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santeesioux said:
How do you get the tones down in Mandarin? That seems like the most useful Asian language to learn, but i'm so horrible with that kind of stuff i think i'd go for Japanese or Korean over it for that reason.
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This video might be helpful even though it's mostly about Thai tones:
 
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Anyone her follow through on their language learning goals?

Right now I'm working on Russian, Spanish, and French.
 
crandc said:
Studied French for many years including in college but with no real chance to use it (except a few books) a lot has been lost. Speak Spanish badly, understand more. With Spanish speaking friends, I try speaking Spanish and they try speaking English. A few phrases in Chinese, a tad Russian.

An Iranian friend taught me two phrases in Farsi, which, not knowing the alphabet, I can only transliterate.
Mag ba shah - death to the shah
NSFW: Bezar tukesan - stick it in me (not a phrase I'm likely to need)
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How the hell did I miss this before?

And I've upped my Pashto (kind of forced to) and started learning Korean (for me) and Latin (b/c my 7y/o is learning it in school, and I can't fathom not knowing something my 7 y/o knows. So we're learning together)
 
I speak common sense, which is a foreign language to many people.
 
The First Lady, Melania Trump, speaks 5 or 6 languages.
 
GriLtCheeZ said:
Anyone her follow through on their language learning goals?

Right now I'm working on Russian, Spanish, and French.
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My daughter is taking Spanish now, so my wife searched for an app we could all use to help her--and the rest of us as well--learn/practice. Went with "Duolingo", and we're all enjoying it.

Two days into class, my daughter found out that her homework is to use Duolingo. Sweet!

Funny part about this, after my wife, daughter and I all started using it, my son (who's 11 and doesn't have a phone) started asking if he could do it too. So we put it on a tablet for him. At this point, being able to play on Duolingo is his reward for finishing all his daily tasks/responsibilities. Imagine that--he'll clean his room faster for the privilege of learning a foreign language. Weird, huh?
 
PtldPlatypus said:
My daughter is taking Spanish now, so my wife searched for an app we could all use to help her--and the rest of us as well--learn/practice. Went with "Duolingo", and we're all enjoying it.

Two days into class, my daughter found out that her homework is to use Duolingo. Sweet!

Funny part about this, after my wife, daughter and I all started using it, my son (who's 11 and doesn't have a phone) started asking if he could do it too. So we put it on a tablet for him. At this point, being able to play on Duolingo is his reward for finishing all his daily tasks/responsibilities. Imagine that--he'll clean his room faster for the privilege of learning a foreign language. Weird, huh?
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That is awesome!

I am using Duolingo for Russian, as well as Pimsleur. For Spanish I am using Glossika which is a sort of brute force listen and repeat course for learners who need to activate their passive knowledge to gain fluency. I've been messing around with Spanish too long, so I've been forcing myself to do something which is kind of tedious in order to make some progress. Sort of a last ditch effort to gain fluency.
 
Yo hablo espanol
 
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