A Generic Tool for Creating and Using Multilingual Phrasebooks
Abstract:To speak fluently is a complex skill. If reaching this goal in one's mother tongue is already quite a feat, to do so in a foreign language can be overwhelming. One way to overcome the expression problem when going abroad is to use a dictionary or a phrasebook. While neither of them ensures fluency, both of them are useful translation tools. Yet, neither can teach you to speak. We will show here how this can be done in the case of a phrasebook. Being interested in the learning of foreign languages, we have star… Show more
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