[Slow Ben]

worry, on 16 April 2018 - 01:17 AM, said:

I don't know any languages =/.

Ibay on'tday elievebay datbay.

[Zetubal]

Dolmen 2.0, on 16 April 2018 - 11:56 AM, said:

I'm gonna put Cause's Japanese in as a placeholder. If a Native speaker has an issue with it we can adjust!

Not a native speaker myself, but an alternative way of saying that would be "Watashi wa malazan empire no shousetsu o jyusatsu yonda/yomimashita". Cause is right, in Japanese many factors determine which counters you're supposed to use. Books, or rather "bound objects" have their own proper counters, and ten of those would be "jyusatsu". Also, I would suggest using "shousetsu" which is the Japanese word for novel. Typically, in sentences like this the counter latches onto the verb and comes after the verb particle (the "o" before jyusatsu).

[Gryllen]

My native language is Estonian. It has same roots as aforementioned Finnish and they are closest to each other in Finno-Ugric group. I can also understand Võro (or Southern-Estonian) language/dialect that is older and more archaic than official state language that is based on Northern Estonian dialects.
In school I was exposed to English and Russian languages. First one really didn't take off until I started to read in English as the books from the genre of my choice (fantasy/sci-fi) don't see as much translation to Estonian as i'd like. With russian I can read and understand basics but without further practice my knowledge of it is very limited.


Est: Tere, minu nimi on Gryllen ja ma olen selle sarja kõik kümme raamatut läbi lugenud.

[Macros]

If you are not connected on Facebook, yet know a friend's username on Memrise, you can find them typing the following URL in your address bar:

https://www.memrise....r/theirusername

[Macros]

but yah, adding on the phone is hella easy

ETA - I see you have OVER 9000 points today Dol, challenge accepted, soon all your bases will belong to us

This post has been edited by Macros: 16 April 2018 - 05:57 PM

[Macros]

bah, I was catching you then you went and hit 13k for the day. my internet is being shitty again and the learn with locals videos are taking forever to load so you win............this time

[Dolmen 2.0]

Macros, on 16 April 2018 - 05:56 PM, said:

but yah, adding on the phone is hella easy

ETA - I see you have OVER 9000 points today Dol, challenge accepted, soon all your bases will belong to us

heh, I cheated and did a quick color theory course. It was good.

Memrise is a lot more challenging than I remember it. I was scrambling with Katakana. might need to do a few refreshers...

Also Welcome in Japanese is youkoso! I have always wondered what it meant when watching anime.

[Dolmen 2.0]

Gryllen, on 16 April 2018 - 04:18 PM, said:

My native language is Estonian. It has same roots as aforementioned Finnish and they are closest to each other in Finno-Ugric group. I can also understand Võro (or Southern-Estonian) language/dialect that is older and more archaic than official state language that is based on Northern Estonian dialects.
In school I was exposed to English and Russian languages. First one really didn't take off until I started to read in English as the books from the genre of my choice (fantasy/sci-fi) don't see as much translation to Estonian as i'd like. With russian I can read and understand basics but without further practice my knowledge of it is very limited.


Est: Tere, minu nimi on Gryllen ja ma olen selle sarja kõik kümme raamatut läbi lugenud.

Hey Gryllen, thanks for adding to this!


So Estonian and Finnish are rooted together. Can you maybe share what the words mean individually? for example which word is a book or a series? I am guessing...kümme?

Sorry to bother you but I am really interested in how Scandinavian languages relate. I was shocked to hear a Norwegian talk to a Swede in passable Dutch the other day.

I refuse to believe that's normal but they say the switch is super easy.

[Macros]

Website/app that sort of gameifies language learning

[Dolmen 2.0]

Macros, on 17 April 2018 - 04:49 AM, said:

Website/app that sort of gameifies language learning

...among other things. Mostly free although you get a bigger benefit from pay packages.

Gamifying learning makes it tons of fun, for example, I am thoroughly kickings Mac's ass this week.

The Top 3 using this method in no particular order are:

Memrise
Duolingo
Busuu

[Macros]

Haven't tried busuu, found Duolingo to be fun but felt that memrise offers more on the website side by way of grammatical corrections and the like.

I probably would struggle to go back to duo now especially as I dropped off it at the early beginner stages, which I don't want to wade through again.

I've considered jumping on duo for French and seeing how they compare that way and keeping memrise for German.

[Cause]

explain memrise to me?

[Dolmen 2.0]

Macros, on 17 April 2018 - 08:31 AM, said:

Haven't tried busuu, found Duolingo to be fun but felt that memrise offers more on the website side by way of grammatical corrections and the like.

I probably would struggle to go back to duo now especially as I dropped off it at the early beginner stages, which I don't want to wade through again.

I've considered jumping on duo for French and seeing how they compare that way and keeping memrise for German.

I did quite a bit on Duo before getting memrise but nothing too intense in any one language. I find it working as a sort of pre-vocab workout before jumping on to memrise for intensive phrases and dialogue.

Busuu was pretty dialogue intensive too.

You were encouraged to interact with other people, correcting their English while having your learning option corrected by Native speakers. It was a fairly decent experience for me but I think I'd rather follow the automated lessons and Busuus best lessons required subscription which I wasn't interested in.

[Macros]

Cause, just click the link.
Sign in with your email or bookface.
Pick a language

[Macros]

14k points already today dol, its not even 11am, coming for you!

[Dolmen 2.0]

Macros, on 18 April 2018 - 09:34 AM, said:

14k points already today dol, its not even 11am, coming for you!

HAHA! veins par là, mon pote!

Edit: does that work? In my head, I think it works...

This post has been edited by Dolmen 2.0: 18 April 2018 - 10:22 AM

[Macros]

is that french?

J'ai parley non Anglias

I have no idea if that works. which is disgraceful considering I worked in France for nearly 7 months

[Macros]

no wait, I just said I dont speak english

J'ai parley non FRancais?

[Gorefest]

The pain. The pain.

[Macros]

der Schmerz der Schmerz!