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What does this lady say in this short video
Wanda Kaishin replied to Abdossamad2003's topic in Language Learning
She never says "I don't think it's fair to judge a person because of..." The full transcript is: "I'll never forget my first day at college. It was one of the worst days in my life. I rememeber having been waiting for the bus at the bus stop. When I saw the bus approaching, I prepar(ed) my student card to get on the bus, but the bus didn't stop. I start(ed) feeling nervous because I was in a danger zone. I have been crying until my dad pick(ed) me up." I don't recommend modeling your pronunciation after this person. She has many pronunciation problems, and some grammar problems. -
What does this lady say in this short video
Wanda Kaishin replied to Abdossamad2003's topic in Language Learning
Please post the video to a streaming site, like youtube, if you'd like us to tell you what they are saying. I don't think anyone wants to download it. -
I need help translating a Spanish saying
Wanda Kaishin replied to Lyndsey's topic in Translations (Theory & Practice)
Did you try google translate? There is only one word that doesn't translate, and you probably know its meaning already. -
Strategys to improve my learning english
Wanda Kaishin replied to Gumariano's topic in Language Learning
Please do so. There are many really good explanations for tenses already available on the internet. -
Strategys to improve my learning english
Wanda Kaishin replied to Gumariano's topic in Language Learning
Hi Gumariano, That’s a good question, but it’s hard to answer due to lack of information. What is your current level, and what did you do to get to this level? What are you currently doing? How much time do you want to spend per day? What exactly do you want to improve – just time tenses? If so, did you already google it? If so, why do you think that didn’t help you? -
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Could vs can use in this sentence
Wanda Kaishin replied to Johan Morales's topic in Language Learning
If you are requesting that it be started earlier, it would probably be more natural to say: Let's propose to the others that the show be started a little earlier. If you want to give them the option, you could say: Let's inform the others that the show can be started a little earlier. But having "propose" and "can/could" in the same sentence seems ungrammatical to me. -
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Hi Devid, Can you clarify that please? If you don't have time to learn the language at home, does that mean you want to learn in a classroom or something?
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How To Memorise Vocabulary Effectively (Video)
Wanda Kaishin replied to Nina_pf's topic in Language Learning
Hi Nina, I liked your video but was somewhat surprised that you mentioned so little about learning vocabulary in context. I think it's been well established that, regardless of what you do, the vast majority of your vocabulary is acquired through "normal" activities, such as reading, listening, conversing and writing. Imo, doing the things you cover in your video would also be helpful to most people, but it probably is not where the bulk of your vocabulary is acquired, and it is certainly not a substitute for massive input and output. You probably already know that, and I wouldn't expect a whole video on it, but I was expecting a statement or two regarding it. You also failed to mention what is, perhaps, the most cutting edge tool for learning vocabulary these days - reading tools. LingQ pioneered this, but there is an (arguably) better free software version called LWT, and cheaper pay versions OPLingo and Readlang. These are effective for all languages, but much more so for Chinese and Japanese. Anyway, I liked the video overall. Keep up the good work! -
The reasons why I love eChineselearning?
Wanda Kaishin replied to Tobias-XD's topic in Language Learning
That's interesting. I would much rather learn everything on my own, and only use tutors/conversation partners for actual conversation practice. This is because I believe one needs to take responsibility for their own learning - nobody can actually "bestow" knowledge on you. And with languages like Mandarin, there are plenty of excellent free resources available on line. For example, you can learn grammar here, learn reading and listening here, find a really good study plan for the whole language here and find tons of reasonable tutors here (tutors aren't free, of course). But good luck to you, regardless of how you decide to learn. -
Translation of the Words Found in Minna No Nihonggo Book
Wanda Kaishin replied to immadeadkid's topic in Language Learning
Next time please post the kanji or it's difficult to translate. 1. 初級 (しょきゅう) elementary level 2. 標準 (ひょうじゅん) level, 問題集 (もんだいしゅう) workbook 3. 文型 (ぶんけい) sentence pattern, 練習帳 (れんしゅうちょう) exercise book 4. 中級 (ちゅうきゅ) intermediate level -
It depends very much on one's language background, the target language, and preferred learning style. For reading/listening to Arabic, I recommend the reading tool at languagetools.io. You can post a piece of Arabic text, and it highlights unknown, known and learning words in different colors. It also keeps stats, and allows you to manicure and export your vocabulary. It's free, but you have to join to use it. Membership is free though. (Full disclosure - I am the owner). I believe we handle Arabic better than any other reading tool, free or pay.
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web site for learning japanese from beginning
Wanda Kaishin replied to allenp's topic in Language Learning
Maybe Japanese from Zero: https://www.yesjapan.com/ -
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Language Tools launched its new reading tool today, it supports 104 languages, and it’s free! It’s in beta, so we are eager to fix any bugs you might find. We are also interested in your suggestions. Here is a short video on Reading Tool Basics. Below is the list of supported languages. Disclaimer: words and phrases should work for all these languages, because they are supported by Google Translate. However, we have only tested about a dozen. Also, as many of you know Google doesn’t work well with some of languages, so we need to add external dictionaries. We’ve only added external dictionaries to about a dozen languages, and are asking people to suggest dictionaries to add here.https://languagetools.io/forum/t/2095 Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azeerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer Korean Kurdish Kyrgyz Lao Latin Latvian Lithuanian Luxembourgish Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mongolian Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Nyanja (Chichewa) Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Scots Gaelic Serbian Sesotho Shona Sindhi Sinhala (Sinhalese) Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Sundanese Swahili Swedish Tagalog (Filipino) Tajik Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Xhosa Yiddish Yoruba Zul
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Language Tools is a new website for learning languages. Right now there are 4 tools: language exchange chat(free), forum(free), essay correction(free) and teaching (pay). Coming soon, multi-language reading tool (pay). Join before we launch the reading tool, and you will be able to use it free for 1 month. https://languagetools.io/