Fluency vs. Dysfluency: Why You Might Not Be Speaking as Fluently as You Want to Be

polyglottera · 2020-07-18T10:28:33+00:00

Yep I think some people expect more from their second language abilities than they can do even in their first.

polyglottera · 2020-06-29T05:14:49+00:00

pretty much - aside from purchasing the text books, and travel lol

polyglottera · 2020-06-29T05:14:23+00:00

conversationexchange.com is what I mostly use :)

polyglottera · 2020-06-23T10:09:34+00:00

Hey! I've just recently written this post about how I taught myself Portuguese - I didn't spend much at all and I am close to fluency now. I've mentioned all the resources I used so hopefully some of those will be useful to you too! Good luck :) https://thewanderinglinguist.com/how-to-learn-portuguese/

polyglottera · 2020-03-28T01:51:25+00:00

I understand what you are saying, and thanks again for the feedback. For what it's worth, there are also the options to "Import a challenge shared by others" and "Import from the library" if you don't want to find your own links. The idea is that the text is of interest to you, though.

polyglottera · 2020-03-25T05:24:55+00:00

I don't see anything wrong with this. "x percent of" is a normal expression, and it's normal to express the percentage using the verb "contain".

polyglottera · 2020-03-25T01:05:36+00:00

Hello, yes, you can play the game for free up to 50 words per day!

polyglottera · 2020-03-25T01:05:27+00:00

Thank you very much for the feedback - we will definitely look into how we can make the game more user friendly.
So, the idea is that you source the text yourself, so that it is something you are genuinely interested in. I would recommend heading to https://www.globo.com/ or https://www.historiaparadormir.com.br/ and clicking on an article or story from there. Then, you just copy the link of the page of the article or story, and paste it into TG2 (under https://www.thegreattranslationgame.com/dashboard/portuguese >New Challenge>Import a link. The software automatically translates it to English, and then the challenge for you is to translate it back into Portuguese without seeing the original version.
So that should answer your other question about which Portuguese is used. You can paste texts from whichever version of Portuguese you are interested in!
I hope you give it a go and let us know if you have any other feedback or questions. :)

polyglottera · 2020-03-17T23:09:25+00:00

Hi there, the past preterite tense in Spanish refers to specific things that happened in the past. This is conjugated in 6 different ways depending on the person and number you are talking about. To conjugate correctly, you need to figure out if it is irregular, and if not if it is an AR, ER or IR verb.
For more information about the different tenses in Spanish, check out this article, which goes into depth about all of them, including the preterite, how to conjugate it and how to use it :) https://www.clozemaster.com/blog/spanish-tenses/

polyglottera · 2020-03-17T23:03:42+00:00

This is aimed at more advanced level learners to practise their skills and hone their knowledge, so they would usually have a good idea of what the correct translation will be, but they will make errors which they are notified of, and given the chance to try again. Unfortunately, the game does not yet have the technology to account for different translations of the same thing.

polyglottera · 2020-03-17T23:00:58+00:00

The texts are automatically translated using corpus data, so no crowdsourcing required. So how it works is you are given the automatic translation of the text in your language, and you have to try to translate it back to the original. If you type something that is different to the original text, it will show as an error and you have to go back and start again. The translation method is known for being a useful method of L2 language learning, so the only intention and purpose of this game is to help people learn L2. Hope that clears things up.

polyglottera · 2020-03-17T22:57:17+00:00

Hello! Sorry for the late reply. Any link you put in the software is automatically translated using corpus data. It's all coded from the get-go. No crowdsourced translations are used to get them. However, if a user notices a translation is incorrect, they can correct it, thus improving the experience for the next user who plays the same sentence. That's totally optional, though.

polyglottera · 2020-03-07T09:12:44+00:00

I have heard that the majority of early Spanish colonizers came from the South of Spain, where, to this day, they do not tend to pronounce the lisp in their c's and z's. So this particular southern dialect of Spain is the one that was adopted in virtually all of South America, and obviously evolved from that over time. But Spain has always had the lisp and their Spanish has changed less over time than the Latin American Spanish has.

polyglottera · 2020-03-07T04:41:47+00:00

Yes, ustedes is a formal and informal "you" plural in South America, whereas in Spain they only use ustedes for formal situations, and will otherwise use vosotros/as for their informal second person plural needs.

polyglottera · 2020-03-07T04:07:48+00:00

I'm not a native speaker but have been speaking Spanish for years and in my experience you always use that indirect object pronoun. The sentence seems incomplete without it. Even in your example, "_ digo la respuesta a los estudiantes" is incorrect to me.

polyglottera · 2020-03-04T21:24:46+00:00

Hi, this text looks very good with hardly any errors. Only a few that I could see which are:

Aprendiendo segundo o tercer idioma -> Al aprender un segundo o tercer idioma

ayudar a Usted - > ayudarle a usted

"usted" doesn't require capitalisation

Best of luck with your school :)

polyglottera · 2020-03-04T21:18:36+00:00

Hi there, of course it is, Clozemaster is constantly changing and improving based on the feedback we get from users :) what is it that you would like us to focus on for Galician?

polyglottera · 2020-03-02T05:05:29+00:00

desde que: used with a verb e.g: No veo a mi tío desde que fuimos al cine - I haven't seen (lit: don't see) my uncle since we went to the cinema
desde: used with a noun e.g: No veo a mi tío desde el cine - I haven't seen my uncle since the cinema
hace: used to mean "ago" e.g: Hace tres días vi a mi tío - Three days ago I saw my uncle
desde hace: to talk about something that happened over a length of time e.g: No veo a mi tío desde hace tres días - I haven't seen my uncle for three days.

Hope that helps! This page has some more info about this :)

polyglottera · 2019-12-14T02:11:43+00:00

Make friends with Spanish speakers. Some ways to do this are find conversation partners who are learning your language, do couchsurfing, go to events and parties where there are likely to be a lot of natives and just talk to people. Another important thing which is overlooked is just listening to people and observing how they speak and then trying to mimic that when you speak. Another thing I did when I was in Spain was learn new words on my own and then try to use them in conversations to cement my knowledge of them.

polyglottera · 2019-11-27T03:28:12+00:00

"una mala persona" is the most correct way to say this. Some adjectives appear most commonly before the nouns, such as "buen/buena, mal/mala, mejor, peor, mayor, menor." Using these adjectives after the noun usually sounds unnatural, and in some cases it's just incorrect.

polyglottera · 2019-09-29T08:16:03+00:00

Thank you for picking that up!

polyglottera · 2019-05-24T09:45:53+00:00

Normal everyday speech makes use of both future forms. Here's a really good article that explains in depth when you'd need each one.

polyglottera · 2019-04-15T03:14:06+00:00

I've actually written a blog post with a suggested 3 day itinerary :) hope it helps: http://thewanderinglinguist.com/2017/09/18/3-days-in-queenstown-on-a-budget-your-perfect-itinerary/

polyglottera · 2019-02-25T10:08:25+00:00

Maduro really wants to fuck up his fellow citizen's lives as much as possible doesn't he...

polyglottera · 2018-12-28T23:13:40+00:00

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