Unanswered Questions
54 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is there a reference that classifies books on grammar according to the major type of grammar the authors espouse?
Is there a comprehensive reference that classifies books on English grammar according to the major type of grammar (reference, transformational, relational, head-driven case structure ... ) the ...
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Is there a Russian language equivalent of dict.cc?
I am starting to learn Russian and I am looking for a good dictionary to use. When I learned German, dict.cc was my bible. Along with long lists of every possible meaning for given a given word in ...
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High-qualilty videos for New Practical Chinese Reader
新实用汉语课本 or New Practical Chinese Reader is a series of textbooks for learning Standard Chinese published by Beijing Language and Culture University Press. There are six textbooks, containing 70 ...
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Resources for learning the Silbo Gomero (Gomeran Whistle)
Here's a fascinating video on the Silbo Gomero, or whistled tongue of the island of Gomera in the Canary Islands of Spain. Today, it's essentially used as an encoding of Spanish that can be carried ...
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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 rhythm and melody for modern spoken Greek?
I am interested in working on rhythm and melody for modern Greek: tempo, pitch, etc.
Is there a resource that either explains this, or has spoken conversation that represents modern Greek tempo and ...
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What are some recommended iPhone apps for learning German?
I already use Duolingo, but feel as though it's not enough to propel my language skills and learn even more. Are there any German apps that are more grammar-based than vocab-based in the App Store (...
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Resources similar to Nicos Weg for Finnish
While learning German, I've found Nicos Weg to be a good resource alongside, and sometimes even more useful than, Duolingo. It's a course provided by the German public international broadcaster ...
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Do there exist resources to learn to mask autistic speech patterns?
There exist resources to help people with autism to understand, for example, prosodic elements they do not understand. However, I cannot find such resources for the sending end of these signals; I ...
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Is there a Modern Hebrew chatbot that I can practice with?
An article from 2017 mentions that creating a text chatbot in Hebrew is more difficult than for Indo-European languages due to the morphological complexity of Hebrew verbs. The article then proposes a ...
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Resources for teaching children Chinese
My nine-year-old son is bilingual English/French (British father, French mother) and absolutely devours books for his age in both languages (ie his reading age in both languages seems roughly equal), ...
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Where to learn Trøndersk?
I am about to move to Trondheim, in Norway. The dialects of Norwegian seem to be quite different from each other, so, for the purpose of understanding speech, it seems relevant to get some exposure to ...
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Taiwan news in English with English dictionary
I had read some Taiwanese articles in English and seen they had some of the English words with meaning of what the words meant at the bottom of the articles.
I tried to find the site again, but haven'...
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Are there language textbooks which include an epilogue which is understandable once the textbook's contents are mastered?
In a computer RPG game, the character levels up and begins to effortlessly kill monsters that were once a major challenge. It's a satisfying feeling of progress.
I'm studying Chinese, and no textbook ...
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Looking to get into Ancient Greek poetry in the original
I'm am currently an undergraduate in college studying Classical Languages. I know Koine Greek, and read through Geoffrey Steadman's edition of Plato's Apology, which I found a helpful introduction to ...
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