The LOby

[Oby]

teaching oneself takes a lot of self discipline!!
Ah good luck with that. O:

[Spyridon]

Thanks!
This has been helpful:

[Ryvvi]

Oby yeah but, it would still be really hard like i can only remember "my name is ___"
after 6+ years of lessons
So even being able to communicate the important stuff is still really cool, and i couldnt even tell english wasnt your native(natural?) language so
@Spyridon How difficult is german to learn? ive wanted to visit germany for a while now

[Spyridon]

German is not especially difficult once you learn the rules of grammar. Words are pronounced exactly how they are spelled and the letters are very similar to English.

It helps to have someone to practice with. Like I said, I have a penpal and he corrects me where necessary.

[Oby]

Spyridon
Nice xD
I usually start with food bc food. :'D

@Ryvvi
I think a lot don't? Also I've been able to read and write english for 13/14? years now so kind of okay. But I don't always practice it unless online, so there would be certain words/expressions that I won't get right away.

[Ryvvi]

thats pretty good
sometimes expressions are by country rather than language anyway so

[Oby]

Yeah, I remember when I first tried online sites and had to google every idiom I see. :'D
I honestly thought they were literal

[Ryvvi]

hhaha i can imagine that would have been both confusing and hilarious xD

[Oby]

Mostly confusing
Like I didn't understand what kicked the bucket was before
and
I asked how far did it go

[Mika]

I excel at languages if I have someone to teach me directly... I don't do well learning from books... That's why I need Asian fellows! Lol.

[Turtle Sensei]

Actually some German words are not pronounced exactly how they're spelled. And their are different dialects too. Like my dialect is Swiss-Deutsche and I don't conjugate .

[Oby]

I learn languages through spaced repetition.
Like that's how I learned 3 and I'm p sure it works better than reading books. :'D

[Turtle Sensei]

Repetition helps me as well. German was my first language and I had to learn English when we !moved to America when I was 4.

[Oby]

repetition is kind of like the same process you go through kinder and stuff
Like they showed us flashcards and repeat them until we at least know half of them
RN it's kind of the same but I use applications. ; 3;

I still hope to learn Japanese and Malay but 5 languages seems so much haha;;;

[Turtle Sensei]

That is how they taught me English. Lol I accidentally got put into the wrong language class though because I don't look like the "typical" German. My dad is Jamaican and German. And my mother is american Indian and Irish. So I look Israeli or pacific islander