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Over the past 3 years I've been learning Italian. I started because I was going to a mate's wedding in Italy and thought a few phrases would be useful so I swapped my procrastination time on Facebook with Duolingo and listened to Coffee Break Italian podcasts (https://radiolingua.com/coffeebreakitalian/) on my walk to work. A few weeks later I went to Italy, braved a few words when in restaurants, and felt a real sense of achievement. I was enjoying learning something new so I thought I may as well carry on and started attending evening classes and have now progressed to listening to Manu Venditti (https://www.italymadeeasy.com/podcast/) and watching Rick and Morty in Italian on Netflix using https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/ Overall I think these methods are working pretty well for me. I feel like I'm progressing and it's something I enjoy doing without any pressure. But the one thing I find letting me down is my memory. In conversation, words will always be on the tip of my tongue but rarely come out. I know spending time using memory cards to build up my vocab would solve the problem, but I'm already spending quite a lot of time with my other learning methods, and importantly, I want this to remain enjoyable and not a chore. To the annoyance of my girlfriend, I put post-it notes up around the house, which definitely helped, and also got me thinking... As most of my day is spent at a desk on my computer, why not get notifications every x minutes for some vocab I'm trying to learn, jogging my memory just like post-it notes do. So I built a little web app to do just this, and I'd like to get some feedback to help me decide if I should carry on developing it. You can check it out at https://beta.nudgems.com The idea is that whatever it is you are trying to learn gets gently 'nudged' back into memory throughout your day. It's probably not a good way to learn new things from scratch - it's more to stop the things you are already learning from fading away. You can simply ignore the notification if you're busy, spend a few seconds taking it in, or if you have more time click through to a web page with more content. I often link through to a DuoLingo or reverso page (e.g https://context.reverso.net/translation/italian-english/spostare) for a verb. Please let me know what you think :-) [link] [comments] |
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