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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Is language learning a hobby or an obsession? Erik Zidowecki; blogger, writer, cofounder of UniLang and the creator Parleremo explains in this guest article that for some of us language learning isn’t just something we do because it’s cool but a passion, an obsession and a way of life. ~Brian   ——————————————————————————————————————- A friend of…
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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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*Edit: since writing this article a couple of these tools have become defunct – sorry 🙁 If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times; the only way to really learn a language is by speaking it with other human beings. You know how much I love language tech, software and other self study…
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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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*Note* This list is a couple of years old. In that time, some of these apps have changed considerably, some of them for the better – some maybe not so much. I can’t say that my feelings for any of them are particularly strong and many still have the same issues they did when this was…
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