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# Immersive language learning with Emacs
Sebastian Dümcke (he/him) - <https://sam-d.com>, <mailto:code@sam-d.com>

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Immersive language learning helps acquiring a new language by
surrounding oneself in environments where the target language is used
naturally, rather than learning through traditional instruction or
translation methods. Short of travelling to places where the language is
native, one can also emulate this digitally: Watching movies, listening
to music, podcasts, or radio shows, and reading books, newspapers, or
websites in the target language.

I will present a framework in Emacs to achieve the typical tasks in
language learning: increase vocabulary and comprehension (both written
and aural) to achieve faster fluency, better retention and ideally
cultural competence. We will investigate how to read written documents
and websites, watch movies and listen to music/learn lyrics all while
collecting new vocabulary and concepts. Then we will present a spaced
repetition framework for improving retention of these concepts.

About the speaker:

I am a curious person, interested to learn. I started using Emacs as a
project management tool through org-mode 8 years ago. I has really
helped my stay on top of things while starting my own company. Now my
use of Emacs is slowly expanding. I was always interested in learning
new languages: I believe they are the key to other cultures.



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