9 Websites You Can Use to Learn a Foreign Language - StumbleUpon Traveling is a great way to see a country and learn about the people who live there. But if you really want to learn what makes them tick than you need to learn their language. Immersing yourself in a new language can seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, there are great free resources available to turn your first few words into fluency. BBC Languages A great resource to get you going. Word2Word This site can really increase your vocabulary and syntax. Internet Polyglot This site isn’t intended to be used as your sole learning site. Busuu A language learning community. Madinah Arabic Language Course This site was set up over 8 years ago specifically to teach Arabic for free. Livemocha Another learning language community. Skritter This site focuses on just Chinese and Japanese. Ethnologue Owned by SIL International, the Ethnologue is a listing of the known living languages of the world. My Happy Planet One more language community, but this one is different from the others.
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language learning theory Age Effects in Second Language Acquisition : OverviewRieko Matsuoka, Ian Smith Abstract Age has been regarded as an important factor in acquiring second languages successfully as well as in acquiring first languages. In this review article, previous studies regarding age and language acquisition are examined, and the ways in which age may affect the process of acquiring a second language are discussed. For instance, some previous research（ e.g., Johnson & Newport, 1989） evidenced the strong negative correlation（r > |－.7|） between age of acquisition/arrival and accuracy or native-like proficiency, which means the younger learners are, the more native-like they become. Second language acquisition researchers differ over when the critical period/sensitive period comes to an end. Brain-based evidence has been also coordinated with second language research in recent studies（ e.g. Selinger（ 1978） proposes, there may be multiple critical/sensitive periods for different aspects of language.
RhinoSpike : Foreign Language Audio on Demand! How I Became a Xenolinguist Wikiuniversity offers a wry definition of Xenolinguistics: “the scientific study of languages of non-human intelligences. Publications in this field tend to be speculative as few people have made the claim to have understood an alien language, at least not reliably.” The grand convergence of psychedelics and technology came in the summer of 1998. I was a grad student at RPI in communication and rhetoric, fully indoctrinated in (mostly French) critical theory, semiotics, new media theory, and the history of communication technology. The fictional world had established itself well enough that I could enter it, look around, and ask questions of the characters. Glide presented itself in the story-world as an alien language. When summer of 1998 was over, I did not have a visual language topic framed in terms of a semiotic or new media theory. Lily Pads Glide Maze Lily Glyph Blue Lily A series of software applications emerged from this process of psychedelic self-exploration. Like this:
Top List of the hardest languages to learn We had so many interesting responses to this article that we decided to create a poll to see what people think the hardest languages to learn overall are. We also wanted to find out what people think the hardest language to learn to pronounce correctly and the hardest language to learn to write correctly are. The hundreds of votes have now been counted! Take a look at the results of the hardest languages to learn poll, to find out what languages people voted for. 1. There are some controversial questions which to some extent may never be satisfactorily answered. As so often is the case, the answer to this question lies partly in the eye of the beholder. While the common consensus tends to describe Chinese and Russian to be among the most challenging languages, a survey conducted by the British government has shown that this is not necessarily true. *Top List based on forum discussions in 23 countries You might also like:
All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On you From the Mouths of Babes: A High School Girl Shares Her AJATT Success Story Hey Khatz, I just thought I’d send you an (almost done) success story. My name is Mariah, and I’m a junior in high school; I’ve been doing the AJATT method on-and-off since the summer of 8th grade, but more on that in a bit. I was originally going to send you a success story after I had considered myself... Read more » It Worked For Me, Why Not You? Good day to you, Mr. Read more » You Are What You Eat, You Write What You Read, You Speak What You Hear This entry is part 10 of 13 in the series Secrets of SpeakingThe attentive will recall that Jamie (an AJATTeer) came up with what I still consider to be the greatest analogy in the history of learning languages about a year ago. Read more » Success Story: Using AJATT to Pwn Japanese Classes (Which Still Suck), And Moving On In Life… Penname Shawn was an AJATTeer back when that meant something. Read more » Read more »
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LingQ - The future of language learning The Mnemosyne Project How do I... This section is intended for the impatient. Most of these questions would resolved by working through the (on-line) Erlang manuals, but sometimes we just want a quick answer... Keep in mind that the program fragments are intended to illustrate an idea, not serve as re-useable, robust modules! 5.1 ...compare numbers? The operators for comparing numbers are >, >=, <, =<, == and =/= . Eshell V4.9.1 (abort with ^G) 1> 13 > 2. true 2> 18.2 >= 19. false 3> 3 == 3. true 4> 4 =/= 4. false 5> 3 = 4. ** exited: {{badmatch,4},[{erl_eval,expr,3}]} ** The last example is a (failed) pattern match rather than a comparison. 5.2 ...represent a text-string? As a list of characters. which is exactly the same as writing and also the same as writing A = [$h,$e,$l,$l,$o,$ ,$w,$o,$r,$l,$d]. Each character consumes 8 bytes of memory on a 32 bit machine (a 32 bit integer and a 32 bit pointer) and twice as much on 64 bit machines. There are general ways to improve string performance. See also file:consult/1 1. 2. 3. 4.