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Where/how can I learn Telugu?
I want to learn Telugu. I have searched for resources and found almost nothing. Duolingo and most of the language apps don't have it. The few that do either have only very basic stuff (introductions ...
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Where can you learn the Russian language for free in Russia?
My family will be moving to Russia in a few months. We don't know where yet. Though we have no interest in Moscow or St. Petersburg, if that helps. Where I live in Albania, local language courses cost ...
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Is the HSK7-9 reading section easier than the HSK6 reading section?
I took the Chinese HSK6 exam about 5 days ago, and am mulling over taking the HSK7-9. In comparing the reading sections of these two exams, we find:
HSK6: 50 questions in 50 minutes.
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How do speakers of gendered languages experience English [non-gendered] nouns?
In many languages nouns have a gender assigned (masculine, feminine, or neuter) which affects the nouns themselves and changes the forms of related words like adjectives and verbs. In English, most ...
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An example of iTalki's AI lesson summary?
Reddit's r/iTalki has quite a few posts about iTalki's upcoming iTalki Pro. Piecing together various posts:
the teacher and student can allow iTalki to record the class, and the AI generates a ...
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More complete English reference to the Harari language than what is linked on Wikipedia?
The Wikipedia article on Harari language links to an Appendix 2 of the works of one 'Burton' (absent from the article itself, apparently that would be Richard Francis Burton, and the book 'First ...
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When native Chinese speakers hear their native language, do both their left and right temporal lobes activate, while it's only the left for English?
張鳳蓮's 2016 master's thesis writes:
心理學家 Sophie Scott 於倫敦醫院所作的實驗顯示英文母語者聽到母語英語時，左側顳葉顯示活動的影像，而漢語母語者聽到漢語時，左右兩側顳葉都在活動。
[Google Translate]: Experiments conducted by psychologist Sophie Scott at a London ...
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Might students using ChatGPT to learn languages develop a kind of "ChatGPT accent"?
Students (like me) who use ChatGPT for second-language learning may pick up some of ChatGPT's idiosyncrasies. E.g., ChatGPT changes my 很多 to 许多, and I've kind of adopted this into my writing style. ...
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Islandic element names derived from Latin with "-ium" ending [closed]
Looking at the islandic periodic table it occured to me that all element names that originate from Latin and end in "-ium" are given in Islandic with the ending "-ìn".
Does anyone ...
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At what point is the best to switch instruction language to the target language
Somewhere I've read the recommendation that one should strive to use the target language as much as possible preferably exclusively, but I guess that doesn't work optimally from day one. Yes, for your ...
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Bilingual Chinese-English poetry books
I am looking for anthologies of Chinese poetry, with the following properties:
bilingual, i.e. includes both original (simplified) Chinese and English translation;
broadly covers classical poetry, as ...
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Is it really a good idea to learn to enumerate German adpositions taking the accusative and other cases?
I'm currently freshing up my German knowledge and I remember in school we were taught to remember and recite "für-um-durch-gegen-entlang-bis-ohne-wider", which are adpositions that take the ...
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Why, in France, was there an emphasis on cursive handwriting when it's harder to read, and is it the same throughout the Anglosphere?
In France, I was taught to write in cursive when I was six to ten years of age (alongside vocabulary, grammar, grammatical conjugation and so on). Once I completed this instruction, I never thought of ...
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Free app/website for learning Japanese
I want to learn Japanese using a completely free (iOS) app or website. I’m currently using Duolingo (very low knowledge level right now), but any simple web search will explain why Duolingo is bad at ...
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Will I mix Dutch with German up?
I speak German at C1 and I want to learn Dutch. Will I mix these two languages when I use them all the time and my Dutch is at an advanced level with German? And if I learn Dutch and devote more ...
