Re:Foreign Language Learning Hacks
by gingerjoos on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @05:35AM
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How does learning pangrams help? I don't get how the author has benefited from learning all the letters of German when they mostly correspond to the English alphabet. It does sound like a cool thing to learn, but I can't think of any use beyond that. What am I missing?
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Good point. I should have been clearer.
The german pangram I cited happens to be my favorite, but in some sense provides less utility than a Russian or Arabic pangram. In the early days of learning a new language, sometimes people forget the letters or pronunciation, but a pangram can help.