>>332
Agreed, thanks for catching me out on my unwritten assumption. Grammar is paramount.

List of semantic primes

Substantives

I, YOU, SOMEONE/PERSON, PEOPLE

Relational Substantives

SOMETHING/THING, BODY, KIND, PART

determiners

THIS, THE SAME, OTHER

Quantifiers

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Top kike

Are you fucking with us? I legitimately can't tell.

does anyone have any galician/galego resources that they'd like to share? having trouble finding anything other than "beginner's" stuff

me gusta man but wtf
why renamed foreign languages :(

>>106
It's seems more relevant now

Anything on Hebrew or Arabic?

For you Japanese learners, there's also
www.japanesepod101.com

This is very helpful op, thanks for the links.

It's OP and I have decided to watch the entire works of "Scrubs" on french during my summer-holidays. Thought this was a cool idea to get some entertainment while also getting more used to the french language. Magnet-Link :

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Whether you learn much or not, they're entertaining.

>>299
Ouais, mec. Arte c'est de la bombe.
Je passe par ici quelques fois par mois. Pose toutes les questions que tu voudrais poser à un francophone.

Je suis Charlie

Thanks, OP. This may be quite useful!

Thanks!

>>153
Большая избыточность. Что особенно бесит, в большинстве технических слов обязательно стоит по одному абсолютно лишнему слогу.

>>254
I would love to help your friend out if he wants it. I'm by no means native, and to be honest my russian needs practise too. But it would be cool to correspond with him.

>>10
Привет, как успехи с изучением?
Вот, держи сайт, там найдешь много всего.
http://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?f=2364

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0fu8PVbHKeD
the test
- Кто из вас перед праздником приходил ко мне домой отвечать урок -
встаньте!
Обрюзглый человек в рясе, с тяжелым крестом на шее угрожающе посмотрел
на учеников.
Маленькие злые глазки точно прокалывали всех шестерых, поднявшихся со
скамеек, - четырех мальчиков, и двух девочек. Дети боязливо посматривали на
человека в рясе.
- Вы садитесь, - махнул поп в сторону девочек. Те быстро сели,
облегченно вздохнув.
Глазки отца Василия сосредоточились на четырех фигурках.
- Идите-ка сюда, голубчики!
Отец Василий поднялся, отодвинул стул и подошел вплотную к сбившимся в
кучу ребятам:

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>>373
Как у профессионального диктора, который книги озвучивает. Очень классно!

我有很多目的学汉语。我的本来想法是帮我的专业很多。不过，我也觉得学汉语是很好玩儿。 你在哪里学习？

你們看得懂繁體中文嗎?

>>341
This thread is in Chinese, not Japanese.

你们都是傻逼！

我们在讨论中文， 不是日语。

小日本同志滚开！

>>368
ｓｉｍｐｌｉｆｉｅｄ？
ノーサンキューぜ

>>350
Here's some Yoruba/Sakara music by nigerian musician Yusufu Olatunji. The Yoruba language is a tonal Niger-Congo language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQx-i4OtQAg

Welsh
Super Furry Animals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC1JrHWIRlU

Today's album is called "In an Aeroplane Over the Sea". Just kidding. It's Super Furry Animals, a band that normally plays in English, but this album is in Welsh, a beautiful language, in my opinion. This is my favorite track on "Mwng", give it a go. It's hard to find a good "rock" song in Welsh, but this album's pretty okay.

>>354
Yay for SFA

Japanese
Boris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I02GzM16_XQ

Today's band is Boris, and this one is "Attention Please". Really any of the Boris albums are good, just pick one, though this one has good lyrics. If you want to hear a dude singing, then their new album "Noise" is also really good.

>>356
HOLY SH… That’s awesome.

Krautchan vielleicht? Ich weiß nicht ob die Vokabeln nützlich ist, aber du lernst mit Deutschsprachig.

I had to use Wiktionary for a few words in that. It's the wikipedia version of a dictionary and it's really good for individual words.

"autumn sunset" or somesuch

秋の暮れ

まだ返事ありません

The major language spoken in Somalia is a northern African form of Arabic. There are some tribal languages but mostly Arabic

>>340
I know it's not necessarily the objective of the board, but I have to wonder why someone would be interested in learning how to speak to Somalis to begin with.

>>342
So you can become a Somali pirate of course!
But seriously there are a lot of Somali Emigre's in different cities throughout the U.S. and Europe over the past 10 years. I live in a mid sized, somewhat southern U.S. city and we have a pretty sizable and growing population of them here.

>>137
Somalia is mostly very poor except for the rich who probably speak english or arabic

You're gonna have a bad time

I knew people when I was in the service who had the chance to live to live in western Europe and wanted no part of it. Not some crazy job either just like a normal nice job at a nice base in Europe. Single people, with no wives, kids, etc. That was for 3 yrs though, but I know friends now who would look at a free trip to Hawaii or Germany as a hassle.

Some good beginning resources for Finnish listed here: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28675&PN=40

And Persian resources here: http://www.persianiseasy.com/

>>330
thank you.

And this.

How is this not spam and why shouldn't I ban you?

>>325
It wouldn't be "spam" if I had written a long post about it before I introduced my project and linked to it. I'm too lazy to basically repeat what's already written on the campaign's page.

And this isn't some random bullshit project, which every Japanese learner can tell you, it's something innovative and useful. Besides, you don't have to pay anything, I'm just spreading the word around. The database will be released for free.

>>96
I can vouch for your mind working differently when it can think in two or more languages. Sometimes it won't find an answer for a problem in one language but the other language will lead the mind to a solution.

So to speak.

Well, growing up in Britain, I've found that native British people don't see much point in learning another language. Having said that, younger people seem more open to learning other languages, especially outside of the 'language for business' notion.

I certainly find it a lot more helpful, and I'm no where near fluent in any other language.

>>96

My girlfriend was raised on two languages(totally different structures and sounds), and now at 21 she wants to learn English, but I can see she has a much better aptitude for picking it up than anyone English would have picking up one of her languages.
I think learning a second language has a huge effect at any age, but doing it when you're very young is the best time.

I do wish I learned another language when I was young but, being English, "there's no need". Not quite the same issue, but I feel almost upset that I don't speak both English and "my own country's language". My own country's language is everyone's language, makes me want to learn Old English but nobody else speaks it so it's not like I could speak it with other Anglefags. Feelsbadman.

Norwegian, Afrikaans, Farsi

depends where you come from. If you're english native easiest for you will be dutch and/or afrikaans. German is indeed a little tough because there's a lot you can do wrong so flawless fluency is almost impossible for non-natives, still you will be able to push it to an ok level I guess. For me as a German Icelandic seems to be ridicoulously easy, bc it seems to be a early mediaval or Gothic version of German, so maybe that would be an option, too.
If you're more interested in Romance Languages, why not try Romanian?

>>157

Son of a bitch, the only languages that I waanted to learn are the either in mid tier or youwonthaveenoughtimeasshole tier. I hear learning esperanto can aid yout with learning new languages, is that bullshit?

>>230
It's true. Learning a language is easier when you've already learned another one, in that you're used to the processes and techniques of language learning. Esperanto is one of the easiest languages (arguably THE easiest) out there, so it might be a good first option, but you'll have to bear in mind that your chances of walking down the street and finding a fellow Esperantiston (the word Esperantisto is someone who speaks Esperanto, and it is in this case the direct object in the sentence) are slim to shit.

>>157
hold on, I don't get it, is this infograph retarded enough to claim there are only 62m french speakers world-wide???

holy shit now I'm angry at how stupid this is

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http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6667541/German_Language_Learning_Pack_(Vol._2)


OVER 14GBS OF P- wait a minute. Here you go.

SAGE has been used.

duolingo.com is cool.

Wäre mal interessant zu sehen was alles an Deutsch-Material hier so anspült.

I've got a question which doesn't deserve its own thread, and it's kanji-related so I suppose this is as good a place as any:

When I've been using websites to learn some basic kanji I've experienced that - more often than not - the kanji I am supposed to learn is followed by hiragana or katakana characters, in order to form a meaningful word. My question is this; are these kanji used outside of those words? Am I to memorise the kanji as the sound which isn't expressed by the katakana/hiragana?
Example: 良い (ii) - good
Is "良" a usable character in other contexts as well, expressing the "i"-sound, or is it ONLY used to express this particular word?
Thanks in advance.

>>265
I'm pretty new to Japanese myself, so I might be a bit off track, but...

The root (given pronunciation not in kana) is what you should memorize, and the character will always conceptually mean the same thing. That said, kanji seem to often have multiple roots depending on suffixes and when in conjunction with other kanji. To use your example, 良 can also be pronounced よ (ex. 良し). A dictionary is your best friend for all these shenanigans.

>>266
This clarified things quite a bit - appreciate it!

A word of advice, which might seem obvious but made a huge difference for me: keep your anki cards as simple as possible. I'm not kidding, it makes the difference between mountains of piled up cards and flying through your reviews. So keep it retardedly simple, I have separate cards just for reading, or meaning, or recognition, and it's actually easier than trying to cram everything up in the same card.

Also, if you want materials maybe check up this monster pack:
http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/6672792/Japanese_Language_Learning_Pack

I got this... you want this guy to teach you.. and to yell / motivate you to learn this shit.
The torrent for all his youtube video is still on 4chan if you dig... or just look up: Namasenei's Japanese Course 2.72 gigs of goodness.