What is the best way to improve your language skills?

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What is a good way for heritage language speakers to improve their language skills?

Especially if that heritage language is primarily oral.

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Speak it. Teach it. Go through the process of making it not oral. Who among us understood the difference...

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What is the best way to improve your language skills with foreign movies and subtitles?

I have a decent collection of foreign movies, with two sets of subtitles. What I am looking for is a good strategy for effective learning with this set-up.

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Practicing will lead to improving if the content you are exposed to is not much above or below your...

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What are the best textual analysis software to improve writing skills?

English is my second language, and I am looking for different softwares, to improve my writing skills. I just discovered textalyser which can give input on readability and unique word count etc. Furthermore I have used grammarly for grammar issues. ...

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Let me put it this way: language is a million times more complicated than people assume.  My goal in...

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What is the best way for me to improve my English?

Hey guys! I am a 17 year old teenager from Mumbai (India), I have just finished my I.B. Diploma which included English SL and I shall be mostly receiving a score of 5 (60%-70%) in English A1 SL. I want to improve my English which includes writing skills...

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daily translate into your mother language the editorial of the times of india. refer to a standard dictionary...

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How can I maintain and improve my Japanese translation skills?

I am a professional translator, Japanese to English. I work almost entirely in comics and novels, at home, alone. My Japanese language skills are atrophying, and I don't know what to do about it. (Posting anonymously because I don't need my professional...

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I am with Abiezer and zachawry: best solution is to go to Japan and immerse yourself, but if that's...

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Knowledge of what functional language will upgrade my coding skills in Python?

I want to improve my Python coding skills by learning the way of functional programming. My initial plan of action was to learn Haskell, since it is a purely functional language. But, then I came across Scala, which combines the paradigm of object-oriented...

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Learn Haskell.  There are two ways your experience with Scala is likely to go: You'll use Scala like...

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What is the best way to teach yourself to write in English as a second language?

English is my second language. Now I can communicate with other people in this language; however, I usually find that my writing is not so beautiful and elegant when compared with others'. I want to know if there's any good way to polish my writing skills...

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I recently took a MOOC, or free online college course, in rhetorical writng and a large number of students...

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Why does the English of some well-educated US residents for whom English is a second language not progressively improve?

I have worked with a number of people for whom English was a second language, all of whom had graduate degrees.  Some had excellent English, speaking with barely discernible accents and writing well.  Some showed progressive improvement.  Some had accents...

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"What is going on?  The only explanation that seems plausible is that they they think their English...

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Have a desire to write a book. How can I improve my writing skills and channelize ideas while doing a full-time job in another field?

I am currently working as a software engineer doing a mechanical job and living a monotonous life. Ever since I read Fountainhead a strong desire to write a book has sprouted in my head. I want to write a quality book which has a great story, a story...

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If you want to write fiction, you just need to do it-- and understand that you'll probably write pretty...

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(brain surgery) Is there a way to improve myself?

I had a brain surgery when i was 7 years old and removed my entire left side of the brain and now i'm 18 and i only have the right side with me. Gladly, i don't have any seizures anymore and i could be like everyone else. EXCEPT that for some reason...

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I don't think to many people here will be able to help you unless they can relate. I think you need...

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