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As a lower-intermediate level speaker in a standard dialect, how can I quickly learn to understand a different dialect?

I moved to Sweden in 2022 and am a solid CEFR B1 in Swedish – or at least, I am when I’m talking to people in central Sweden. I'm able to have simple business and social conversations with my colleagues, who all have Stockholm or Gothenburg accents,…
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How to end conversation due to my own limitations in Korean

I am learning Korean and I have just about enough knowledge to say greetings and order my food in a restaurant (spoken and written). But sometimes my server will assume I know more and I won't be able to understand what they say to me. When I was…
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Are there any services for Audiobooks that have EU languages that work in the US?

Every service I've tried Storytel, Fabel, etc all are blocked in the US. While I'm sure this is because some US company has the rights, the US apps also only have English. Is there any way to get an Audiobook service with Norwegian books in the US?
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English short grammar books recommedation

I hope this message finds you all well. I want to study English grammar, but I could not find good resources for me, I want to study shorter books before the longer ones, but I could not find any short ones. Why it seems in English there are only…
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Would it be easier for someone who speaks Farsi to learn English or Arabic?

Since English and Farsi are both Indo-European languages, one might think English is easier. But Farsi and Arabic have similar systems of writing, and I would guess they've had influence on each other, so maybe Arabic is easier. And I would guess it…
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Why do days mutate in Welsh when standing on their own, and why does the object of a past-tense sentence mutate when following 'chi'?

Background: The Welsh Duo Lingo course was designed in two parts: the "flash cards" (the things you do in the app) and the accompanying course notes. Unfortunately the notes were never available inside the app, so many discussions on the flash cards…
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Do students who have had both native and non-native language tutors say the non-native tutor is better?

Almost anyone who had a native speaker and a non-native speaker as tutor says the non-native speaker was better. Reddit user Theevildothatido, 23 July 2023. (score 294) A curious claim! It was somewhat controversial at Reddit. I wonder if it's…
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Apps that quiz you from a pair of decks instead of a single deck?

I want to make one deck with grammar structures and one deck with topics and I would like an app that can randomly choose one card from the grammar structure and one card from the topic list and give it to me as a pair. For example ("the more...the…
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What's the best way to learn the sounds of Arabic letters?

Before tackling learning the Arabic language, I thought of an easier stepping-stone goal that would build confidence and also be useful on its own, for reading things such as bus destination signs and street signs... namely learning how to read…
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Why is "fluency development" so commonly overlooked?

Prof. Paul Nation in Learning Vocabulary in Another Language (2001) put forward his idea of four strands to learning/teaching languages: (a) meaning-focused input, (b) meaning-focused output, (c), fluency development, (d) language-focused learning. …
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Do native speaker teachers who have learnt a second language teach better?

Suppose there are two groups of teachers of a language, all native speakers. One group has the experience of learning a second language and the another group doesn't. Is there research that studied which group of teachers teach better?
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Practice Welsh Pronunciation in Duolingo

I've been using Duolingo to learn Welsh recently. My wife, seeing my progress, has installed the app to learn Portuguese. It's only now (having seen my wife practicing) that I realise there is a "pronunciation mode" which uses the phone microphone…
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What specialist/engineering/technical vocabulary Nordic-English dictionaries are available?

I am looking for vocabularies/dictionaries for the Nordic languages specific to engineering. These books do exist for some other fields, such as Danish-English vocabularies for law. I have been unable to find any for technical fields. I have…
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Are Asian-language-to-English word flashcards less effective than European-language-to-English word flashcards?

I personally find Chinese-to-English word flashcards generally ineffective for learning Chinese, and I attribute this to words having different (a) collocations, (b) parts of speech, (c) suitable contexts, (d) additional definitions, and (e)…
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How are words divided to into syllables?

My question is more about the pronunciation of words like arbitrary, oblivion and experience. The way theses words are divided into syllables make them harder for me to pronounce them due to the lack of certain consonant clusters in my native…
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