Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.
I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to “how are you” and how to say “I am still learning Greek can we speak English”. haha
Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.
I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to “how are you” and how to say “I am still learning Greek can we speak English”. haha
From what I understand (Don’t take what I say as correct as it may be wrong) but when 語(はな) hana, which is derived from 話す(はなす) hanasu which is the verb to speak, is paired with a nationality, with some exceptions of course like English which is 英語(えいご) eigo, it describes a language. So, pair 語(はな) hana with 日本(にほん) nihon, Japan in Japanese, then you get 日本語(にほんご) nihongo, meaning Japanese. Another example is French which is フランス語 (Furansugo).
And 勉強 is the Kanji for べんきょ(benkyo) which means study.
話 and 語 are different kanji though. One is talk and one is language. 語 does not seem to have 「はな」as a reading according to jisho.org
Ah, I didn’t even catch that. OK then I might be wrong about it being derived from 話す, ah oh well, we’re all learning
All good. I’m just glad to get the opportunity to get to talk about this with someone :D
Trust me, I feel the same
Ah nice. Thanks. Really need to get better reading Kanji
Just to add a small note—“勉強” is written as “べん きょう”(ben kyou) in hiragana.
I knew it! I knew I was wrong but my stupid brain said otherwise, thanks
Yeah, that was what I assumed. For now Duolingo still uses the ご hiragana for the go part in Nihongo. And the Kanji for べんきょ wasn’t introduced yet
I’m using Busuu along with Anki and independent stuff I find online. I used Duolingo for a big part of my study but when I switched to Busuu I quickly realized I didn’t know anything about sentence structure, grammer, or even kanji. So, in my opinion, Duolingo is great for learning words and the three writing systems but not so great about learning everything else.
That’s my impression as well and I’ve only been at it for half a year. In the beginning you would also get grammar help at the start of new chapters, but that stopped relatively quickly, so now it’s mostly diy grammar rules by analyzing the sentences. Maybe I’ll have a look at Busuu