# Languages **URL:** \ **Category:** General Chat\ **Created:** [22 May 2026 23:28 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/languages/194030 "2026-05-22T23:28:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LordRec](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/lordrec/32/121713_2.png) [@LordRec](https://community.monzo.com/u/LordRec)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2026 23:28 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/languages/194030/1 "2026-05-22T23:28:19Z")
Does anyone study any languages at all and have gotten to a decent level? Wondering if there are brains to pick about the whole process. I’ve noticed there are like, a million resources for Japanese and Korean but the quality, fullness etc drops off very hard after that and English. ---
**Author:** ![Ambassador\_Spock](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/ambassador_spock/32/109410_2.png) [@Ambassador\_Spock](https://community.monzo.com/u/Ambassador_Spock)\ **Post date:** [23 May 2026 07:57 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/languages/194030/2 "2026-05-23T07:57:45Z")
I studied French in school, not a lot of it stuck in my mind. Later in life I wanted to refresh it though, so I just started reading some of my favourite books (Ender’s Game, Game of Thrones) in French and watching familiar television shows in French. A few years of doing this improved my language skills far more than my classes did (though arguably I needed to classes to get to the point where I could read/watch on my own). ---
**Author:** ![Carlo1460](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/carlo1460/32/122202_2.png) [@Carlo1460](https://community.monzo.com/u/Carlo1460)\ **Post date:** [23 May 2026 08:27 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/languages/194030/3 "2026-05-23T08:27:17Z")
I’ve been using Duolingo to learn Welsh but it’s hit and miss when I can be bothered. ---
**Author:** ![LordRec](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/lordrec/32/121713_2.png) [@LordRec](https://community.monzo.com/u/LordRec)\ **Post date:** [23 May 2026 11:28 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/languages/194030/4 "2026-05-23T11:28:31Z")
> [@Ambassador\_Spock](#): > > A few years of doing this improved my language skills far more than my classes did (though arguably I needed to classes to get to the point where I could read/watch on my own). This is what I found with mandarin. I want to pick up Japanese, which I’m confident I could do without help (Chinese background means I can memorise the characters and their readings quite well already and already have from attending karaoke with Japanese friends - I can sing some songs already) But I have some other languages I need / want to learn due to family and friends/economic opportunity. Namely Turkish(with Kurdish potentially coming later)/ Japanese-French-Spanish. But I don’t really know where to find resources for the latter three that aren’t Japanese. There is a big programmer-anime enthusiast overlap that means the ecosystem for learning Japanese with technology is a lot more fleshed out That and I want to take HSK 3.0 6 at some point next year, it makes the prospect of doing this a little harder. I’d be okay now with focusing on improving my Chinese (just word learning and a few grammar concepts) and adding Japanese/Turkish(similar grammar) alongside it with some more casual learning of French or Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![MalaiseForever](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/malaiseforever/32/123325_2.png) [@MalaiseForever](https://community.monzo.com/u/MalaiseForever)\ **Post date:** [23 May 2026 13:05 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/languages/194030/5 "2026-05-23T13:05:15Z")
I do Finnish with textbooks and lessons. ---
**Author:** ![thehamshackman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@thehamshackman](https://community.monzo.com/u/thehamshackman)\ **Post date:** [25 May 2026 10:08 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/languages/194030/6 "2026-05-25T10:08:32Z")
[https://forum.language-learners.org/viewforum.php?f=15](https://forum.language-learners.org/viewforum.php?f=15) This site is a great resource for learning languages, both in terms of resources and guidance on approaches. Some remarkably helpful people post often and I have found it an invaluable and welcoming community. I was at one time near-native in German, although lack of use now means that my levels have dropped … I’ve been accessing this site frequently to hopefully get back to where I was before. ---
**Author:** ![LordRec](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/lordrec/32/121713_2.png) [@LordRec](https://community.monzo.com/u/LordRec)\ **Post date:** [25 May 2026 13:35 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/languages/194030/7 "2026-05-25T13:35:07Z")
From my one search of Turkish seems to be everyone is trying to juggle 50 languages at once but actually spends no time in any of them. When I picked up mandarin I was doing 20h a week of classes + daily study of 10-15 words and about an hour of Anki a day. Do these people actually want to learn a language to usefulness or do they just want to be able to say Je suis X? ---
**Author:** ![thehamshackman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@thehamshackman](https://community.monzo.com/u/thehamshackman)\ **Post date:** [25 May 2026 13:43 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/languages/194030/8 "2026-05-25T13:43:07Z")
There are certainly a few participants who want to ‘collect’ a number of languages but do a little digging and you’ll find many serious people who are striving to get to very advanced levels in the language(s) of their choice. ---
**Author:** ![LordRec](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/lordrec/32/121713_2.png) [@LordRec](https://community.monzo.com/u/LordRec)\ **Post date:** [26 May 2026 08:55 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/languages/194030/9 "2026-05-26T08:55:58Z")
Lots of resources - shame there’s nothing that stuctured for a lot of them. I’m not exactly sure how to go about learning a language without the classes involved in my prior learning. ---
**Author:** ![LordRec](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/lordrec/32/121713_2.png) [@LordRec](https://community.monzo.com/u/LordRec)\ **Post date:** [27 October 2026 12:21 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/languages/194030/10 "2026-10-27T12:21:56Z")
Probably not a thread anyone cares about, but if anyone is interested in languages I’d be interested in anyone’s story about how they’ve been studying. I’m currently going through HSK 1-6 vocabulary (on the newly incoming HSK3.0 exam) as I’d like to take HSK6 next year. Some other languages I’d like to pick up are Japanese and Spanish/French/Turkish(or Kurdish)/(Maybe) German.