Current Events > Learning a new language is so much fun

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I'm self teaching myself a new language and I am having so much fun. I don't know what it is about learning a new language, but it's helping me think better. I look at words and recognize them individually instead of reading them in my head.

Wish I had your drive bruh. Never sleep on it or you might lose it.
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It helps to surround yourself with people who resonate that energy, it's not all drive and inner motivation, it's more like teamwork.

What language are you learning?
I started wanting to at least able to read and pronounce things written in Cyrillic and figured I may as well pick up a few Russian sentences/conjugations too a while ago.
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Chinese; this is my 3rd language. I've been at it for about a week straight now. I do short bursts, like 5 min on 5 min off all through out the day. The reason I chose Chinese is because I want to stay on the trend of popular, functional languages. I know Spanish which is huge, I was learning polish and Italian for a bit but those two languages I feel are very isolated cases.

I'll add that the challenge also captivated me, you have to relearn everything learning Chinese. Reading, writing, pronunciation. It's rewiring my whole brain to learn differently. I highly recommend learning a new language just for the added mental capacity.

lincoln002 posted...

It helps to surround yourself with people who resonate that energy, it's not all drive and inner motivation, it's more like teamwork.

True. I try to motivate those around me cause it's the only thing I have motivation to do myself. I like to think it's not all about me but motivating others usually comes back for you.
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lincoln002 posted...

It helps to surround yourself with people who resonate that energy, it's not all drive and inner motivation, it's more like teamwork.

Yeah this is important in any sort of endeavor. Positivity breeds positivity and creativity breeds creativity.

ni hao ma

Lost_All_Senses posted...

True. I try to motivate those around me cause it's the only thing I have motivation to do myself. I like to think it's not all about me but motivating others usually comes back for you.

Absolutely, having a can-do attitude goes a long way, so does having confidence which is why I believe everyone should do some kind of direct sales job in their life even if they hate it, other than lifting weights nothing builds more confidence than doing sales and hearing yes to your requests.

Kaiganeer posted...

ni hao ma

Nihao, hao.

You'll have to excuse me, I'm a week in and I'm on numbers right now. It's a challenge to count to 10.

lincoln002 posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

True. I try to motivate those around me cause it's the only thing I have motivation to do myself. I like to think it's not all about me but motivating others usually comes back for you.

Absolutely, having a can-do attitude goes a long way, so does having confidence which is why I believe everyone should do some kind of direct sales job in their life even if they hate it, other than lifting weights nothing builds more confidence than doing sales and hearing yes to your requests.

I somehow acquired some confidence by doing none of that. Like, I got nothing physically but I still demand proper respect from every situation. Not overstated respect. Just the right amount. A lot of jokes in my circle would come off disrespectful to others, but not taking it as disrespect is how you know the love is real
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I think I would have enjoyed it if it wasn't for a grade in high school. I love learning things but being in high school and having grades stressed me the fuck out. I think I was actually pretty good at Spanish but my teacher never gave me more than a C. Everyone hated that teacher too. I want to go back and relearn it after I'm done with grad school.

In the states knowing Spanish is ridiculously powerful. It'll open so many doors for you.

lincoln002 posted...

In the states knowing Spanish is ridiculously powerful. It'll open so many doors for you.

Half my family is Mexican and they didn't pass it on to any of us kids :/.
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

I somehow acquired some confidence by doing none of that. Like, I got nothing physically but I still demand proper respect from every situation. Not overstated respect. Just the right amount. A lot of jokes in my circle would come off disrespectful to others, but not taking it as disrespect is how you know the love is real

My friends and I just quote stuff and joke about things that happened during our day, we all have our belief systems though.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Half my family is Mexican and they didn't pass it on to any of us kids :/.

Damn, that sucks, I wouldn't speak Spanish as well as I do if my parents didn't raise me on it. I tested out of all 4 levels of Spanish at my university thanks to them.

lincoln002 posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

I somehow acquired some confidence by doing none of that. Like, I got nothing physically but I still demand proper respect from every situation. Not overstated respect. Just the right amount. A lot of jokes in my circle would come off disrespectful to others, but not taking it as disrespect is how you know the love is real

My friends and I just quote stuff and joke about things that happened during our day, we all have our belief systems though.

Yeah. You gotta know bonds are much deeper than beliefs. If it's irritating to talk about certain things, just talk about other stuff.
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I learned Spanish in high school for four years. Just recently I've been refreshing and continuing my Spanish every day for the last few months, and I still feel like I'm just a beginner. Whenever I listen to a native Spanish speaker, I don't recognize any words that I hear. It must take decades to become fluent.

Have you mastered use of the subjunctive in Spanish?
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Annihilated posted...

I learned Spanish in high school for four years. Just recently I've been refreshing and continuing my Spanish every day for the last few months, and I still feel like I'm just a beginner. Whenever I listen to a native Spanish speaker, I don't recognize any words that I hear. It must take decades to become fluent.

You need to practice speaking, it's the only way you'll develop the speech recognition capacities necessary to understand it by ear. I know what you mean though, with this Chinese I'm learning I know the first things I'm going to tell people is to slow things down for me lol

It's probably be helpful to listen to some lectures in the foreign language you're learning just to hear as many words as possible and trying to make out what you can.

SrRd_RacinG posted...

Have you mastered use of the subjunctive in Spanish?

Are you asking me? I had to look up what subjunctive meant, I am fluent in Spanish. I can actually get my point across in Spanish way better than in English, however, my English vocabulary is much bigger than my Spanish vocabulary. I often times find myself pulling words in English with a Spanish dialect because I don't know how to say it's Spanish equivelant.

Por alguna razon, no te creo.
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SrRd_RacinG posted...

Por alguna razon, no te creo.

Eso no es mi culpa amigo, por hay te sents diferente despus de leer este mensaje.

lincoln002 posted...

Are you asking me? I had to look up what subjunctive meant, I am fluent in Spanish. I can actually get my point across in Spanish way better than in English, however, my English vocabulary is much bigger than my Spanish vocabulary. I often times find myself pulling words in English with a Spanish dialect because I don't know how to say it's Spanish equivelant.

This never goes away in languages!

It's one of the greatest things one can do.

Anyone that doesn't know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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