Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

Re:Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown? by farcaster on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:03PM (#23593325)

I went from knowing nothing of French to reading 20 thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne in French (the original language)

It's not that big of an achievement since I'm Brazilian and I already speak Italian, the romance languages are somewhat similar. But I'm happy and I want to keep learning new languages because that proved to be a rewarding experience all steps of the way.

I've used Lingq and Memrise, if anyone is interested :)

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Re:Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown? by kinow on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:45AM (#23599540)

Was going to ask what you had used. Brazilian too, but know only Spanish (kinda), and English. Will check out these two. Thanks and congrats!!!

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Re:Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown? by farcaster on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:14PM (#23606756)

LingQ is something else. The ideia is that you should feed the app with "input" from your target language that you care about[1], and listen to it again and again. Memrise is more like a Duolingo that actually works haha

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-u_vVx6Is

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Re:Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown? by kinow on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:51AM (#23659593)

Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown? by sputr on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:29PM (#23593556)

I do envy you. Been busting my brain with French for years as its always been my dream to speak it. But coming from Slovenian (slavic) and not having an ear for languages does not help.

So, congrats!

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