See title. I’ve been to quite a few local language meetups and saw lots of people IRL who are learning languages: wondering how are y’all doing too

For myself… learning French due to necessity. I am making progress, just veeery slow. I underestimated how difficult it would be (a lot of vocabs between English/French are similar… but the languages themselves are not!)

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
    7·
    19 hours ago

    I’m speedrunning French, trying to focus on Québécois you kinda end up learning traditional French too along the way. This is my third language.

    • Duo for daily practice and grammar, but it makes a lot of mistakes
    • Work group to practice speaking
    • I switched various daily apps to French
    • Grabbed a few comic books in French, happy to say I’m now past those :)
    • Québécois friends for slang and informal reference
    • Recently been playing Pokemon ZA in French (extra fun since it’s in Poke-Paris), quite pleased with it!

    I’m about a year in, and I’m low-level conversational. Solidly A2. Basically just taking any resources I can find, I plan to look for a proper class soon.

    Le chemin est très agréable, je le trouve bien!

    • emb@lemmy.world
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Pokemon Z-A in French is perfect, lol! I’ve been playing it for language learning too (Japanese). I think those games are pretty great for it, good low-stakes, familiar games that have a lot of text, but are also kid-approachable. Would be nice to have voice acting, but otherwise fantastic language immersion games.