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I used to be a bit of a chess player, where we rank chess proficiency using the Elo rating system (or the Glicko rating system). When you "win" your rating goes up, and when you "lose&...
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I'm becoming increasingly disabused of the belief that average native speakers (i.e., untrained in teaching their native language) provide helpful feedback to students learning their language. Often ...
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Gacha games are known for ethically dubious monetization practices (see this video). They're free to play games, but you can make in-game purchases; They're designed to be easy; They're deliberately ...
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On Android, using Gboard, all I have to do is long press e.g., "a", and I get tons of choices for which kind of Vietnamese "a" I wish to enter. But on a Chromebook, yes with "...
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I want to find an English vocabulary learning app for an intermediary English user (~IELTS 5.5-6.0)--i know that there are plenty of such apps, such as Duolingo. The problem is, I want to find an app ...
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Does anyone know of a book for learning Dutch by the natural method or something like it please? I'm thinking of something like Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata or Erstes Deutches Buch.
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I can't think of any other skill than speaking a foreign language where people (despite having no non-mental obstacle to doing so) often choose not to practice by themselves. This doesn't apply to ...
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One of the frustrating aspects of language learning is imprecise definitions; here I'm interested in the definition of "sentence mining". If we google it, we get: Sentence mining is the ...
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I'm Chinese and have been learning English for more than 10 years. As it is a compulsory course in China, so we start learning it from a very young age. I can communicate with others fluently when it ...
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I am just getting started learning Chinese. My goal is to be able to speak Chinese at the level of a first grader. My plan is to evaluate this by completing HSK course(s). But I do not know which ...
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This is a sample of my voice: https://voca.ro/1n9yVi2OmlOm English is pretty much my first language and the language I know best. I have an accent and it frustrates me a lot. I want to get rid of it. ...
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I've been learning Japanese by watching anime and YouTube videos (I think this is my learning style), especially from these channels: https://www.youtube.com/@parako https://www.youtube.com/@...
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I'm considering learning Danish, while I am native Swedish speaker. The languages are partially mutually intelligible (and even more so in written form). Are there any special considerations to be ...
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Academic papers report language-learning experimental results using methods like those described here. Often they take a class of students (say, 30) and randomly assign some task for one half, and ...
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I was perusing Reddit's r/languagelearning, and this comment by u/whosdamike piqued my curiosity (especially the parts I highlighted in bold): Here is an update I made about learning Thai via pure ...
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