With gadgets as the new-age teachers, smart
services help you learn English quicker
The English language doesn’t come naturally
to a lot of us. However, new-age learning methods are changing that, very
quickly. And the smartphone is playing a very important role.
Hello English app, which was updated on 8
July, has been developed by the Jaipur-based start-up CultureAlley. The
developers claim the app has 3 million users. According to app analytics
website App
Annie, Hello English is the 98th most downloaded app in India on Android
phones as of 8 July—and is the most popular among educational apps.
It is currently available as a free download
on the Google Play store, and it doesn’t cost a dime as you progress through
the different levels of learning—there are pop-up ads within the app, and that
is how the developers earn money.
The app can teach translation from almost any
Indian language to English—at the time of writing this, the options included
Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam and
Kannada. The idea is to allow users to link back to their primary dialect to
gain a better understanding of the new language. Once you start learning, there
are a total of 200 preset lessons that focus on grammar and conversational
English—each answer to a question is immediately checked and suggestions offered
to the user. In-app virtual currency is accumulated on the successful
completion of each lesson—this allows the user to unlock the next, more
advanced lesson. The most interesting part is the availability of a tutor over
a WhatsApp-like chat feature—if you have any queries, you can discuss them then
and there. More lessons and dictionary additions will happen with future app
updates that will be downloadable from the Play store itself.
And it is not just the smartphone which is
changing the way we learn a new language. The good old computer and the idiot
box are also learning avenues.
Source
| http://www.livemint.com
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