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Articles 97–120 of 120, newest first. The introduction to this reading list, its topic hubs and the guides other articles cite most are on the first page.
How to choose a language app when your language is not one of the big ones: availability, official courses versus community word lists, tones and script.
Why progress slows at the intermediate stage, why it is structural rather than a motivation problem, and which changes actually restart movement.
How the Lao script works: consonant classes, vowels that surround the consonant, tone marks, and why there are no spaces between words.
The relationship between Lao and Thai — shared vocabulary, related scripts, asymmetric comprehension — and what it means if you are choosing which to learn.
Italian for English speakers: what transparent spelling gives you for free, where gender and verbs cost you, and a realistic first-month plan.
What Lao asks of a beginner — its script, tones and vocabulary — and a realistic first-month plan for a language with very few learning resources.
What Vietnamese actually asks of a beginner — tones, the Latin-based alphabet, pronouns — and a realistic plan for the first four weeks of study.
What self-study does well, the three things it genuinely cannot do, and how to build a routine that compensates for the missing feedback loop.
Why listening is harder than reading, what segmentation actually is, and a practical routine that builds comprehension instead of just accumulating hours.
Malay spelling is nearly phonemic, so pronunciation is mostly rhythm plus five rules. Here are the vowels, the digraphs and the habits English speakers import.
What shadowing is, why it targets rhythm and timing rather than vocabulary, how to do it without reinforcing errors, and what it will not fix.
Thai has five tones and only four tone marks. Here is how consonant class, vowel length and syllable ending combine to decide the tone of a written word.
Chữ Quốc ngữ from the outside in: which letters exist, what the vowel marks do, why đ is a separate letter, and why typing it needs a special input method.
Why Vietnamese has no neutral 'I' or 'you', how kinship terms became the pronoun system, and how a beginner can navigate it without causing offence.
The six tones of standard Vietnamese, the diacritics that mark them, why northern and southern varieties differ, and how to practise them without a teacher.
How tone distinguishes words, why English speakers find it hard, what tone is not, and a practical way to train tonal perception before production.
Malay and Indonesian share most of their grammar and core vocabulary, then diverge in loanwords and false friends. Here is what differs and which one to study.
The six Russian cases, organised by the job each one does, with the animacy rule, the motion-versus-location split, and what beginners reliably get wrong.
Spaced repetition rests on two findings, not one. Here is what the research supports, what it does not, and how to use it without a scheduling algorithm.
How Cantonese tones really work, why Jyutping and traditional characters matter, and what a realistic first month of study looks like for an adult beginner.
Khmer has no tones, which removes the barrier most beginners fear. The writing system replaces it — here is what the Khmer script actually asks of you.
Malay gives beginners a Latin alphabet, no tones and no verb conjugation. Here is what that buys you, and where the real difficulty actually hides.
The 33 letters of Russian sorted into what you already read, what will trick you and what is new, plus the stress and cursive problems nobody warns you about.
What the Thai writing system asks of a beginner: consonant classes, vowels that surround the letter, and five tones that are spelled rather than marked.