Foreign Language Learning Hacks

Re:Foreign Language Learning Hacks by planetjones on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @07:27AM (#4875954)

Why no mention of duolingo.com ?

Their iPhone app is driving an immense improvement in my German.

Living in Switzerland I also like to watch shows e.g. on MTV in English but with German subtitles on. Then I can pause the live TV and rewind to match English spoken expression to German translation. This helps too.

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Re:Foreign Language Learning Hacks by greenmountin on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @11:01AM (#4876812)

Is there a service out there that includes the generation of vocab review sheets (many words, defined in one viewspace)? I find duolingo (and Anki, other web services) unsuitably slow for learning vocab.

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Re:Foreign Language Learning Hacks by jrnkntl on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @09:24AM (#4876343)

I can second this, their app is well thought out, works perfectly and helps me improve my spanish in little blocks of 5 minutes. Perfect when waiting / on the toilet / in bed / whatever.

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