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Q: Is improving writing skill by translation the most efficient method under my specific constraints?

NN2I want to improve the writing skill. The traditional method that I know is just to daily pick a topic (for example: an IELTS Task 2 "In many countries around the world, rural people are moving to cities, so the population in the countryside is decreasing. Do you think this is a positive or a neg...

 
 
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Q: How many basic words in a language one should know in order to look up unknown word in a dictionary in that language?

neizodSuppose I was born and use AAA as a native language, then later I want to learn BBB language. It is pretty straightforward that when I encounter an unknown word in BBB, I can look up the word using BBB->AAA dictionary. But then I realized that when I don't know a word in AAA, I can just use AAA->...

 
 
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Q: what's better specifically according to you? Reading or Listening?

hwkalReading - looking at every word and analyzing the structures used in a paragraph. Listening - Listening to pronunciation and commonly used phrases or a bunch of words. what do you think I should do more to have better fluency in a language?

 

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