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How does learning math differ from learning second foreign languages (L2)?

Peer-reviewed publications analogize learning math to learning a L2. But what are the DisAnalogies and CounterArguments? How can you distinguish learning math from learning L2? Luciana Oliveira, Marta Civil. Teaching Mathematics to English Language…
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Where can I find a collection of synonyms with detailed explanations of their nuances or differences?

Online sources, like some sites, and books both are OK. (English vocabulary) To clarify, I'm not asking for a method to search for synonyms. Rather, I'm finding some sources which I can browse in my leisure time to pick up some useful or interesting…
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Online Portuguese [PT-PT] language course

Duolingo has Portuguese in its program, but is built for [PT-BR], Brazilian Portuguese. I’m looking for quite a while to find an online language course in European Portuguese [PT-PT]. In general, people will understand Brazilian Portuguese in…
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Are word translations adequate when starting to learn a new language?

Being a native Spanish speaker, I've learnt English as a second language since I was a child, starting at age 5, (I'm 23), and when I was 14-15 I started to learn German at a language school, with some pauses since then due to either financial…
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Vietnamese children's stories with audio and text

I'm looking for children's stories (stories with an easy vocabulary) in Vietnamese, with the text and the audio, so that I can listen to the story and follow the words on the text. An example would be Aesop's fables. Does someone know where I could…
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How long between each TOCFL level for learning Mandarin?

This is the same question as How long between each HSK level for learning Mandarin? but for the Taiwanese test rather than the mainland one. A common question among language learners is how long will it take me to learn ?, and the…
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Controversy & Debate in SLA: Can I ever get concrete takeaways?

I learned Mandarin in high school and later in life (now) started becoming interested in how I was able to acquire it, i.e., the study of SLA. My goal: As of now, I hope to have concrete strategies for use in building language learning tools for…
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How developed are Duolingo courses for each language?

Many of the [Duolingo] "courses" are so heavily underdeveloped to the point of being useless. You lucked out that Spanish is one of the actually legit ones (French being the other main one). Reddit u/chiraagnataraj, August 2022. I checked for…
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Tongue positioning for Serbian ć and č

I know that ć and č are different sounds as ć is softer than č, but do not know how the tongue should be positioned to pronounce them. Is ć pronounced with the tip of the tongue touching the back of the upper teeth, or touching the back of the…
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Is it best practice for a L2 textbook passage to re-use vocabulary from previous passages?

Almost all L2 textbooks contain passages which use new vocabulary. There seems to be two ways to go about this (both with pros and cons): The vocabulary of every passage is independent of previous passages. The student can thus skip chapters they…
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What are some effective options for an American with no nearby Korean-speakers to learn Hangul?

After studying the evolution of language at a very superficial depth I've decided that I want to be able to communicate using Hangul at something like the conversational level. There seem to be no fluent Korean individuals in my area to help me…
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How to memorize Indonesian words easily?

I don't know whether it's just me, but I think that many Indonesian words look very similar. Are their any ways to memorize them (i.e tips and strategies) or tools to help me? Thanks!
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Why do natural speakers of (predominantly) Indian languages use "the same"

I've noticed that a lot of people who first speak an "Indian" language (I don't know which languages specifically, but from that region) then learn English perhaps as an adult use "the same" to avoid repeating themselves, whereas I, an American…
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How is it possible to have 'standardized' test of languages?

In the comments of this question I askeda, an interesting point was raised in an exchange between two users: When teaching the language, you have to say which answer is gonna get accepted in the FCE or TOEFL or whatever equivalent in whatever…
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Answer key for German Second and Third Years

I am retired and returning to my former (undergraduate) study of German. Currently I am beginning German Second and Third Years by Harry F. Reinert and Walter Kleinmann, Revised Edition (1994 ISBN 978-0-87720-577-7). I would very much like to get…
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