Apart from #Polish, in the top 4 we see 3 neo- #Latin languages. This isn't so surprising imho. Latin is highly logical after all.

"The top 10 most effective languages for conversational AI were as follows:

- Polish 88%
- French 87%
- Italian 86%
- Spanish 85%
- Russian 84%
- English 83.9%
- Ukrainian 83.5%
- Portuguese 82%
- German 81%
- Dutch 80%
"

[Polish to be the most effective language for prompting #AI, new study reveals]

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/11/01/polish-to-be-the-most-effective-language-for-prompting-ai-new-study-reveals

#LanguageLearning

Sena needed surgery, but she couldn't understand her doctors
By Lily Nothling

Sena Husic left a war-zone in Bosnia 30 years ago for Australia, and went on to suffer debilitating spinal pain because of the language barrier she struggled to overcome. Now she's finally received treatment, but there a calls for translators to bridge the gap.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-07/calls-for-more-translators-in-australian-medical-industry/105978352

#Health #LanguageLearning #Discrimination #LilyNothling

Sena needed surgery, but she couldn't understand her doctors
By Lily Nothling

Sena Husic left a war-zone in Bosnia 30 years ago for Australia, and went on to suffer debilitating spinal pain because of the language barrier she struggled to overcome. Now she's finally received treatment, but there a calls for translators to bridge the gap.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-07/calls-for-more-translators-in-australian-medical-industry/105978352

#Health #LanguageLearning #Discrimination #LilyNothling

Apart from #Polish, in the top 4 we see 3 neo- #Latin languages. This isn't so surprising imho. Latin is highly logical after all.

"The top 10 most effective languages for conversational AI were as follows:

- Polish 88%
- French 87%
- Italian 86%
- Spanish 85%
- Russian 84%
- English 83.9%
- Ukrainian 83.5%
- Portuguese 82%
- German 81%
- Dutch 80%
"

[Polish to be the most effective language for prompting #AI, new study reveals]

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/11/01/polish-to-be-the-most-effective-language-for-prompting-ai-new-study-reveals

#LanguageLearning

Still mildly interested in learning Toki Pona. (You know, among the 99 other things I'm interested in learning right now but who knows if I'll ever make time for any of it.) Debating how much effort I should put into learning .


I rarely see it used, but then I also haven't looked very hard and mostly base that on Toki Pona posts on fedi and gemini.

On the other hand, it's just kinda neat.

#TokiPona #LanguageLearning

Things I have learned the hard way: take every opportunity to actively retrieve from your memory that you can find.

Just because your app gives you multiple choice doesn't mean you can't try to remember then check against the choices.

Corollary: do the thing you find hard. If you read better than you listen, listen to the audio then read the text. Don't read and listen at the same time, as all you'll actually train is reading.

#LanguageLearning

My wife would like to quit Duolingo (Italian) for something better now that they're effectively limiting lessons per day in the free version with the new "energy"-logic.

So what non-AI-first alternatives can you recommend?

#italian #duolingo #languagelearning #alternatives #enshittification

Things I have learned the hard way: reviews in spaced repetition systems accumulate fast and haunt you for months.

Pace your study according to your capacity to manage the reviews over the next two months, not the amount of study time you have today.

#LanguageLearning

Things I have learned the hard way: reviews in spaced repetition systems accumulate fast and haunt you for months.

Pace your study according to your capacity to manage the reviews over the next two months, not the amount of study time you have today.

#LanguageLearning

My former PhD sister, Anna Fankhauser, and I are organising a one-day symposium on "The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works" on Friday 7 November in Osnabrück. If you want to join us, we are doing a last call for posters: https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/textbooklanguage2025.

We have a great programme of exciting talks and a promising podium discussion featuring a textbook author, a schoolteacher, an English language teaching professor, and two textbook editors.

#LanguageTeaching #textbook #LanguageLearning #EFL #TEFL #TESOL #Romanistik #DAZ #DAF

Driving to the school football game.

Wife: So the spoken directions on your phone are in Chinese.

Me: Yes.

Wife: But the text is in French.

Me: Yes.

Wife: Jesus Christ you’re a nerd.

#languageLearning

My former PhD sister, Anna Fankhauser, and I are organising a one-day symposium on "The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works" on Friday 7 November in Osnabrück. If you want to join us, we are doing a last call for posters: https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/textbooklanguage2025.

We have a great programme of exciting talks and a promising podium discussion featuring a textbook author, a schoolteacher, an English language teaching professor, and two textbook editors.

#LanguageTeaching #textbook #LanguageLearning #EFL #TEFL #TESOL #Romanistik #DAZ #DAF

Driving to the school football game.

Wife: So the spoken directions on your phone are in Chinese.

Me: Yes.

Wife: But the text is in French.

Me: Yes.

Wife: Jesus Christ you’re a nerd.

#languageLearning

Language learners! I need your help!

I’m going into the classroom this week with 8 year olds to introduce them to French and want to impart some wisdom from all of us who have learned more than one language (all languages matter - also open to programming languages!)

What is something you’ve learned through learning a language - that is not about the language itself, but about learning it?

An example follows! 🧵

#askfedi #languages #language #languagelearning

Can anyone recommend good online tools, ideally free or affordable, for learning Danish?

A friend has offered to help me learn and I want to take advantage of the opportunity!

*Not Duolingo, obviously. I'm not interested in their AI slop.

**I don't need lectures from language study purists about using online tools. I am asking for what I want for my own reasons. Bullies and scolds will be blocked.

#Danish#Dansk#Language#LanguageStudy#LanguageLearning#LanguageApps.

Can anyone recommend good online tools, ideally free or affordable, for learning Danish?

A friend has offered to help me learn and I want to take advantage of the opportunity!

*Not Duolingo, obviously. I'm not interested in their AI slop.

**I don't need lectures from language study purists about using online tools. I am asking for what I want for my own reasons. Bullies and scolds will be blocked.

#Danish#Dansk#Language#LanguageStudy#LanguageLearning#LanguageApps.

Happiness is watching #babylon5 in your #TargetLanguage

#languagelearning#MakeItFun

Happiness is watching #babylon5 in your #TargetLanguage

#languagelearning#MakeItFun