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Arabic Student 04/26/2020 (Sun) 18:12:34 Id: 2122c4 No. 188 [Reply]

Let's have a thread for learning Arabic, for our /islam/ bros and everyone else who is interested. Arabic is a Semitic language that is spoken by over 200 million native speakers in 22 countries. It's also one of the six official languages of the UN. Arabic is classified as a Level 5 difficulty language by the Foreign Service Institute, meaning that an English speaker would need 88 weeks, or 2200 hours of learning to master it. So if you want to study Arabic, you'll need a lot of time, patience, and determination - but that goes for any language. The Arabic you'll be learning is most likely going to be Modern Standard Arabic, which is the modern descendant of the 6th century Classical Arabic. Actual spoken Arabic can vary widely from this standard, however. Some varieties are mutually unintelligible, but you should be good to go anywhere with MSA. Here's some resources: >Arabic lectures https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEmWUZanVYXEzZXYDHzD-iA https://www.youtube.com/user/CGEJordan/videos >Simple Arabic short stories https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7RpCYE5gLKF3Wus9QmIXHuy4p81lpaVA >Arabic courses Online https://www.madinaharabic.com/

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Anonymous 03/10/2024 (Sun) 09:50:37 No. 601

لا يمكنك تعلم اللغة العربية

Anonymous 03/10/2024 (Sun) 09:51:03 No. 602

>>601 Remind me again, what is that structure to the left and is it related to a mosque?

Anonymous 03/10/2024 (Sun) 09:51:27 No. 603

>>602 That'd be a minaret, from which the call to prayer is given

Slovak Student

03/05/2021 (Fri) 18:47:47 Id: 2abc67 No. 442 [Reply]

Slovak language is one of the worst to learn t. born in slovakia.

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Student 07/10/2021 (Sat) 14:06:42 No. 494

you keep telling that yourself just like polacks and czechs

Anonymous 03/10/2024 (Sun) 09:36:04 No. 597

Resources updated

Anonymous 03/10/2024 (Sun) 09:36:43 No. 598

>>597 What's the difference between it and Czech? What difference is there between Slovaks and Czechs generally?

Banner Thread Student 09/18/2019 (Wed) 23:12:05 Id: c703c4 No. 38 [Reply]

Got any ideas for a good one? Help me make this board a little more colorful!

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Anonymous 03/10/2024 (Sun) 09:32:14 No. 594

>>593

Anonymous 03/10/2024 (Sun) 09:33:10 No. 595

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Anonymous 03/10/2024 (Sun) 09:33:39 No. 596

very nice

Practice & Challenge Thread Anonymous 03/10/2024 (Sun) 09:05:03 No. 585 [Reply]

Complete challenges and make up your own. Here are some I made up. Pick any of the following: Easy: 1. Translate the following sentences: I shower in the morning. I eat breakfast. The cat is under the table. 2. Introduce yourself (you can make something up). 3. Why are you learning your language? Medium: 1. Describe your home and what's in it. 2. Describe your daily routine. 3. Write a short story.

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Anonymous 03/10/2024 (Sun) 09:10:45 No. 586

>>585 Easy: 1) sentences >I shower in the morning. أسْتَحِمُّ في الصَباح >I eat breakfast. أَكُلُ الفُطُور >The cat is under the table. القِطَّة تَحْتَ الطَّاوِلَة 2) fictional introduction إسمي يعقوب أنا من القمري أسكن في القاهرة عمري ثلاثين سنة أنا أعمل كمحامي

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Anonymous 03/10/2024 (Sun) 09:12:38 No. 587

2) Home description أسكن في شقة مفرشة. في شقتي مطبخ، حمّام، وغرفتان: غرفة النوم وغرفة الجلوس. مطبخي سغيرة. لست فيها فرنً، لذلك لا أستطيع أن أخبز شيءً عندي في شقتي شرفة، آكل فيها. 3) Routine أستيقظ في الصباح. ألبس ملابسي وأحضّر القهوة. آكل الفطور، ثم أدخل الحمّام لأنظف أسناني. بعد ذلك آخذ حقيبتي وأخرج من البيت. أركب سيارتي وأقاد إلى الجامعة. أنا في الدارس إلى ظهر، ثم آكل الغذاء وأعود إلى الدارس. في المساء أرجع إلى بيتي، أكتب الواجب، وأسترخي حتّى أنام.

Anonymous 10/29/2023 (Sun) 07:21:33 No. 565 [Reply]

When did 4cuck delete /lang/?

Anonymous 10/29/2023 (Sun) 08:48:35 No. 566

>>565 4cuck never had /lang/ in the first place, it's a board that was created on 8chan prime, before moving elsewhere and then being brought back up in here.

Anonymous 11/13/2023 (Mon) 18:52:16 No. 567

/lang/ was merged with the main site but retards weren't aware of it existing and was left to its demise in 2014

Anonymous 08/03/2023 (Thu) 12:56:07 No. 561 [Reply]

What do you think about this meme I made?

Anonymous 08/03/2023 (Thu) 13:04:56 No. 562

>>561 That im gonna fuck you to death you stupid cocksucking pedo faggot.

Anonymous 08/03/2023 (Thu) 14:37:01 No. 563

>>562 Lol, ok

I want to learn Lemnian I want to learn Lemnian 09/05/2022 (Mon) 23:32:56 No. 557 [Reply]

I want to learn Lemnian but barely two or three words of this language survive

Aramaic Anonymous 01/23/2022 (Sun) 11:52:58 No. 552 [Reply]

Post resources & reading materials

Board is up for grabs Anonymous Board owner 11/11/2021 (Thu) 18:55:19 No. 549 [Reply]

I'm letting the BO position go, the old BO left already and there's no chance I'm going to get this board up and running again. If anyone wants, it's first come first serve.

Anki Thread Student 07/17/2020 (Fri) 08:24:58 Id: 67adca No. 271 [Reply]

This thread is dedicated to the use and discussion of Anki for learning languages. >He doesn't study vocabulary using Anki What's the matter anon? afraid of making progress? >What is Anki The best digital flashcard program; both the most effective for memorization and the most powerful/customizable. It's also free, open source, and multiplatform, with versions available on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and online, with optional synchronization between multiple platforms. >How to get started Download Anki here: https://apps.ankiweb.net/ You can read Anki's documentation here: https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/ You can search for decks shared by other users by clicking the "Get Shared" button in Anki, or by going here: https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/ You can further customize your experience by looking through user-generated add-ons here: https://ankiweb.net/shared/addons/2.1 >Examples of things to do ITT >Ask questions about using Anki, styling cards, adjusting settings, etc. >Post or request decks from other anons >Talk about how you use Anki and what you use it for

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Student 12/31/2020 (Thu) 01:42:51 No. 416

>>271 Is there a version of the 2k/4k Japanese core deck but that has images attached to the words?

Anonymous 07/31/2021 (Sat) 12:00:29 No. 528

is there a full Dai Kan-Wa Jiten japanese deck?

Anonymous 07/31/2021 (Sat) 22:49:14 No. 529

>>271 what to do with sentences that make no sense to you? Sometimes anki throws an curveball because the sentence example in the vocab card is too hard and you haven't built the vocab. I had to throw out a few cards because I didn't know most of the vocab in entire sentences.

English Learning and Skills Refining Student 09/15/2019 (Sun) 11:00:46 Id: 6d73fe No. 16 [Reply]

It has come to my attention that many (myself included) are not Anglosphere natives. As such, it would make perfect sense having a thread dedicated to perfecting English as a second language.

>Resources
Empty at the moment, will be updated
>What we need
Sites and resources to help foreigners learn the language

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Student

05/22/2021 (Sat) 19:06:34 Id: 23eea0 No. 484

>>475 Is your issue linguistic or methodical? I used the method described in this paper with great success, it helped me a lot. In general, attending or watching a course on research design will also help in demystifying a lot papers. For the terminology of specific fields if you are lucky you can find encyclopedias, otherwise you will need to pick it up like >>476 recommends. My impression was that even native speakers struggle with scientific papers, it's a very specific form of text.

Student

05/30/2021 (Sun) 13:49:58 Id: 733d20 No. 490

>>484 I cannot understand the words. This happens with my native language too, but i remember being able to understand a scientific paper in both languages.

Student

06/05/2021 (Sat) 19:34:50 Id: ddb956 No. 491

>>490 Technical terms? That's hard as every field has its own vocabulary, sometimes even reusing terms from other fields to mean something completely unrelated. If you study the field, you should pick it up naturally. E.g., an introductory course will explain a great deal of the most common technical terms. Otherwise, I recommend trying to find an encyclopedia (just search for "encyclopedia of" + field name, for example if you want to read papers about birds, "encyclopedia of ornithology") and searching the web a lot.

videos with captions Student

05/22/2021 (Sat) 14:02:42 Id: 988f96 No. 483 [Reply]

In the end, captions help or not in listening? For now let's share videos with captions. Every drawingwiffwaffles' videos i checked have manual captions on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9TkZPJZu4w

Student

05/23/2021 (Sun) 10:08:07 Id: 27c72f No. 487

I don't particularly like captions and subtitles when learning some new language, because it becomes too distracting to the act of learning the vocalization of words. However I'll say that some people are absolutely unintelligible, i.e. Americans can't act for shit in their movies and just whisper lines. I find it impossible to watch an American movie, while a Brit one is usually perfectly serviceable.

Student

05/25/2021 (Tue) 20:57:26 Id: 74503a No. 489

>>487 I can not comprehend British movies without subtitles, i think it's because most of the actors are from the South near Bristol or London or Cardiff, Wales. It much easier to understand those from Manchester or Liverpool then all the places.

Anonymous 05/10/2021 (Mon) 04:19:59 No. 499 [Reply]

anyway to learn several lamguage at once

Linguistics books thread Student

08/25/2020 (Tue) 11:08:27 Id: 998b36 No. 328 [Reply]

Place to discuss books dedicated to the science and art behind linguistics. Books to get started: >The Language Instinct (Pinker) >Symbolic Species (Deacon) >Lost Languages (Robinson) >An Introduction To Language (Fromkin, Rodman, Hyams) Feel free to ask for recommendations or leave suggestions.

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Student

03/05/2021 (Fri) 18:27:13 Id: 32920e No. 441

>>438 very >>440 Not very

Student

03/06/2021 (Sat) 09:49:19 Id: 8de2b1 No. 443

>>440 We don't get many users posting stuff here, but I see a lot of people watching the /icup/ matches rooting for /lang/. Perhaps it needs more content?

Student

04/24/2021 (Sat) 21:42:21 Id: d02cbe No. 477

Any books on psycholinguistics and/or languages?

Student

03/06/2021 (Sat) 13:38:14 Id: effb9b No. 445 [Reply]

helo anons, does anyone knows website or app that lists the allll the translation of the word you type down below? like all the languages in the world maybe? i recall there was one app in android s earlier version but not in the later version the one with brown book icon...

Student

03/06/2021 (Sat) 21:50:40 Id: 34e66c No. 446

>>445 I have an old LG tablet and know of that app but I think it was just called Dictionary or Translator or something along those lines. Alternatively, I just use Wiktionary and hope there's a direct translation, usually it does the trick.

Student

03/07/2021 (Sun) 04:53:15 Id: 3a4a95 No. 447

The closest thing you'll probably be able to find to that is Wiktionary. The number of translations vary depending on the word, but it will list every translation that anyone has bothered to add, which for common words can be a lot.

Student 05/06/2020 (Wed) 20:21:48 Id: 77fa21 No. 197 [Reply] [Last]

Hey linguistic brothers, We're announcing a revamped Infinity Cup this year! Come join us over at https://anon.cafe/icup/ and make your own team!

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Student

02/10/2021 (Wed) 03:23:23 Id: 565fc5 No. 432

The GCUP Friendlies are set! Teams and gimmicks were drawn at random; you will be playing /pol/ in the sixth friendly of the tournament. Start time can be found here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-02-20T19:30:00 We'll be showing these matches on the 8cup cytube as usual. Tune in!

Student 02/20/2021 (Sat) 18:19:53 No. 434

We're on in just over an hour! Bonŝancon!

Student 02/20/2021 (Sat) 19:27:42 No. 435

>>434 https://cytube.xyz/r/ICUP