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For my Design Research Methodology assignment, I’m exploring how gamification elements—like badges, rewards, and challenges—impact user engagement and experience in educational apps, with Duolingo as the case study.
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i just wanted to clarify im trying to learn a language just for fun, to fill my time and because it makes things more interesting in life. The thing is im having trouble with choosing the language. I'm aware that french is a very good language to learn since it's a major language of international communication. However i somehow don't really have the passion to learn it, I've tried watching TV shows and listen to songs as a method to immerse myself with the language but it just kinda boring idk. For Japanese, it's cute and all and I can even watch anime or movies to get used to the language but the fact that i have to learn kanji that's a lot of work man. but that's fine though, I mean at some point i still have to work hard to actually speak a new language so yeah. im just saying kanji is like the big obstacle for my journey to learn Japanese. Korean is fun, since i listen to a lot of kpop songs and watch tons of their TV shows and movies. I kinda already got used to the language and have learnt hangul ( writing Korean alphabets is so satisfying) but everyone keep telling me it's a hard language. The pronunciation, the grammar, the informal and formal way to say a sentence. that's crazy. korean still looks fun for me though. help me choose please thank you
I haven’t been able to figure out what language this is! If anyone has any ideas that would be awesome
Does anyone know what language this is? I saw it on a tiktok earlier and didn’t know what it was, but google did not provide an answer.
Hi, I’ve tried asking lots of people, but am yet to find someone who can help me identify this language and/or translate for me. Any ideas? Thanks!
My inlaws received this letter in the mail addressed to themselves from themselves. It appears to be traced. Google translate from Yiddish and Hebrew come up with nonsense. Any ideas?
If the english word of ANY body part was changed to "will" i could say "I have a strong will". Do you understand how cool it would be? Tell me what you think.
A few friends and I went to a shop and found this mug. We didn't buy it, but we did take this picture of the text on it because I was interested in finding a way to translate it. I've been looking into it for a bit and it definitely seems to be some kind of Cyrilic language but there's a few symbols I'm having difficulty with in finding the exact language they're used in. Is it possibly an old version of Russian?
Hi all! I hope this is the right place to post this, and if it isn't, I hope you can point to where. I've been seeing a lot of slang online recently, particularly in Instagram comment sections, that I find really funny and would like to learn more of. They're more like phrases. But someone would make a comment or do something, and then a commenter would say "That's devious work". I've seen someone say "That's an arrestable offence," and I think it's really funny. I would love to know more of these phrases and what I can search up to learn more about them. Thank you in advance!
Hey all. We are having a debate in my neighborhood about the meaning of this word. I can't find anything on it, no Google search has yielded any result.
I’ve seen people do this and im thinking did I just discover AI replying to eachother?
I know Arabic and english and i want to immigrate to Australia and i would like to have another language to help me there whats your suggestions?
English American is not my native language. On Reddit I see a lot of posts where when referring to a person they is often used instead of he or she. Why is that? The rest of such a post seems to be written in good English.
I'm mostly curious, because some romanisations feel like they could've been done better, but on the other hand maybe I just don't understand how it works.
One example is "Cao Cao", a Chinese general that often appears in video games. His name is pronounced "tsao tsao" and now "cow cow", so I'm curious why the romanisation simply isn't "tsao tsao" to help with pronounciation?
It's essentially supposed to be pamphlet-sized. Each poem is supposed to be able to fit on one page.
This won't be the order they're presented in; it'll be massively scrambled.
THE ANCIENT WEST
Greek lyric poem 🇬🇷
Latin lyric poem 🇮🇹
THE EAST, TYPE A
Arabic ghazal 🇸🇦
Hebrew ghazal 🇮🇱
Persian ghazal 🇮🇷 (Iranian)
Turkish ghazal 🇹🇷
Persian ghazal 🇵🇰 (Indian)
Urdu ghazal 🇵🇰
THE EAST, TYPE B
Sanskrit muktaka 🇮🇳
Tamil sangam 🇮🇳
Chinese shi 🇨🇳
Japanese tanka 🇯🇵
Chinese ci 🇨🇳
Korean sijo 🇰🇷
THE EARLY MODERN WEST (POST-PRINTING PRESS, UP TO GOETHE)
Italian lyric poem 🇮🇹
Spanish lyric poem 🇪🇸
English lyric poem 🇬🇧
French lyric poem 🇫🇷
German lyric poem 🇩🇪
THE MODERN WEST (POST-GOETHE, PRE-1900)
English lyric poem 🇬🇧 (British)
French lyric poem 🇫🇷
German lyric poem 🇩🇪
Russian lyric poem 🇷🇺
English lyric poem 🇺🇸 (American)
I know the language on the right is Hebrew, but not sure about the other one.
Are there any Chahta speakers here who can confirm if "fvkit" actually means turkey in Chahta? I've seen that claim going around all week, my fiancé's half-Chahta mom has NEVER heard that (she's not fluent though at all) and I can't find anything that actually supports that (choctaw nation dictionary has completely different words for turkey/bird, nothing closely resembling "fvkit").
My curious mind needs to know if this is just some piece of incorrect language info that went viral or if it's actually a word.
This just came up when I saw a post about 'Engrish'. And I was wondering if other languages had similar words and what those words are. It doesn't have to be an insult as "Engrish" seems to be.