Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not speaking Spanish

Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by latentsea on Friday December 13, 2024 @03:28AM (#42406878)

Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Fluent in Japanese, can watch kdrama and mostly follow along and have basic conversations in Korean, forgot virtually all the Chinese I did but I managed to pass HSK2 after 2 months of study and then HSK3 the following month. I was only in China for 3 months on a work trip, so I thought I'd have some fun.

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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by upmind on Friday December 13, 2024 @07:49AM (#42408020)

What do you use to learn different languages? Firstly, where you get your vocabulary from but also pronunciation and grammar?

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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by latentsea on Friday December 13, 2024 @03:38PM (#42412143)

Anki, Netflix, Preply and social clubs.

I start by front loading all the grammar study up to upper-intermediate level as fast as possible. Usually a premade Anki deck of a few thousand sentences will be available for this.

Vocab I pick up from native media. I just read or watch whatever I'm interested in, lookup words as I go and put them into Anki. I do full immersion and it works well as access to entertainment in my target languages is a key goal.

Pronunciation I pick up through a crap tonne of exposure to native media.

Conversation is through a combination of private tutoring and finding people who speak my target languages to hang out with.

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