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I see that someone asked for Arabic learning resources in general but it's been a few years since the topic was addressed here and I wanted to revisit with a specific question. Does anyone know of any resources that can provide a side-by-side comparison of the differences between the various...

In the course of getting my 9-year-old interested in technology, she asked me, "how do computers know what we want them to do?" After a thorough explanation of how we write a computer program as a set of instructions for the computer to execute, we started discussing how machines cannot...

I wanted to share a trick I've picked up for teaching my language students the rolled "r" sound that exists in many languages such as Spanish and Russian. As many of my students are familiar with spoken American English, I use this knowledge to get them to re-purpose sounds they already know...