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I am relearning French and learning kapampangan, Tagalog, Korean, and more recently American Sign Language!! I know a couple languages by ear but I don't know them 100% ): I even have trouble with my first language but I guess that's just how it is ToT

Kapampangan is what my family usually talks in, and I understand it well but have trouble speaking a lot, it's just that the sentences I say are baby talk.. so it's hard to convey my emotions in that language. I've been learning it for maybe umm 6 or7 years now! Same with tagalog, I understand taglish (tagalog and English) but when it's pure Tagalog it's difficult for me.

Btw, I relate with a lot of you for not knowing/parents not teaching our native language at a young age... I hope everyone knows that this doesn't make you any less of anything or disqualify you from your culture :')

For French, i started in sixth grade and took classes in high school too-- but no one except like two online friends speak French so I don't practice it a lot ;;;; though I can watch Miraculous Ladybug without subtitles and understand French songs if they're not singing too fast!! Korean is very fun but I am far from fluent, I only know basic words and can read but can't form sentences yet. I just started ASL last week because I've been reading this manga where the main character is hard of hearing and uses sign language too!! I use the app Drops, YouTube videos, flash cards and generally just try to consume a lot of media that are in these languages. I hope I can master some of these languages one day instead of dabbling a little here and there!!

I'm learning Korean! My major requires that you take so many hours of a language. I was going to be in Italian but it didn't line up with the rest of my courses, so I ended up in Korean (it's so pretty sounding! ). Fast forward a couple semesters and I'm now in Intermediate level classes! (As opposed to being in Elementary.)

Learning another language can be difficult, but it's also really rewarding! It's so much fun to be able to understand what's being said in dramas and songs, and to be able to speak it with my classmates outside of class! The best advice I can give: take your time, don't stress out, and don't give up! Everyone learns at a different pace.

I'm currently (trying) to learn Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Hawaiian. I also really want to learn Tagalog and Thai but I have no idea where to learn those two because I can't learn it from a native speaker (I do have a filipino friend but they don't really know much Tagalog as when they were in the Philippines, they went to an international school.) and the Asian population is really small in my country, let alone my city.

Does anybody recommend any apps or websites I could use?
(I use Duolingo for Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Hawaiian but it doesn't have Tagalog or Thai)

I’m not the best with forum rules so my bad if this is totally necro-posting; this is just such an awesome topic! I’ve taken French in the past, and may at some point pick it up again. While I have no particular affinity for it or the culture, I reassure the memories of those classes as the community we built there and with the teacher was very nice. The teacher was truly a gem, and we formed a very close bond; when her husband passed, it felt like a village coming together to mourn and reassure her — in spite of how different many of us were, we were together in that class and were together with her and in our care for her. The language I’m currently pursuing is Japanese, a very common pursuit. Thankfully, for me, I’m a language gifted person. While I’m no polyglot, I tend to take to linguistic things like a duck to water, and figuring them out and matching the sound has been a strength of mine which has been acknowledged even back in my days taking French. I’m currently at an N5-N4 level, and I feel very very happy with how far I’ve come. This year I’ll be going on an overseas trip as well, which is very exciting! Learning a language is fun and enriching, and while it can be difficult, rewarding yourself for consistency rather than scolding yourself for mistakes will help. Keep it a fun experience, enrich and immerse yourself, don’t let it become a chore! Much love to all my fellow language learners [emoji=familiar heart size=1] For @ScottishScurrie specifically, if you’re willing to invest money LingoDeer is the program I use, and houses both subscription based and one time payment based plans. I think going with the lifetime access during a sale — which there are plenty annual ones — is the best way; I mention it because it offers a lot of Asiatic languages and was founded with them first, before branching into a few ones including common European ones and some less seen languages like Vietnamese and Hindi, the latter which was added recently. It receives pretty consistent updates on content and such, including full new language courses, and offers resources to explain stuff before and during a lesson. Its ideally for mobile, but can be used on both mobile and PC. You can also choose how your language is presented (for example I study Japanese with it written as is, including kanji, but have Furigana turned on to show how something is read. You can also have things set to show kana and romaji readings, just kana and no kanji, etc.). The audio is all pretty clear, too, and voiced by an actual speaker — audio is also availed in both male and female, so you can pick your preference if one is present. Of the languages you mentioned it has Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Thai; no dice on Tagalog though. Sorry if the big dump isn’t very helpful!

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