - 30 min and audio only - https://www.pimsleur.com
Reading
LingQ - learn by reading native content and breaking down the words inside. https://www.lingq.com/en/
ReadLang - a browser based tool that translates articles and books you read. https://readlang.com
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
โ Live Streamingโ Interactive Chatโ Private Showsโ HD Qualityโ Free Actions
Free to watch โข No registration required โข HD streaming
iโm fucking hyped byย BTS on vogueโs channel teaching korean words becauseย
1) not only were they actually going through more extended vocabulary and helpful figure of speech anecdotes than i expected going into that video (but letโs be honest, namjoon - he hosted the interview - never underdelivers on knowledge of any kind, iโm just surprised the format didnโt keep it superficial or predictable like we often see with that type of content, so props to the vogue team and everyone who made this, we need a whole series of it)ย
but also
2) yoongi all humming and drumming and giving little commentaries has healed my brain because how can someone talk in such a subterranean frequency. heโs sitting there all still, chic & pretty and suddenly the bass is boomingย
I havenโt been really active lately but I came across something I wanted to share.
Itโs a free language learning app called Lingo Legend, and Iโm honestly a bit surprised by how much Iโm enjoying it.
Itโs basically just a vocab game where youโre a farmhand. The game is split between working on your farm and going on adventures.
You can choose what theme of vocab โ though it doesnโt seem to be possible to put in your own โ and set the pace you wish to play. Thereโs a daily energy limit, which you can refill by watching ads but there are no ad interruptions.
Supported languages are:
French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Dutch, German, Italian and Portuguese.
Maybe Iโm just late to the party and everyone already knows about it but I rarely see it talked about.
~์ง๋ค is added to adjective verbs to mean something became this way.
It is the difference between (1) the weather is nice and (2) the weather became nice.
It attaches to adjectives, not action verbs.
Conjugate the verb to the ์ form, remove ์, and add ~์ง๋ค. Any tense or form changes need to be made to ~์ง๋ค only.
์:
์ฌ๋ฏธ์๋ค โ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์ ์ด์ง๋ค โ โto become funโ
์ถฅ๋ค โ ์ถ ์์ง๋ค โ โto become coldโ
ํธํ๋ค โ ํธํด์ง๋ค โ โto become comfortableโ
Various tense/form examples (not comprehensive):
Present (change in progress or a change happening now)
๋ฐ๋ปํ๋ค โ ๋ฐ๋ปํด์ ธ์ = becomes warm
์กฐ์ฉํ๋ค โ ์กฐ์ฉํด์ ธ์ = becomes quiet
*In English, we wouldnโt say "it becomes quiet" in this sense. We would say something like "it is becoming quiet" or "it has become quiet (just now)." Really, the present tense direct English translation is a bit off. When in doubt, it is usually the past tense that makes the most sense if you are trying to talk about a change.
Past (Change is completed)
๋ฐ๋ค โ ๋ฐ์์ก์ด์ = became bright
๋ง๋ค --> ๋ง์์ก์ด์ = increased
Future
์์๋ค --> ์๋ป์ง ๊ฑฐ์์ = will become pretty
๋ถ๋๋ฝ๋ค โ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์์ง ๊ฑฐ์์ = will become soft
Progressive
๊ฐํ๋ค โ ๊ฐํด์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ = is becoming strong
๋ง์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์ = is increasing
Intention / plan
์๋ป์ง๋ ค๊ณ ํด์ = trying to become prettier
๋น ๋ฅด๋ค โ ๋นจ๋ผ์ง๋ ค๊ณ ํด์ = trying to become fast
Probable / guess / "I think..."
์๋ป์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ = It seems like sheโll become prettier
๋ง์์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ = It seems like it will increase
Desire
์๋ป์ง๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ = I want to become pretty
ํธํด์ง๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ = I want to become comfortable (FYI ๋ง๋ค is a bit odd in this form, that is why this is a different verb)
๋ฐฉ์ด ์กฐ์ฉํด์ ธ์.
The room is becoming quiet.
๊ธธ์ด ๋งํ์ ๋๋ก๊ฐ ๋ณต์กํด์ก์ด์.
Because of traffic, the road became crowded.
ํ๋์ด ์ด๋์์ง๊ณ ์์ด์.
The sky is getting dark.
์์ฆ ํ๊ตญ์ด๊ฐ ์กฐ๊ธ ์ฌ์์ก์ด์.
These days, Korean has become a little easier.
์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ด ๋ ์น์ ํด์ก์ด์.
My friends became kinder.
*Sometimes ~์ง๋ค is added to active verbs to make them passive, but that is a different grammar point. ๐ญ
Copy and paste into a document to save/annotate your own copy. Also, feel free to practice in the comments (or point out any inaccuracies)! Weโre all learning here.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
โ Live Streamingโ Interactive Chatโ Private Showsโ HD Qualityโ Free Actions
Free to watch โข No registration required โข HD streaming
language learning is such a personal thing that there is no โrightโ or โwrongโ way of doing it. itโs whatever works on bringing YOU closer to YOUR goal.
you want to watch tv shows but donโt really care for speaking with others? yay!! no speaking practice needed.
you want to learn quickly for an upcoming trip? yay! text book phrases and simple grammar.
youโre a beginner and itโs been 10 years? 2 weeks? 6 months? it doesnโt matter. as long as you are working towards bringing YOURSELF closer to what YOU want to achieve, you have succeeded: you are succeeding; you are doing great.
i find that so much demotivation comes from comparison and/or trying to follow other's advice too closely. if anki decks don't work for you, that's fine! if duolingo works well for you, then use it!
this language learning thing, it should be enjoyed. in the sea full of deceptive polyglot stories and videos on top of videos attempting to understand how to learn languages in "the fastest way possible" sometimes we should sit back and ask ourselves, "when is just learning things, enough"?
with that i hope you all continue working towards your dreams! whether you want to become a translator or just watch a few more movies in your target language, you can do it. i know you have it in you.
