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What’s you’re favorite way to learn languages?

I have a terrible time speaking, even in my native language, and so communicating verbally in a foreign language is really hard for me! 

I don’t have many friends who can speak to me in the languages I’m focusing on learning right now (Spanish, Czech), so I don’t get the chance to practice things like pronunciation. 

But I have found that listening to music in my target language not only helps me get used to listening to how it’s spoken and be able to differentiate individual words and such, but it also helps me learn how to correctly pronounce them and speak with the proper cadence. 

Maybe it can work for you too! Share your favorite learning tips. 

Ooh, schweet, I love learning a language, especially passively! Once you’ve got a good basis of a language, it can really boost your level.

1. I put on a radio station in my target language while doing other stuff, especially talk show type of radio (france inter, a treasure for learning French)

2. If you ever want to rewatch or reread something, consider doing it in your target language. BUT stick to easier and shorter material (Harry Potter is excellent, for example, because despite it’s length it’s for a young audience (so no overly difficult language))

3. Anything you watch on Netflix or sth -> turn on subtitles in your target language

4. If you weren’t already doing this, learn (and translate) the lyrics of a song you like in your target language. Careful, some songs don’t use “clean” language (I wouldn’t recommend rap, for example, bc it’s usually fast and often incorporates slang, but it’s great once you’re more advanced). Nothing’s as satisfying as singing along to a song in a foreign language.

5. Read fanfic in your target language. Be cautious however, you should be at a level where you can tell if a fanfic has bad grammar and stuff.

6. Look up some sayings and commonly used phrases. It’s not passive but anyone who’s seen the Russian post on the uses of “dick” in Russian language knows it can be a work of art. Or it can be funny to transliterate sayings, like “make that the cat wise” from Dutch.

7. Internet slang in your target language is super interesting, altho it’s not verbal and not passive, it’s great to know another language’s “hahaha” or their use of smileys)))

8. Listen to/watch the news in your target language. Watching recommended because the visuals will help. You’ll also realise how they probably talk about entirely different stuff on the news then what you get.

9. Again not passive but honestly learn language through your passions. You like cooking? Frogs? Contemporary art? Look up videos and articles and what not about it in your target language. Sure, you might have a weird vocabulary, but you’ll pick up a lot more, like sentence structure and (in)formal language.

This was a lot longer than I thought it’d be, but I hope you’ll find some of it useful!

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Tobias Snape before worse times…

He is around 28 in the first picture and life is already wearing him down - a few years older in the second picture and recently married - third picture shows a reasonably happy moment between father and son, it wasn’t exactly common but a bit more frequent before discovering what his wife and son truly were.

“what is your phone number?” muggle modern AU

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