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What ways can ChatGPT assist with learning a foreign language?

I believe ChatGPT's strong linguistic capability would enhance language learning. But I think it depends as ChatGPT may sometimes provide incorrect responses with confidence. and language learners may struggle to determine the accuracy of ChatGPT's…
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Finding direct translations for foreign words in English

Is there any tool or method of searching for the direct translations of foreign words that have made their way into English? Google translate and other translation services will translate the meaning and hide the direct translation. "Cul-de-sac" is…
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How to go about learning a heritage language that I lost as a child?

I used to be bilingual in French and English when I was very young but when I began school in Australia, I stopped speaking French so I could get better at English and now at 16 I can understand the general gist of a conversation but can barely…
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Are there effective ways to improve oral English or a platform which emphasizes students' improvement?

Am I the only one who feels that these English-teaching websites are just a way for teachers to make a few bucks here and there? It seems that the majority don't really focus on the intricacies of human communication, or for that matter, the…
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How many words give 98% coverage in Mandarin?

For Chinese characters, Jun Da's dataset implies 1566 characters gives 95% coverage, 2285 characters gives 98% coverage, and 2838 characters gives 99% coverage. I'm wondering if there's a similar result for words. Question: How many words give 98%…
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Is this a good way to learn English?

In the anime Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai, there's such a scene of a notebook. As you can see in the picture, it's almost barely a list of vocabulary, I mean, there's no example sentence. Besides, instead of using the international phonetic…
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Does the quality of audio recordings affect their effectiveness in exemplifying pronunciation?

Some of the FSI free language courses are accompanied by audio recordings which were originally on cassette tapes. This means that those recordings are not quite on par with the more modern audio recordings available today. Comparison: Pimsleur's…
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Google search to include all morphological inflections of a lexeme

Is there a way for Google search to include all inflections of a lexeme in the results? I am thinking specifically of languages other than English. Here is an example of what I have in mind. I am interested in sample sentences of the Finnish word…
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Which 'direction' to use for memorizing new words?

When trying to memorize new words, a person might have a list like: boy - ولد girl - بنت Here we can assume English is native and Arabic is foreign. My question is, which 'direction' should I memorize the vocabulary that will be more effective? Do I…
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Anki: How can I mark the cards that I already know in an imported deck?

I'm trying out Anki for myself and I have imported various deck about non-Latin writings systems, some of which I have at least already partly learnt. When importing an external card deck, Anki will present me with at most N (according with my…
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How well do native Chinese speakers do on the HSK6?

I see a fair number of posts and videos about native Chinese speakers taking the HSK6, or mock HSK6 exams, so I'm hoping to collect their scores in one place: Question: How well do native Chinese speakers do on the HSK6?
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Sanskrit learning

I want to learn Sanskrit using the direct method. I'm looking for the book similar to Latin Lingua Latina per se illustrata by Hans Orberg, where you basically learn Latin using the target language, not a single word is written in any other…
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Is learning several languages at the same time proven less effective?

I'm learning a whole bunch of different languages at the same time, and I was wondering if there was evidence showing that this would be less efficient than learning them one by one. I found other questions asking if it was possible, whether or not…
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Native like comeptence in English (second language)/ Critical period hypothesis

I would like to start with some information about my background. I studied in "English medium schools" throughout my life. I put English medium in quotation marks because although books of all subjects were in English, until the eighth grade not…
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Do there exist resources to learn to mask autistic speech patterns?

There exist resources to help people with autism to understand, for example, prosodic elements they do not understand. However, I cannot find such resources for the sending end of these signals; I want to find resources to learning to suppress…
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