abadideaingeburgerd status: snipped in proper Dutch at some kids throwing their trash in the canal: “boys, next time, there is a public trash can over there”
Victoria Walberg@0xabad1dea Any tips on learning Dutch? Courses, apps etc. I do have books and a willing native speaker.
@vickyjo the Duolingo Dutch course is okay (assuming they haven’t utterly destroyed it with AI) as long as you understand a drilling app cannot, on its own, get you fluent
I took a Dutch edition of a novel I knew well and copied it by hand. Like, with a pen, on paper. The whole thing. This is what got me from “I want to learn Dutch but I always get stuck after a week” to having a working understanding of core vocabulary and grammar.
Advanced Persistent Teapot@0xabad1dea @vickyjo is this still viable for Chinese character systems? My recognition of Japanese words is slowly expanding but there are just so many I don't know and because there's no firm link between character and syllable/sound in Japanese, a lot of the time I would just be copying the character out with no idea of sound. At this point I might know 80% of the words in a book aimed at 5 year olds.
ataylor@http_error_418 for Japanese, mixed-media stuff is really good. If you have a book/manga that has an anime or TV adaptation, you’ll often get the same dialogue both written and spoken. Voiced visual novels (and other video games) are great for the same reason.