I'm a native (Australian) English speaker and I learnt Italian at school so that's the one that I know best, even nearly 20 years later. My fluency's a bit shit, but with duolingo I did get a lot more of my comprehension back, which is nice. I'm also doing German, Welsh, and at some point, I will pluck up the courage to go back to Greek. D:
Duo suits me for the moment, even if it's not perfect, bc it's a start, and it gets those languages into my head a little bit. I would prefer to use babbel bc I liked their German course better, but that's for when I've got spare money tbh bc you pay per language and I'm broke atm. XD If I could afford proper in-person courses, I'd take those up too, because I know they'd help a lot to get me more fluent, but that's money I don't have right now either.
I would like to pick up Latin and Middle Egyptian again though. I've only really dabbled and self-taught myself those languages and there are some translation projects in Middle Egyptian and German that I have on the go, and it's why I picked up German in the first place bc Egyptology is mostly in French and German fml. I don't really want to do French though bc I feel it would just send me mad. XD I go back and forth over whether I want to pick up Japanese again though, but idk. It's not really a big focus for me atm.
Year 12 was the only year at school where I wasn't so keen on Italian bc we got a new teacher and she didn't take kindly to me or my friend, but I still passed just to spite her, so yeah. But our other teacher was much better, she was lovely. She was the reason I kept on going with Italian throughout high school bc I enjoyed her lessons so much.
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Date: 2018-12-24 04:48 am (UTC)Duo suits me for the moment, even if it's not perfect, bc it's a start, and it gets those languages into my head a little bit. I would prefer to use babbel bc I liked their German course better, but that's for when I've got spare money tbh bc you pay per language and I'm broke atm. XD If I could afford proper in-person courses, I'd take those up too, because I know they'd help a lot to get me more fluent, but that's money I don't have right now either.
I would like to pick up Latin and Middle Egyptian again though. I've only really dabbled and self-taught myself those languages and there are some translation projects in Middle Egyptian and German that I have on the go, and it's why I picked up German in the first place bc Egyptology is mostly in French and German fml. I don't really want to do French though bc I feel it would just send me mad. XD I go back and forth over whether I want to pick up Japanese again though, but idk. It's not really a big focus for me atm.
Year 12 was the only year at school where I wasn't so keen on Italian bc we got a new teacher and she didn't take kindly to me or my friend, but I still passed just to spite her, so yeah. But our other teacher was much better, she was lovely. She was the reason I kept on going with Italian throughout high school bc I enjoyed her lessons so much.