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I want to start learning Vietnamese, but I would rather not spend the first few months jumping between random apps and courses until something sticks. Well, actually that already happened and now I ...
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I go to my local english book club for people learning the language and yesterday we were reading Elephant by Raymond Carver. TL;DR at the end of the story one character (a coworker of the narrator) ...
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I've recently watched the video Speech is really SBEECH!, and I can see some advatantages of using the shown transcription for a learner for example the word 'disgust' and 'discussed' would have the ...
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Is there a general rule when to pronounce final consonants in French and when not to? For example, Soleil vs. Soif or Yeux vs. Natif
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The Chinese HSK7-9 is a single exam, and you're given a "no pass" or HSK7, HSK8, or HSK9 depending on your performance. The marking is based on an IRT model: Report Score: The ability ...
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It was suggested that I learn Egyptian Arabic for speaking and Modern Standard Arabic for reading and writing. However, I am not sure how to approach this. Should I focus on Egyptian Arabic only for ...
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I'm trying to make a conlang and am writing the dictionary and pronunciation. I'm trying to hear how the words sound out loud when they are spoken, but I can't read // learn IPA. Is there a site where ...
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It's been my belief for a while that getting direct feedback on my writing and speaking has largely been ineffective (often worse than no feedback), except under certain narrow conditions (I've asked ...
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I'm looking to learn modern spoken and written Persian, however the few books I've seen so far (for instance Colloquial Persian by Routledge) are intended for learners with no experience in language ...
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My Chinese writing sometimes gets criticized for sounding translated, both by humans and AI. Putting aside the fact that reaching an "it sounds translated" level in my Chinese writing is a ...
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So I speak a Semitic language as my mother tongue (Arabic), and I started taking a course in the Western Syriac language. I’ve been thinking about learning Hebrew for a while and I was wondering if ...
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Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian are Romance languages with many similarities in vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, etc. But how similar are the gender of their nouns? I know they all ...
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In second language learning, the term fossilization is often mentioned to describe persistent non-native patterns that remain even after long exposure and practice. I would like to understand how this ...
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The official website for the HSK7-9 exam has this: In the listening section, part 2, we see there are 9 "objective" (A, B, C, D multiple choice) questions and 3 "subjective" (fill ...
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The Chinese HSK7-9 exam has "translation" tasks: in my case, from English to Chinese. Here's an example of the provided material: After experiencing a major disaster, people’s behavior may ...

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