I’m using Duolingo to refresh the French I learned many years ago in school, and to learn some Spanish. (I’m embarrassed that I’ve lived 20+ years in Texas and know very little Spanish.)
I recently started with German – genders and cases, oh my!
I’m hoping Turkish for English speakers will be available soon. I think that’s the first non-Indo-European language they will have for English speakers.
For anyone wanting to learn German, I’m available to help you out! I’m Swiss, so Germans might say that I don’t speak German but yeah, we still have German as an official language and not our “Swiss German”
Sounds like there are enough of us to start a Francais category!
@djug@lourcastillo - When you want to schedule a chat, just start a thread in the English category and let us know when is good for you and what topics you’d like to practice talking about (food, movies, questions about grammar).
I was also looking for the Japanese language. Although I can already speak it, I wanted to brush up on it since it’s been a while since I last actively spoke it. I would have loved to contribute to it though, but I doubt my fluency in the language is high enough
I was fortunate enough to attend a TED talk by Luis von Ahn that took place almost exactly a month before the launch of the beta. He actually mentioned the countdown (“28 days until the beta launch” or some such). So for several months I tried out the beta and then official release. Then I let it slip off my radar. My wife, however, has become an addict, pursuing lingots with a maniacal obsessiveness. I need to get back to it.
In a related vein, I tried, for a while, lernu! which describes itself as “a multilingual website that provides free courses and information on the international language Esperanto” and may be of interest to some here.
That sounds interesting. I started another thread about tips for other
learning tools. Do you mind posting there and maybe giving a tiny bit more
information? I am not sure how many people are interested in learning
Esperanto. I also wonder if everyone has heard of it.