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Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.
Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.
There's forvo. It has recordings from native speakers of words and phrases. I think if you go premium you can download the audio
should also mention youglish which provides in-context examples
this is not something you should use AI for
well perhaps AI could be decent at proposing simple vocabulary lists, but you should ask to mention genders, preferably having articles before the words
also it's a good idea to always match nouns with plausible adjectives, verbs with plausible adverbs. it's a great way to increase vocabulary and be realistic at the same time
it also helps to understand grammar, notably the agreement part
My general opinion of vocab list memorization is that it's not a terribly effective or engaging way to learn. Engaging with content that interests you gets you a lot of vocab that's way more useful to you. AI should only be used as a starting point. It can hallucinate hilariously wrong and misleading things. Verify with non-ai sources after the fact if you're going to go that way, but might as well go straight to the source. French is fairly well documented at this point. Also definitely don't rely on it for pronunciation examples, which, again, are very well documented
it depends really. We Westerners have an aversion for rote memorization but Chinese adore that
Vocab list memorisation is more useful early on learning a language from what I can tell. Along with grammar, it can pretty quickly get you up to a level where you can understand various media where you'll more naturally encounter words
a good trick is to learn the vocab of what exists in your direct environment, it makes more meaningful conversations