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This is a new, improved version of an older list of 400 words. In my own studies, I’ve found that having an extra couple hundred words in the beginning makes everything a lot easier; you feel more comfortable with spelling and pronunciation, you recognize many more words in your textbook, and you can start delving into grammar while feeling like a bad-ass. Nice.
This list is the basis for my ANKI cards on the home page. I would also recommend Gabriel Wyner's book Fluent Forever |
"A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages. Fluent Forever won’t teach you French, or German, or any other language — but it will teach you how to learn whatever language you do want to learn, and to learn it faster, and more efficiently. If you want a new language to stick, start here."
— Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author ofThe New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero |
Keyman Pro is now totally Free. Typing in Karen is a combination of a keyboard and a font. Since you will want to go back and forth from typing English characters to typing Karen characters, you can quickly switch keyboards with Keyman Desktop. Remember a Myanmar font will type English characters when using an English keyboard.
Beware of KNU fonts. Some may be unicode, but older ones are NOT. The Drumpublications.com website unfortunately uses the old KNU fonts.
My favorite keyboard matches phonetic sounds of Karen letters to English letters. The Werribee church website in Australia designed this "Karen layout by F.K.B. keyboard," and also two fonts.
SIL is the company that made Keyman Pro free.
I would also recommend a font called PADAUK, found on the SIL "Serving language communities as an international advocate" website. All fonts should be unicode.
Beware of KNU fonts. Some may be unicode but older are NOT.
I would also recommend a font called PADAUK, found on the SIL "Serving language communities as an international advocate" website. All fonts should be unicode.
Beware of KNU fonts. Some may be unicode but older are NOT.