My genuinely most. built one is probably albedo?? hes finally lvl 90 bc I want all my faves to be lvl 90, his talents are 7/9/9 and I plan on triple crowning him!! NOT. THE POINT BUT BASICALLY I WANT MY CHARACTERS TO START SOING A LIL MORE DMG it doesnt rven have to be crazy numbers I just want a lil more Power bc the numbers I see are making me cry actually (I dont rly care a lot abt dmg but I would like to have an easier time with domains and I'm too afraid to do random co-op and get bullied for my high ar, very little dmg numbers)

ANYWAY

Characters that are mainly used and I'm trying to build properly:

- Albedo

- Xiao

- Ayato

- Bennett

- Childe

- Kaeya

Bennett is a good healer, but not that good for those charas if C6, BUT his C6 is good for diluc, hu tao, and ayaka melt for example!!

u can use as a team

Xiao, Albedo, Bennett and Faruzam

Xiao as dps, Faruzam as Xiao's suport (helping with dmg), albedo is an amazing support and Benny as healer, you can see how to build on Keqing Mains website

in short:

Benny: 4pc crimson witch, needs atk and energy recharge

Albedo: 4pc husk of opulent dreams, def% sands; geo dms goblet; crit headpiece

for Xiao and Faruzam, there's a 40min guide on Zy0x YouTube channel (good luck)

(i am only going to add links)

Spanishpod101.com

Webspanish.com

Cervantes.to

Notesinspanish.com

Amautaspanish.com

Lengalia.com

Synergyspanish.com

Spanishdict.com

Studyspanish.com

Ilovelanguages.org

i will keep adding if i find more websites.

These are only sites and not yt channels or social media pages. Also these contain both free and paid sites.

Hi! I have a very short attention span, and I rarely find it in me to enjoy using only one resource to learn a language, so I often rely on immersion and actively using the language right from the beginning to learn languages. I’ve done this with pretty much all my languages, and it has worked out pretty well for me so far, especially with French! This is heavily inspired by this article on the medium, which changed my whole outlook on languages. I hope I can offer some helpful advice!

Starting off (A0 –> A2)

First of all, you’re going to have to set your goals in the language. What do you want to do in your target language? Do you want to be conversational or fully fluent? Do you want to focus on all the skills (reading, listening, writing, speaking), or only a couple? Which accent/dialect do you want to choose? Set your goals, and give yourself some habits to start sticking to.

In most cases, I would advice learning the alphabet and the pronunciation at first. For the alphabet, find a guide online and learn the stroke order. Keep on writing it over and over again. For languages like Mandarin Chinese or Japanese, where you have to memorise characters, try and memorise the most common characters. Also, find a pronunciation guide on YouTube or somewhere online, and immediately start working on it. Once you have a general idea of what the sounds are, start speaking and try to shadow natives (i.e. repeat what they say after them with the same intonation - you can do this with YouTube videos, or beginners exercises online).  To practice both of these at the same time, you can try reading out loud, and maybe try dictating what you hear sometimes.

Start listening to the language a lot. Try and listen to YouTube videos and podcasts, and get used to the sound of the language. You might even want to watch a TV show or anime in your target language with English subtitles. I’d also recommend reading and listening at the same time, so if you have subtitles in your target language, then that could be great too. The more exposed you are to the natural use of your target language, the less unintelligible they will seem. 

Memorise some basic vocabulary and phrases. There are loads of articles online that have basic vocabulary lists and phrases in different languages (there are even some on this website). Try memorising a few of them. In terms of what exactly you should learn vocab for, I would recommend learning vocab lists for these: numbers, subject pronouns, common greetings, the most common verbs (the first 100 should do) and their most common conjugations, days of the week, months, seasons, years, how to tell the time, how to talk about the weather, family, colours, house vocab, food, money and shopping phrases, common adjectives, common places,  adverbs, parts of the body and medical vocabulary (I got all of this from this post). It’s a lot, but it will give you a strong foundation. You can then start learning vocabulary for your interests specifically. You can do this using multiple methods. First, you could use flashcards, like anki, memrise and Quizlet. You could also play around with apps like Duolingo or Lingodeer. Also, you could write them down, and keep testing yourself on them until you have them memorised (both target language to english, and english to target language). Make sure that you have audio, and that you know how the word/phrase sounds, and the pronunciation.

Start speaking with someone online. I recommend apps like Tandem and HiNative. Start trying to have conversations of basic topics straight away, and make sure you get corrections. Look up the words as you go.

Memorise a few basic grammar structures. This is especially important for languages like Korean or Japanese, which have extremely different grammar structures to English. Learn basic present, past and future tenses, along with basic articles and determiners, agreement, reflexive verbs, basic particles, negation and gender.

Immerse. I would recommend starting off with posts and videos that offer advice about things, since the language used in these tend to be simplistic, but topic specific. You can also use apps like LingQ. When practicing listening and reading, you can use the advice in these two posts (listening, reading). Don’t memorise every word you come across, and slowly try to ease yourself in.

Making the leap to the intermediate stage (A2 –> B1)

Vocabulary: I’ve already talked about methods of memorising vocabulary earlier, so I won’t talk about it again. As for what you should be memorising, I would suggest basing it on your interests and topical issues. When you immerse, and come across certain interesting words, then memorise them. You can also explore the tag for your target language on tumblr, and try and memorise some of the in depth vocabulary lists on here.

Grammar: I would suggest finding a specification, or list of grammar structures for the intermediate level, and learn all of them using articles and youtube videos. Then, try and use the rules regularly in your speaking and writing and receive corrections. Also, do practice questions. 

Listening: I have gone in depth on how to practice listening in the post I mentioned earlier, so I won’t elaborate too much. Overall, I’d say that it is better to make sure that you are listening to the language a lot, and that what you are listening to is comprehensible input. 

Reading: Find some learners exercises online, and keep doing them. You can also just generally try to read more, based on your interests. I would also suggest to apply the methods from the post I mentioned earlier.

Writing: Try and write a few sentences every now and then, and use your new grammar structures and vocabulary as much as possible. Make sure that you receive corrections. I have gone in depth on this subject in this post.

Speaking: Find a speaking buddy online, and try and organise meetings, where you just try and practice speaking. Look up words you don’t know, and be brave: most people are kind, and won’t mind if you make mistakes, so keep trying to move forward.

Going from intermediate to conversational (B1 –> B2)

Vocabulary: Focus on your interests, and areas that will be useful to you. Make sure that you actually use the words that you are memorising while writing and speaking. 

Grammar: I think the same advice as the beginner to intermediate stage is applicable here.

Listening: Listen to both intermediate podcasts and YouTube videos in the target language (innovative languages, iyagi, dreaming spanish, a piece of french, InnerFrench etc.), and also to native material (youtube videos, films, TV shows, vines, tiktoks etc.) that you find interesting. Use transcripts or subtitles (in the target language) to memorise new vocabulary, and then keep repeating the audio until you understand everything. 

Reading: Read whatever you can get your hands on, as long as it is reasonably simple enough. I would recommend kids books, and also translations of books that you have already read in your target language.

Writing: Try starting a journal in your target language, and also try writing letters/e-mails to people, and maybe write some essays on topical issues. Once again, make sure that you get corrections. 

Speaking: Continue having conversations with people in your target language. Let yourself make mistakes and be corrected, because that is the only way to improve. For your accent and pronunciation, shadow native material (I use Easy Languages for this). 

Hi! I've been teaching foreign languages to children for two years and a half now. Here are more tips I learnt by observing the way my pupils overcome their difficulties :

Repetition is more important than quantity. You'll get much more results by practicing your target language for 10 minutes a day, everyday, than by working 30 minutes every three days.

If you're only beginning to learn a new language, watching movies in your target language may not help you very much. It can be easier to start by learning songs in your target language. Grammatical structures tend to be simpler and choruses are repeated several times, so they're easier to remember. Similarly, a melody helps the brain to retain vocabulary.

Kid books are amazing! When it comes to learning a new language, your brain's a baby. It retains vocabulary better when pictures and humor are involved.

Once you start mastering basic structures and vocabulary, try to find a book that you have already read in your target language. It'll be easier to translate when you already have an idea what you're reading about. It doesn't need to be 100% new for your brain to learn new vocab, grammar rules and conjugation.

I find it super hard to find the content to consume but one thing that works quite well on youtube:

searching "interview with" in the language you're learning (as in: "Interview mit" (for german), "interview met" (for dutch), "interview avec" (for french), ...

Pros:

You learn about the coolest/craziest/weirdest people

You get to know who's trendy in the country right now (like singers, politicians, etc) as well as what topic

The videos are typically posted by target-language channels (I for example found out about "vice nederlands" through an interview with the dutch singer Froukje)

Typically, interviews are done with quite interesting topics/people AND they're 10-20min long (thus not overbearing)

Many have subtitles!

Invent ways to use the subjunctive instead of avoiding it - The subjunctive mood is a big part of the Spanish language, and using it, especially in writing, is the key to sounding more spanishy when speaking. See, for native English speakers, we don’t have a unique subjunctive in the way Spanish does, and so, it’s not exactly second nature to conjugate in a whole new mood in certain situations. You hear a lot of Spanish teachers showing you ways you can avoid the subjunctive (if you must), but avoidance of the subjunctive is gonna slow you down in the long-run. Try intentionally writing with subjunctive triggers to practice the subjunctive, so it’ll become easy and less intimidating after time. Don’t worry about misspellings too much - that’s all part of the learning process!

Choose an accent (or a few) to help with your pronunciation and speaking style - Every country and region has their own Spanish i.e. Mexican Spanish sounds different from Puerto Rican Spanish from Castilian Spanish, and so on. Choosing a certain Spanish accent to help guide you when speaking is really helpful. For me, the majority of content I’ve consumed since I was a kid in Spanish has been Puerto Rican (shows, celebrities, music, etc). So when I speak, it was easier for me to sort of latch on to the way Puerto Ricans speak to help guide my pronunciation, my flow. It also helped that I knew a few Puerto Rican teachers. There’s no one single “proper” Spanish you necessarily have to imitate to be proficient.

Try using grammar structures in writing - Yes, it's true, Spanish grammar can be really complex. But, on the brighter side of things, you'll be able to show off your mastery of the language the more you demonstrate your ability to use grammatical structures in your writing, especially in formal writing, like in letters and essays. Try learning how to use these structures, for example:

- no sólo ... sino también, to say "not only [factor x] but also [factor y]"

- present tense + future tense for realistic propositions