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What are the main benefits and drawbacks of learning vocabulary only through conversation?
Many people learn foreign languages at school, which often involves learning vocabulary lists. Others learn languages through immersion. Each method has its benefits and drawbacks.
What are the main benefits and drawbacks of learning vocabulary…
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Learn a new language in between the non speakers environment (Same native language as mine)
I am planning to learn French as my third language. I am native Hindi speaker and my second language is English. I was going through few websites how to learn. Then I came to this video How to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale |…
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What's the most effective way to learn to quickly read Chinese?
I know enough Chinese characters to read quite advanced texts in this language. The problem, though, is that I'm terribly slow, so slow that reading anything is not a pleasure. This is something that really hampers my progress. I know how reading…
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How can I learn to read and write Spanish in Aljamiado (Arabic) characters?
The Spanish language has a Arabic orthography due to hundreds of years of Moorish rule. How can I learn to read and write Spanish in these characters, assuming that I can already read and write modern Spanish reasonably well in Roman characters?
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Seeking West Punjabi learning resources
I wish to learn the Punjabi language.
From what I understand, Western Punjabi (spoken in Pakistan) is the traditional Punjabi language that Punjabis spoke before the Partition of India (which created Pakistan), and Eastern Punjabi is spoken in…
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How to manage learning many languages at the same time?
Being interested in learning 2 or 3 languages at the same time, I wonder if there are some best strategies to use for better results (regarding time management, things that we should focus on more, etc).
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What is the average number of new Spanish vocabulary words an adult learner can learn per day?
And by recommended, I mean scientific research or recommendations from experienced language teachers.
Out of a daily language practice session, how many new vocabulary words can an adult foreign language learner be expected to learn on average? I…
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Evidence that the European Day of Languages motivates EU citizens to learn foreign languages?
Today, 26 September, is (or was) the European Day of Languages.
The Council of Europe came up with the idea of a European Day of Languages in 2001, the European Year of Languages. The initiative has several goals:
Making EU citizens aware of the…
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Dialects of Spanish & Learning
To facilitate the learning process and make sure students will end up speaking something most native Spanish speakers can understand, shouldn't a student be concerned with the actual dialect being taught? I have seen that a lot of times, Spanish…
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How to overcome verb tense confusion
My wife, who is a native Spanish speaker, speaks pretty good English, but still struggles with mixing present and past tenses.
Yesterday I buy a dress.
I will ate lunch at 1:00.
It seems to be pretty consistent across all verbs. So it's not…
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Learning the grammatical gender of nouns in languages that have no articles, using non-visual techniques
When learning languages where nouns have a grammatical gender, it is sometimes (or often?) possible to learn the grammatical gender by learning the noun together with a definite or an indefinite article.
For example:
German: der Grammatikmuffel,…
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What is the name of this particular language learning class (technique)?
Back in 1988 or 1989, I took a three month French immersion program at the University of Tours. We had classes in reading, grammar, writing, etc. Amongst the various classes there was one that stood out. All the foreign students, myself included,…
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What's the name of this non-IPA phonetic notation?
In The Free Dictionary you usually see definitions extracted from several sources.
Usually the first one uses a phonetic notation which is unknown to me.
What's the name of that phonetic notation system?
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What are the advantages of tables with declension endings to study a declension system?
Update: What I'm asking is if there's any evidence in the field of language learning stating if a mere table with declensions is useful for learning those declensions.
This is opposed to the usual method of learning the declension by repeating its…
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Necessity of studying Hanja to reach intermediate level of Korean proficiency?
Taking the Korean Government's TOPIK examination as a standard, is it necessary to be able to recognize Hanja characters to get an intermediate or advanced level in Korea? Or if someone wants to take his Korean ability further and aim for almost…
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