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jleopold  ·  3053 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Any hubski users here into language learning?

I went to a bilingual immersion school K-8, so I'm fluent in Spanish. I've finished all the high school classes my school offers, so now I'm taking a break from formally learning languages. I'm working on Italian on Duolingo. I've also picked up from bits and pieces of various languages from multi-lingual friends, but just enough to throw in my journals occasionally, not enough to talk with anyone. I'd love to find something like Duolingo for Arabic, but the apps I've tried suck overall. I'm still slowly picking up some vocabulary though. I used Anki for a while for Mandarin and Arabic, but I'm no longer on a computer everyday and it is hard to catch back up after missing a day.





CardboardLamp  ·  3053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know there's a duolingo-like app for chinese.

http://www.hellochinese.cc/

I've never used it however, so I don't know how good it is.

For Arabic I guess somewhere like /r/languagelearning of reddit would help.

Do you feel Italian is easy to learn being a fluent spanish speaker?

jleopold  ·  3053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Absolutely. There are a ton on cognates and a lot of grammar similarities, but the differences can really mess me up sometimes.

CardboardLamp  ·  3053 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know there's a duolingo-like app for chinese.

http://www.hellochinese.cc/

I've never used it however, so I don't know how good it is.

For Arabic I guess somewhere like /r/languagelearning of reddit would help.

Do you feel Italian is easy to learn being a fluent spanish speaker?