Learning Languages

I’m currently trying to learn a few languages soon—ASL, Spanish, and Korean—but I wanted to know any techniques to learn the right basics and anything that could help me improve quicker. Anyone bilingual or multilingual that can help?

I'm already struggling with Russian. But I am still learning english too since it's not my first language lol :D

sonder4sophiie wrote:
I’m currently trying to learn a few languages soon—ASL, Spanish, and Korean—but I wanted to know any techniques to learn the right basics and anything that could help me improve quicker. Anyone bilingual or multilingual that can help?

Since I also like languages and learning them (I study English, French, Spanish and Chinese at school) I can give you a few tips, probably everyone says the same thing, but it really helps. First, if u are learning them by yourself I don't reccomend relying only on apps like Duolingo. Youtube really helps people with basic knowledge, especially videos that feature simple conversations to help with pronunciation. Also listening to music is very important because you learn new words. Even watching movies in the original language with subtitiles it's good for u. Remember that you will not be fluent overnight, you have to be patient but it's definitely worth it. Hope his helps!!!! (Unfortunately I don't know how to help you with ASL!)

I mean it’s real easy learning off of someone that already knows the language with it either being their first language or a language they’ve learnt in school. I’ve been learning VERY small bits of German from my boyfriend and I think he wants to teach me Latvian soon. 

I’m sure you can maybe find some communities willing to teach you the languages you’re learning and it can definitely help you improve your grammar! But also get dictionaries, textbooks, watch show, read books and listen to music in said language. It can help a lot! 

I don’t know if this will work for you, but it worked for me naturally to understand English better by forcing myself to talk to English-speaking people on Roblox using a translator to translate my messages and other people’s messages, so I learned English words thanks to the translator that helped me understand English better. I guess this could be used with any languages you want, even in another online game.

I forced myself to start caring about learning Swedish a while ago so here’s a few tips:

- Make a Docs/Word/etc. sheet (or a blog post if you want to share) and gather all grammar rule notes there. For example, list all the prepositions in your target language and then make up fun sentences where you use them. The weirder and cringier the sentence, the better because you’ll be more likely to remember it than an average boring sentence. The examples I make have references to shows I like and my favourite characters to make it more fun. You can change the font, highlight important things with pretty colours, add pictures etc. etc. to make the sheet more engaging to look at. 

- Word cards are nifty but if you are lazy like me and don’t want to make physical ones, Quizlet is a good app for making them.

- Follow a bunch of accounts who speak your target language. Learning a language through shitposts is way more fun than through textbooks. You’ll learn or rehearse already learned grammar rules and vocabulary every time you open social media.

- When you’ve gathered more vocabulary under your belt, you can pick a picture and try to describe what’s in it or what’s happening in it. You can do this anywhere in real life too. Try listing everything you can see in your room in your target language.

- If you don’t have anyone who speaks your target language to speak to, you can try explaining to yourself in your head what you are doing while doing everyday stuff. This is the best way that I notice what important words I don’t know or remember yet. One day I was making breakfast and realised that I didn't remember the Swedish word for fork lmao