- Gaming is hella underrated
Basically, if you have the interest/ability to, gaming on servers where your TL is spoken is a godly way to practice. I'm in a golden spot for this, since I live in Korea and korean valorant...
114 points44 comments2 d ago
- Learning a Language Only to Read
So, I read a lot of translated works, and I'd like to be able to reach a high level of reading in various languages. By a High Level I mean being able to read academic works or classic literature....
86 points68 comments2 d ago
- Learning a language after work, how do you make the words stick?
Hey everyone! I’m French and I currently live in Germany. I met my girlfriend a year ago, she is from South Korea, and I started learning her language because I want to be able to talk with her,...
69 points65 comments3 d ago
- Anyone with ADHD who's successfully learned a second language, what actually worked for you?
Hey all! I've been monolingual my entire life, and for my mother's birthday this year I thought it'd be cool to surprise her by being able to speak Greek (TL) since she's Greek. I've had chronic...
61 points53 comments6 d ago
- Watching a kid’s show in the language you are trying to learn?
I have heard that if you’re trying to learn a new language as an adult, watching a show for small children in that language is a great place to start as opposed to starting with the reading...
58 points52 comments1 d ago
- Tell me about a time when you realised that your skills had levelled up
I’m feeling super happy right now because I just finished a call with one of my first language-exchange buddies who I haven’t spoken to on the phone for probably 4 months. Although we’ve shared...
38 points30 comments6 d ago
- Does listening to too many podcasts without subtitles in TL lull us into a "false sense of understanding"? Following a podcast, news programme and understanding 80% of the words, and in your mind you make your own definition or understanding but in reality if someone were to ask you to translate it,
Do any of these happen to you if someone were to actually ask you to translate word for word what someone just said on a podcast or TV show? 1. terrible memory immediately after every sentence so...
34 points44 comments1 d ago
- Share Your Resources - November 04, 2026
Welcome to the resources thread. Every month we host a space for r/languagelearning users to share resources they have made or found. Make something cool? Find a useful app? Post here and let us...
32 points118 comments5 d ago
- Anyone have experiences relearning a forgotten first language?
Hello everyone! My first languages were both German and English however I moved away from Germany at 7 years old and had forgotten basically all of it by 9. I still have a few random words and...
28 points17 comments3 d ago
- Does it bother you when people say "native speakers learn new words too"?
I'm kind of annoyed when someone especially a native speaker says "Don't worry about vocabulary, native speakers learn new words all the time." While they are not wrong, I don't think that's a...
17 points95 comments2 d ago