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wo was wer wie wem wen wann wodurch wofür womit warum wohin

These and others are absolutely killing my flashcard progress, I can't juggle all these Ws in quick succession and actually remember them. Any tips for easily confusable words like that?

Way, way too hard. If you had already read it, though, and you looked up the words you didn't know it would be way over your head

what makes you say that? I'm keeping up well enough and I only have 40 or so hours in french.

¿What are some sayings/idioms you've learnt recently in your practice language? I'll start with one I really like

Out to lunch.

what is the meaning ?

Crazy

Maybe immerse yourself in Spanish until you learn to stop associating it with poverty and low class, or whatever makes you hate it so much. There is no way to unlearn a language if you've actually acquired it the right way.

Put the TL example sentence on the front of the card. This gives you an extra hint about the meaning as well as teaching you the word in context. Alternatively, suspend that shit for now and figure it out later when you're reading.

Not sure if it is actually a saying/idiom, but one that I've been hearing a lot during university is "Das ist kein Hexenwerk". Basically means "it's not that complex" or "it's quite simple".

No
That's not my issue with spanish

are finnish-german relationships good? why many nordics learn german?

Ive never heard of it before
Thanks for enriching my English

i dont know, maybe because it's in a 1000km radius the only language that is spoken in a real country and not a glorified snownigga village surrounded by miles and miles of uninhabited ice, hello?

At least my annoying rambling insane posts helped one person on this planet.

Germany is our biggest trade partner, so being able to speak it is a pretty nice bonus when trying to get a job in trade or industry, and we don't have anything against Germany in general, so our relations are generally good. Germany is also the most common foreign language available at school, so if one wants to learn a language that's not English or Swedish, German is likely all they have to choose from.

Are you finno swede?
If I were Finnish I'd definitely be taking Estonian classes in school so I don't have to put in more effort

You suddenly are fluent in your top 6 languages. What are your next languages you decide to start learning?

No, just a regular Finn. Would love to learn Estonian, but I grew up in a small town where German was the only choice I had, and ended up quite liking it so I have no reason to drop it now. Potentially could start taking Estonian classes now that I live in a bigger city

What's the point of speaking so many languages? You still have to maintain those languages.

I think I'd just move on to other hobbies.

Oh ok. Yeah I guess I don't know how common it'd be. I was just making a uralic-uralic connection. I feel like learning German as a Finnish person would be pretty hard in school.

just shun all forms of content in spanish. hearing a telenovela on a tv? smash it. see a book cover written in spanish? burn it. accidentally write a cognate that exists in spanish? lop off your writing hand. hear someone speaking spanish? kill them.

the languages i want to learn are five, so no need to learn anymore

I'd appreciate it if you didn't treat me like a joke man. I avoid posting in every thread and try to do my own research before coming here. At this point I've narrowed it down to 2 options

I feel like learning German as a Finnish person would be pretty hard in school

Hardest part of it was forcing myself to input in my free-time. Also mixing words and grammar with Swedish. Since there are basically no language from the uralic family that are "worth" learning, we Finns are at a bit of a disadvantage when learning languages. Honestly, the nicest/easiest part of German was that verbs conjugate depending on the pronoun (Ich bin, du bist, etc.), since Finnish works that way as well

narrowed what, exactly, down to two options? if you've actually learned a language, and i mean spent years learning it, or have had it ingrained into you due to your childhood upbringing, it will never truly leave the left hemisphere of your brain. your consistent questioning of how to "forget" spanish is not going to be solved by anything short of having your limp left lobe loving lopped off by a learned doctor, or some freak traumatic accident that for some reason leaves you with not knowing spanish. why would learning occitan make you forget spanish even? it would probably reinforce any similarities between the two languages, however many there are.

Well I'm going to try anyway. There are plenty of instances of people people even forgetting their native language. I wouldn't call Spanish native for me. More like a 1.5 language.

So you agree with my idea that learning another romance would just reinforce Spanish? People here gave me some contrary advice on that.

I want to learn Chinese but I'm poor af, where I learn for free?

does anyone know were to find like smart proper books about someone discusing/talking about the grammar of the language.

as in , is thier like a proper genere or a label that this type of book whould get , because I am not finding it.

the langauge I am searching is japenese and while thier is no shortage of workbooks , something a little bit more normal for a book detailing the internal logic of the japenese language works is more rare.

in4 try to finish your english first bitch.

I am actually learning japennese to save , both my english and spanish, they both have deterorated and become incrinsignly more inbreed over the years.

how well can spanish learners here understand this?
es.wikisource.org/wiki/Conde_Lucanor:Ejemplo_31

youtu.be/gfr4BP4V1R8

What's this language model? Or text to speech model? It's gonna be a revolution

I feel intimidated by Finnish. I feel like Latin's much easier to learn than Finnish (which is partially true since I only know indo-european languages and Latin's structure is close to Russian)

I feel intimidated by Finnish

stop invading them then

I never invaded Finland

yes, i do agree with your idea, humans are pattern recognition machines, champions of it in the animal kingdom. i don't know all the research papers worth of information but i know it's true to a non-negligible extent. i know it's not the exact same comparison but i've been making pattern connections between words i'm learning in latin and noticing similarities in english and spanish. obviously it's more pronounced due to the linguistic characteristics that are shared between those three, but i wouldn't be surprised if you wouldn't be noticing the same things with occitan

there are literally thousands of resources in the OP of the thread

guess I'll try one of the audiobooks

Then I think I'll choose german both out of interest and to help in the forgetting.

i dont know shit about chinese but i think you might not want to go straight to inpooting
i think it has a lot of bullshit you have to learn beforehand

humans are pattern recognition machine

When I showcase my pattern recognition abilities people call me anti-semitic

me too, russianon, me too