Research related papers

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Task: Add this to the wiki as a separate page talking about all the related papers, such as transphoner, smartphone, and papers in this issue. Add it to the readme as a link.

Look into papers related to what we are doing such as, AI, mnemonics, language learning, flash cards. Especially the topic of efficient language learning can be interesting and what makes vocabulary stick.

• https://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/wjel/article/view/25258/15687: about the usefulness of flashcards + genAI
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fabian-Gonzalez-Araya/publication/366957798_Exploring_the_Benefits_and_Challenges_of_AI-Language_Learning_Tools/links/63bb0cce097c7832ca9ee063/Exploring-the-Benefits-and-Challenges-of-AI-Language-Learning-Tools.pdf: not really relevant for us

https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ai%20for%20language%20learning&sort=relevance

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General language acquisition research:

• https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/curriculum/esol/cpd/module2/docs/krashenFINALtext.pdf

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From this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bue05mPPoFw
Steps for fluency in French for 30 days
Speaking exercise for 4hrs

1. Tell a story for 5 mins in French
2. Review the story you told and Write down the words and sentences you couldn’t say in French.
3. Learn the words and sentences you didn’t understand or couldn’t say also learn new words for your story
4. Repeat the story 2 or 3 times and if you see your better and have more understanding in the 3rd time you reached your goal
5. Repeat the exercise with a new story every week
6. Study the words you’ve learned with your new story’s

Accent exercise 1 hr

1. Read an article or a book in French (read out loud)
2. if you come to a word that you cannot pronounce put it on google translate and try to master the pronunciation.
3. If it’s a word that is a common word you use often put it in a list of words you use a lot so you can study the words later.
4. After 2 paragraphs of reading listen to a audio of a person u want the same accent as for 2 mins then continue reading

Vocabulary exercise 1 hr

1. Write the new words you encountered in speaking and accent exercises (now you’ll have a list of new words to understand)
2. Go over the new words you learned

Listening exercise 1hr or 2hrs

1. Find tv shoes or movies to watch in French to allow you to practice comprehension in a new level
2. Anytime you watch something French use at first English subtitles then watch with no subtitles or with French subtitles.
3. Watching movies or tv shows learn the informal pronunciation.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/top/

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.13952

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Also check out this other repo that does something similar: https://github.com/thiswillbeyourgithub/AnkiAIUtils