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[dimodamo]

That's so ass backwards to me. I would think someone would need to be able to vocalize certain vowels of a language in order to be able to communicate with written language.
For me I only speak English and couldn't imagine writing a paragraph in French. Let alone be fluent in it.
Did you learn via using translators?

It's not that complicated, once you hear and read a language enough (be trough movies, videos, games, books, webpages, etc), you should be able to understand it and even write it with some practice, the worst part is speak it, specially if NO ONE ELSE in your surroundings speaks it either (my case).

 

[Jack Of Blades]

Dang I hope the ATF refugees doesn't become a burden to everyone especially the mods.

Btw thanks a lot for really looking out for me, you really did help

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That's mad, do you have any countermeasures if by any chance they returned?

yes lol a lot.

 

[Redyscom]

That's so ass backwards to me. I would think someone would need to be able to vocalize certain vowels of a language in order to be able to communicate with written language.
For me I only speak English and couldn't imagine writing a paragraph in French. Let alone be fluent in it.
Did you learn via using translators?

I learned the basics in school. The rest was all practice through visual novels, manga in English, and playing online with English-speaking clans.

It's much easier to read than to write, and easier to write than to speak. For me, English is... terrible. Most likely because my native language is different, but the fact that vowels sound different in different words without any rules or logic drives me crazy. English has too many exceptions to its grammar rules. Like irregular verbs, pronunciations, and the use of the letter H.

So basically, I learned that you can’t learn English by studying—it’s memorization through practice.

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for the record just to prove that it wasnt a (im overreacting)

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Such a nasty little pest.

 

[Yamirus]

I learned the basics in school. The rest was all practice through visual novels, manga in English, and playing online with English-speaking clans.

Same dude, I might have bad grammar and pronounciation, but among the people around me, my English is like the best somehow, which proves that practice does it better than education.

I also have a friend on steam, English wasn't even his main language, but he had better grammar than me, the skill gap between online and irl is high.

 

[Catchetail]

for the record just to prove that it wasnt a (im overreacting)

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That's so crazy!

 

[MeatDagger]

I learned the basics in school. The rest was all practice through visual novels, manga in English, and playing online with English-speaking clans.

It's much easier to read than to write, and easier to write than to speak. For me, English is... terrible. Most likely because my native language is different, but the fact that vowels sound different in different words without any rules or logic drives me crazy. English has too many exceptions to its grammar rules. Like irregular verbs, pronunciations, and the use of the letter H.

So basically, I learned that you can’t learn English by studying—it’s memorization through practice.

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Such a nasty little pest.

I have heard before that English is the hardest language to learn.

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Damn. I've come to realize I've pretty much played every visual novel or game within my general interests. That I'm aware of. I go to recommendations and pretty much see the same old. I wish there was a way to select individual tags for a search query just to weed out the bleh out of the like 350 pages in the regular game list. Seems I've played the majority of the plus games before I started being social around here.

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It's not that complicated, once you hear and read a language enough (be trough movies, videos, games, books, webpages, etc), you should be able to understand it and even write it with some practice, the worst part is speak it, specially if NO ONE ELSE in your surroundings speaks it either (my case).

Someone told me that if I ever wanted to try to learn a new language to just watch kids shows like sesame street etc. in that language.

 

[Gappedcombo]

I have heard before that English is the hardest language to learn.

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Damn. I've come to realize I've pretty much played every visual novel or game within my general interests. That I'm aware of. I go to recommendations and pretty much see the same old. I wish there was a way to select individual tags for a search query just to weed out the bleh out of the like 350 pages in the regular game list. Seems I've played the majority of the plus games before I started being social around here.

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Someone told me that if I ever wanted to try to learn a new language to just watch kids shows like sesame street etc. in that language.

It's a shame how propaganda laden sesame street always was...but it didn't really matter, everyone knows the cookie monsters was the real top draw, not Elmo.

 

[MaxDongus]

It's a shame how propaganda laden sesame street always was...but it didn't really matter, everyone knows the cookie monsters was the real top draw, not Elmo.

Man, Grover is right there. And Elmo can be stone cold.

 

[MeatDagger]

It's a shame how propaganda laden sesame street always was...but it didn't really matter, everyone knows the cookie monsters was the real top draw, not Elmo.

I guess. I'm a little too old to care about the characters these days. But you be you man! sorry
Is that shit still airing these days? I bet it's just filled with political agendas more than anything. When I was a kid it was it seemed innocent. But the 90s were a different time.

 

[Miixi]

I joined a few months ago but I wasn't expecting things to just fall apart all at once on multiple sites. Just wild that things are happening so fast.

 

[dimodamo]

I have heard before that English is the hardest language to learn.

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Damn. I've come to realize I've pretty much played every visual novel or game within my general interests. That I'm aware of. I go to recommendations and pretty much see the same old. I wish there was a way to select individual tags for a search query just to weed out the bleh out of the like 350 pages in the regular game list. Seems I've played the majority of the plus games before I started being social around here.

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Someone told me that if I ever wanted to try to learn a new language to just watch kids shows like sesame street etc. in that language.

Yeah, it's all about exposure and training your ears and brain.

Back then I had a pretty good english teacher in middle school, but really put the practice playing snes rpgs, my first one ,if I remember right, being final fantasy VI, wich I played through, dictionary in hand, until I finished it. Then, when we got our own internet connection, I listened God knows how many let's plays and commentaries.

At some point, you stop translating to english in your mind, and instead you just start thinking in english, making reading, writing and listening a lot easier.

 

[FapBastion]

Man, Grover is right there. And Elmo can be stone cold.

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[MeatDagger]

Man, Grover is right there. And Elmo can be stone cold.

Hmm... Incestuous panda orgies, dead grandmother's, gambling, grammar and now sesame street. I think I like it here

 

[Yamirus]

Hmm... Incestuous panda orgies, dead grandmother's, gambling, grammar and now sesame street. I think I like it here

We like it here, I wonder how far can the topics go here

 

[MeatDagger]

I joined a few months ago but I wasn't expecting things to just fall apart all at once on multiple sites. Just wild that things are happening so fast.

The whole worlds been falling apart since COVID.

 

[Yamirus]

I have heard before that English is the hardest language to learn.

I believe as long as the language doesn't have new alphabets, it is still leasy to learn, skill ceiling might be different tho

 

[FapBastion]

I believe as long as the language doesn't have new alphabets, it is still leasy to learn, skill ceiling might be different tho

It's probably also the case with plenty of other languages, but english has so many arbitrary exceptions to the established linguistic rules that is becomes insanely confusing to even native speakers. And that's before you get to British vs. American, which is an entire can of worms on it's own.

 

[Miixi]

It's mostly the sheer amount of words, spelt the same but mean entirely different things, sound the same but spelt differently, and then slang, modifications of words, shortening the words and abbreviations that can be considered very difficult to learn.

 

[Yamirus]

It's probably also the case with plenty of other languages, but english has so many arbitrary exceptions to the established linguistic rules that is becomes insanely confusing to even native speakers. And that's before you get to British vs. American, which is an entire can of worms on it's own.

This alone is quite advanced, glad I understand tho, I see your point, it is rather hard to master while learning the surface level is easy

 

[FapBastion]

It's mostly the sheer amount of words, spelt the same but mean entirely different things, sound the same but spelt differently, and then slang, modifications of words, shortening the words and abbreviations that can be considered very difficult to learn.

Throw contractions into the mix if you really want an aneurysm, fuckin there, their, and they're can fuck anyone up if *they're* not paying super close attention.

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Jesus fuck this thread is moving fast now, I looked away for a couple of hours and it has almost 10 new pages