Questions tagged [physical-resources]
Physical resources such as dictionaries, text books, audio recordings, flash cards, etc, as opposed to online or electronic resources.
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Can't find books to learn Romanian
I'm looking for books to learn Romanian. I have used searches such as "Romanian A1", "Romanian verbs", "Romanian vocabulary", but nothing. I mean, there were pages of ...
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How to learn a language for which very few resources are available?
In the past, people have posted several questions about learning languages for which very few resources are available:
How can I learn a language with little documentation/resources (Georgian)?
How ...
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Is there a publicly accessible "Self access language learning center" in or near Washington, DC?
I was recently reading the Wikipedia article on Self access language learning centers, which describes them as
...educational facilities designed for student learning that is at least partially, if ...
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How to be in constant contact with the IPA to improve one's pronunciation of a language?
Recently I've been consulting a few words in the dictionary and after seeing their phonemic transcription I realized how my pronunciation differed from that of natives. The dictionary may then seem ...
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What book(s) to read in order to learn letter-sound correspondence in English?
Someone advised me to go to the wikipedia page on "English Ortography" but in the references there are so many books that I don't know which to choose. In the same page there is also a list of letter-...
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Resources for autonomous study of Ancient Greek, especially from the Classical period?
Unbeknownst to many, Ancient Greek, spoken roughly from 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE, can be subdivided into several periods, i.e. the Archaic period, the Classical period and the Hellenistic ...
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Resources for learning Greenlandic?
Greenlandic is an Eskimo-Aleut language with approximately 56.200 speakers (according to a survey dating from 2007). It has several dialects, including West Greenlandic or Kalaallisut, which is the ...
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Grammar books with exercises and answer key for autonomous study of Italian
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for Italian that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in Italian, i.e. all grammar rules and instructions must be in ...
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Grammar books with exercises and answer key for autonomous study of Dutch
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for Dutch that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in Dutch, i.e. all grammar rules and instructions must be in Spanish (...
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English grammar books with exercises and answer key for self study (A2 - B2)
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for English (as a second/foreign language) that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in English, i.e. all grammar rules ...
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French grammar books with exercises and answer key for self study (A2 - B2)
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for French that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in French, i.e. all grammar rules and instructions must be in French ...
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German grammar books with exercises and answer key for self study
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for German that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in German, i.e. all grammar rules and instructions must be in German ...
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Spanish grammar books with exercises and answer key for self study
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for Spanish that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in Spanish, i.e. all grammar rules and instructions must be in ...
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Where can I find Arabic grammar exercises?
I'm learning literature Arabic (or what is it called?). I had no trouble finding learning materials, but I want to practice the grammar I have learned.
Where can I find exercises in Arabic grammar ...
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Question about Leitner box. How many cards to study from levels other than 1?
I am trying to learn Tagalog. I have made around 1500 flash cards and I am about to start using the Leitner box.
If I choose to learn 10 new words every day (from level 1) when I am in the ...
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Are there any series out there like the Living Language books from around 2000?
I still have my old collection. I liked the series, so I decided to buy a new one for the first time over 15 years. The series has changed A LOT. Besides being more expensive, it also seems to contain ...
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Blacked out Memory Glasses
Does anyone know where I might be able to get blacked out glasses? This is what they use in the memory competitions, and it is helpful for memorizing language vocabulary.
They block out the ...
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Graded readers for Hungarian?
As several other questions already mentioned, graded readers are a good resources for extensive reading, at least for people who are not yet sufficiently proficient to read texts written for native ...
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Acquiring mathematics vocabulary in Norwegian
What are good resources for finding out and learning mathematics vocabulary in Norwegian? How to learn the words to the level of being able to give lecture courses and supervise bachelor's thesis in ...
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What is the difference between a basal reader and a graded reader?
Both basal readers and graded readers are books that contain simpler reading materials to help people develop reading skills. But what exactly is the difference between them?
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Resources for learning to read Chinese newspapers (in simplified Chinese characters)?
Many textbooks for learning Standard Chinese, e.g. New Practical Chinese Reader, focus on conversational Chinese. In these textbooks, the text in the lessons are always dialogues. This type of ...
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Graded readers for Polish?
As I have already mentioned in several other questions, graded readers are a good resources for extensive reading, at least for people who are not yet sufficiently proficient to read texts written for ...
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Graded readers for Korean?
Extensive reading or reading for pleasure is an excellent way of getting a lot of "comprehensible input" in a foreign language. Graded readers provide this type of comprehensible input.
Korean is ...
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Graded readers for Hindi?
Extensive reading or reading for pleasure is an excellent way of getting a lot of "comprehensible input" in a foreign language. Graded readers provide this type of comprehensible input.
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Graded readers for Swedish?
As several other questions have pointed out, graded readers are a good type of material for extensive reading. Where can I find graded readers in Swedish?
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Where to find and how to learn math vocabulary in Danish?
What are good resources for finding out and learning mathematics vocabulary in Danish? How to learn the words to the level of being able to give lecture courses and supervise bachelor's thesis in the ...
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Graded readers for Dutch?
As I have already mentioned in several other questions, graded readers are a good resources for extensive reading, at least for people who are not yet sufficiently proficient to read texts written for ...
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Graded readers for Italian?
Extensive reading or reading for pleasure is an excellent way of getting a lot of "comprehensible input" in a foreign language. Graded readers provide this type of comprehensible input.
Are there ...
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Graded readers for Norwegian?
As several other questions have pointed out, graded readers are a good type of material for extensive reading. Where can I find graded readers in Norwegian? I am interested in finding them both in ...
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Where can I find graded readers for Russian?
Graded readers are a good type of material for extensive reading. But how do you find graded readers in Russian?
The English Wikipedia article graded reader has no link to the same concept in the ...
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Graded readers for Portuguese?
Extensive reading or reading for pleasure is an excellent way of getting a lot of "comprehensible input" in a foreign language. Graded readers provide this type of comprehensible. Are there any graded ...
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Grammar and language learning books/software for Irish
I am currently learning Irish with the help of the Android application "Duolingo". It doesn't teach me the grammar; it works with translating sentences. I don't think the app is very useful; ...
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Graded readers for German?
As several other questions already mentioned, graded readers are a good resources for extensive reading, at least for people who are not yet sufficiently proficient to read texts written for native ...
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Graded readers for Spanish?
Graded readers are a good type of material for extensive reading. Where can I find graded readers in Spanish?
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Graded readers for Japanese?
As several other questions already mentioned, graded readers are a good resources for extensive reading, at least for people who are not yet sufficiently proficient to read texts written for native ...
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Where can I find graded readers for French?
Graded readers are a good type of material for extensive reading. But how do you find graded readers in French?
The English Wikipedia article graded reader has no link to the same concept in the ...
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Mnemonics for learning hiragana and katakana (other than Heisig)?
I'm looking for resources that use mnemonics for the hiragana and katakana syllabaries. I am aware of Heisig's book Rememberting the Kana (about which we already have a question), but this book have ...
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List of Chinese "verb plus object" verbs?
In Chinese, many verbs consist of two characters. However, not all two-character verbs function in the same way.
One category of two-character verbs consists of verbs where the two characters cannot ...
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Mnemonics for learning Greek alphabet?
I'm looking for resources that use mnemonics for the Greek alphabet, so I can learn the writing system in less time.
I would prefer a printed or printable resources (ideally small), but an electronic ...
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Mnemonics for learning Russian alphabet (Cyrillic)?
I'm looking for resources that use mnemonics for the Cyrillic script,
so I can learn the writing system in less time.
There are several Cyrillic alphabets, but I am only interested in the Russian ...
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Mnemonics for learning Hangul?
I have just started learning Korean in an online course and I'm looking for resources that use mnemonics for Hangul or Hangeul, so I can learn the writing system in less time.
Are any such resources ...
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Resources for learning Valyrian besides Duolingo course?
Valyrian is one of the fictional languages in Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire. Duolingo offers a course in High Valyrian; David J. Peterson, who created both Dothraki and Valyrian is said to ...
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Resources for learning Nicaraguan Sign language
I am trying to learn Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN), but I can't seem to find online resources. I don't have anyone to learn from offline, so online is the only way. I am open to different methods (...
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Are there any physical resources that have basics for multiple languages?
I'm looking for a physical learning resource that contains the basics of multiple languages (I don't care which), so that you could get a sampling of several different languages. Ideally this resource ...
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What are some of the oldest documented language learning techniques or resources?
There are several archaeological bilingual and multilingual artefacts, e.g.
the Philae obelisk (ca. 118 BC?),
the Rosetta Stone (196 BC; Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Greek ...
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Seeking West Punjabi learning resources
I wish to learn the Punjabi language.
From what I understand, Western Punjabi (spoken in Pakistan) is the traditional Punjabi language that Punjabis spoke before the Partition of India (which ...
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Could I have purchased this Mongolian phrasebook while I was in Australia?
While in Mongolia, I was able to purchase the book Mongolian Phrasebook (Mongolian-English) by J. Bat-Ireedui & B. Nomunzul, ISBN 978-99973-42-80-5 at the State Department Store in Ulaanbaatar.
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British colonial era English reader's primer
I wonder whether someone knows this material. I have tried to find even pictures on the internet, but to no avail.
They were small, thin books called Reader's Primers or something like that. I'm ...
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What are the advantages of using physical materials over electronic materials?
I notice that many language learners have many books with materials for studying languages. This question discusses the advantages of a paper dictionary over an online dictionary, however I want to ...
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