Look to learn a list of words like 'search, 'image', 'video'. Take note of various images and try to find common words in those images so that it can help you find things faster. You don't need to know the whole language, just enough to do sleuthing and plop it into a translator.
I've gotten pretty decent at trawling Chinese news sites and scientific journals this way. The problem with translating the page in browser is you sometimes lose some context clues that are very useful for finding articles, so its best to learn what certain specific phrases mean
Theres also some apps that can swap Chinese characters over to pinyin. I find that helpful too for searching because I really suck at their writing system currently
People have been complimenting my Spanish growth at work lately. Perhaps I should learn where the biblioteca is, directly from the original source.
Learning the Russian words for next, cancel, and install through online piracy
Any time I spend trying to learn a diffo language is time spent not learning French which is already extremely hard for me so Idk if this is practical yet. But knowing a little of a lot of languages sounds cool, I could probably pull it off by the time I hit 45 or so.
better than my strategy of learning "sorry, i don't speak [language]" in a bunch of languages
I've been learning Mandarin. It's magical. I have been using that Hello Chinese app, but I find it really helps to go through all your learned words and write everything out on flashcards.
