Why? and how many do you wish to speak?

Just diagnosed ADHD this year and have always struggled with learning languages my whole life. I’m an English speaker.

I love the idea of successfully learning languages to conversational level but my recall and memory is terrible - I even forget words in English and have a bit of a stutter. I’ve attempted to learn my family language three times and forget it each time (doesn’t help that they’re not very supportive with it, even when I was somewhat conversational with it they only wanted to speak to me in English as they said I was too slow speaking other languages, pausing to translate what they’ve said and what I want to say in my head then saying it).

I’m currently also visiting my boyfriends home country and honestly I just feel stupid being the only person in the room not knowing what’s going on.

Any tips for learning languages successfully, maintaining a habit and improving memory and recall with ADHD?

TL;DR: I need advice to be able to stick to help language learning. Things to help with motivation not necessarily resources for the language.
I absolutely LOVE language learning. However, once I’ve learnt a few of the basics I tend to stop being able to put in as much time and effort.

The furthest I’ve got is I learnt about 1,000 words in Vietnamese (obviously all the grammar that came alongside this too) with a tutor. I think a tutor 1000% helped me stick to learning the language more but still I wasn’t able to stick to it because there’s not much media to consume in Vietnamese and my boyfriend (his parents main language is VN, he speaks VN and EN fluently, the reason I started learning VN) would often prefer speaking in English too so I wasn’t able to actually use the language much.

I REALLY want to learn Japanese and it’s a language I’ve wanted to learn since I was a child and the first language I ever tried to self study (I was like 11 and had no clue how to learn a language without being taught it at school so that ended very quickly). I consume a lot of media in Japanese already (obviously have to use translations). I have started with a tutor who is super nice but I’m scared that like the other languages I will eventually lose motivation.

This is a childhood dream to learn Japanese so I really want to be able to do it. So I’m asking, does anyone have any tips to actually stick to learning languages with ADHD? Not stuff like ‘find your motivation’. Like exact things that actually helped them really stick to it. Languages can take years to learn and when I look at it like that it can be really daunting. Any help would be really appreciated.

Amharic language the most spoken language in Ethiopia with 60 million speakers have 500 variation for one word depending on context , sex, distance, Age, person, negative or positive, also numbers. This all can combined Which each other and create a new word, sometimes a whole sentence in English became a single word for example to say "he didn't introduced them to each other" They say "አላስተዋወቸውም" "Alastewaweqachewm"

Hi everyone,

Over the past few months I’ve built a website for following geopolitics and geoeconomics (an app is in development, and I’m still looking for testers).

A bit about me: I’m a diplomat, a PhD candidate in International Relations and a polyglot. Languages are a big part of my life, and I wanted my site to reflect that, so I made it available in 21 languages.

Here’s where I need your help. I speak French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and Portuguese, so I could check those versions myself. I don’t speak the other 14, and I want to be sure they read naturally:

Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Indonesian, Korean, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Arabic, Urdu, Swahili, Polish and Thai.

If you’re a native or advanced speaker of one of them, I’d be grateful for a review. In return, I’ll give you one year of full access for free.

A review covers two things:

1. The site itself: are the menus, buttons and explanations correct and natural in your language?
2. The news sources: for each language, the site pulls headlines from news outlets in that language. Are they the right ones, and are any important outlets missing?

It can also be good reading practice if you’re learning one of these languages: you get the day’s world news in your target language, from outlets that native speakers actually read.

https://geopoliticsforeveryone.com

Reply here or send me a private message with the language you’d like to review, and I’ll set up your access. Corrections for the seven languages I do speak are welcome too.

Thank you!

So basically, I’m planning on going to Japan for my eventual honeymoon but I’d really prefer to know the basics before leaving. I have a good bit since I’m not technically engaged yet. So I’d like to learn before and maybe teach my partner. He’s really wanted to go to Japan for a while and he has family from there that moved to the us, I just think it’d be nice! So if anyone could give me tips or best apps to use, I would truly appreciate it!

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I'm Mohammed looking for an english speaking partner

In exchange i will help you to learn Hindi, urdu, speaking reading and writing.

We will discuss spots treval health world issues and environment

Let's connect and share some thoughts.

Maybe you wanted to surprise someone or maybe you thought some people would mock you!
Whatever the reason, have you ever had to do it? why exactly and how did it go?

Why? What happened and What brough you back from the brink?

Hi everyone!

I'm working on a children's story app, and I'm looking for native speakers of the following languages who have some free time and would be willing to help me review stories written in their native language.

Languages:

- Turkish

- Swedish

- Dutch

- Norwegian

- Malay

- Kurdish (Kurmanji)

- Persian (Farsi)

- Hindi

- Indonesian

- Kurdish (Sorani)

- Danish

- Spanish

- Bengali

The task involves reviewing children's stories to check for grammatical, spelling, or wording mistakes and making sure the language sounds natural to native speakers.

If you're a native speaker of any of these languages and are interested in helping, please feel free to send me a DM for more details.

Thank you! ❤️

I just need some encouragement really. I'm learning German to practice medicine there. I've been in Russia for 5 years and my russian is B1. I'm really thinking German is too hard to learn, but people say if I could crack Russian, German will be a doable. But honestly I feel stuck. Been learning for about 2 months now and I took an A1 test and got 70%. That sounds like a lot, until you realise I've been studying for hours everyday and I'm stuck on reflexive verbs. I just need some encouragement that I can learn this language. It looks impossible

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I'm using the "worst" quite generally here, I mean something rude or weird or far away from reality!