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FAQ U: >How do I learn a language? What is the best way to learn one? How should I improve on certain aspects? Read the damn wiki >Should I learn lang Y so I can learn lang X? No >What is the most useful language? Rioplatense Spanish (Buenos Aires) >What language should I learn? Rioplatense Spanish (Montevideo)
>facile Le Soleil rayonne Regarde, une étoile filante ! Peux-tu voir Vénus ? >moyen Dans beaucoup de langages, le mot pour "lune" et le mot pour "mois" sont proches parents voir même identiques Le groupe Genesis a sorti une chanson appelée "Watcher of the Skies" (L'observateur des ciels), un nom pris d'un sonnet par John Keats L'année dernière, j'ai quitté ma ville natale et déménagé à une petite village loin de toute ville, et depuis lors, je suis capable de voir les étoiles tellement plus facilement >difficile Le compositeur anglais Gustav Holst est célèbre principalement pour sa suite orchestrale "The Planets" (Les planètes), dont chaque planète autrement que la Terre a son propre mouvement musical En dépit de sa popularité répandue et des acclamations considérables, je crois depuis longtemps que le film original de Star Wars (La Guerre des étoiles) est une perte du temps, donc je ne peux pas dire que j'étais déçu quand les films suivants dans la série ont reçu des critiques pauvres La nature de la physique est telle que* voyager plus vite que la lumière est plus proche de la science-fiction que de la science; par conséquent, c'est improbable que nous pourrions envoyer des personnes à d'autres systèmes solaires n'import quel moment dans un avenir proche
*= (...telle que faire possible que les humains voyagent... ?)
Ignore this. I wanted to delete it but my subhuman internet isn`t working on my computer OR phone
Mason Mitchell
kill all porteños
Dylan James
where are these books at, like, the series of these blue/yellow contrast books say for another langguage like arabic i found them on the /lang/ general mega link but they are not on the teach yourself site (library.teachyourself.com/). how do i get one and what would you recommend me for arabic. im looking to learn levantine dialect and msa after it. i WILL NOT use dli/fsi/peace nigger corps shit beacause their are uselss. the recordings and shit are mismatched and are boring as hell.
1. "Fewer" is used with countable nouns (there are fewer cups), while "less" is used with uncountable nouns (there is less water). Many native English speakers will use "less" with countable nouns, but that's not standard. 2. "Make something of oneself" is an idiom meaning "to be successful." 3. In British English, periods are placed outside of quotation marks, but in American English, they're placed inside the quotation marks, so you weren't wrong. 4. "To" sounds better than "into" here, but I can't explain why. 5. Both are fine. 6. If you're already using "one" as an indefinite pronoun, you should stick with it instead of switching to "they." However, "they" would work if the sentence said something like "When a person intends to do something, they must execute it at will."
Luis Campbell
>less opportunities Nothing wrong with this >into the next As above >out of myself Yeah it just sounds better without out >one to procastate Not wrong but worrdy >one must They is more colloquial. One is higher but not that nice.
Michael Johnson
The blue and yellow covers are the best Teach Yourself books. They're a bit older, but you can still find them on Amazon or AbeBooks. I have a bunch of them for various languages.
Aiden Parker
No reason in particular, the guy who corrected you is a retard. Most of these points have to do with style rather than grammar. "Shall" is archaic and/or obsolete in most varieties of English. Fewer and less is an old meme in English grammar. A group of people say that "less" is only acceptable with countable nouns, but historically that hasn't been the case.
God I fucking hate prescriptivists and people who conflate style and grammar (although they do overlap).
Jose Martin
This x2
Samuel Myers
I forgot the will vs shall thing. Both are fine (but "shall" is very uncommonly used in the US).
Jackson Parker
what does non rioplatense argentinian sound like?
Oliver Howard
The point is that, when you speak a foreign language, you should try to speak in the highest register possible. You can start to speak in lower registers, once you've mastered the language. And this isn't some philosophical thing about prescriptivism, but rather what you should do if you don't want to make a bad or odd impression on native speakers. Personally, I would find it very odd if an ESL (even with a very high level) started speaking zoomerspeak.
Lincoln Lopez
the jordanian isn't using any kind of zoomerspeak
Xavier Flores
>The point is that, when you speak a foreign language, you should try to speak in the highest register possible. That's your opinion.
Thomas Wright
> The point is that, when you speak a foreign language, you should try to speak in the highest register possible. First of all, how do you even imagine this in practice? You are going to sound like a retarded English teacher from India. Most language courses try to teach you a standard colloquial variety that sounds natural and allows you to talk to people in day-to-day communication. Because that's what most learners want. Following prescriptivist guidelines doesn't automatically make your register "higher" or "lower", and if some native speakers disagree they are not worth your time at all.
Robert Roberts
It's an observation. It's the way things work if you want to be understood and not disdained. Generally, language courses teach a register that is higher than the one used by native speaker everyday and with good reason, too. >Following prescriptivist guidelines doesn't automatically make your register "higher" or "lower" I disagree. Following something as slight as "make sure your sentences don't end in prepositions" will make you sound a lot more formal.
Sebastian Jenkins
>zoomerspeak I only use basedspeak >based, cringe, söyjack, cringe, reddit, [color]pilled, joos, fren, loicense
Owen Robinson
>"make sure your sentences don't end in prepositions" Ending sentences with prepositions is perfectly correct T H O U G H
Gavin Cooper
> I disagree. Following something as slight as "make sure your sentences don't end in prepositions" will make you sound a lot more formal. Following something like that will probably make you come off as a pedant, a kind of person that most people hate. Or worse, they might not even understand why you speak like that and think you're weird. Again, formality is reserved to formal situations, and being formal in day-to-day conversations is unnatural and should be avoided for learners who want to sound like natives.
