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ericblair
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Message 17 of 21

08 January 2012 at 7:34pm | IP Logged

kanewai wrote:

I like the concept.

I couldn't make heads or tails of it all until I watched the instruction video. The
hype was a bit much ... it does have amazing potential, but it will not
revolutionize the way you study" or replace all your other programs, and it still has a
long ways to go to get out of beta. I watched a few of the Italian videos, and not all
of them had transcripts, and even fewer had English transcripts, and most of the words
I clicked on for definitions came up blank.

I always thought it would be nice to have transcripts of real world videos, films, and
songs to work with. This site promises that, and I wish them luck.

When my Italian gets better I can see using it as an fun addition to my courses.
Right
now I'm way too basic, and the site isn't developed enough to handle total beginners!
It seems like it'd be better for the intermediate learner, and for them it could be
incredible.

I agree entirely. The potential for something great is there, but I just started
Italian less than a week ago, haha. Hopefully, by the time I get through Pimsleur and
Assimil, this site will be more developed. So, I suppose they have ~5 months to get it
going ;)
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Ellsworth
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Message 18 of 21

08 January 2012 at 8:00pm | IP Logged

wow looks really cool! This is the way I like learning languages, but usually I have to
sort through youtube to try to find music in my target language. This will really
simplify things. Thanks for the link.
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numerodix
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Message 19 of 21

08 January 2012 at 8:27pm | IP Logged

In the demonstration video he's learning Spanish and the videos from TED look quite
interesting. But if you go to Italian then I see mostly music videos which is not very
interesting content to me. As far as articles go, it's just one long stream of content so
not very interesting, and many of them only have snippets. It would be better to have
some way to select content by theme/source/etc, cause this way is too chaotic. For
instance, I would looooove to be able to input my own feeds of blogs that I read and have
it show up in this system.

Also, in a system like this centered on words it's completely ideal for learning common
words that are tricky to figure out, but it's a challenge to get enough occurrences of
less common words.
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tmp011007
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Message 20 of 21

05 February 2012 at 7:20pm | IP Logged

numerodix wrote:

In the demonstration video he's learning Spanish and the videos from TED look quite interesting.

studystream overview

actually, studystream and yappr look pretty much the same
yappr tutorial
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garyb
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Message 21 of 21

15 February 2012 at 11:05am | IP Logged

I had a look at it a wee while ago after hearing some good things. The interface is a bit unclear and chaotic - it isn't obvious exactly what it is and I'm supposed to do with it - but as others have said, as an introduction to native materials and a way to find target-language music with lyrics and translations all in one place, it looks like it could be useful in the intermediate stage once I'm done with Assimil.

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