Amazingly, your tongue makes a very similar movement as it curls back to touch the palate to utter "hither" or "here". "Consider the phrase "come hither." Notice that you gesture this idea by holding your palm up and flexing your fingers toward yourself as if to touch the lower part of the palm. Manliness with less acute sounds like "o". Probably because we associate womanliness with acute sounds, such as the ones in I and E. The words for "man" and "boy" have the letter "o" more often and less I's and E's. In almost every language, the words for "woman" and "girl" have lot's of I's, E's and A's. "death, disease, famine" usually don't sound like something beautiful or pleasing, regardless of language. The words for "love, life, happiness" usually have a pleasing sound no matter the language they're in. But as usual you can still reach me at: were asked which of these two pictures they would call "bouba" and which they would call "kiki".ĩ5~98% selected the curvy as bouba, and the spiky as "kiki". I was getting automated spam everyday so I disabled new comments. > The Problem With Frequency Dictionaries If you do find a mistake though, tell me and I'll fix it immediately. If you have doubts about the accuracy, consult a dictionary or Google Translate and you will vouch for the accuracy. I'm just the rare user who is willing to contribute instead of consuming. I am not affiliated with the owner of Anki. Here is a small preview of these two sentence lists:įrequency lists w/ audio and example sentences for each wordĪlso, if you have technical issues you should ask the developper: I will make a sentence list like these, for Japanese and Chinese. Otherwise, it is better to just focus on learning and memorizing sentences - instead of memorizing individual words. It is OK to memorize individual words if:ġ) You don't have enough vocabulary to focus your study on sentences, or Get some basic grammar, some basic vocabulary, then just dive into sentences and more sentences until you're fluent. Is the method of learning that actually converts effort to fluency. If you memorize the meaning of individual words you won't get fluent and you will spend a ton of effort.
We think that effort always converts into fluency. That makes the language start to flow in your head. If you want actual fluency, you need to see a word in as many example sentences as possible. Memorizing the meaning of individual words. > 5000 Italian Sentences Sorted from Easiest to Hardest 5000 Russian Sentences Sorted from Easiest to Hardest
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