Language learning
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What is Pimsleur? Pimsleur is an audio program for teaching languages that was developed in the 1970s. They used spaced repetition to teach you languages. It’s a fairly effective approach. Why use …
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People designed Esperanto to be easy to learn, not the case for Chinese. The rulers of China had even restricted literacy for quite a while. And the tone system shifts the meaning with a small change …
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Learning foreign languages is challenging and I found that unfortunately, a lack of structure slows learning. Many teachers are great. Some, not as much. And even if you do not have a teacher locally …
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Two weeks ago I got the Spanish Duolingo statue. Have been trying to get all of the skills to the highest level 'still strong'. The first two sections are at that level. A few have dropped down to …
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Once you complete all the lessons in a language on Duolingo you get an owl statue! It was cool to get that. But it doesn't really mean you're a master of the language. In the words of the program …
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Saw a cool project that seems a brilliant method of teaching Chinese characters by ShaoLan Hsueh, Chineasy. Link goes to the Kickstarter page, which has 14 days left. The Chinese language can seem …
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