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 
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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.
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
maco
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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.
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.
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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Duolingo just gave me a free preview of one of their ad-free tiers again (after getting wise to me starting and cancelling free trials repeatedly)
And holy shit this is actually usable without the enshittified free tier.
I need to switch to something else to keep my progress up because god knows I am not going to continue doing this for fun when this preview thinger ends.
Anyone have an alternative they like? Possibly a free one at the beginning of the enshittification cycle?
Duolingo just gave me a free preview of one of their ad-free tiers again (after getting wise to me starting and cancelling free trials repeatedly)
And holy shit this is actually usable without the enshittified free tier.
I need to switch to something else to keep my progress up because god knows I am not going to continue doing this for fun when this preview thinger ends.
Anyone have an alternative they like? Possibly a free one at the beginning of the enshittification cycle?
Ulrike Hahn
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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
maco
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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.
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.
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! 🧵
Anke
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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.
maco
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Happiness is watching #babylon5 in your #TargetLanguage
Happiness is watching #babylon5 in your #TargetLanguage
Evan Prodromou
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Hey Mastodon, I need your help! Any #arabic or #polish learners who would be interested in testing out my new #languagelearning app? You'd get a lifetime access, and if you want, you let me know if you have any suggestions or see any bugs. The content is 100% human-made. The app has vocabulary, easy stories and SRS-based reviews (for all the #Anki fans out there). I programmed it myself, and I put my heart (and savings ;)) into it. Any help would go a long way.
Thank you so much! :)
#fedihelp
Husband: do you know what 사라다 means?
I didn’t know, but it sounded like a verb. A flow of unrelated verbs start popping into my head: 사다, 살다, 살리다, 사라지다…
Husband: it comes from Japanese.
さらだ? All of a sudden, this word sounded more like a loanword than a verb! サラダ = salada (from Portuguese).
So in Korean there are two words: 샐러드 is the general word for “salad” and 사라다 refers to “Japanese style salad” with fruits, vegetables, nuts and mayonnaise.
Hey Mastodon, I need your help! Any #arabic or #polish learners who would be interested in testing out my new #languagelearning app? You'd get a lifetime access, and if you want, you let me know if you have any suggestions or see any bugs. The content is 100% human-made. The app has vocabulary, easy stories and SRS-based reviews (for all the #Anki fans out there). I programmed it myself, and I put my heart (and savings ;)) into it. Any help would go a long way.
Thank you so much! :)
#fedihelp
maco
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I know there are plenty of languages/vocabulary learning apps around, but are there any (I could use) for short trips? So focusing on things like ordering a beer or a coffee, asking for the bill, buying a bus ticket to somewhere, basics like “hello” and “thank you”…
Specifically looking for Hungarian and Romanian, from English or Dutch.
#LanguageLearning #iOS #app