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Apr 5, 2016 17:18

Welcome to chat for: Language Learning

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Gilles

May 3, 2016 11:29

it's a pity, because I don't think “language learning” is a good name to attract experts

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TIPS

Jun 14, 2016 18:47

Congratulations @Flimzy, @Quill, @Hatchet and Tom for their new appointment, mods pro tempore!

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Gilles

Apr 7, 2016 23:58

Read this: The Real Essential Questions of Every Beta

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Damkerng T.

Apr 5, 2016 18:39

Congrats, Language Learning!

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Hatchet

Mar 20, 2018 19:47

@ChristopheStrobbe We're kinda strict as to what is "on-topic". That, in addition to our relatively low traffic, is probably contributing to our non-ideal stats.

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Becky 李蓓

Jul 29, 2020 10:23

@Tsundoku At some point at Chinese.SE, I'd like to create a Language Learning migration target. I'll probably need your help describing when to migrate. I know the general rule "don't migrate rubbish", but I'm not sure if there's other traps I'm unaware of.

Quill

May 17, 2016 02:46

13 hours later...

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Laure

May 12, 2016 09:45

@Flimzy I admire your patience and open mindedness. Had already voted for you as a mod. Hope you make it.

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Language Learning Meta

Apr 25, 2016 22:43

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Q: Congratulations Language Learning!

Language Learning is moving on to public beta! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who helped build this site from the ground up, and I hope to see even more participation, activity, and interest surrounding this great community in the future!

discussion

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Quill

Apr 24, 2016 23:50

Oh wow Duolingo has Klingon

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wythagoras

Apr 17, 2016 13:55

Congratulations @PythonMaster on reaching 1k rep.

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IͶΔ

Apr 7, 2016 18:36

Mmm, I think chat just entered into its silent phase.

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Hatchet

Jun 5, 2019 01:28

Interesting read about memory decay functions: dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/10146

Hatchet

May 4, 2019 15:35

Over time I've become increasingly skeptical of whatever FI3M/Benny has to say. In a nutshell, I think his method of "speaking from day one" gives you a short-lived, but immediate burst of "wow, I can do this" success, but also immediately ingrains in you poor L2 usage habits - since you don't know what L2 sounds like naturally, you could end up stunting yourself such that you are understandable (at best), but unnatural.

Hatchet

Apr 28, 2019 12:48

For people struggling with finding a method: youtube.com/watch?v=o_XVt5rdpFY

Christophe Strobbe

Dec 12, 2018 19:09

Our site has been in beta for 981 days now. Unless I am mistaken, we will reach our 1000th day on ... 31 December 2018. I look forward to writing a meta post about that.

Christophe Strobbe

Aug 10, 2018 14:18

Folks, the tag resources is now deprecated on this site.

Anthony Pham

Jul 24, 2018 17:48

4k rep! And Chris only has more rep than fi12 and me combined

Christophe Strobbe

Mar 21, 2018 09:47

@Hatchet I think the low traffic is the most important factor. In fact, traffic has been going downward in the last few weeks.

Christophe Strobbe

Jan 11, 2018 11:19

And we have a fifth announcer badge on our site!

Christophe Strobbe

Oct 27, 2017 15:16

Hi folks! I am your new moderator. StackExchange contacted me to ask whether I was willing to replace another moderator, and I said yes.

fi12

Sep 10, 2017 01:51

Are we going to begin implementing what was discussed in this meta post and this one? I would love to hear more opinions on those topics.

fi12

Jan 4, 2017 02:45

If you're interested in Esperanto, I'd say one of the best tools for learning it would be Duolingo. While it's not particularly helpful for other languages, it's perfectly suited for Esperanto because it's a very modular language with very few grammar rules

Christophe Strobbe

Nov 29, 2016 15:39

We should really reconsider our decision about the fluency tag: meta.languagelearning.stackexchange.com/questions/444/…

fi12

Jul 6, 2016 13:25

Happy 3 month birthday to language learning!

fi12

Jun 20, 2016 00:42

also yay for chatroom name!

TIPS

Jun 15, 2016 11:11

@Flimzy Modestly overflow

Flimzy

May 11, 2016 08:33

"Make Language Learning Great Again!"

Flimzy

May 11, 2016 07:58

@Quill And a lot of people don't like me... so :)

Flimzy

May 11, 2016 07:52

@DarrinThomas That's the right way to answer... and that requires critical thinking.

Darrin Thomas

May 11, 2016 02:58

I would like to suggest that instead of making rules its better to provide examples of acceptable questions

bilbo_pingouin

May 10, 2016 07:05

@Flimzy it is an interesting question. After the first few weeks, I am not sure we really defined what is the site about, how we should go to answer the questions, and whether it is at all useful.

Language Learning Meta

May 8, 2016 09:25

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Q: Site Health: Where to from here?

We recently went into public beta and while it's a big step, we need to look at our next step in the journey of Language Learning: graduation. While the period between public beta and graduation is a potentially long time (more than a year, sometimes up to 5!), we should take a look at how we pl...

discussion site-health

Flimzy

Apr 27, 2016 23:54

I probably earn a bunch of negative votes because I'm vocal about closing/critiquing low-quality questions. I probably piss a lot of people off.

Flimzy

Apr 27, 2016 23:08

@fi12 Yes, that's quite interesting... I don't think I've ever seen a PTM nomination that was so split, on literally every candidate.

Quill

Apr 27, 2016 04:43

Something like that. This chatroom is pretty dead so I don't know well that'll go anyway

Quill

Apr 27, 2016 04:40

I wasn't happy with the answer, so that's why I downvoted, beyond my opinion, no one else has given theirs so far

PhMgBr

Apr 19, 2016 12:20

Shrug That's always been a POB sign to me.

Quill

Apr 19, 2016 09:51

some random person's blog isn't a valid reference, it's an extension of opinion

Quill

Apr 19, 2016 09:39

asking whether it's easier to learn one specific thing before another thing is gonna be opinion-based unless you can find an amazingly specific case where someone has written a paper or done a study, proving one is more effective than the other

PhMgBr

Apr 19, 2016 09:20

@DanieleD It couldn't. I'm yet to see meta talk about tags leading to a flamewar dude.

Gilles

Apr 14, 2016 12:26

and even in French and German, you have to pick different articles: for French you should pick the indefinite article because the definite article is gender-neutral before a vowel (l'), for German you should pick the definite article because the masculine and neutral indefinite articles are identical

Gilles

Apr 14, 2016 12:23

by the way, the “-e endings are feminine” rule doesn't really work for French, it's technically true but only a 2:1 ratio, and that's including word pairs that have a male/female variant such as professions and animal names

Flimzy

Apr 7, 2016 08:51

@Quill There's no such thing as horrible rep. Least on a private beta... Rep means next to nothing at this stage... we're all working together to define the site, and make it a success. Success isn't measured by an individual's rep... it's measured by going into public beta, and later a graduated site.

Quill

Apr 6, 2016 06:39

@Quill: I've submitted an edit to the description. It's awaiting approval. — Flimzy 2 mins ago

HDE 226868

Apr 5, 2016 23:23

I'm seeing a bit of confusion as to what the studies tag is for.

Downgoat

Apr 5, 2016 20:44

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Q: Allow embedded HTML5 YouTube video

Currently, this site embeds YouTube videos as Flash. (see an example: How to unlock the achievements related to hidden areas in Portal 2?) However, this is not the best solution, as now YouTube also supports HTML5, and some users (like me!) prefer to use HTML5 player instead of Flash. Supposedl...

feature-request status-completed youtube

Downgoat

Apr 5, 2016 17:20

Hi

StackExchange

Apr 5, 2016 17:18

This is a general discussion room, but please feel free to create more subject-specific rooms (a single room with every possible discussion isn't very helpful)

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