"its a great idea!!!! its perfect for me because of english - tagalog - one of the very rare sources!" Dirk, Germany.
"I am enjoying your site very much - keep up the good work!" Elen, USA.
"tankyo" (sic) Faras, Saudi.
"cool.it is cool. love your stuff, feel like i’m doing something useful at work now your site’s on my desktop!" Rob, Amsterdam.
"I am American from the US and speak Chinese, Spanish, Italian, and can read Hebrew. Your program is the greatest idea since Rosetta Stone! I am interested in learning other languages…Your site and the idea of 10 words a day is brilliant!" Jay, USA
"This is a GREAT idea! Love it… Keep up the good work!" Rob, USA
"excellent idea, fun, practical and very effective" Rob, UK
Welcome to Learn10! Do you want to get better at a foreign language? We can help. We’ll give you 10 words a day to learn. You’ll see them around the Internet. We’re on Facebook and Twitter. We’ll send you a daily email, too. You will see your words on many sites. Any publisher can join our affiliate scheme to help you learn your daily words online.
Learn10 uses the science behind advertising to help you learn. Use our services for free, or you can subscribe to extras such as a virtual teacher like me, daily SMS, and our screensaver too. Learning gets clever with learn10. Join us now!
We thought it was time we looked again at this fundamental question. Over the past 9 months we have developed the widget, guided by the requests of our members, and the limits of our own resources.
We have added:
‘listen’ word recordings (provided both free - user generated, or from a speaking avatar via a subscription service)
A test
Grammatical info
Multiple languages
‘write’ common phase translator
’share’ - directory of useful language resources
twitter feeds (providing the words as RSS as well)
a facebook application
We are currently developing:
a daily email (free)
sms service (pre-register via the ‘my account’ page on the widget, $0.20 US per message)
a screensaver ($9.95 US per year or included in the premium package)
For us, the most exciting part of the project is the use of the techniques of the advertising industry in learning - to this end we are building partnerships with other sites so that we can maximise the number of times a day you will come into contact with the materials you want to learn. Please get in contact if you have space to join our affiliate scheme - making the learnit daily words available in a variety of standard advert sizes.
Right now I’m sitting listening to Tim O’Reilly talk about the effects of the economic downturn on web 2.0 startups such as our own. A strange situation seeing as the conference seems to have gatecrashed the Community Room - provided, I thought, so that we could get on with a bit of work while attending the expo. Just different work to that what I thought I’d be doing. Read the rest of this entry »
Today we started sending content to our members directly - we have always advocated providing our content in as many different environments as possible - and words by email is a logical extension of our service, like the words by SMS premium service.
Learn10.com is certainly not a destination site. We expect our members to see the widget & word content in a variety of different locations - such as their igoogle homepage & other language sites, as well as via our affiliate advertising scheme (which is taking some time to organise!). The emails serve the dual purpose of giving members an additional exposure to their daily words, as well as reminding them of their goal of learning a language. We all know that good intentions aren’t always enough - sometimes we need somebody to nag us a bit.
We are starting slowly with the emails - this is now being sent out to our first 100 founder members, and we will increase this number once we have gauged reaction and ironed out any creases which arise. So far, so good.
The email service is free to all our existing members. Members can unsubscribe from the service at any time by following the link at the bottom of the email.
There really is no escaping Learnit once you’ve committed to learning a new language.
The next trick we are going to pull from our sleeve is a daily SMS service - so you can get to your daily words when you’re not at your computer, or without mobile WIFI (this scenario may be tough for some to imagine, we know, but not everyone has an iPhone!).
To pre-subscribe, click on the ‘my account’ link at the top of the widget. Select ’subscriptions’ and enter your mobile phone number, including the area code in the box. To unsubscribe, all you have to do is delete your phone number. Easy.
The service costs just 20 cents (US) per message or will be included in the premium subscription. Learn by SMS will be launched as soon as we have enough customers - so preregister now if you want it!
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This quote from Kennedy clearly shows two things. Firstly that it is dangerous to use a direct translation without checking this with a native speaker, and secondly, when you make mistakes while speaking in a second language, native speakers don’t really mind. We like the fact that others are trying to communicate in our language. When Kennedy was in Berlin talking about ‘an island of freedom’ they didn’t care that he said ‘I am a jam donut’.
We are really excited to be travelling to Berlin next week to attend the Web 2.0 expo.
Currently we’re trying to work out where to stay. Hopefully Mike Butcher will let us put an ad on the CrunchBoard and some kind fellow entrepreneur will put us up. I can’t wait to see Berlin for myself.
Today we are having a peak from Denmark. It’s really interesting, and somewhat perplexing, to see a sudden rush from a specific geographical location. We may be global society, but we still move in tribes. Read the rest of this entry »
“The idea behind this site is that you can learn a new language by learning 10 new words per day. In this way you can brush up your language skills. Besides, you can also hear how words are pronounced.”
