#duolingo chinese

[egggod17]

woah

#duolingo #duolingo japanese #duolingo chinese

[ayin-me-yesh]

In light of Duolingo laying off its translators, here are my favourite language apps (primarily for Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and te reo Māori).

Multiple Languages

Anki is a flashcard programme and app that's not exclusively for languages. While making your own decks is ideal, you can also download shared decks for most languages.

If you're learning Japanese, specifically, Seth Clydesdale has websites for practicing alongside Genki's 2nd or 3rd editions, and he also provides his own shared Anki decks for Genki.

And if you're learning te reo Māori, specifically, here's a guide on how to make your own deck.

TOFU Learn is an app for learning vocabulary that's very similar to Anki. However, it has particularly excellent shared decks for East Asian languages. I've used it extensively for practicing 汉字. Additionally, if you're learning te reo Māori, there's a shared deck of vocabulary from Māori Made Easy!

Mandarin Chinese

Hello Chinese is a fantastic app for people at the HSK 1-4 levels. While there's a paid version, the only thing paying unlocks is access to podcast lessons, which imo are not really necessary. Without paying you still have access to all the gamified lessons which are laid out much like Duolingo's lessons. However, unlike Duolingo, Hello Chinese actually teaches grammar directly, properly teaches 汉字, and includes native audio practice.

Japanese

Renshuu is a website and app for learning and practicing Japanese. The vast majority of its content is available for free. There's also a Discord community where you can practice alongside others.

Kanji Dojo is a free and open source app for learning and practicing the stroke order of kanji. You can learn progressively by JLPT level or by Japanese grades. There's also the option to learn and practice kana stroke order as well.

#language learning #language resources #duolingo #mandarin chinese #japanese #te reo māori

[bngrc]

Teaching French to English Speakers:

French lesson: The word "sur" means "on" English speaker: Okay. French lesson: For example, 　The vase is [on] the table. 　The house is [on] the right. 　I read this book [on] his recommendation. 　Bring me the file [on] copyright licensing. English speaker: Right. Got it. "Sur" means "on."

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Teaching French to Chinese speakers:

French lesson: The word "sur" means "on." Chinese speaker: Okay. French lesson: For example, 　The vase is [on] the table Chinese speaker: Right. Got it. "Sur" means "on." French lesson: The word "sur" also means "towards." Chinese speaker: Eh? French lesson: For example, 　The house is [towards] the right. Chinese speaker: Oh...kay. French lesson: The word "sur" also means "because of." Chinese speaker: What? H..how? What? French lesson: For example, 　I read this book [because of] his recommendation. Chinese speaker: Why does this one word mean all these things? Don't y'all have any other words? French lesson: The word "sur" also means "containing information pertaining to." Chinese speaker: Stop fucking around with me. French lesson: For example, 　Bring me the file [containing information pertaining to] copyright licensing. Chinese speaker: What the fuck is wrong with this language?

#linguistics #english #french langblr #chinese langblr #french grammar #since ppl who don't follow me are reblogging this I feel I should clarify that I made this post #because I've been taking 2 French courses on Duolingo - the one for English speakers AND the one for Chinese speakers #I finished the Duolingo Chinese course for English speakers and was frustrated by how little content it offered

[zzzzzestforlife]

increasingly "useless" reasons why i like learning languages

@studentbyday said i should re-define "useless" in my mind. instructions unclear. made a shitpost instead 💩

💌: inside-my-phone format is back!🍃 do you agree/disagree with my MTL rankings? what motivates you? 👀

i can be a more empathetic, understanding, and supportive person who makes sure to only cuss people out in languages they don't understand so that their feelings aren't hurt ❤️

i can talk to more people who will probably think i'm an idiot because of how badly i speak their language 👄

i can nurture my self-confidence/-esteem as long as i don't think too hard about how much i don't know 🥰

i can read more books, articles, people arguing on the internet, etc. 📚

i can travel to foreign countries more easily until someone asks me to translate something important and i mess up and land us both in prison or something ✈️

i can unlock new work opportunities until someone asks me to translate something important and i mess up and land us both in prison or something 💼

i can multitask better even though i shouldn't even be doing it in the first place 🤹‍♀️

i can watch my favorite shows/listen to my favorite songs without subtitles/translations so that my brain rot can continue in peace 📺

i can, on the other hand, stop losing brain cells?? 🧠

i can eavesdrop on more people, probably at the grocery store 🙉

i can show off at work and other places where it is appropriate to show off irrelevant skills ✨

sex appeal?? 🥵

#langblr #studyblr #study motivation #study inspiration #korean langblr #chinese langblr #japanese langblr #korean studyblr #chinese studyblr #japanese studyblr #learning languages #language learning #language lessons #duolingo #zesty's life #languages #multilingual #multilanguage #bilingual #motivation #humor #shitpost #self development #self improvement #study blog #study aesthetic #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #polyglot

[marilearnsmandarin]

...and that's enough.

I've finished all new Chinese content and have been doing reviews only for a while now. It feels like I'm seeing the same five sentences over and over.

But some changes they made a few months ago (the daily quests and the double xp reward for doing lessons in the morning and in the afternoon) had been very effective in making me log in more (and watch more adds). And wasting time, really.

After so much dedication, I wanted to feel like I'd accomplished something before stopping. I wanted to finish the "champion" level, but that would take at least another week of "what is today's meeting mainly about?".

800 days seems like a nice round number to stop at.

I had already made this decision, but with the recent news of Duolingo's massive translators layoff, I'm glad to be quitting it now.

I hope to replace the habit of doing Duolingo in th evening with reviews on SuperChinese or some Tofu Learn practice.

#personal #duolingo #studyblr #langblr #language learning #chinese langblr

[wtfduolingo]

So I am at a weird state of mind. And my Chinese lesson gave me this:

Thank you, DuoLingo, for the added extra meanings.

包子 is no longer "steamed buns" in my head.

It now means "bag of kids".

omg

#duolingo #chinese

[tokyogruel]

one of my favorite parts of milgramblr is that people just started sharing how to speak in their native tongue and im like. ecstatic about it

#me 11 years olf watching hetalia and claiming proudly to my family that i was going to learn korean japanese french chinese etc. etc. #the list went on #they all looked at me like i was stupid but boy now that im living on my own and not losing my mind (as much) #ive taken to learning languages like a house on fire #day 300 of jpn duolingo coming up 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[beautiful-basque-country]

Wow, I'm on the top 5% among all Duolingo learners this year!! I committed myself to Chinese and here I am!!

Totally unexpected but awesome!

#chinese #duolingo #languages #personal #wow #off topic

[why-am-i-always-hungruy]

hey guys i need to learn another language bc my life is falling apart

already doing Chinese(for school) and Latin so ima need you to pick for me

#language #duolingo #latin #chinese

[brillemos]

Not to be emo on main but I was doing a lesson in the Spanish from Chinese duolingo course when I got punched in the face with this:

孤独是我最好的朋友 Gūdú shì wǒ zuì hǎo de péngyǒu La soledad es mi mejor amiga Loneliness is my best friend

Like yeah it's true but why did you have to remind me duolingo?!?! 😭😭😭

#bri speaks #note i'm just poking fun at myself here not actually upset lol #duolingo #chinese #spanish

[mejomonster]

How did you learn Chinese, like did you use a specific program like Duolingo or did you take classes? How hard was it to read Priest's novels with where you were at in your language learning journey? I want to get back into learning (been wanting to since I watched The Untamed,) but I gave up about 8 months ago 😭

Hey ovo)/ so uh. That's a big question. I have a studyblr @rigelmejo so if you really want the full on journey lol its on there, steps i took and what I studied and progress and study tools I found and used and stuff I've linked for people.

For the shortest tip I can give you? Would be to check out the Heavenly Path site if you're interested in learning to read novels. You'll need to figure out your own way to study about 1000 common hanzi, basic grammar, and basic pronunciation (I link resources on rigelmejo), but after that point the Heavenly Path site has reading resources for graded reading, easier kids novels, easier manhua, webnovels by difficulty level, all the way up! So you can at that point just follow their recommendations and use reading tools they link (like Pleco and Readibu apps which I suggest you download asap - they include tools where you can click a chinese word when reading for translation and audio pronunciation and pinyin). So yeah at 1000 hanzi, just start reading from their suggestions! (Also consider downloading Bilibili Comics app as it has English and Chinese free manhua, so you can start reading manhua earlier, and youtube/viki.com learn mode and Any platforms with dual english/chinese subs and start trying to look up 1 word every 5 minutes or more as curious and practicing reading the chinese words in subs you've learned). I suggest you check out all pages on the Heavenly site, they link a ton of resources.

The short-ish version of what I did the first year I studied chinese? I fumbled a lot, read through an entire grammar guide summary in a few weeks here http://chinese-grammar.com/, watched some YouTube tone videos and went through a pronunciation guide here https://www.dong-chinese.com/learn/sounds/pinyin which took a week or two and I'd do it every few months, read through the book Learning Chinese Characters: (HSK Levels 1-3) A Revolutionary New Way to Learn the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters by Tuttle publishing in about 2 months (I really liked their mnemonics to help me remember hanzi), started Ben Whatley memrise decks 1000 Chinese common words and 2000 common words (took about 2 weeks to finish one then I took a few months break then studied the other 1000, mainly focusing on studying new words and not reviewing until the last week if I had time - in retrospect I think learners would do better with the Chinese Spoonfed Anki deck but the memrise courses I used worked fine for me). I was watching cdramas as usual most weeks, English subs with the Chinese hardsubs on the video file like most youtube cdramas, with Google Translate app on my phone to look up a word every several minutes as curious. Once I was 3ish months in and learning the memrise Ben Whatley 2000 common chinese words, I read some Mandarin Companion graded readers in Pleco app then some more 300-600 word graded readers in Pleco. That gets me to like month 6ish. Then I started reading manhua and looking up words in pleco or Google translate when I needed to in order to grasp main idea overall (or was curious about a particular word). Kept reading graded readers in pleco.

Around month 8 I tried 天涯客 and 镇魂, both brutally hard. I was reading in Pleco in the Clipboard Reader (from websites) or the Reader tool (i bought it for like $20 dollars along with handwriting recognition, OCR, and expanded dictionaries). Mandarinspot.com has a good reading tool too that can add pinyin if you need it, and Readibu in some ways i prefer to Pleco depending on your particular reading needs on a given day. Tried a few easier webnovels, tried a pingxie fanfic 寒舍 which was hard but easier than priest novels (love that fanfic). I kept bouncing between webnovels then around month 10 天涯客 novels took about 1.5 hours to read through a chapter. At that point I brute force tried to read it or 寒舍 daily with 1 chapter a day, got 28 chapters in before i burned out with 天涯客 and 60ish chapters into 寒舍. It was about a year in. I cram studied 500 hanzi in some common hanzi deck with mnemonics I found on anki over a month, hoping if I improved vocab I'd read easier. I also was gradually trying to watch more cdrama with only chinese subs, around month 6 I finally watched Granting You a Dreamlike life full episodes with no eng subs (about 5-10 word lookups an episode), watched 15ish eps, then after that shows got less daunting to try watching.

A little over a year in Word of Honor came out and I watched it in chinese first because I was too impatient for eng subs. After that went decently I got braver about reading, tried Listening Reading Method (see @rigelmejo for those experiments), more stuff etc like extensive reading with no word lookups.

In retrospect I WISH I'd started with easier novels Heavenly Path recommended. However on the other hand? I've seen people who read their first cnovel with Pleco as early as 3-6 months in which blows my mind. So me picking hard novels to start isn't the Hardest thing in comparison lol. This past year (so at start of year 3 studying lol) I actually read like 10 things on Heavenly Paths easier recommendations and it helped immensely in filling in gaps in vocab and reading fluidity I had. So if you do pick a priest novel as your first novel and manage to chug through it without giving up, be aware "easier" novels may still have stuff you can learn later so don't rule them out as reading materials later on.

I've also seen people do literally no study except maybe some curious Google searches on hanzi or grammar or pronunciation, then brute force read novels in Readibu until they improved. A brutal way to do it but possible. (I really recommend at minimum learning hanzi are made of radicals though as it makes recognizing and remembering them so much easier).

I think the best thing I did for learning to read was just being Brave and Trying to read regularly. And it gradually got less hard.

#replies #ask #chinese #do not use duolingo to learn chinese im sorry. i mean u can but im begging u do something else Too #duolingo is paced so Slowly. to make progress at a pace you may prefer #i really recommend almost Anything else at a decent pace. most popular textbooks go at decent pace #hell even brute force just opening novels in Readibu or Pleco and slowly reading word by word to learn #is faster

[zzzzzestforlife]

getting over my "intermediate slump" in 3 languages 🇰🇷🇨🇳🇯🇵

i've barely reached intermediate level in two of my target languages, yet i'm already slumping so hard 🙈 and the worst part is, because Japanese is so similar to Korean and Chinese, i'm getting bored when i'm barely even N5 yet 😅 so starting today, i want to take inspiration from this article to get over my slump and find that excitement and joy in learning again!

✍️ target language output practice yay

🇰🇷 most days i'm keeping my diary in Korean lately! i can even write bad(?) poetry in Korean (no, i will not elaborate 🙈)

🇯🇵 Kanji + Hiragana writing practice for the days of the week + keyboarding practice writing a short journal entry!

🎧 target language input binge let's gooo

🇰🇷 reminding myself why i can't watch Hello, Counselor 😡 i just get so mad at these entitled, rude, small-minded men (적어도 승관씨는 이해... 아이돌입니다 또는 아니야, 그는도 화나했어요 at least Seungkwan understands... idol or not, he's angry too 🥺)

🇰🇷 귀여운 귤은 인터뷰를 있어요 (cute tangerine does an interview), 난 봤어 그럼요 (i watched it of course)

🇯🇵 優しな母と優し家族 (kind mom and kind family) vlogs 1, 2

🇰🇷 Seventeen Artist-Made Season 2 (the upper-middle child line, lol)

🎯 target language drills

🇯🇵 3 lessons + unit exam

🇨🇳 4 lessons

💌: besides low-key neglecting to do more meaningful study in Chinese, i think i did pretty well! there's only so much time in one day after all. the important thing is i feel motivated to continue tomorrow ☺️

#studyblr #langblr #study aesthetic #korean studyblr #korean langblr #japanese studyblr #japanese langblr #chinese studyblr #chinese langblr #study motivation #study inspiration #100 days of productivity #100 days of studying #100 days of self discipline #zesty's life #astudentslifebuoy #heydilli #learning languages #learning japanese #learning chinese #learning korean #language lessons #language learning #language study #languages #light academia #chaotic academia #duolingo #studyspo #study space

[wtfduolingo]

[ID: a duolingo phrase in simplified mandarin that reads: you are a lawyer, right?]

#duolingo #chinese

[zhuzhudushu]

Duolingo friends anyone?

Since I'm going to Japan in 82 DAYS???? I am going to do some basic Japanese on duolingo!!

If you want to add me I'd love to have some more friends on there: ZhuzhuJulz

#chinese langblr #mandarin langblr #chinese learning #japanese #japanese langblr #japanese learning #duolingo

[durn3h]

I should start learning a language, that would give me something to do

#I really don’t know what I want to learn though #gf is learning Italian so I could start learning it along with her #but I was already doing it on duolingo like 6 months ago and it’s so easy I got bored #I have a strong distaste towards learning French but it would be a valuable language #in terms of market value Chinese would probably be best #but it just doesn’t really interest me either #there’s just no language that particularly interests me #if anything I would learn Ancient Greek or Latin or some other ancient language #but that would be entirely useless outside of my own entertainment #which isn’t a bad thing #but still #idk

[mylilcomfycorner]

The confusing draft next to the organized sheet that will stay on my binder

I had some time at work, since it's a slow season, and took the opportunity to study some mandarin.

#picking up where i left off #studies #mandarin #chinese #mandarin chinese #ideogram #pin ying #studying #slow season #hobbies #fun afternoon #vocabulary #new vocab #duolingo #language #languages #drafts #draft #binder #studybrl #study motivation #study aesthetic #study blog #Spotify #汉语 #langblr #lexie liu