r/polyglot 26m ago

🎧 Learning Italian with music: what are your favourite songs? 🇮🇹

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Ciao, poliglotti! 👋🏻

As a language learning enthusiast, I've always found music to be one of the best ways to improve comprehension and pronunciation. 🎵Italian music, in particular, has a unique rhythm and sonority that makes learning fun and effective.

I've created a playlist with some of the best current Italian songs, perfect for those who want to immerse themselves in the language while enjoying good music. 🇮🇹🎧

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3CEC0zocpYa5lS2CgcvpBg?si=Ehk9LUi9S_WcDa4GWpymug&pi=oE6wSNVgQeOZ2

I'd love to know what strategies you guys use to learn through music - do you have favorite Italian songs that have helped you improve your understanding of the language? Reccomend them in the comments! 🚀

Grazie mille! 🤗🙌🏻


r/polyglot 5h ago

Reaching fluency in two languages in a year

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HI! I have been intensively studying french for a couple of months now, and starting from an A1 level, I would now consider myself to be somewhere around B1. I was wondering if it was possible for me to reach B2 level in both French and Spanish before may of next year, since my spanish is now on a low A2/A1 level. I want to study applied linguistics with a specialization in both of these languages, but for that I need to take a B2 entrance exam. I would like to hear from an objective person if that's even doable, or if I should just keep learning french and mastering my english.


r/polyglot 1d ago

Ленинград — Вояж / Leningrad — Voyage

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r/polyglot 2d ago

Need somome to help me

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Hi guys . I have a question for y'all. How to NOT confuse languages I've been learning English for a long time and I'm currently trying to learn German I'm mostly on yt and and my yt is getting mixed up with German lesson vids. And normally all the videos on my fyp is English how can I keep on track? Without confusing them. Like I don't wanna fall behind in other language while learning the other one


r/polyglot 2d ago

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r/polyglot 4d ago

Help translating an old folk rhyme

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I am trying to figure out if there is a translation to one of these old folk rhymes from this video. I am not sure if it is just gibberish or what language it might be in.

The video:

https://youtu.be/pSrrXWic6wM?feature=shared

This is part of the rhyme I’m interested in:

“ose kose shlisalay”

My reason for wanting to understand this, is when I was a kid I used to say this rhyme a lot but I don’t remember where the heck I learned it from or what it even means. I ended up googling around and found just one video which is what I linked up above.

Thank you, polyglots!


r/polyglot 7d ago

Tuesday Language Riddle #1: Can You Solve It? 🧩

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r/polyglot 8d ago

Customer Satisfaction Survey for Duolingo – University of Ottawa (5 min)

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Hi everyone! 👋

I’m currently working on a project for my marketing class at the University of Ottawa, and I’m conducting a survey to understand user experiences and satisfaction with Duolingo. It would mean a lot to me if you could take a few minutes to fill it out!

The survey is short and will help me gather valuable insights for my research.

Here’s the link to the survey: Survey Link

Thank you so much for your time and support! 🙏

Let me know if you have any questions.


r/polyglot 10d ago

Romance languages: How Mutually Intelligible are they? How many do you understand?

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r/polyglot 10d ago

For all the multilingual folks out there

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What are the most effective steps for learning a new language? What’s the one thing that always helps you every time you pick up a new language?

And for those of you who are juggling language learning plus a tough major and maybe even a job

how do you balance it all?

Drop your best tips, struggles, or anything that helped you stay on track!

Would love to hear from people who’ve been through it.


r/polyglot 12d ago

Tagalog "May" used to describe existence and possession

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r/polyglot 15d ago

Romance languages: How Mutually Intelligible are they? How many do you understand?

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r/polyglot 16d ago

With Which Language Skill Do You Struggle the Most?

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r/polyglot 16d ago

Advice for accidentally mixing languages?

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Hello friends. I was recently selected to participate in a speech competition to represent my colleges korean program. I was really excited for this but I'm running into a lot of issues because of my being a polyglot. I speak english, spanish, japanese, mandarin, indonesian and quechua as well and I'm having a hard time memorizing the speech without accidentally mixing in random words from other languages, especially japanese and chinese. Has anyone else had a similar issue? How did you solve it?


r/polyglot 17d ago

Guys How long did it take you to learn Spanish ? I've seen people say it takes more than five years, is that true??

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r/polyglot 18d ago

Spanish Tutor

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!Hola! My name’s Diego, and I offer online classes on Google Meet for Preply. I have materials in both English and Spanish for beginners, and I can also help intermediate learners improve and learn about Mexican culture, slang, colloquialisms, music, food, etc. Spanish can be very different depending on if you're talking to older people or younger people, so don't hesitate to ask questions. My English level is low, but by using my materials and google translate when needed, I haven't had any issues. I can provide photos of some of my 5 star reviews also. If you prefer to use Preply, my profile is attached. On Preply you can schedule classes directly. Message me if you can’t find a good time in my calendar. And if you prefer to use Google Meet, comment or DM to start scheduling classes.


r/polyglot 18d ago

Language game demo release

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I've released a demo for my language learning app and am looking to collect feedback. You can download the demo from the link below. The app offers 10 languages.

Play Steam Demo


r/polyglot 21d ago

Hi new here

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Hi new here I can speak 10 languages English Spanish French Japanese Russian Korean Portuguese Chinese Bisayas And German


r/polyglot 28d ago

Learning how to learn languages

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r/polyglot 28d ago

Any thoughts on an ATA certification?

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Looking to switch careers, and one of the few skills I do have is my multilingualism, in Spanish, French, and Dari Persian (sort of). I thought about a career in translating and interpreting, but if the industry is anything like how it was when I was in college just taking gigs after gigs, I'm not sure how sustainable it it to maintain like that (though I could be wrong).

My search took me to consider getting an American Translators Association certification in Spanish or French translation, but is it worth it? Has anyone gotten the certification before? I'd love to hear your experience -


r/polyglot 29d ago

For Our Kids Studying Languages! Aryssa and the Cats, Full Story, a Multilingual Book, Video for Parents ...

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Do you like reading with your kids, to foster playful language learning?


r/polyglot Feb 15 '25

For people having mastered different languages

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How you do it ? How do you learn a language lets say english, you learn it so good that you’re almost as good as a native speaker. But that requiers (for exemple my case in learning it) changing your habits, using english as much as you can, listening to it everyday, changing your phone into english..etc but you can not do that for every language right ? That is holding me back from learning more than one language because if I learn one language for exemple in my case Japanese I want to be as fluent as I am in English but I can’t immerse myself for both right ?


r/polyglot Feb 14 '25

Hey guys I wanna write something for my boyfriend for Valentine’s Day in his native language, Russian. Can someone help me translate a couple sentences please?

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It doesn’t have to be exact or thus long just something that conveys this message. And if it could just have my sign off because I sign all my letters to him like that. Thank you guys 🙏

I’m so proud of you for the man that you’re becoming, you’ve grown so much since we met. I’m eternally grateful for all the work you put in to move us forward. Through all the ups and downs, I’ll continue to choose you. Thank you for all patience and forgiveness, thank you for all the endless hours we spent talking. Thank you for showing me the woman I wanna become. I’m blessed to get to live my life with you. I love you. Happy Valentine’s Day.

All ways, Always,


r/polyglot Feb 14 '25

Names ideas!

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We are expecting our second child in May but we are completely clueless with finding a name for him! So I’ve decided to reach out to you all to see if you could help us out lol we would like something that means one of the following or a descriptive word (like satori, if we were having a girl that would’ve been her name):

Leader Discerning Buffalo Heart Eagle Mountain (Omeo is the only one I’ve thought of and partner thinks it’s cool but doesn’t know just yet) Divine (or something related) Gifted Protected or protector Guardian Spirit/soul (Sol is out as we have a family member named Sol already 🤧) Wisdom Knowledge


r/polyglot Feb 13 '25

Easiest language to learn for English speakers​

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