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Questions tagged [language-comparison]

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This tag should only be used when the question's primary focus includes comparing multiple languages with each other.

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Finding direct translations for foreign words in English

Is there any tool or method of searching for the direct translations of foreign words that have made their way into English? Google translate and other translation services will translate the meaning and hide the direct translation. "Cul-de-sac" is…
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How different is Bunjevac speech from standard Croatian?

I'm wondering if someone could put the differences between Bunjevac speech and standard Croatian into perspective -- preferably comparing it to differences between various English or Germanic or Romance accents/dialects/languages. For example, are…
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What is the optimal order in which to learn languages?

The general principle of this question is "If you could only speak n languages, which languages would those be to maximize the number of people that you could communicate with?" (not necessarily in their native language, just be able to communicate…
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How do I measure the importance of a language?

At a couple of bookshops with dedicated areas for language learning, some languages get entire aisles, while other languages get just one or two books. The number of speakers can't be the sole determining factor of a language. For example, Mandarin…
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Measuring distance between languages, including grammatical differences. Maybe the minimal size of an auto-encoder?

This question is similar to this one; the difference is that I'd like to find out about quantitative measurements that are not based solely on the vocabulary. Are there any such objective quantitative measurements in existence? The Levenshtein…
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What would be the best second foreign language to learn for Computer Science and IT?

Which foreign languages would be the most beneficial to learn for future businesses and work in the programming field and why? My native language is English. Some of the options are; Spanish Japanese German Russian
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