Language patterns

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Hi Marj, I heard about the weather in the U.S. in the news. I hope all LingQ members and the other people there are well. If you ever work on German let me know :slight_smile:

Are there versions in other languages out there?

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I also like this idea, and I think it could work for Russian as well. However, it would take some time to apply this method.

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This might be good for accent/pronunciation too? The same phrases repeated several times over? I know this could be boring for some people and it’s not entirely in keeping with the LingQ method, but these kind of pattern “drills” might be a good place for accent practice too.

I know I’d use it for that.

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I will slowly build up a list of these patterns and record them and put them in our English library. We need not do them all at once. We can have English patterns 1, and then 2, and 3. People can do them in any order as a regular exercise, like practicing scales in piano, or doing calisthenics. I will try to load some today or tomorrow.

As I said we can build these slowly. And we can have Steve’s Patterns for English and then Lewis’ Patterns etc. Let’s see what happens.

If I had a list of Russian patterns, especially dealing with cases and verbs of motion, I would mix listening to this in with my more meaningful content listening. I think this is even more the case in Korean where I am at a much lower level.

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I would love
this for japanese.

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I have just created my first Language Patterns collection for English. Please have a look and tell me if this is helpful, and what could be done better. Also if you like this approach, tell me which words or patterns you would like included in future collections. Others may want to do the same, whether for English or other languages. This kind of content is easy to create and hopefully is helpful.

Await comments.

http://www.lingq.com/learn/en/store/54035/

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Any Russian natives who would like to do something like this with numbers?
I just flicked through the numbers section of my Russian grammar, and now I want to cry : ) so a few patterns dealing with some of the more complex uses of numbers would be great.

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Yes, Lewis, I’ll do it soon. Just give me some time.
That’s good that I can record something useful for the Russian library, at last.

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Thanks, that would be great, your numbers are like a whole different language in themselves!
And yes I can never think of useful content to record for the English library as there is so much in there already.

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That’s very useful. Thanks Steve!

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Are there any particular words or patterns you would like to see?

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I would be happy to see any meaningful sentences or mini stories in tems of past tense, past participle etc. (went, have gone, was, have been etc). Thanks in advance.

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I have added a another lesson with the word “get”. I am spacing the sentences as requested. I hope these are useful. If you find them useful you could always translate them and put up lessons in your own language, with the English translation. This has happened in Korean and I found these lessons very useful.

Your request is next Mackacenko! As soon as I find the time.

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By the way Mackacenko, these different tense patterns are already in the patterns I created earlier. It is words like “always”, “usually” “when” etc, that trigger these tenses. Please have a look at the patterns that are already there.

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Steve, the lesson “sentences with get” is a very good idea.
It may be also useful lessons like:

set by, set in, set on, set out, set up,
put in, put on, put off, put aside, put away, …
give away, give up, give off, give out, …
turn away, turn in, turn off, turn up, turn down, turn over, …
take away, take back, take after, take off, take back, take on, …

As a non-native, I find difficult to distinguish the different meanings.

Anyway, very good job so far :slight_smile:

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Hay Oscar,

This might turn into my first LingQ contribution. English phrasal verbs. I’ll see what I can do over the weekend.

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Just created a short lesson with examples of phrasal verbs, let me know is there’s any problems.

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Lewis,

I had a look. This is great. A few suggestions.

  1. You could divide this into three or more lessons within one collection. Beginners, either 1 or 2 , prefer shorter lessons.

  2. Provide a little background or explanation if you can, including your own name or a link to your profile if you want.

  3. I would classify this as Beginner 2.

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Thanks for the feedback Steve, I’ll re-classify this and possibly edit it down into smaller chunks when I add the next parts.
Where would I put the explanation and the link to my profile?

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Explanations go in the Intro to the collection and the Intro to each lesson. I would write more general info in the Collection intro and just a short intro for each lesson indicating which phrasal verbs are involved.