DaveAgain wrote: Iversen wrote:As for historical pivot points: the world would have been quite different today if Hitler had stuck to his agreement with Stalin and kept out of Russia. Do you think Danish would have given way to Hoch-deutsch the way Platt-deutsch has? Possibly. And who knows, perhaps it wouldn't be the only one. Dutch would be another candidate on "easy" assimilation, and there would surely be others. Czech wouldn't exist as most speakers would be killed (we were on the list just a few places bellow the Jews) and the surviving ones would have to/want to only speak German ..read more

Hi, tell us a bit more please. Why are there just summaries of the articles? Are they human made or IA made? Are the summaries adapted to various levels or just a downgrade from the wikipedia article? What is the source of questions? Human or AI? Open or closed questions? Is it just about reading randomly, or is there some system in place ot help a learner progress, suggest new stuff to learn etc? Do you have a website presenting the app without us having to download it? In today's world, I feel so annoyed by tons of new apps, so I really want to first see before trying. Statistics: Posted ..read more

https://www.quarks.de/podcast/idyllisch ... wtab-de-de living in rural areas Idyllisch oder abgehängt? Was das Leben auf dem Land bedeutet Statistics: Posted by Kraut — Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:42 am ..read more

tiia wrote: I thought I could still add a bit of my own experiences here. I have tried a few language exchanges, but basically just stuck with one person (for almost 6 years now) and otherwise language cafés. You're not the first person on this site I've heard mention language cafés. Please forgive a probably foolish question, but are you talking about a café/restaurant with a language learning theme as part of its business model, or about a language meetup organized periodically that happens to take place at a café? I've been to plenty of the latter, whereas I have only wished (fruitless ..read more

Sonjaconjota wrote: Some stuff for French. I was surprised that there were so many options for Occitan, but practically none for Breton or Corsican. It's indeed a shame, I lived in Brittany once and even then I couldn't find much (I wasn't learning the language, true, but I was curious enough to try to look for it) Statistics: Posted by evandro — Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:07 am ..read more

Cavesa wrote: The first time Shakespeare was on the obligatory reading list, I was like 12 years old. The age was not the issue though. At that point in life, I was choosing my books by length and epicness, my favourite authors were Dumas, Hugo, King, and other representats of the "the longer, the better" attitude. Somewhere in Canada, there was a 12-year-old girl reading all the same books as you At the time, that was what felt exciting and rewarding for me. And I think that's the essential question, both in reading and in language learning: what excites and motivates and feels fulfillin ..read more

Some stuff for French. I was surprised that there were so many options for Occitan, but practically none for Breton or Corsican. French (For French-speaking learners) · Albouraq (religious texts) Arabic https://www.albouraq.fr/index.php?page=accueil.html · A L'Asard Bautezard (Short stories and poems) Languedocien, Occitan https://www.decouvertes-occitanes.fr/fr ... d-bautezar · Armand Colin (Stories for learners, probably graded readers) Chinese, Corean, Japanese https://www.dunod.com/recherche?text=bilingue · Asiatheque (Fiction, novellas, poetry, theatre) A big number of languages, so ..read more

I think that rdearman's advice is excellent. I also think that one of the hardest (yet most important) things to accept when it comes to language exchanges is that many (most?) of them will not turn out to be long-term successful exchanges. This is, in my view, perfectly reasonable and to be expected. You probably don't form a bond in your native language with every random person you speak with, and language partners are no different. Be discerning, be picky! I am an introvert and conversation takes energy, so I only want to talk to people I really want to talk to. Speak with lots of differe ..read more

I'm a lapsed classicist who's keen to follow your progress, if you don't mind. Expect me to be lurking about as the super challenge gets underway. My own will include Latin, though no Greek (this time). I seem to be the opposite of you in terms of favourites: Greek was fascinating, but if I'm honest, if never grabbed me by the throat the way Latin did. My primary motivation for mastering it was that any serious Latinist needs excellent Greek. I love that you're using LaTeX, by the way. There's a lot to like in this thread! Statistics: Posted by Severine — Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:00 am ..read more

I thought I could still add a bit of my own experiences here. I have tried a few language exchanges, but basically just stuck with one person (for almost 6 years now) and otherwise language cafés. Language cafés eliminate pretty much the risk of no shows. Although I had group for language practise online for a while (only with other learners), I almost exclusivly do offline meetings - which is the way a language exchanges were traditionally done. With all those online tools nowadays, that seems to be a bit forgotten. The only time I met my current language exchange partner not face to face was ..read more