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Initially Learn10 was designed to give everyone an individual, personal word list, however we feel that learning is best served if everyone gets the same words on a single day.  Some of the advantages of doing this are as follows:

• We can begin to send our users a daily email containing their words. We know what it’s like learning a language… some days you just forget to do anything - so a daily e-mail will be a nice reminder as well as a record of your words to refer back to.
• We can develop an API so that third parties can integrate our 10 daily words without too much complication.
• We can license content to offline media such as newspapers in countries where many people are learning English.
• We will be able to easily build in a revision cycle.  This could be an additional feature, sent out in the daily email - so you get today’s words, as well as a revision list of the words from 2, 10, 30 and 60 days ago.
• Other people will be able to develop interesting content which utilises the 10 words.  They can be a theme for teachers on a specific day, which will maximise the number of exposures you will see.
• We can set up a twitter feed - see learn10czech on Twitter, for example. Then, Twitter users can follow the feed. I’ve installed the new version of the Firefox browser, and added TwitterFox so that the Learnit words pop up on my screen occasionally. Ideally we need to develop a Firefox addon so that people can access their wordlists on their browsers… but this is one of about 100 developments we need to add.

We have been in contact with various third parties about the potential of developing material around our daily word lists (still to hear back from Quizlet and Twistory - so please nudget them if you’re passing). If you have a use for 10 words a day - either for people learning English or English speakers learning other languages, please get in contact & we’ll add your content to a directory or resources.

Okay, so we’re yet to get our mits on an iPhone ourselves, but follow this links to see what learn10 would look like on iPhone:

http://iphonetester.com/?url=http://www.learnitwidget.com

Unfortunately, this is not what you see if you get learn10 from the Apple iPhone directory. We submitted our upgraded app ages ago, and have had no clue about how long it will take to add the contemporary version of Learn10 to the Apple iPhone directory. It’s interesting to go back and see the first version of Learn10.  It really has improved… and we have a new release imminently!

UPDATE:

Good news! The apple directory now has the latest version of Learn10:
http://www.apple.com/webapps/travel/learnitlists.html

We now have learn10 live on Facebook. Click here to go to the Facebook page and select the blue ‘Add to Page’ button on the right.

Coming soon: a new feature which will put your daily words into your Facebook news feed every day.

As you know, we are seeking brand sponsors for learn10. A brand sponsor would have the following options:

• Brand appropriate colours & design of the widget surface (skin & style)
• Learn tab (homepage ) text advert or static 234×60 advert - (no moving images)
• Listen tab - introduction sound from the speaking avatar allowing free use of this service to users. Blue space behind the speaking avatar as well.
• Speak tab InCall advert - allowing free use of this service to users

Some examples of what sponsored content might look/sound like:

Sponsored avatars can be produced from any photograph, so can tie in closely with personality based advertising campaigns:

We will also be able to offer ‘widgety ads’ - these are any format of online advertising containing brand sponsorship and learn10 content. The advert will show learn10 content to anyone who is a learn10 member. To anyone else, it can look like an ordinary advert. Widgety ads will be available via our affiliate scheme:

As our visitors may well have noticed, we don’t yet have a professional design for our site, or logo. The priority has been the ‘proof of concept’ ie getting the widget out there to see if it’s something people will want to use. Now it’s time to think about the design.
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