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Wikipedia has a great chart to help you recognize languages even without learning to speak or understand them: That would be awesome as an interactive flowchar

by dagw 6y ago

Wikipedia has a great chart to help you recognize languages even without learning to speak or understand them: That would be awesome as an interactive flowchart

schoen 6y ago
The article above links to https://somerandomstuff1.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/geoguessr-the-top-tips-tricks-and-techniques/ https://somerandomstuff1.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/geoguessr-... which (way in the middle of a huge amount of content) includes a couple of language recognition flowcharts -- diagrammatic rather than software-implemented. I doubt I would ever think of language recognition this way, but I bet those flowcharts do include individual tricks that people (like avid Geoguessr players) could choose to learn pretty easily. I mean, I guess a fact like "Łł is in Polish and no other national language" feels OK to me but I personally feel better about learning other kinds of features when at all possible (individual words, morphemes, n-grams?). Although I don't plan for my own trainer software to force users to learn any particular kind of tips rather than others; I'm hoping to have it generate several kinds of recognition tips that might appeal to different people. For example, I like knowing (and would like to teach people) that the English suffix -tion corresponds (regularly!) to * Latin -tio [accusative form "-tionem" often cited in etymology] * French -tion * Spanish -ción * Portuguese -ção * Catalan -ció * Italian -zione like: nation, natio, nation, nación, nação, nació, nazione But I could imagine that some people would say "I'm going to focus on how Portuguese and French have ç and these other languages don't, and Portuguese has ã and these other languages don't, and only Spanish and Catalan can have -ó, and Italian words almost always end with vowels and Catalan words commonly end with consonants" without learning the individual endings. And I hope I'll get my trainer into shape to help them learn that too, if they want to think about it that way.

by dagw 6y ago

Wikipedia has a great chart to help you recognize languages even without learning to speak or understand them: That would be awesome as an interactive flowchart

schoen 6y ago

The article above links to https://somerandomstuff1.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/geoguessr-the-top-tips-tricks-and-techniques/ https://somerandomstuff1.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/geoguessr-... which (way in the middle of a huge amount of content) includes a couple of language recognition flowcharts -- diagrammatic rather than software-implemented. I doubt I would ever think of language recognition this way, but I bet those flowcharts do include individual tricks that people (like avid Geoguessr players) could choose to learn pretty easily. I mean, I guess a fact like "Łł is in Polish and no other national language" feels OK to me but I personally feel better about learning other kinds of features when at all possible (individual words, morphemes, n-grams?). Although I don't plan for my own trainer software to force users to learn any particular kind of tips rather than others; I'm hoping to have it generate several kinds of recognition tips that might appeal to different people. For example, I like knowing (and would like to teach people) that the English suffix -tion corresponds (regularly!) to * Latin -tio [accusative form "-tionem" often cited in etymology] * French -tion * Spanish -ción * Portuguese -ção * Catalan -ció * Italian -zione like: nation, natio, nation, nación, nação, nació, nazione But I could imagine that some people would say "I'm going to focus on how Portuguese and French have ç and these other languages don't, and Portuguese has ã and these other languages don't, and only Spanish and Catalan can have -ó, and Italian words almost always end with vowels and Catalan words commonly end with consonants" without learning the individual endings. And I hope I'll get my trainer into shape to help them learn that too, if they want to think about it that way.