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How can I make sure my pronunciation based on IPA is correct?
I have read this question and answers titled "How can I learn IPA?" and now start to (finally) learn IPA and phonetics.
However, while the question asks about the way to learn the IPA, which focuses on how to understand the IPA and its symbols, I…
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Digital dictionaries with sound for French learners
I had been using Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English on a computer app. It was a great experience working with a dictionary that gives you pronunciations, examples with sound, thesaurus, and many more. I am wondering if there is a similar…
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How can I get over lack of learning resources in "minor languages"
Sometimes I want to learn a language but give up due to the lack of resources available. These languages tend to be the ones that very few people learn using English.
In my opinion, one of the core but often missed factors on the difficulty of…
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How to be in constant contact with the IPA to improve one's pronunciation of a language?
Recently I've been consulting a few words in the dictionary and after seeing their phonemic transcription I realized how my pronunciation differed from that of natives. The dictionary may then seem like a pretty good solution for the issue proposed…
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Complete intro to the structure of Tibetan letters
In order to learn the Tibetan language, I would like to learn to write the characters as seen on Wikipedia:
I would just use it as a reference and zoom into the characters to learn to draw them, but some of these specifically Tibetan letters are…
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Publicly available reference on Hebrew Alphabet Orthography Rules
I would like to know what a good book, paper, website, etc. would be that describes, for each letter in the Hebrew alphabet, what is and what is not acceptable for the character. I see a lot of variation in the structure of symbols in fonts, but I'm…
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Is there any evidence that correcting a learner's oral mistakes in class has a negative impact?
In a comment on the question Is there a scientific evidence of class / teacher importance for adult learners? Gavenkoa makes the following claim:
There is evidence that certain teaching activities has negative impact on exam scores. One of such…
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How to get most language learning benefits from frequent casual conversations with natives?
I know several languages on various levels:
Polish native
English C1-C2
German B2-C1
Russian B1
Spanish B1
I have tons of opportunities to speak to natives:
English - quite a few people at work (though very mixed origin: USA, Canada, UK)
German -…
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How does one become an IELTS examiner?
The language tests defined by International English Language Testing System (IELTS) are widely recognised tests of English language proficiency for non-native speakers of English. In one of his videos, Olly Richards mentions that he used to be an…
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High-qualilty videos for New Practical Chinese Reader
新实用汉语课本 or New Practical Chinese Reader is a series of textbooks for learning Standard Chinese published by Beijing Language and Culture University Press. There are six textbooks, containing 70 lessons in total, and each textbook is accompanied by…
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How can I come up with words while writing?
I'm now learning Mandarin Chinese and since it reached enough level (should be HSK 6 level on reading), I started to practice writing.
However, in so many cases I could not come up with words, especially more complicated words (in the case of…
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Original source of Arguelles' statement about learning at least six languages
The Reddit thread Alexander Arguelles’ Six Most Important Languages, which started earlier this year ("5 months ago" from October 2018) states that the polyglot Alexander Argüelles once said that an educated person should learn six languages that…
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Spanish grammar books with exercises and answer key for self study
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for Spanish that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in Spanish, i.e. all grammar rules and instructions must be in Spanish (not English, German, French, ...);
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What's a Japanese language-learning website with interlinear gloss translations?
I've been trying to find one of these for years. I love the wikipedia examples where they have a sentence, a word-by-word gloss, and an English translation. Like this:
太陽が｜東の｜空に｜昇る。
taiyō ga | higashi no | sora ni | noboru
sun SUBJECT | east…
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Using he/she when speaking quickly
I am reasonably fluent with English and can express arbitrary thoughts by using it. However, when speaking fast, I often use the wrong pronoun (from "he" or "she"). I am also aware of "they", which I have not misused thus far.
I have no problem…
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