Alan Frey's List: Foreign Language Study

• figure out how to stay interested after the novelty wears off
• quality of feedback is important
• Sites with human contact work best
• colorful flash cards
• let go of the adult “technical questions and just get into a comfort zone, learning new sounds and trying to make sense of them
• TellMeMore
• advantage
• not only teaches words and phrases, but includes a speech recognition component that analyses pronunciation, presents a graph of speech, and suggests how to perfect it
• With 10 levels of content, a 10,000-word glossary, videos of native speakers and more than 40 practice activities, TellMeMore believes it has enough material to keep a user motivated.

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