Automatic Language Growth (ALG) - Page 6 - A language learners’ forum The search for the magic chalice of perfect language learning is old (and also quite boringly saturated by now) Realistic language teachers, and learners, willing to take such observations into account, are also willing to accept 'the best possible outcome' for given circumstances
Language-learning for tourism - A language learners’ forum Re: Language-learning for tourism by iguanamon » Fri Jan 11, 2019 10:43 pm Greetings, please, thank you, numbers, you're welcome, directions, introductions, pleased to meet you, food names, drink names are all useful and polite They go a long way toward making a trip a little more pleasant and softens being a tourist
Getting Mad At Your Language - A language learners’ forum Re: Getting Mad At Your Language Postby devilyoudont » Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:21 am I think in any relationship, even relationships with nebulous entities such as "a language" or "a hobby", it is a reality that at the start there will be a honey moon phase and it will inevitably be followed by a period of disillusionment and detachment
Neoplanta log - German, French, Arabic, Urdu etc. - A language learners . . . Now I'm going back through it and trying to make 5 flashcards per day, although I do skip days My plan is to rewatch a batch of 5 episodes with Chinese subtitles once I've gone through an entire episode using Language Learning with Netflix + Anki
The role of variability: from playing tennis to learning language The effect of variability on learning is recognised in many fields: learning is harder when input is variable, but variability leads to better generalization of the knowledge we learned In this review, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, University of Glasgow and Vrije Universiteit Brussels bring together over 150 studies on variability across domains, including
Best approach to learning more words - Page 7 - A language learners’ forum It is not just about some terms related to propaganda or stuff related to a narrowly defined political-historical era, like колхоз Why would linguists in any country use 30 or 40 years old newspapers for such a corpus? The whole world has changed, the subjects we speak and read about, the political and economical problems and terminology, the technology and science that is being
Different learning path for shy bookworms? - A language learners’ forum I didn't develop really bad anxiety about speaking another language with other speakers learners until I started learning French, which was my 2nd language I learned My 1st French class was amazing--it was a 6-8 hour a day 5 days a week summer immersion class where we could only speak English in limited amounts
What next? (learning Spanish, maintaining German, random dabbling . . . I don't really need a language tutor to help me do this Although if anybody knows an expert in history and politics with a passion for German literature and a deep interest in urban design who happens to do a bit of language tutoring on the side, let me know (native speaker preferred)
Choosing a New language - A language learners’ forum I'm at the stage where I need to start learning a new language, or I can't really call myself a language lover anymore I have C1 French, which although rusty isn't ever going to go anywhere since I spoke it for so long during my formative years, and b2 c1 Russian which I use every day since I live in Moscow
French Study Log. - A language learners’ forum Almost 5 years of online classes on a weekly basis with a French language school I plan to finish my online classes the language school this July I have doing language classes via Italki with a Frenchwoman on a weekly basis since November last year I am planning to continue with the informal classes for another two-and-a-half years