I’ve found schools that offer the language course I want (Arabic/Fus-ha) but come with all the required American courses like renaissance history, US government, math, etc. I have no interest in getting a degree in the US, but want the qualification of knowing Arabic to apply to international schools. Is this possible? Can anyone recommend schools (preferably near Texas/Tennessee)?

Obviously there's a very popular phrase: you learn something new every day, and the same is applicable in language learning of course.

I know a lot of people have formulas and routines. "Do something language learning related 30 minutes a day every day", for example. That's very broad and that can be for any way of learning - old school textbook / classroom style, italki, a couple other options, comprehensible input, etc etc.

But does anybody else here have some days where it's just like, "Oh, I don't want to bother with learning today, I'll take a day or two off"? Like it's not a big deal to want to take a small break (which I also believe).

I'm just really struggling with my learning journey because I feel so much pressure to Do Things Daily. And it's making it less fun for me. I still have the right motivations; learn for fun, connect with native speakers if I can find them somewhere out there, be able to understand my Target Language without subtitles, etc etc -- but I just.... sometimes I want to relax and not feel like it's a Mandatory Focus Or Else for me. Another problem I have is I keep jumping around because of this. "Oh, it's not fun anymore, time to try a different one. Nope, that's not working either. Maybe this one?"

Is it just me or is this fairly common, on both counts?

Next year I’m hoping to be able to take some Tibetan classes but I’m wondering if anyone here has found any online resources. I’m a complete beginner and right now I just want to learn the alphabet and some basic words. Duolingo has worked well for me with other languages (but of course they don’t offer Tibetan), so I’d like to find something like that. Thanks

I was wondering what everyone’s Anki routine is? Specifically the words you’re fairly comfortable with but don’t have sight memorized for (the ones at b or recently reached a) how many of those words a day do you review?

Hello. I learnt a decent level of Spanish and I was able to speak it almost fluently. However after I started learning German, I started to struggle to speak Spanish: only German words came to my mind. Do you have similar experiences ? How do you cope? Do you have some strategies ?

How can I do it by myself and make sure I'm doing it correctly?

I am looking for a program that can enter selected Arabic letters and create a list of all possible words consisting of these letters.

Hi everyone, thanks in advance for any help!

I was wondering if there is an app, or a way that already exists on an iPhone to translate a single word or a phrase by just highlighting the text in Safari? Currently I have to select the text, click the arrow to the right for more options (Buttons for "Copy" and "Find Selection" pop up initially with a ">" to select more options) and then click "Translate".

I know this isn't that difficult, but it becomes tedious when I am trying to read and need to do this frequently.

I would ideally just be able to select the text and automatically (or just a single click) see the translation.

Thanks again for any help!

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but it is in line with my language-learning goals, so there.

(When I say multilingual, I mean a keyboard that will let me type all the accented letters and punctuation for various languages. What I don’t mean is a keyboard that will recognize and autocomplete words in different languages.)

I currently use the Hacker’s Keyboard app, which has a variety of accents as well as punctuation marks, but also lacks several others, such as ethel œ, s cedilla ş, thorn þ and eth ð, non-breaking or narrow spaces, the interpunct ·, and so on and so forth. On my desktop, I have access to a multilingual keyboard layout that lets me type all these things and many more, and so I was wondering if such a thing existed for Android as well. Every keyboard I’ve looked into so far seems to have some subset of these glyphs, but ends up lacking others, and I really would like one that has everything.

I learned Egyptian Arabic intensively for a while in Egypt a few months back and I just went on Duolingo to test out their Arabic course (it’s MSA) and it was surprisingly easy.

I know there’s a discussion of which one to learn first BUT I’m curious if anyone has learned one then tried learning the other and how long that process was and the difficulties.

Appreciate any feedback.

My input skills are very good, but when I try to speak, I'm doubtful if I'm saying the phrase in the right way. Can learning by heart help? Or should I just continue reading books and wait for it to happen naturally?

Hello, do you guys know any website where i can watch my shows but with different language subtitles so i can learn? (Preferably free sites but anything is good) Thanks!

So this follows a post I made to r/italianlearning, where the consensus is that I am comprehensible but it's like I'm speaking English in Italian - my grammar is poor, my vocabulary is OK. From a previous post here, I am on a bit of a timeline and my goal is to be able to express simple past/present/future with reasonably comprehensible grammar. For this reason I am focusing heavily on tenses and vocab, and ignoring certain important things like making sure my word choice reflects what an Italian native speaker would say or getting all of my prepositions right.

On the one hand, I'm very happy with my ability to say things that are understandable. on the other, I feel like I'm a bad AI translator who is just mashing English into Italian.

I'm curious about others' experiences in this regard. Is speaking badly but comprehensibly a good way to do it? Should I stop trying to get more vocab/grammar structures and just fix my errors at this point? FWIW I'm on my way to Italy in about 19 days, so time is a huge factor and I've got a lot of vocab I just don't know...

I'm curious about anyone's experience in any language, which is why I'm posting here.

Title.

I am a lifelong learner of English and more than oftentimes I found myself not understanding a thing they sang, until I whipped out the trusty lyrics tab, then suddenly everything kinda clicked, like 'oh yeah it is definitely this, they are definitely singing this why am i not recognizing it man'.

My native language is Vietnamese so it doesn't share a lot of tone and voice things with English I suppose, but to me normal spoken english and singing english feel like 2 entirely different languages.

Does anyone do this and what software do you use?

We all know that we can't trust most of the new promising apps that can check text for us, but DeeL has always been a respected app. Can it be really good compared to others?

As we all already know, learning a language from scratch is completely different than re-learning it after forgetting.

In my case, I grew up bilingual, speaking Russian and my other native language.

Due to family circumstances, I had to completely stop speaking Russian at the age of 6, and had no one with whom I could continue using the language.

To this day, I understand absolutely everything in Russian, I read books and watch movies and have no issues comprehending anything. However, I can not for the life of me speak or write without forgetting the words, spelling, and which correct grammar forms to use.

I have decided to finally master my Russian, and hopefully get to a C1 level. I am not sure how to approach it though, and would really appreciate tips!!

I’m interested in learning Portuguese, mandarin and French. I don’t know if I’m late I’m 33 atm. Would I still be able to pick it up? Is duolingo good? I see a lot of memes on it but do I really want an angry bird beating me up cus I decided to skip one day?

I just started with spanish, but in my free time I use the same exercises for french and vietnamese too, but mostly online. Now I'm on my way buying books. Are there some things I have to consider? Maybe hacks?

Is anyone interested in language exchange? Want to learn languages in this way . Sorry if this not the correct sub but in the other sub that’s supposed to be for language exchange people pay zero to little attention to the posts and and in my opinion nothing happens there. So if anyone would like that . He can dm me . I speak Greek English and I am interested in German thanks

I can supply as much info as anyone wants, but short story My native language is English, have low advanced Korean (lived in Korea 5+ years). My bf of 2 years is a native Korean speaker, high advanced English. I wouldn't say fluent, but when I first met him I swore he had lived in the states for a few years (and so do all of my friends when they meet him). He just has a very good ear for slang and pronunciation only ever studied English through classes.

While our message communication is 70% Korean, 30% English, our speaking is 93% English 7% Korean (the 7% is him speaking at me in Korean and I respond in English.)

My Korean is very good and has improved from study unrelated to him. But I have a weird emotional block at speaking Korean with him because when we met 2 years ago, my Korean was intermediate and patchy. There was a lot I didn't know. I was shy then and didn't know to to say important early dating questions in Korean (his goals for the future, political beliefs) so we communicated mostly in Eng (ESP im person!) Texting isnt the issue, my writing is very good lol.

I've made a looooot of progress in Korean but have a hard time incorportating Korean into our speaking because it feels so weird building a relationship with someone in one language and then making a conscious decision to switch to another. I think my gripe is that I fear not being able to express my emotions articulately? Then again I'm sure he feels that way when he has to navigate emotional convos in English despite his very high level...

Does anyone have any experience with this? I guess tldr... met my bf speaking L1, really want to incorporate L2 (his L1) more but it's kind of hard because I feel like I'm limiting my thoughts. I feel like it runs deeper than "just SPEAK IT!" In a way I can't articulate well. Sorry.

Any input would be appreciated.

I joined HelloTalk again a couple days ago, and it structured very similar to a dating app. Also, I’m mostly had women contact me (22M). I’m not here to date, I would use Bumble for that, I want to make some friends in become better in foreign languages.

Hi! I would like to share my passion & approach to creating mnemonics & learning new words in general.

If there is a word that you struggle to remember, that you keep re-learning and forgetting - please share it in the comments and I will create a visual mnemonic for you, so that you never forget that word again (hopefully). I'll share the mnemonic as a post/reel on my instagram which is dedicated to mnemonics & vocabulary expansion (https://www.instagram.com/sillymnemonics/).

*I'm only fluent in English and Russian, so I'll prioritize those. But if time permits (or if I have a particularly good mnemonic in mind), I'll still give it a shot even if you request a word from a different language.

I just finished my first year in college.I'm doing a Spanish course and my biggest regret was not doing any spanish over last summer between finishing secondary school and starting college.I'll also admit I've been kind of slacking this year due to personal matters so I want to improve over summer.

How can I keep on top of this?I need to improve grammer.Ideally through ways that arent just sitting there and learning things off til I memorise it

Do you ever just forget a word you want to use in convo in all languages you know?

It happens a lot and I’d just start visualizing the items like I can imagine what they look like but don’t remember how to say them 🙂‍↕️

I've been using TikTok as a tool for language immersion since February of this year, alongside other methods. (Used it since 2019?) However, it's a bit concerning that my attention span seems to be taking a hit. It's becoming difficult for me to focus for more than 2 minutes or so, especially when scrolling through TikTok. (I force myself to watch it; sometimes I end up scrolling.)

While TikTok offers a convenient way to consume small-sized content in the languages I'm immersing in, I feel that it's not helping my immersion if I can't control a whole 2 minutes. I end up switching back in forth with Instagram Reels which is also ruining it also. (It has some benefits in helping me expand my vocabulary, learn real conversational language and slang, and learn about what's trending there, such as music and news.)

But I can't see a normal YouTube video again. I watched a vlog and couldn't get my attention span to continue. I probably clicked the screen every 5 minutes or so and could remember in my head saying, "When will this end?" "Another 30 minutes?" This changes watching like a drama or series, but I end up looking at how much time is left, which is bad too. Only media based since I don’t think it impacts my social life.

I can control it by listening to podcasts on Spotify, and usually it takes 40 to 1 hour, but I have to passively listen and not actively listen because I feel it's just a chore doing that. I do have no trouble reading books like graphic novels or a Bible for at least 10 minutes in my target language.

Has anyone else experienced this? Do you think it's worth continuing to use TikTok for immersion despite its potential impact on attention span? It’s possible for me to fix it, I just need time and try to adjust to YouTube.

Cūlus m (genitive cūlī); second declension (vulgar, anatomy) The posterior, arse, ass, buttocks

It's fascinating to consider that of all the words originating from Latin that have persisted into modern Romance languages, "culus" is one of them.

It appears that the majority of Romance languages have maintained a version of this word, with consistent vulgar connotations differing in intensity from one country to another.

This is what I found about the 5 Romance Languages.

1. Spanish: "culo"
2. Portuguese: "cu"
3. Italian: "culo"
4. French: "cul"
5. Romanian: "cur"

All the other less known Romance languages seem to also have a variant of it.

It’s more interesting that according to Wikipedia, Culus came from a much earlier version from a Proto-Italic language.

Ps: Let it be known that the first human to utter this word for "rear end" has left a lasting legacy.