My Journey of learning language online
Introduction: Learning any new thing can be tiresome, time-consuming, stressful and filled with excuses but learning languages is not! I've already shared about a multiple number of useful things that I learnt virtually and will be helpful in the future. But today, I'll share my story about learning language online which will be helpful throughout the life and how I mastered the art of regular practices (still learning though!).
The Covid days: It was again, in the year of 2020, when the whole world was taking nap due to the Covid-19 pandemic lock-down and when I, along with 2 of my friends started to realize that we should take the opportunity to utilize this time productively and wisely. Maintaining the safety measures, we used to sit on our rooftops and finally one day, decided to learn French as we were already good at English and our native language Bengali. This is how our first draft looked like 🤣
So, after 2 days of starting the habit, we decided to look for learning languages app and other platforms for learning language online and found a few like Duolingo, Loecsen where you can learn number of languages simultaneously. Randomly, I chose the first one as the interface looked more interesting to me and I got recommendations from one of my friends, however, you can choose any of them as most of them are similar.
The contrast: Irony is that, after downloading the app, I continued doing it on a regular basis (I have never missed a single day since the last 450 days!) but my friends joined the sea of excuses with other people leaving me alone 😢. As I said initially, learning anything can seem difficult initially but anything can be conquered through regular practices even if it is for just 5 minutes! From the app interface, you can see that it shows the language you want to learn, the gems you'll collect and can use for greater levels ahead, the learning streak etc. They will also mail you statistics of your progress so that you can keep track and count and be motivated.
The types of practices: There are simple practices for Reading, speaking and listening in various forms and tasks like completing sentences, Fill in the blanks, matching pairs, translation etc. Another good part is that you'll never get bored here as there are options to add your friends or random people, see their progress, motivate & compete against them etc. There are even learning language quotes which will come up periodically to boost and lift you up (Ex: Learning 10 minutes in Duolingo will take you to places, what will 10 minutes in social media do?)
Conclusion: So, all these were small glimpses of how my journey of learning languages or more particularly learning language online started and it's still going smoothly. As I initiated it with French only, now I know a little bit of Spanish too! Out of curiosity, I have tried Romanian and Japanese too but I found there are more convenience and similarities between French and Spanish and I'll keep my mission limited to these for now and keep the other for some other day and time. Till then, I can't wait to see you share your success story or your learning curve and screenshots of your lesson completion from units to units. For now, My lesson is complete!
Adiós (Goodbye in Spanish)Bonne journée (Have a good day in French)
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