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Alex Senoner
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Language Lover 💕 🇸🇱🇦🇹🇮🇹🇹🇼🇸🇪🇯🇵🇮🇷🇧🇪🇧🇾 I'll help you on your way to fluency 🙂 Founder of LinguaMerse.com 🦎
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I'm boarding for Taiwan 🇹🇼 and will stay there for 3 months!
Hopefully my Chinese will have improved by the time I return. 😁
How do you feel about people correcting your grammar while you're talking to them?

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

I'll be there, so let's meet! 😃

#langsky #languagelearning
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
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.
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
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
Why can AI models never ask me for more information and instead make assumptions that are often wrong?
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
I'm so grateful and excited for the chance to give a presentation at the upcoming Polyglot Conference in Taipei! 😃
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
Having a bad study session > not studying at all

Learn languages every day

#langsky #study
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.
Thanks. I also found it invaluable once I had understood how it works and how to use it.
Have you ever learned IPA to help improve your pronunciation?
Do you find it helpful?

#languagelearning #langsky
Daily recap 🗓️
- watched 2 episodes of HxH in Chinese

LinguaMerse
- wrote 1 chapter of Russian course
- created 10 Russian articles
If you had to learn German again from zero, what would you skip entirely?

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

#langsky
What language are you currently learning?

#langsky
What is your reason for not learning any Indian languages?

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

Or is that actually not even true?

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

#langsky