Is anyone here studying a foreign language? Post the name of the language(s) below, and share some links to resources that you’re using if you know of any good ones. 
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French, Italian, Korean, Setswana.
Here is a huge collection of links for about 70+ Languages.
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2900
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German currently.
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Best youtube chanel for french people 
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Any good resources for learning german you know ?
Englisch, French, Spanish and Italian
for all these languages I review my vocabulary on a regularly basis. Other than that:
- to stay in practice with my English I’m watching TV shows in English on a regularly basis (at the moment: Modern Family, Suits, Brooklyn 99 and Vikings) and at the moment I’m also reading a book: “the Hobbit”.
- for training my French I’ve just started to read my second French book, “Notre-Dame de Paris”.
- My Spanish practice is mostly on a break right now aside from the regular vocabulary repetition.
- Not long ago Duolingo moved the language course to learn Italian from German into Beta stage. I’m currently learning Italian with that as a newcomer to this language.
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Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu, and some dabbling in Punjabi.
I use the Mondly app. Language pod, (Hondipod and Urdupod) and their apps, Transparent Language app, as well as Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone.
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I was a bit hesitant about giving resources, since I had a teacher telling me what books and stuff to buy. If you are interested I can name them. Other than that I do have some channels that, I could recommend such as Die Frage, WDR, Sprouts Deutschland, Easy German, Y-Kollektiv, maiLab and hopefully I’ll add some more when I remember them. Also, there’s a manga made specifically for german lerners crystal hunters (I can’t post the link since my account is new) interesting stuff.
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to me, i use anki with audio to learn languages
i’m learning 6 languages everyday, and for each of language i learn 10 vocabs of them each day.
i start learning korean, chinese, japanese, russian , greek and latin.
beacause of some advices that to me it’s help that i started learning ancient latin beacause it’s root of so many other languages.
i’ll attach my anki list here if anyone gets interested in
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Yeah I like to learn English, and that’s because you gotta really know the language you think you already know.
I like to contemplate the Words of English. Like “Who”, “Where”, “When”, “Potato”…
I think if you get really good at contemplating the meanings of Words in the “mother-tongue”, then learning other languages is really easier, as you can link the “Meanings” of those words to the sounds of the other languages
Also it increases the connections between the words and improves insight
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I’ve been studying Welsh on and off now for just over a year.
I’ve been using a mix of Duolingo for it’s easy user interface and it’s built in spaced repetition. I like the way that it integrates vocabulary and grammar in a holistic way which focuses on both reading, writing, and listening.
However, I’ve also been using the fantastic platform Say Something in Welsh. This uses an older method of listening and producing based teaching which actually makes my brain feel a bit tired after practice. The focus here is solely on listening and speaking and forces the student to verbally produce the language. It’s a dramatically different formula than most high school and college based courses I’ve seen and used over the years having taken 3 years of Spanish, 2 of French, and 2 of Latin.
The set up consists of the introduction of a few words which are then used in a variety of combinations to create full sentences. The instructors say a sentence in English and the listener is encouraged in just a few seconds to attempt to produce it in the target language (Welsh, in my case), then the instructor says the sentence in Welsh with a pause for the student to repeat it properly, another instructor says it in Welsh with a pause for a third repeat. This goes on for 20 to 30 minutes at a time. The end result is that the learner gets into the language much more quickly and can begin both understanding the spoken language as well as produce it much more rapidly than older school based methods (at least in my experience, though I have known some college language labs to use a much more limited version of a similar technique). Each lesson adds new material, but also reviews over older material in a spaced repetition format as well so you’re always getting something new mixed in with the old to make new and interesting sentences for conversation.
SSiW also has modules for Manx, Cornish, Dutch, and Spanish.
I find that the two done hand in hand has helped me produce much faster results in language acquisition in an immersive manner than I have done previously and with much less effort.
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Russian. There are many good resources out there - I would simply advise you to find what works for you! Different people find that different things work.
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Spanish and Latin.
For Latin, I use the book “Familia Romana”, by Hans Orberg. Highly recommended.
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I’m also learning Latin from Familia Romana.
A place where mnemonics may come useful is when you reach a more advanced level, where you encounter words that do not occur frequently, for example, in poetry where they sometimes use flowery language.
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On of the best free resources for several languages out there: Language Transfer—it was created by a single person who approaches learning a language differently than what you are used to and it is simply great. All of the languages are also available on Soundcloud.
Currently available for 8 languages.
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Luke Smith was (last I checked) doing his PhD in Linguistics and is himself proficient in a number of languages. The following link details some of his insights and experiences regarding language learning.
https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/learning-languages
I plan to start (re)learning Sanskrit soon. Since I already know Hindi, संस्कृत स्वयं-शिक्षक (Sanskrit Swyam Shikshak) by Shripad Damodar Satvlekar seems like a promising book.
These extensive lectures from the Central Sanskrit University of India would also certainly come in handy:
http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/sanskrit_language_teaching.php
You can refer to Luke Smith’s link above, he talks about German too somewhere.
Also, since I’m primarily interested in German because of the literature and philosophical works, German for Reading: A Programmed Approach by Karl C. Sandberg and John R. Wendel suited my needs.
An issue that many might face while learning Hindi is the lack of movies and television shows* that are purely in Hindi, as popular Hindi parlance today involves a great deal of bastardization resulting from a mixing of English words in high frequencies.
To develop a pure functional knowledge of the language, I would thus recommend you to read bilingual Hindi-English editions of the short stories of Premchand or the Bhagavad Gita. In case you are unable to find a trustworthy bilingual edition, buying separate English and Hindi editions and reading them side by side would also be a good idea. (Do research a little on different forums or look up the background of the translators to be able to get an idea of the reliability of each translation.)
*One exception that comes to mind is the 2011 (not the 2018 rehash) historical drama series, Chandragupta Maurya. Simply excellent.
Spanish. I recently switched from French to Spanish. No regrets, Spanish is clearly easier and more fun altogether. My resources for both are: Duolingo (Spanish has stories, which are very helpful, French doesnt). Youtube-Videos. Langenscheidt Dictionaries “Grundwortschatz” and just dictionaries. Still looking for a good book in spanish (I like crime/suspense novels), so suggestions are welcome.
My personal favorite: Whenever there is a word or expression I think cold be useful, I look it up on translate.google.com and memorize it.
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I highly recommend Fluent Forever book. You can find it on Amazon store
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Spanish: Masterofmemory.com ← AMAZING resource. The course uses a memory palace to teach you Spanish (!)
Biblical Greek: Bill Mounce.
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