im so eager to know alot of languages...

how popular is this board

>>438 very >>440 Not very

>>440 We don't get many users posting stuff here, but I see a lot of people watching the /icup/ matches rooting for /lang/. Perhaps it needs more content?

Any books on psycholinguistics and/or languages?

>>387 huh, what's this about Loomis?

Hello /lang/, I arrive at your humble board to officially announce the GCUP! The GCUP will be an exhibition tournament between boards of the webring that represent nations of the world, and will be contested under usual ICUP rules. In addition, we'll also be hosting friendlies for non-national boards/teams as part of the festivites. Friendlies can be played under normal rules, or, if you choose, under alternate (meme) rulesets that will be decided closer to the Cup's kickoff. If you would like to participate, head on over to the pinned thread at our board on Cafe. The event is set to begin February 13th, 2021. Look forward to having you there!

The GCUP Friendlies are set! Teams and gimmicks were drawn at random; you will be playing /pol/ in the sixth friendly of the tournament. Start time can be found here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-02-20T19:30:00 We'll be showing these matches on the 8cup cytube as usual. Tune in!

We're on in just over an hour! Bonŝancon!

>>434 https://cytube.xyz/r/ICUP

>>277 You can automate both audio and video by scraping the data. It still requires active recall, you just quiz yourself on the note in multiple directions. Given the image, what is the word in your language. Given the audio, how do you spell it. Given the word, what does it mean? (image on back). Then it's just yes/no and you can rip through thousands of words at lightning speed. This is power user stuff, but even if you can't code you can often find shared decks that already come with images and audio you're golden as long as you set up the cards properly. It works really well with verbs and concrete nouns, less well but still OK with adjectives, and not so well with adverbs. But you can pull example sentences to go with those too to give you a bit of mnemonic information. Don't get my wrong typing words can give you some real benefit, it's just not the most efficient way if you are talking about memorizing 10 thousand+ words, especially if you're doing multiple languages. My opinion of course. PDF unrelated.

>>271 best anki deck for katakana?

>>364 I don't think kana are numerous or complicated enough for individual decks to make much of a difference. Really, the only thing that would matter is the ammount of information. You'd probably be fine with a plain deck that just shows the kana on one side and a romanization on the other, but if you can find ones that show stroke order, have audio, show multiple romanizations, &c., they would be better. I didn't use Anki for kana, so I can't personally attest to any particular deck, but here's one that might work. https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1632090287 Ask in JLTs on other boards for more suggestions if that one doesn't work; most of them will have one somewhere in their resources listed in the OP.

>>271 Is there a version of the 2k/4k Japanese core deck but that has images attached to the words?

It's not that it doesn't make sense to me, but for the life of me I can never remember the correct reading of "別れる". It's my biggest leech in Anki. It would probably be better if I had learned the Kanji 別, but it hasn't come up in my Kanji deck yet.

>>210 The plan is still WIP since I'm reading up how to set up things properly but it would consist mainly of one or more of the following: >/sig/ >/lang/ >/loomis/ >/fit/ >/lit/ (possibly including a /pdf/ or share board of sorts?) >/mu/ >/diy/ >/tech/ >/3d/ >/agdg/ >/sci/ >/ecopol/ (not really interested in the ideological aspect but they had some real nice topics regarding cultivation and farming) I feel that with all the hobbyists boards around here, any time a webring website goes down it takes with them the two-three comfy educational places that come with it and I'd rather keep them all bundled together in a non-Esther-attacked place. I would still join the webring all the same but expect a different, more relaxed kind of experience (still with lax rules).

>>210 Would proper /ck/ and /his/ be considered?

>>212 Sure, if there's enough demand for it that is.

>>211 >/ecopol/ (not really interested in the ideological aspect but they had some real nice topics regarding cultivation and farming) Make a gardening or botanist board instead?

>>211 Well, i'll go whenever you set it up

>>2
Thanks, brother! I'll be sure to update the list and create the relative threads.

good luck /lang/
>t- /robowaifu/

>>4
Thanks doc!

If anyone is interested here is a magnet for rosetta stone, a software for language learning, with install instructions included:
https://pastebin.com/EX3gaB2i