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IcelandicWord
Icelandic Word Of The Day @IcelandicWord@social.vivaldi.net · 4d ago
W O R D 🇮🇸 Icelandic: Fáviti 🇬🇧 English: Idiot 🏷️ Noun (masculine) E X A M P L E S E N T E N C E 🇮🇸 Icelandic: Hann er algjör fáviti. 🇬🇧 English: He is a complete idiot. G R A M M A R 📝 The noun 'fáviti' is masculine. In the nominative singular, it is 'fáviti', and in the definite form, it becomes 'fávitinn'. The accusative singular is 'fávita', and the definite form is 'fávitann'. The dative singular is 'fávita', with the definite form 'fávitanum'. The genitive singular is 'fávita', and the definite form is 'fávitans'. In the plural, the nominative is 'fávitar', and the definite form is 'fávitarnir'. The accusative plural is 'fávita', with the definite form 'fávitana'. The dative plural is 'fávitum', and the definite form is 'fávitunum'. The genitive plural is 'fávita', with the definite form 'fávitanna'. This noun follows a regular declension pattern for masculine nouns in Icelandic, with changes in endings to indicate case and number. Understanding these forms is crucial for proper sentence construction in Icelandic. #LearnIcelandic #Icelandic #LanguageLearning #Íslenska
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IcelandicWord
Icelandic Word Of The Day @IcelandicWord@social.vivaldi.net · 6d ago
W O R D 🇮🇸 Icelandic: Grunnskóli 🇬🇧 English: Primary school 🏷️ Noun (masculine) E X A M P L E S E N T E N C E 🇮🇸 Icelandic: Bornin mín ganga í góðan grunnskóla á Akureyri. 🇬🇧 English: My children go to a good primary school in Akureyri. G R A M M A R 📝 The word 'grunnskóli' is a masculine noun in Icelandic. In the indefinite form, it is 'grunnskóli' (a primary school), and in the definite form, it becomes 'grunnskólinn' (the primary school). The definite article is added as a suffix in Icelandic, unlike English where it is a separate word. For example, 'a good primary school' is 'góður grunnskóli' (indefinite), and 'the good primary school' is 'grunnskólinn góði' (definite). #LearnIcelandic #Icelandic #LanguageLearning #Íslenska
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farooqkz
Farooq [Master Patata] @farooqkz@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Aug 06, 2026
#Duolingo used to be so good for #LanguageLearning. Is there an alternative I can use to play games and learn languages? Boosts appreciated! #AskFedi #Learning #Education
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badeline
BAD~1.txt @badeline@void.lgbt · Aug 06, 2026
Boosts appreciated! What are some good (preferably free) resources for learning Dutch? #nl #nederlands #dutch #languagelearning
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codrlabs
Codrlabs @codrlabs@mstdn.business · Aug 03, 2026
If you lack an English-learning strategy, start simple: listen, collect words, and use Speekee to ask questions about definitions. Method beats memory. Build stability in 10–15 minutes a day. Download SpeakshApp and try it for free. #SpeakshApp #LearnEnglish #EnglishVocabulary #LanguageLearning #SpacedRepetition #EnglishFluency #StudyEnglish #ESL #VocabularyBuilder #Codrlabs
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ldottxt
L, indecision incarnate @ldottxt@kind.social · Jul 27, 2026
why do so many kanji related to money have the radical for shellfish #Japanese #LanguageLearning #kanji
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codrlabs
Codrlabs @codrlabs@mstdn.business · Jul 27, 2026
The secret to retaining English words isn't just practice—it's consistency. SpeakshApp's reminders help you build small wins every day, even if you just glance at the notification. Try it for free. No gamification, just real progress. #SpeakshApp #LearnEnglish #EnglishVocabulary #LanguageLearning #SpacedRepetition #EnglishFluency #StudyEnglish #ESL #VocabularyBuilder #Codrlabs
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LisaKalayji
Lisa Kalayji @LisaKalayji@infosec.exchange · Jul 19, 2026
Has anyone tried this? How was it? https://beepboop.us/ #LanguageLearning #Spanish
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Bryan (he/him) | Terminal Tilt @TerminalTilt@social.terminaltilt.com · Jul 18, 2026
Story time (and probably over sharing): I am super English. Like, all of the DNA tests (Ancestry, 23andMe, etc) basically say "You're English AF." Since then, I have been able to trace family history back to maybe the 9th Century Viking invasions from basically Denmark (Ubba's Great Heathen Army). My ancestors basically immigrated in the 17th century for religious freedom to Virginia. 23andMe likes to tell me they were Central Appalachian Mountains Colonial Americans. Before learning all of that, because of not knowing my father's side of the family and having a French surname, we always thought I was pretty French. So, in high school and into college, I was a bit of a Francophile. Probably just not understanding where I came from, plus a love of history. I took French in college. I learned a ton, but never became fluent. I can read and understand a lot of it, but I'm shit at writing it. There's never been a need for it in my life, so any use felt forced. It isn't useless, just hasn't been useful to me. Lately, I have been thinking German might've been the smarter route. So many people I interact with are German. A lot of my favorite artists are German (I listen to a lot of Acid Techno and Power Metal). Watching Easy German videos now. Not sure if I will commit but thinking about it. Lets just say I really appreciate my Deutsch friends. #LanguageLearning #German #DeutschLernen #Genealogy
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ParabenAparaten
⁂Esplendor Topologico Abstracto⁂ @ParabenAparaten@mast.lat · Jul 12, 2026

[a little preamble words in spanish for spanish-only readers: Ese mensaje no es en Español. Estoy preguntando a otros usarios de #Latinoamérica cuales son sus preferidos servidores para interacciones internacionales #internalismo]

I am gonna pause messaging from this #mastodon account

I have been contacted by the moderation team complaining about my usage of other languages than #spanish

Question for spanish-speaking mastodonts:

I do need some guidance and advices: I will probably have to move there at some moment

Learning implies to read & interact in the other languages: and my account is dedicated to language learning/reading

#internationalism #polyglot #languagelearning

In a nutshell, what are the spanish language #fediverse servers that do accept posts & interactions in other languages too: #mastlat https://mast.lat/about is not one of them

#mastoserver #mastoinstance

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cafeinux
mab @cafeinux@infosec.exchange · Jul 13, 2026
Quelqu'un ici travaille pour ou connaît-il une personne qui travaille pour Assimil (les auteurs de méthodes d'apprentissage de langues) ? Il y a sans doute des centaines de problèmes sur leur appli en ligne (et probablement sur les versions mobiles aussi du coup), principalement des fichiers inexistants ou mal référencés, ou des lettres latines utilisées en lieu et place de lettres cyrilliques dans les cours de russe. J'aimerais bien parler à une personne plus technique que leur support, qui risque de ne pas vraiment comprendre de quoi je parle. Tant qu'à faire, s'ils me paient je peux même résoudre ces problèmes moi-même. Un petit boost pour la visibilité ? #Assimil #languagelearning #language #apprendreunelangue #langue #langues
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codrlabs
Codrlabs @codrlabs@mstdn.business · Jul 13, 2026
Stuck starting a sentence? SpeakshApp’s Sentence Lab turns intent into grammar-perfect statements. Build from templates, fill the gaps, and see the pattern. 10–15 minutes a day, no fluff. Try it now in the app. #SpeakshApp #LearnEnglish #EnglishVocabulary #LanguageLearning #SpacedRepetition #EnglishFluency #StudyEnglish #ESL #VocabularyBuilder #Codrlabs
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NatureMC
Petra van Cronenburg @NatureMC@mastodon.online · Jul 10, 2026
I only half-heard German news. Apparently, France has lent the British an old carpet. OMG, have Brexit and politics made things in the UK that much worse? That they have to borrow old carpets? It was about the Bayeux Tapestry. 🤣 In German, the word 'Teppich' can be used for tapestry as well as for a thinned out old carpet that you use for transporting a corpse. But the news speaker could have talked about a 'Wandteppich' if only he knew. 🤓 #languagelearning #German #BayeuxTapestry
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futurepilot
STUDYING TO BECOME PILOT @futurepilot@mastodon.social · Jul 06, 2026
Boosted by Welcoming committee @welcome@friends.deko.cloud
Hello #Mastodon ✈️ I’m a student pilot in training and I also teach languages 🌍 Thai, German, French, English, Chinese, and Spanish. Excited to share my aviation journey and connect with learners and pilots here! #Introduction #Aviation #Polyglot #LanguageLearning
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codrlabs
Codrlabs @codrlabs@mstdn.business · Jul 06, 2026
The gap between forgetting a word and owning it isn't effort — it's engineering. SpeakshApp watches the words you keep missing, schedules them back based on your actual recall, and only marks them Anchored when real memory stability is earned. No fake badges. No silent decay. Just a method that respects how retention actually works. 10–15 minutes a day. Free on Android. #LearnEnglish #EnglishVocabulary #LanguageLearning #SpacedRepetition #EnglishFluency #StudyEnglish #ESL #VocabularyBuilder
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rk
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually @rk@mastodon.well.com · Jul 04, 2026
Duolingo has, unreservedly, solved the “get people to come back” part of language learning. That’s important: 10 mins a day in a suboptimal curriculum beats 0mins a day in a better one. However, I’ve often wondered what the *best* language learning app would be, for suitable values of “best” (in my case, literacy-focused; I want to read). I’ve got a ton of ideas but I’m curious what the state of the art is (yes I know “tons of comprehensible input”; the question is *how*). #languageLearning
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jscholes
James Scholes @jscholes@dragonscave.space · Jul 02, 2026
There seems to be reasonable consensus that for #languageLearning, putting images on the front of flashcards is a decent idea for increased memorisation and reduced reliance on translation. Obviously this doesn't work at all for #blind people. Does anyone have any resources on the efficacy of an audio-based alternative? For example, if I'm trying to acquire the Spanish term for "washing machine," is it at all useful to have the front of the card play a short sound from a spin cycle? I'm interested in any resources exploring and evaluating this as a technique, as well as practical experiences or guides from people who've done this. #language #accessibility
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codrlabs
Codrlabs @codrlabs@mstdn.business · Jun 29, 2026
9:47 AM. Coffee. SpeakshApp's FSRS scheduler opens the exact 7 words teetering on your forgetting curve — not a fixed timer, not yesterday's list. 10–15 min later, real memory stability builds. Anchored, never "retired." Free: 30 new words/day. PRO: unlimited + ML-tuned to you. Edmonton-built. go.codrlabs.com/speakshapp #SpeakshApp #LearnEnglish #LanguageLearning #CodrLabs
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0xabad1dea
abadidea @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange · Jun 19, 2026
Boosted by Trending Bot @trending@homestead.social
RE: https://retro.pizza/@mrencyclopedia/116767709992953410 Hi it’s me, “English speaker who learned grammatical nightmare Dutch and then randomly decided it was time to get serious about Chinese, and did in fact learn to read Chinese” Make your own flash cards. Write your own notes. Ideally with pen and paper, but if that’s not an option, type it letter by letter or use speech-to-text. Don’t copy-paste. Don’t autocomplete. Don’t generate with AI. You need to use YOUR hands or YOUR voice if you want to change YOUR brain, YOUR own inner neural network weights. I’ve been trying an Obsidian plugin called HiWords. You select a word, right click, and add a definition; from then on, that word will be highlighted in Obsidian notes, and you can hover to see your definition. Elegant, helpful, I like it. They have a (completely optional, opt-in) functionality to shell out to an LLM for filling in the definition. I imagine that a lot of students requested this functionality, and it wasn’t hard to implement, so I understand why they added it. I can see why the students want it; it sounds so much more efficient, so much more ✨data✨ per effort to get the vocabulary collection up and running. But it’s self-defeating. It’s drowning your senses in noise that won’t stick in your memory. Two or three words you took the time to look up and write down yourself are vastly more helpful than a paragraph churned out by a machine. Do it by hand, learn it by heart. 📓💖 #languagelearning #languages
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sashin
Sashin @sashin@veganism.social · May 14, 2026
(rambling about #languageLearning, might be nonsense beware) I think there's a trade off everyone needs to make when they learn a language, that they don't realise they need to make. They have to decide how much they value pronunciation - generally at the outset. The reason is because, if we develop an accent, it would take a lot more work to correct it than if we learn to pronounce properly from the outset. Having a lot of deeply ingrained "bad" habits, is harder to work with than a blank slate. I see two paths, a person that from the outset is at complete peace with the prospect of sounding like a foreigner, and they do a lot more output from the start and don't learn about pronunciation or try too hard to get specific feedback on pronunciation. This person will get comfortable and fluent much quicker, I would imagine but they'll sound distinctly like a foreigner (which they may have literally no problem with). In their minds, they won't realise it, but they'll very likely be converting the language they've learned into the phonemes of their mother tongue very quickly. Getting better, in some sense will be, converting the sounds from the language you're learning to the sounds of your mother tongue quickly. Another path is where you delay output until you can hear very well, and have an explicit focus on pronunciation. You use a lot of time and energy that could go into just speaking and using the language to really familiarise yourself with how it sounds. You get feedback on how you are pronouncing things with a teacher and really try to get it right. Learners of a language make lots and lots of mistakes, if you insist with a teacher that they prioritise pronunciation, then you will 100% miss out on other feedback. We make too many mistakes to get corrections on everything, so teachers have to pick and choose what feels the most off to them, what's the most salient. I'd imagine focusing on pronunciation and getting intimately familiar with how a language sounds from the outset would add a lot more work, but when its done it'll be easier to parse the language, especially mumbles, slurred or fast speech. Even though I'm using the word "pronunciation" hear, I mean something like getting very familiar with how a language sounds, and pronunciation will affect perception. It's very likely that pronunciation mistakes people make, map on to perceptual blindspots - that they aren't hearing the language effectively. However, you can't get proper feedback on how you are perceiving a language directly, because a teacher can't see into your mind. Working on your pronunciation is the only way. Neither choice is *better* I think, it's just that it's a decision people make and commit to without realising that's what they are doing. Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent. It's not repetition itself, but repetition with feedback loops that leads to improvement. If you repeat the wrong pronunciation over and over again, without any feedback, you'll only engrain the habit of pronouncing things this way. It might make sense to decide you are okay with this, but most people don't knowingly decide this.
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