How is your language learning going this week? - Weekly discussion
How is your language learning going this week? - Weekly discussion
How is your language learning going this week? - Weekly discussion
For latin, i'm just reading LLPSI and texts.
For ukrainian, i'm playing metro with ukrainian subtitles/audio, so far not too much understood xd (though i can read ever so slightly faster now)
Cool it looks very interesting, Metro also has French audio, added to my list of games to play.
Metro the dystopian game? Nice! I haven't given it a try yet - also wanted to try Stalker 2!
If I may ask, what made you interested to learn latin?
Can't remember the exact reason, but i really liked the punic wars and i wanted to learn a single romance language. I decided to choose latin because of all the things written in it and understand the ties between all the romance languages.
Also, i think it sounds like a beautiful language, and the grammar; while kind of hard, is also quite pretty.
A YT channel i subscribe to posted a bunch of French songs to encourage you to learn more. I really enjoyed the tracks. Started exploring more. It is helping my French, but i still have a long way to go.
That is cool I listen to french songs sometimes in background but have not used them for intensive study. I think those song which repeat words/phrases alot help me remember the word/phrases.
I like this artist, Stromae
I listen to this playlist of various artists sometime.
One of the first song I heard that got me interested in the language. Jacques Brel - Amsterdam another one of his song. Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas
For variety, you can try opera as well. They drag out each word which I find interesting. Example Habanera de "Carmen": "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle"
I paused on L'étranger last week (will push through this week maybe 1 page per day) because I got more engrossed in the graded book called "Ã la découverte du Canada", It was right at my level. Most of the words/phrases bolded in the book were the ones that I didn't knew. It was more pleasant to read due to less look ups. I completed reading the book.
The next graded reader will be a book by Kit Embers which I stopped at 64% previously.
Nice to hear that you are making progress! And I love to hear that you paused reading and moved on to something else for a bit; I've heard that it can be quite a common problem that people can't "pause" or "come back to the book later" and forcefully push themselves through a book they started, which can ruin a good book.
For L'étranger I am only still halfway in the first chapter so I'm not too worried about ruining the book. I am happy to just understand what I am reading. I went back to the kit ember book after more than a month, the story came back easily but it is a graded reader and relatively simple content.