Archive for March, 2008

(another design question) My favourite music is:

polls - Take Our Poll

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A great guide to learning languages free online

Here’s a link that will be useful to most language learners:
Top 5 Ways To Learn Foreign Languages For Free Online

It’s a short video tour of the many excellent free resources there are for learners online.

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(A design question) What is your age?

 
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User generated sound - what do you think?

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New developments continue - Romaji coming soon

 (10,000 users of learnit lists beta)
We have made some amendments to the learnit website over recent days, and in the background, we’ve been working on the next release of the learnit widget - one that incorporates a speaking avatar who will read out your word list, as well as a payment system. We have to […]

A question of awareness - (which of these have you ever heard of?)

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With 9678 users (12:00, 22nd March) we are slowly moving towards the 10,000 mark. There have been only a few new links to the site in the last 24 hours, but there are now 17,800 mentions of learnitlists on the Internet. A slower pace of growth suits me just […]

Have you recommended Learnit lists to anyone else?

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Today’s developments have included the implementation of our new theme, as well as progress with the Arabic, German & Japanese translations. Unfortunately, the French translator has bowed out, so I need to find someone for that. We are looking through the word lists manually to see […]

Sound news

We are looking for a partner to provide sound for all of our Learnit languages. To hear your words spoken on a FREE demo, please visit oddcast.com web site. We are currently developing a sound function for Learnit lists, and will email all registered users as soon as it is available.
Things we’re adding in the […]

How long have you been learning a second language?

 
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Searching for a good translator

9540 users of a product that was conceived less than two months ago
We have now added in the professionally verified versions of Spanish and Arabic, and translators are working on the German, French and Japanese versions of Learnit. I am looking forward to having a dedicated landing page for each of these languages on […]