Update Jan 2019** If you’re wondering what happened to WeSpeke, as of about a year ago, the service appears to have stopped offering non-English language learning opportunities, has removed its exchange feature (which was the point, right?) and is now partnered with CNN to offer news-based content for English learners. I’m extremely disappointed. I’ll keep…
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Most of us would most love to become polyglots or at least very fluent in a certain language. Naturally, becoming a polyglot is no easy task and involves thousands of hours of exposure to input in the target language and/or more formal study. If we look at some of the best-known polyglots in the world…
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There’s no denying it and there’s no stopping it. Mobile technology is revolutionizing the education industry and the world. Now, in 2015, there’s an app for everything and most of the major language learning software providers have begun offering mobile apps to complement – or in some cases even replace – their primary products. But amid…
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Even in a digital era in which more people check Facebook and surf the Web with their tablets and smart phones than they do their computers, not everyone is yet sold on mobile language learning. Some cite past experiences using language applications as “less authentic” or somehow inferior to more conventional methods. Still others are…
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I’m a very disorganized person. More often than not my desk looks like it was hit by a charging rhino and the orderliness of my office isn’t especially far from that of my college dorm rooms. In order to keep my language learning projects organized and the clutter on my desk and in my head…
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When I was approached by Rocket Languages last year to do a review I really wasn’t especially optimistic. The program looked overpriced and I was really unsure of how effective it would ultimately be. This review of Rocket Languages has taken me far longer than any I’ve done in the past because I really wanted to…
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