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People who are learning a foreign language: what are you learning & how is it going? (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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[–] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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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