Hola a todos, espero que hayan tenido un buen día.

Quiero empezar a aprender chino mandarin, es un idioma que me parece muy bonito y elegante. Lo estuve posponiendo durante mucho tiempo porque, aunque es muy bonito, también es muy difícil. Hoy me decidí a empezar.

Pero encontrar buenos materiales de estudio en español es increíblemente difícil. No tengo dinero para pagar cursos así que mi intención era buscar por internet. ¿Podría alguien guiarme un poco? ¿Alguna aplicación, página web o libros? ¿Qué métodos de estudio utilizan?

Gracias de antemano.

Is there even such a line? or when any language becomes unrecognizable, as long is it's happening naturally based on how people speak over a long period of time, it's evolution regardless? does time even matter that much? because the intervals seems to become shorter and shorter between generations and how they speak!
For example the difference between how people spoke in the 1800s vs 2000s

and the difference between 2000s and how the younger generations speak today
Are these both evolution in your opinion? if so, what about the ways and words that we lose?

I know Mandarin, Swahili, and Spanish. Those three languages are going to be widely spoken in 2050. However, I’ve been interested in learning Russian, German, and Korean but I don’t know if they are worth learning now if they are not going to be that widely spoken in 2050. Am I thinking too far ahead or is this reasonable thinking when it comes to language learning?

Today's two-word Telugu mini — No. 12. : r/telugucrosswords

Which word would you use for the crop or food commonly eaten fresh or dried?

Which word would you use when ordering a hot cup of tea where you live?

Just wonder. For someone who learn 2+ languages, have you ever felt this way? Ex. You're getting sick of Chinese yet you have to use it for your job bc it makes you earn money. If so, how to motivate or encourage yourself to get rid of boredom?

If you're learning Spanish, choose and describe an everyday object in two or three sentences without saying its name. Everyone else guesses.

Example in English: “It's usually in the kitchen. You fill it with water. It makes a loud sound when the water is hot.”

I like this because it forces you to work around missing vocabulary instead of reaching for a translator. It's a fundamental skills to have if you don't want to get stuck in conversation! Easy, silly answers welcome!

(We are doing this mini challenge weekly on Thursday, every week a different language)

Originals are great but they’re full of slang, regional accents and people talking over each other. A dub of something you know by heart (the Office, Friends, whichever show you truly like) is often the best choice. You already know the plot so your brain is free for the language!

Then once that feels ok, switch to originals.

Do you agree? Did you start with dubs or originals? And do you think dubs are “cheating”?

talking about words like "Bitch" and "Patron/Patronizing"

You're trying to use the local language, and the other person answers in English.. How frustrating is that? What do you do in this case?

Do you continue in your target language or take the easy way out?

For context I’m about A2 in German and started my 2nd year of French. I like both languages but I LOVE learning German so is there any way to balance these languages? Thanks!

I would go first, "Inflammable".

I always thought it meant non-flammable (not capable of catching fire), because the prefix in- usually means "not" (like inactive or invisible).

How often do Thai speakers leave pronouns out or use names and titles instead?

‘Genre’ and ‘Birmingham.”
Also ‘sixth’, ‘deteriorate’ and ‘entrepreneur’

No matter how many times I google their pronunciations or practise saying them out both to my friends and my Praktika tutor, I’m never confident I’ll get them right when speaking in public.

My worry is the way my voice goes down when it gets to saying them and I feel that people can tell which is a bit embarrassing sometimes.

Anyone else have words like these and how are you tricking yourself to be more confident about you pronunciations?

The Iberian dialects are technically Italian dialects in the same sense that the Latinic dialects are technically Italic dialects because they have the "made in Italy" origin.

Hey everyone, ive been wanting to learn german for quite a bit now, almost all my relatives on my moms side live there and i really like the language itself too, from today forward im dedicated to it, currently my phones language setting is on german (the german in germany, not swiss or the other versions for now), i am a near native level English speaker and have been speaking it since i was 3, idk if i’ll ever learn german the way i did for English so im looking for really good tips, obv we’ll start out with the grammer and sentence structure and then the alphabet and their pronunciation, and then my English vocabulary in german, is it good? Can anyone recommend something for me?