There are lots of theories when it comes to how we learn language. In fact, the world of linguistics was rocked recently with the overturning Noam Chomsky’s Universal Grammar Theory. …
Have you ever sat down to study your target language, gotten distracted and then before you know it the time you set aside to study is gone? Don’t worry, you’re …
The office was quiet this Monday morning. The LingQ staff shuffled in, heads down, glancing over at the empty table in the middle of the room before turning on their …
Language learning depends mostly on three factors: motivation, time and the right attitude. If you have all three, congratulations! You’re going to reach your language learning goals. But how long …
The LingQ method promotes lots of reading and listening input, and so it works well in classroom settings where an input method is used. One such input method that is becoming increasingly popular in language classrooms around the world is TPRS.
Are you the kind of language learner who is deep into Swedish one week then thinking about learning Greek the next? You’re not alone. It’s human nature to be curious, …
It’s been a busy few weeks for our students! They’ve been pitching to the media, climbing mountains, testing the new version of LingQ, blogging, creating infographics, enjoying the Vancouver sun (all four days of it so far this summer) and, of course, doing tons of reading, listening and writing on LingQ.
We all have them, those “aha!” moments when the mists of uncertainty part and we finally understand. Archimedes’ moment apparently had him running through the streets of Syracuse naked (he had …
To give Tamás, Emily and Hanna practice with engaging with the startup and language learning communities on another social media channel, we had them sign up for Twitter accounts. Twitter is a great platform for finding like-minded people, and for making connections. They spent part of week six building a presence on Twitter: following people, liking and retweeting content and finding great content online to share to their new connections. Want to know what they get up to outside of the office, what their favourite thing about Vancouver is, or if they secretly hate us? Tweet them!
Week five saw Emily, Tamás and Hanna create new LingQ accounts and pay close attention to the way we onboard users. Onboarding is the process websites and apps use to increase the chance that a visitor will be successful on their site.
