I once had this idea that language learning apps should show cognates and their etymological roots so that it can help people memorise vocabulary. This seems especially appealing to me because knowing that you, in a way, already know a large chunk of words in a language you're considering to learn is very encouraging.
I've recently wanted to start a project where I gather thousands of cognates (withing the romance languages for example) with their etymologies and make an api for them.
Before I spend many many hours on this project, I would like to know how useful people think this would be. Maybe it's not as useful or cool as I think it is.
Would you like big language apps to have a feature where you can see cognates and their etymology along with their definitions? I'm thinking it would be especially neat for an app like LingQ. Would something like that help?
[link] [comments]
from Language Learning https://ift.tt/Pk4Kjcv
via Learn Online English Speaking
Comments
Post a Comment