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Has the Brexit referendum negatively impacted British people's motivation to learn foreign languages?
In July 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU in what is known as the Brexit referendum. Even before the referendum, the British—like native speakers of English in general—were not known as the keenest foreign language learners.
Has the outcome of the…
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Should I use my second language to learn my third language?
English is my second language (I do not have a good command of it.) while Chinese is my first language.
I want to have Japanese as my third language. Can I learn Japanese from books/tutorials written in English rather Chinese/Japanese?
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Is dictation any more effective than just writing in brain?
Many people, including some here, seem to recommend dictation on improving listening skills, but I wonder if the dictation is any more effective than just listening to the script and writing it in my brain. The reason I don't dictate is it is very…
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Fun mobile apps for teaching kids English?
My two 12 y/o Israeli boys are struggling with English at school, as the school English teaching system is incompetent. However as they are addicted to their Android smartphones I'd be happy to enroll them to a fun and worthy English course, in…
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Can I (an Illinois high school student) get a Seal of Biliteracy for Old Norse?
I don’t want any feedback on why I want Old Norse, I just want to know if it can be done.
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Graded readers for Polish?
As I have already mentioned in several other questions, graded readers are a good resources for extensive reading, at least for people who are not yet sufficiently proficient to read texts written for native speakers of the target language.
Polish…
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Graded readers for Korean?
Extensive reading or reading for pleasure is an excellent way of getting a lot of "comprehensible input" in a foreign language. Graded readers provide this type of comprehensible input.
Korean is the 17th-biggest language in the world by number of…
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How to teach someone to correctly pronounce unaspirated t and p in Standard Chinese?
Some languages, such an English and German, make a distinction between the aspirated voiced consonants pʰ and tʰ on the one hand and the unaspirated voiced b and d on the other.
Standard Chinese by contrast, makes a distinction between the…
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How to learn conjugations?
Perhaps it's because I'm still not very familiar with Russian but I often find myself using the wrong conjugation for specific verbs. How do I go about memorizing those?
I thought about drawing a table for each verb, but maybe there's a better…
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Can anyone give me advice on upgrading / learning English?
I recently defended my doctoral thesis in management science and I realize that English is the key to the job market and research field.
During my primary and secondary education, I was good at English and in the meantime I have become a little…
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Should I start studying Norwegian when living in Denmark and about to move to Norway?
I am, at the present, living in Denmark and actively studying Danish on the state-funded courses, using Duolingo, and other means like reading, following a lecture course and conversations.
I will be moving to Norway in three to ten months. I have…
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Learning Russian from completely beginner to B2/C1
I have 1 year to learn Russian from completely scratch to at least B2 level in TORFL. I will go to an intensive language course in St. Petersburg, Russia. The course will be 20 hours per week, I assume. How likely to achieve such a goal? My entire…
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Teaching a foreign language resources - The Direct Approach (or Method)
Two friends have told me they want to learn to speak Italian and are interested in paying me to teach them. I have an illness that makes it hard for me to work so I need to find a way to earn some money so this could be really helpful. I studied…
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Books written in Levantine Arabic (e.g, Jordanian Ammiyah)?
Are there any modern Arabic books or writers that make extensive use of a Levantine dialect (such as Jordanian Ammiyah)? I'm thinking if there are, they would be fictional works, such as novels which portray the characters speaking in dialect as…
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Are there any risks to listening to children's music?
I've been listening to normal Mongolian songs for about a year (some of it traditional, some of it rap). I think the only thing I've learnt is what Mongolian sounds like, but on the other hand, I assume it hasn't harmed me.
Are there any risks in…
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