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What are the main causes of foreign language anxiety in learners of Chinese?
Wikipedia defines foreign language anxiety as follows:
Foreign language anxiety, or xenoglossophobia, is the feeling of unease, worry, nervousness and apprehension experienced in learning or using a second or foreign language. The feelings may stem…
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Graded readers for Modern Hebrew?
Graded readers are considered to be good resources for both intensive and extensive reading, especially for people who are not yet proficient enough in an L2 to read texts written for native speakers.
Where can people find graded readers for Modern…
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How does language learning in a classroom affect self-learning?
Circumstances require me to take a ~3 month break from my formal/classroom/directed language studies soon. Prior to studying my L2* under a teacher I was learning independently. How will my classroom experience affect my independent study?…
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How to find out your own English level?
I want to find out my English level (A1-C2). I thought it will be a good idea to find some placement tests.
Where I can find some free, good English placement tests with some feedback?
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How to start recognizing tones and accents?
I would like to start recognizing tones, accents and stresses in languages I already know. Are there efficient ways to do this?
For a little more background : I have recently become aware of the phenomenon of pitch accents (here and here, although…
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What is the popularity of using colored (e.g. red) transparencies to obscure words in a language book?
When I was in Japan twenty years ago, I noticed that high school students would sometimes study English from special books with black and red printing inside. The book would come with a red-colored transparent plastic film, a little smaller than the…
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Which American accent to learn for differentiating the most words
Like in many countries, the USA has many different dialects and accents including the General American accent. Several years ago, a group at Harvard did an American dialect survey that further elucidated to many people the fact that some Americans…
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How to use a speaking partner?
There are two types of speaking partners that you can use. The first type is just a regular person who is learning your language, and the two of you speak to each other for, say, 30 minutes in one language and then 30 minutes in the other language.…
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How can I sound more 'native'?
I'm fluent in French and Russian - by which I mean that I don't have any trouble reading novels and can easily converse in either without making grammatical errors or feeling uncomfortable - and have been learning them for 2 and 3 years…
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Is it possible for an adult to learn sounds of completely unrelated languages they have never heard before?
I once spent nearly an hour trying to show five Korean and Japanese adults the difference between English… British… European, come to that… “L” and “R” and not one of them could hear it, though we breathed on balloons and touched each other’s…
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How can I progress from A1 to B2 on listening skills?
My written Mandarin Chinese is likely B2 while speaking and listening are practically useless, likely A1 on CEFR scale. I'm now trying to improve the listening and speaking fluency, but for me it is practically impossible to improve it. Specifically…
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What is the fastest known time a person went from not knowing to fluently proficient in a language?
I'm wondering what statistics, if any, are available about some of the fastest known times for the acquisition of a 2nd+ language (from zero knowledge, to some "average" level of fluency and proficiency by native-speaker standards).1
I'm…
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Studies on average time by full immersion in 2nd+ language to become conversant?
Are there any studies that have noted some "average"1 length of time for a brand new 2nd (or 3rd, etc.) language learner fully immersed in a culture to pick up a new language to a level of at least being conversant enough to convey in speech some…
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Where can I learn about maya hieroglyphs?
I passed my last vacations in Yucatan and was impressed about the Maya culture. Scientists still study and have a lot of open questions. My principal intention is to learn and edit the already known about Mayan hieroglyphs to be able to teach it.…
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Bulk-add pronunciations to Anki decks
This is what I want to do:
I have a large Anki collection (over 20,000 notes of Japanese vocabulary).
I want to add Japanese pitch/accent information to each note.
Possible solutions?
I have no idea how to do it, but I know of an Anki addon (here)…
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