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I'd love to try this out, but I'm unsure how it would work with a language that has such different grammar from English. Would it just be vocabulary then? Or would it just be entire sentences in the language to accommodate for the grammar, and then would it switch to English?

Tagalog (a language from the Philippines) has many sentences that are the opposite order than in English.

For example, in English you'd say "The house is beautiful", but in Tagalog you'd say "Maganda ang bahay" which translates to "Beautiful the house" [0]. There's another free grammar book for Tagalog as well [1].

[0]: https://unilang.org/course.php?res=79#ci--l2 [1]: https://learningtagalog.com/grammar/




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