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Is there any evidence that online language courses enable you to speak the language?
This is more of a partial answer to your question than a complete answer, but I'll post it nonetheless. The book Language MOOCs: Providing Learning, Transcending Boundaries provides a good bit of ...
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How does a paid online tutor compare to a language exchange partner?
The main difference is that a teacher should be able to teach you the language, therefore italki has some requirements:
Professional teachers have training as educators and/or extensive professional ...
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How effective are mobile/desktop apps for learning a language?
Well, we got an entire study that took place in June 2011 about it.
They have claimed that apps are just like the real, physical thing but can do a lot more:
In some instances, newer hardware and
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Tinycards and Anki
Here are three articles that talk about the two apps (1, 2, 3).
They are both spaced repetition systems, but here are some key differences:
They have a different look and feel, so that is a ...
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How to combine the new Duolingo (with crowns) with spaced repetition?
Duolingo still retains the information about word and skill strength, even if it is not (easily) accessible to users. There are basically three ways of having spaced repetition with the current ...
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Anything similar to Duolingo for learning Tagalog?
Some of the basic Tagalog learning resources I know of that you can try for free in addition to Memrise and Duolingo are the following:
Beginner Tagalog app for Android.
StartFromZero_Tagalog app for ...
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Online platform for learning Greek
Clozemaster might be useful for learning Greek once you have the basics down with something like Duolingo or Memrise (both free resources suitable for beginners). The goal is to learn vocab in context ...
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Are there any web sites that connect language learners for conversation practice?
I recommend italki. You have a lot of options there, from typical language exchange to paid tuition with professional language teachers. And the latter is relatively cheap, at least in my experience.
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Teaching sign languages as other languages, by the Internet?
Yes, there are websites where you can learn a sign language, though this normally does not involve gamification.
American Sign Language (ASL):
Sign Language 101.
Learn Sign Language Online (Rocket ...
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How should an Indian whose primary language is not English start learning German?
Your knowledge of English is very helpful in this regard. In your shoes, I would rather learn German using English as a base rather than Hindi.
Find a book or an online resource in English that will ...
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Is it a good idea to practice American English by listening to radio from the USA?
Whether it is a good idea or not to listen to a specific radio programme depends on the difficulty level of the language. If the programme's level is at your level or just a little bit higher, you ...
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How should an Indian whose primary language is not English start learning German?
I am also a Indian. It is not hard to learn German.
Contrary to what many people believe, this language is easy to learn, especially if you are well-versed with English. English and German are similar ...
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Anything similar to Duolingo for learning Tagalog?
I believe a Tagalog learning mobile app that has audio recorded by native speakers will help you a lot. I hope this app may help you learn Tagalog : Learn Dalubhasa's Easy Tagalog . This app will ...
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What resources are there for learning Toki Pona?
There are at least two English language Toki Pona video course on Youtube.
I'm pointing you here to the first video of both series:
Learn toki pona in a fortnight: Day 1.
12 Days of sona pi toki ...
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Is there a website to practice grammatical gender of nouns in German?
There are a few German websites that each provide a small set of exercises. For example:
Lingolia: Genus - Übungen.
Levrai: Nomen: Übungen zum grammatischen Geschlecht.
Donnerwetter: Der, die oder ...
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How to study to reach level B2 in German on my own?
It may not be tough for you. Because one who has German B2 level can easily pass TestDaf. But, you need to prepare with a plan of actions and practice more.
There are four sections: 1. Reading, 2. ...
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Rigorous Hebrew course for an independent study?
I'm not sure what style of course you prefer, but the best and most in-depth podcast in Hebrew that I liked was LearnHebrewPod. There is a ton of information there. Another great resource, though not ...
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Is there a Persian Transliteration App
You can use Behnevis to transliterate from the so-called Finglish to Persian, and vice-versa. For the long vowels, make sure to use double letters; e.g. "salaam" instead of "salam" or "saalem" instead ...
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Learning German language online
I have completed B1 at Goethe as well and waiting for the next B2 schedule. I do not mean to discourage you but just wanted to let you know the facts - B1 and B2 are mid level courses (C1, C2 are ...
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Where could I ask questions about the Indonesian language?
I've seen Hinative used to answer both simple and complex questions about Indonesian.
https://hinative.com/
The format isn't as good as a Bahasa Indonesia stackexchange would be, but it seems ok.
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Are there any free apps or web sites for learning Hebrew?
To add to the other resources mentioned here, I know of a Beginner Hebrew app and the Hebrew Locker app, both for Android.
Both apps work primarily on the basic Hebrew vocabulary and help you learn ...
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Through which language can you learn the most other languages online?
It is reasonably easy to calculate the languages available on Duolingo, a free USA-based language learning platform. List at the bottom of the post. It is obviously biased towards the major languages ...
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Through which language can you learn the most other languages online?
English, without a doubt.
English is not only the original and most widely used language online, and the language of two suporpowers (UK and USA) with wide network of allies and interests, but there ...
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Are there any resources available listing the availability of per-language learning resources
Fluent in 3 Months has a page listing many languages. If you click a language, then a new page loads with a list of resources for that language.
The languages include: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and ...
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Are there any free online resources for learning Tamazight?
Maybe, that can help you :
MOOC Tarifit berber/Riffian language from the Leiden university :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbowmAxU24U
MOOC Riffian language from an amateur :
https://m.youtube....
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Are there any web sites that connect language learners for conversation practice?
I found that verbling and gospeaky are great, with verbling groups you can even create your own practice group or join other groups, it will definitely help you to improve your speaking.
Furthermore, ...
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Are there any interactive language learning resources for Levantine Arabic?
Arabic is somewhat different from Spanish. Arabic has diglossia. Everyone writes in a standardized way - Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). But they speak differently. Differences between Levantine ...
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What was the first language learning website?
The blogpost 6 Of The Oldest Japanese Language Learning & Culture Websites list some potential candidates.
Reiko-Chan’s Japanese for Anime Lovers was possibly launched in July 1998. The original ...
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Is there a Persian Transliteration App
I found this app.
There is also an interesting discussion in Wikipedia about different paradigms for transliterating Farsi
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Learning japanese, 1 month progress (Tokyo)
I assume your boss was aware you are not fluent in Japanese when hiring you? So can you say "sorry please talk slower, I do not understand"?
For speaking, I like Pimsleur audio courses a lot. You ...
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