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   Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 13:22:15 JST Raghav Agrawal

   Is there a language learning app that teaches learners to transcreate rather than just translate?

   translation (word to word literal translation) vs transcreation (recreating meaning with equivalent imagery, tone and tone)

   Helping them understand cultural context, emotional impact while learning to translate?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 13:22:14 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @impactology I like services like dreaming in Spanish because you are doing language lessons but in a natural context. Like watching children’s videos

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 13:33:18 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @impactology yup stuff like this is way better for me than the Duolingo approach. Anything contextual that also focuses on speaking helps much more. The Pimsleur method is very known for doing this for conversational learning of most languages.

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     Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 13:33:19 JST Raghav Agrawal

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     • Adrianna Tan

     @skinnylatte interesting approach

     How has it worked out for you so far? Does the leaning stick?