The purpose of today's post is to give away some LingQ points. Are any of you who are reading this post, active members of the aforementioned language learning community? If so, you are probably aware that we can give points to other members now. Since I am receiving points for my submitted content that is used by other members and I am not
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Showing posts with label lingq. Show all posts
Thursday, November 03, 2011
who's LingQing?
Hello readers of my blog! Long time, no post!
The purpose of today's post is to give away some LingQ points. Are any of you who are reading this post, active members of the aforementioned language learning community? If so, you are probably aware that we can give points to other members now. Since I am receiving points for my submitted content that is used by other members and I am notso active, I have a lot of points to give away. Why would I give away points instead of keeping them? Because points will expire if they are not used within 90 days. Expired points get redistributed to people like me.
The purpose of today's post is to give away some LingQ points. Are any of you who are reading this post, active members of the aforementioned language learning community? If so, you are probably aware that we can give points to other members now. Since I am receiving points for my submitted content that is used by other members and I am not
Saturday, January 24, 2009
what is fluency?
What does 'fluent' mean? Does it mean, "getting by" using just your foreign or second language? Are you fluent if you can carry on a conversation? Does somebody who has an office job and has to communicate with coworkers in their language only, qualify for the title "fluent?"
I do all of the above in Japanese. However, I don't consider myself to have reached fluency. I always run into things I don't know how to express. Every time that happens, it reconfirms to me that my knowledge is lacking. I can surely fix that with a lot of input just by watching TV. But since my focus is on Chinese now, the Japanese can wait.
I bring this up because I recently had a conversation with a Japanese tutor at LingQ. I signed up for a 15-minute 1-on-1 conversation that lasted 25 minutes. At 18 minutes and 40 seconds into the conversation, she stated that I was fluent in Japanese. While I wouldn't say it about myself, I guess she has every right to say it. I've made a lot of improvement in the last 1½ years in my ability to speak.
Here is a small mp3 file of the statement the tutor made. It is about 4 seconds long, in Japanese.
I do all of the above in Japanese. However, I don't consider myself to have reached fluency. I always run into things I don't know how to express. Every time that happens, it reconfirms to me that my knowledge is lacking. I can surely fix that with a lot of input just by watching TV. But since my focus is on Chinese now, the Japanese can wait.
I bring this up because I recently had a conversation with a Japanese tutor at LingQ. I signed up for a 15-minute 1-on-1 conversation that lasted 25 minutes. At 18 minutes and 40 seconds into the conversation, she stated that I was fluent in Japanese. While I wouldn't say it about myself, I guess she has every right to say it. I've made a lot of improvement in the last 1½ years in my ability to speak.
Here is a small mp3 file of the statement the tutor made. It is about 4 seconds long, in Japanese.
Monday, September 08, 2008
I upgraded at LingQ
I am no longer a Free member at LingQ. I am now a Basic member. I just upgraded to Basic. I bought a 6-month membership. I received 500 points for upgrading too.
I am getting kind of addicted to LingQ. It needs more Chinese content though, and it still does not parse spaceless languages correctly. We must insert spaces between words so that our saved lingqs will be highlighted. So Chinese and Japanese, the ones I use, are still in beta. Anyways, it needs more content so I uploaded some.
Here is a link to LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/
I am getting kind of addicted to LingQ. It needs more Chinese content though, and it still does not parse spaceless languages correctly. We must insert spaces between words so that our saved lingqs will be highlighted. So Chinese and Japanese, the ones I use, are still in beta. Anyways, it needs more content so I uploaded some.
Here is a link to LingQ: http://www.lingq.com/
Sunday, August 05, 2007
LingQ
LingQ has been launched! (If it's new to you, I should inform you that it is pronounced "link")
I signed up for the new LingQ system a few or more hours ago. I forget exactly what time it was.
So what is it?
If you haven't heard, it's the new The Linguist. If you don't know about that either, then where have you been?
LingQ is a website to learn languages. It supports Japanese already! Other Asian languages will be coming.
OK, there is not a lot of Japanese content yet, but hey, it will be coming. And you can contribute too! And besides that, you can use it for free. So you've got nothing to lose! And everything to gain!
I'm enjoying building up my vocabulary storage. At some point, I'll get to where I've entered most of the words that I know in Japanese, into LingQ and then I'll have an accurate measurement of how many words I know in Japanese. But along the way, I'll learn a bunch of new words as well. As I read a text item, (audio is available with it) I am putting all the words into my vocabulary. I mark the known words as Known. I'm also tagging the words with parts of speech so that I'll know how many nouns, adjectives, verbs and so forth, that I know. LingQ has a super efficient dictionary look-up.
I've found it pretty easy to use. At first I tried it with my Mozilla 1.7 browser, which is not supported by LingQ, and then I decided to get Firefox 2.0, which is supported by LingQ, and things have gone smoothly ever since. Firefox seems much faster too.
I like the design of LingQ. It is simple and pleasant. And there is a cool characature of Steve on the site too.
Well, I can't do justice trying to explain what LingQ is and how it works and all. So, you might as well see it directly by signing up. Or just find another description of it at Steve's blog. http://thelinguist.blogs.com/
LingQ <- click to go
I signed up for the new LingQ system a few or more hours ago. I forget exactly what time it was.
So what is it?
If you haven't heard, it's the new The Linguist. If you don't know about that either, then where have you been?
LingQ is a website to learn languages. It supports Japanese already! Other Asian languages will be coming.
OK, there is not a lot of Japanese content yet, but hey, it will be coming. And you can contribute too! And besides that, you can use it for free. So you've got nothing to lose! And everything to gain!
I'm enjoying building up my vocabulary storage. At some point, I'll get to where I've entered most of the words that I know in Japanese, into LingQ and then I'll have an accurate measurement of how many words I know in Japanese. But along the way, I'll learn a bunch of new words as well. As I read a text item, (audio is available with it) I am putting all the words into my vocabulary. I mark the known words as Known. I'm also tagging the words with parts of speech so that I'll know how many nouns, adjectives, verbs and so forth, that I know. LingQ has a super efficient dictionary look-up.
I've found it pretty easy to use. At first I tried it with my Mozilla 1.7 browser, which is not supported by LingQ, and then I decided to get Firefox 2.0, which is supported by LingQ, and things have gone smoothly ever since. Firefox seems much faster too.
I like the design of LingQ. It is simple and pleasant. And there is a cool characature of Steve on the site too.
Well, I can't do justice trying to explain what LingQ is and how it works and all. So, you might as well see it directly by signing up. Or just find another description of it at Steve's blog. http://thelinguist.blogs.com/
LingQ <- click to go
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