Arc_Orion

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   by Arc_Orion 3y ago

   Take the initiative to talk to other people. That's honestly the best way to improve. You just have to work out of that zone. Go to your local library or go to your local college/university that has an ESL (English as a second lan
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   by Arc_Orion 3y ago

   Yeah, this is something that I'd love to see research on, though I imagine it might be difficult to find enough people to act as subjects. That first dream in a target language is always so weird! It's one of those things people s
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   by Arc_Orion 3y ago

   This makes sense. I have fairly good L2 German production, but I go from conversant to barely coherent when fatigued. My L1 English production diminishes, but not nearly as much. Likewise, my friends who speak English as an L2, even those w
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   by Arc_Orion 3y ago

   Hey friend. He's not saying they're stupid. He's saying they're irrational. And he's right. Humans aren't rational beings and our expectations differ from simple mathematical probabilities. When making Civiliza
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   by Arc_Orion 3y ago

   I assume you're asking if the orthography is a completely accurate representation of the phonetic utterances? If so, then no language is 100% "phonetic". Spoken languages inherently adopt phonemes - which represent single per
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   by Arc_Orion 3y ago

   Faux is "mispronounced" in English. English uses a diphthong, whereas French uses a monophthong. Every speaker of every language adapts borrowed words to their phonological system.