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People who are learning a foreign language: what are you learning & how is it going? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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See title. I've been to quite a few local language meetups and saw lots of people IRL who are learning languages: wondering how are y'all doing too

For myself... learning French due to necessity. I am making progress, just veeery slow. I underestimated how difficult it would be (a lot of vocabs between English/French are similar... but the languages themselves are not!)

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[–] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

I'm speedrunning French, trying to focus on Québécois you kinda end up learning traditional French too along the way. This is my third language.

  • Duo for daily practice and grammar, but it makes a lot of mistakes
  • Work group to practice speaking
  • I switched various daily apps to French
  • Grabbed a few comic books in French, happy to say I'm now past those :)
  • Québécois friends for slang and informal reference
  • Recently been playing Pokemon ZA in French (extra fun since it's in Poke-Paris), quite pleased with it!

I'm about a year in, and I'm low-level conversational. Solidly A2. Basically just taking any resources I can find, I plan to look for a proper class soon.

Le chemin est très agréable, je le trouve bien!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Pokemon Z-A in French is perfect, lol! I've been playing it for language learning too (Japanese). I think those games are pretty great for it, good low-stakes, familiar games that have a lot of text, but are also kid-approachable. Would be nice to have voice acting, but otherwise fantastic language immersion games.

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