A New Learning Tool (Plus: How I Work Best)
LiveMocha might just be the ticket to push me over the top in finally sticking with a new language. It was featured in the New York Times yesterday and also kindly emailed to me by Grace. I have completed lesson 1 in Espanol and am very pleased with the combination of audio and text. The site itself is aesthetically pleasing and you feel like you are playing a game, especially with the Magnet (“make a sentence”) section.
The site also allows you to submit samples of writing and even speaking in the language you are learning, and leverages the power of the masses to give you feedback - every time you submit something, you are given the option of reviewing another person’s submission in YOUR native language. Brilliant!
Side note for the record: I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test (or one version of it, the one that popped up first on Google). It typed me as an ENTJ. To translate: Extroverted, not Introverted; iNtution, not Sensing; Thinking, not Feeling; and Judging, not Perceiving. I note this here only because I tend to forget quickly and then have to take the test again, and probably register a different result every time. Now I can test this hypothesis.
Tomorrow: the news from Old Nassau.
The site also allows you to submit samples of writing and even speaking in the language you are learning, and leverages the power of the masses to give you feedback - every time you submit something, you are given the option of reviewing another person’s submission in YOUR native language. Brilliant!
Side note for the record: I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test (or one version of it, the one that popped up first on Google). It typed me as an ENTJ. To translate: Extroverted, not Introverted; iNtution, not Sensing; Thinking, not Feeling; and Judging, not Perceiving. I note this here only because I tend to forget quickly and then have to take the test again, and probably register a different result every time. Now I can test this hypothesis.
Tomorrow: the news from Old Nassau.