DICKS EVERYWHERE

>>6968
First off,

>9gag

Next on the list,

>see pic

He's wrong here, ㄱ is not always "g", ㄷ is not always "d", etc.

>>6949
Course that teaches Korean in Japanese: http://www.coelang.tufs.ac.jp/modules/ko/index.html

Not sure how effective it is because I cannot into moon.

>>6991

Holy shit, that is awesome!

>>6993

Why did this thread get bumped to the front page? Is it stickied now or something?

>>8003

>Talk like an educated english speaker

And what does that sound like exactly? A Midwest American accent? RP? Estuary/BBC English? Language standards are a heap of crap.

>Language standards are a heap of crap.

Linguistics 101: Rule #1

>>8006

I say it burer sometimes (with a flapped r). I didn't even realize that I was doing it.

A linguistic troll thread? mmmh... Interesting.

Mandarin has a rhotic sound. In Beijing dialect it's especially strong. Some characters have an added rhotic sound to it.

>>8040
I am polish but there is noway for me to understand russian leters. Words sound similar, but i think czech language is easier to understand, if you know polish already.
Our language sounds like whispering, that make it difficult to understand and pronunce. Also in our grammar you can say "two" in 17 different ways depending on the context. Good luck with this language cause it's like one of most difficult worl'd languages:)

>>8102
Another fellow polfag here (wow, I had no idea there were so many of us here... counted at least three myself included!). OP, yeah, you should learn Polish, 'cause if you manage to find a teacher, you'll likely save one poor soul from unemployment. A linguistics student myself, I know better than anyone that the only thing more annoying than having to learn a hard language is having to learn how it works. Too fucked up to remember half of what I was going to type, but yeah, there you have it in a nutshell.

>>8040
Yeah you should, but it must be damn difficult. I once tried to teach one guy Polish but I had no clue how to even present the grammar, there is so much complexity not present in romance languages or in English. Russian is similar to Polish, maybe to the extent Dutch is to English: very much in common, you can read Dutch and more or less get it, but when they start to speak - hell no
And there is the cyrillic alphabet, but that's a few hours of study and you can read it.

polfag of course. Everyone is Polish or American on the internets

>>8117
O kurwa, ale siara. Nie dość, że taga nie usunął, to jeszcze bierze obrazki z kwejka. o kurwa.

>>8117

>Everyone is Polish or American on the internets

You're probably better off looking into other methods as your main learning tool. I don't know shit about French though.

I've only done a little french on livemocha but i've done a decent amount of the german. I think that it's got some beneficial aspects but since i'm cheap I spend almost as much time grading other people's submissions to get the tokens as I do spending them on lessons myself.

Just started using duolingo too, I enjoy it as well. Also, you should try to get the pimsleur audio. Helps with speaking and auditory comprehension.

You can still do the basic vocab courses free, even after your time runs out, I think.

I can, at least.

lingq.com

I have several friends who did this with the Navy/CG.
They all say "everyone thinks they do terrible but almost everyone gets in." It's once you start doing the intense study in Monterrey that people drop out like flies.

>>7747
I want to try for a score of 105-110, I would love to learn Chinese or Russian. Bump for more study material.

I've been researching hardcore, this is the best resource found so far.

http://blog.linguiphile.com/dlap-test-preparation

Future Airman here, I took the DLAB, there's no way to study for it whatsoever but I still ended up making a 117 on it. Your best bet on helping you in any way would be taking tests in which you have to memorize rules that apply to each section and the next section and so on. Also, you don't get to select which language you want. Your language is entirely based on necessity so you're probably going to end up speaking Farsi or Korean. But more than likely you'll end up with a desert language unless you already have progress in a certain language that the military needs. Good luck to you though, just remember to go in with a steady mindset and leave with a steady mindset, keep calm, and get PLENTY of sleep the night before. You'll do fine.

The DLAB is fairly easy, if you're good at recognizing patterns and remembering rules. (like "all adjectives must now come after the noun; both must also have the same ending. ex: "pigga browna").

Preparing yourself for it: bring a jacket and something to read when you're done because MEPS facilities suck and are always fucking cold. Get a good night's rest beforehand, eat the complimentary hotel breakfast, and get ready to sit back and enjoy watching the English language be raped asunder before your very eyes. Again, pattern recognition is key. When it comes to it, your gut's a good place to go for decisions lest you wind up over-thinking your answers. Don't lose track of time either.

I got a 127 on that bitch and now I'm ballin' it up in monterey, so don't sweat it too hard bro. (btdubs: it's out 176, not 126)

A good summary of the test itself:
http://blog.linguiphile.com/dlap-test-preparation

The DLAB is easy as balls. It's the classes here at DLI that will truly skullfuck you.

>>8092

It's just the past tense-ending for verbs, it would be the same for him/her, them or even it, both in singular and plural form: "The bear fucked it up" = "Bjørnen fuckede det op". "The end fucked it up" = "Politikerne fuckede det op". Some verbs you add "de" at the end in the past tense form, some just "e" and some are completely irregular.

BTW I'm trying to refresh the German I learned in school by listening to some of the online radio stations.

>>8093

Oops, my cursor pwned me. "The politicians fucked it up" = "Politikerne fuckede det op"

NB

>>8092

>I'm most familiar with English and German, and their silly admixture, Denglisch. I reckon a lot of these loanwords will be dropped or naturalised (via gender, pronounciation etc.) in the next half-century. By then I reckon Chinese will be challenging English's dominance, so there may be a new source of loanwords.

You are a very naïve person. Most linguists agree that German will only continue to increase in Anglicisms and adapt itself to an increasingly anglophone dominated world and the idea of Chinese even challenging English is baseless folk-paranoia. Chinese has the most native speakers, while English far surpasses it in second language speakers. There are many many reasons why Chinese will never surpass English (short of Chinese military imperialism) and among those are: English has already got a foothold in business, science, and education and all a vast majority of professionals in these fields exclusively use English at an international level, English is taught from an early age now in most schools around the world while Chinese as a second language is nowhere near widespread even trailing behind languages which are not nearly as huge, numerous learning reasons in addition are a factor such as the fact that English uses the Latin alphabet and does not have tones which makes it a much much easier language for technology, and just about every other field (Chinese grammar is rather straightforward but that's where the difficulty ends - Hanzi are rubbish at an international level and most of the world's languages do not have tones - you can sound ridiculous in English and be understood - Chinese you cannot).

Nevertheless, why do you think Denglisch is silly? It's language evolution like any other and ideas of linguistic puritanism are draconian and baseless in reality, reserved for only the most pretentious "academics".

>>8095

> the difficulty ends

Ah, apologies. I meant "the ease ends".

>>8094
I guess your cursor fuckede det op

>do I absolutely need to learn all fourteen?

Mandatory only if you're into old literature. Otherwise don't bother, you only need to recognize them just in case but it's not in use.

>>8082

alright thanks. :) which ones are the bare minimum to know to converse in french woud you say? and which ones should be learned eventually but not necessarily mandatory to be able to spreak in french?

Indispensables: ind. présent (I speak), subj. présent (that I (would) speak), ind. passé composé (I spoke/I have spoken), subj. passé (that you had spoken), ind. imparfait (I was speaking), ind. futur simple (I will speak), ind. futur antérieur (I will have spoken), cond. passé (I would have spoken), cond. présent (I would speak), imp. présent (speak).
Subjonctif is not really necessary if you don't mind sounding illiterate because it's always imposed by a locution (afin que, en admettant que, non que, jusqu'à ce que etc.), as a tense it doesn't mean so much to be understood. Futur can also be expressed with the "I'm going to" formula, it's not considered as a tense but it might as well be.

Not so important: ind. passé simple, it's the correct translation of "I spoke" but it's a narrative tense fairly forgotten in the spoken language. You have to know it, but not use it. Of course if you learn it (or at least for "être" and "avoir") you will know passé antérieur at the same time.

Don't bother: subj. imparfait, plus-que-parfait, cond. passé (2ème forme), imp. passé.

>>8079

Presumably you already know Hanzi for the most part yeah? Start learning pronounciation, nail down those tones till you can distinguish them easily. Then learn some vocab. Use something like Pimsleur or Michel Thomas for grammar, then supplement later with a grammar textbook if you want.

I've never learnt Chinese myself, so take all that with a grain of salt. It's just what I did with Vietnamese (which also has tones), and focusing on pronounciation first and foremost was a big help.

>>7558
que?

>>7558
english actually has that same example

what can be used for that/which

like
"are you the boy what stole my car"

>>7560

Yes. I've heard that said before as a matter of fact!

>>5914
Well, sorry if it's frowned upon to bump such an old thread, but I remembered writing this and since I am doing some research on this dialect I've found it's not "thou hast", it's "thou has".

In Yorkshire verb conjugation, the "thou" form is always identical to the "he/she/it" form, and in some varieties the first person singular is as well.

>>8075

This is similar to how it often goes for the Lancashire dialect as well, as was mentioned earlier ITT. It often goes like "Thou has", "thou runs", "thou likes", etc.

>the "thou" form is always identical to the "he/she/it" form

Mm, ~usually~, not always.

I don't think anyone says "thou is" or "tha is", in the vein of "he is" or "it is".

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that "to be" always has its own special "thou" form in any kind of English.

I've read "thou art", and "tha'rt" as a contraction.

Although, perhaps "thou are" exists ("thou art" could easily segue into "thou are"--but it would be a big stretch to ever become "thou is").

Stop fagging up the board NinKendo. Take a walk or something. Get a life. Whatever works.

>>7940

>"hey guys check out this tool that should help you learn a language"
>fagging up the board

Perhaps you need to take a walk Mr. Gingerridge.

>>7940

Oh, please. You don't need to be such a fucking prick.

>>7939

Stable version is out now, download it off the main Anki page. If you want AnkiDroid, just go to http://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/downloads/list

I recommend v17, tried v18 and all sorts of issues syncing.

>>7960

Beta v19 of AnkiDroid is released, however I continue to suffer the problem with syncing. I wouldn't recommend updating to anybody that has had the same or a similar issue.