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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · 1d

I'm boarding for Taiwan 🇹🇼 and will stay there for 3 months!
Hopefully my Chinese will have improved by the time I return. 😁

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · 3d

How do you feel about people correcting your grammar while you're talking to them?

#LanguageLearning

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · 3d

Who's going to the Polyglot Conference in Taipei in 2 weeks?

I'll be there, so let's meet! 😃

#langsky #languagelearning

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · 10d

Das Standardwort für "zuhören" im südtiroler Dialekt ist "losen", verwandt u.a. mit Engl. "listen".

Laut Duden ist dieses Wort nur im süddeutschen Sprachraum verbreitet.
Für diejenigen aus Österreich/Schweiz/Bayern usw., wird es bei euch benutzt?

#deutsch #deutschesprache #deutschedialekte

Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · 11d

Isn't this mindset exactly the problem in America?
Every legislation is more focused on undoing what the previous one did instead of building upon it.
So we're never moving forward, we're perpetually going back and forth.

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · 11d

I've often been asked: "Which of your many languages do you think in?"
And I could never answer it.
I thought there must be something wrong with me, I don't think in any particular language.

Do you think in a specific language? Do you actually think in full sentences?

#langsky #language

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · 14d

Ich werde immer wieder überrascht, wie viele deutsche Wörter mit denen ich aufgewachsen bin, in Deutschland nicht existieren.

Nach Beistrich ist das letzte solche Wort "Fallfehler".

Deutsche machen also keine Fallfehler? 😅

#grammatik #deutsch

Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · 17d

Why can AI models never ask me for more information and instead make assumptions that are often wrong?

Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · 19d

When I start learning a new language, these are the words I learn right away:
but, because, therefore

Why these? Because they are the basic building blocks for expressing things. Of course you need all the other words as well, but these three words connect everything.

#languagelearning

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · 27d

I'm so grateful and excited for the chance to give a presentation at the upcoming Polyglot Conference in Taipei! 😃

Richard Simcott @speakingfluently.bsky.social · Oct 2

Ladin lessons for Taiwan’s languages: identity drives survival, shifting stigma to pride. Alex Senoner on what lasts.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #Ladin #Taiwan #LanguageRevitalization #LangSky

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · 29d

Having a bad study session > not studying at all

Learn languages every day

#langsky #study

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 30

The logic of traditional language education:

Can you understand a film? No
Can you read a book? No
Can you have a conversation with someone? No
So what are you gonna do? I’m gonna review the rules for using the conjunctive.

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 30

Thanks. I also found it invaluable once I had understood how it works and how to use it.

Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 30

Have you ever learned IPA to help improve your pronunciation?
Do you find it helpful?

#languagelearning #langsky

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 29

Daily recap 🗓️
- watched 2 episodes of HxH in Chinese

LinguaMerse
- wrote 1 chapter of Russian course
- created 10 Russian articles

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 29

If you had to learn German again from zero, what would you skip entirely?

#learngerman

Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 28

If you could go back 10 years and give yourself some language learning advice, what would you say?

#langsky

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 24

What language are you currently learning?

#langsky

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 22

What is your reason for not learning any Indian languages?

#langsky

Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 15

I truly believe that learning German is easier than many people think.
Yes, mastering the grammar is difficult, but you can get by without that. German shares a lot of vocabulary with English and much more.
Check out my video to find out what! youtu.be/os7zCl9bQsc 🙂

German is EASIER than you think

YouTube video by Alex Senoner

youtu.be

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yes, certainly children don't spend much time thinking and worrying about things and are dedicated to absorbing everything around them: sounds, smells, languages, etc.
So, they're just absorbing everything 24/7. And they don't have their "native language" interfering with learning a new one.

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 8

Why do you think we learn languages so much more easily as children than as adults?

Or is that actually not even true?

#langsky

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 3

Of course not, and I also mentioned that in the video.
But what I'm trying to point out here is how with small changes in our daily efforts we can reduce the time to reach fluency by several years.

Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 2

In a recent survey I saw that most language learners spend 3 hours or less per week studying a language.

Can we ever become fluent at that pace? 🤔

I tried to analyse and answer that question in my latest video → youtu.be/JFMUw8jJGcU

#langsky

The Reason You’re Still Stuck in a Language (And How to Fix It)

YouTube video by Alex Senoner

youtu.be

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Alex Senoner @alexsenoner.bsky.social · Sep 1

How is your language learning going?
What are your main hurdles?
What methods have you been using?

#langsky

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