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How to type Vietnamese with tones on a Chromebook?
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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Want to find an English vocabulary learning app
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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Natural method book for Dutch?
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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Why do people have an aversion to practicing speaking foreign languages by themselves?
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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Is there a precise definition of "sentence mining"?
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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is it possible to learn English like a native speaker?
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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What is the school grade level equivalent of each HSK level?
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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I need help with reducing my Indian Accent. I want to move toward an American one
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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Are there any short and entertaining English animation channels similar to GAG Anime that can help improve my listening skills?
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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Considerations when learning a very similar language
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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If an experiment is conducted on 1 class of 30 students, is that 1 data point or 30 data points?
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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What input doesn't count as "comprehensible input"?
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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Do Krashenian-educated language teachers struggle to answer common student questions?
The Krashenian school of language learning emphasizes comprehensible input and values implicit (subconscious) knowledge far above explicit (conscious) knowledge.
Let's imagine a student who has ...
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Anki collection stats is showing reviews from years before I started
When I look at my collection stats, it's showing some reviews from years before I started anki which should be impossible.
How can I search for the card causing these phantom reviews and delete them?
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How has iTalki, etc., been impacted by the advent of ChatGPT?
I'm curious as to how foreign-language online teaching sites/apps like iTalki have been impacted by ChatGPT and generative AI.
Question: How has iTalki, etc., been impacted by the advent of ChatGPT?
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