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- leosmith
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Yippee - my favorite Korean teacher just joined the site! Also, I saw 4 instant lesson teachers online yesterday (Russian, English, Spanish) so it's picking up some momentum.
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- zenmonkey
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Just came to say, I just went back today and find the reading tool really great, will likely use it in the future!
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- leosmith
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zenmonkey wrote:Just came to say, I just went back today and find the reading tool really great, will likely use it in the future!
Thank you kindly. I'm just wrapping up writing my textbook, so I've begun to put more time into growing the site again.
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- leosmith
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It's time to make the site grow a bit...
Hi all,
Some of you are aware that I’ve been really busy writing a textbook for over a year now, and haven’t had much time to do anything else. So the website just kind of stayed on a plateau. Membership increased dramatically, but activity was level. Well I finished the final draft, and the book is our development team’s hands. That means I now have time to devote to growing the site!
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When my writing started to taper off a while back, I hired a couple people to hunt down material for our library. They’ve done a great job, but we could really use your help. Do you know of any language learning text with audio or text with video that we could use? We have to be sure that posting it won’t violate copyright. Eventually I envision a large community of people posting enough free use material so that even more learners will be attracted and the library will thrive.
That’s it for now; focusing on the Library. I’ll be posting about other parts of the site in the near future. Toodles!
Hi all,
Some of you are aware that I’ve been really busy writing a textbook for over a year now, and haven’t had much time to do anything else. So the website just kind of stayed on a plateau. Membership increased dramatically, but activity was level. Well I finished the final draft, and the book is our development team’s hands. That means I now have time to devote to growing the site!
Library for Reading Tool
When my writing started to taper off a while back, I hired a couple people to hunt down material for our library. They’ve done a great job, but we could really use your help. Do you know of any language learning text with audio or text with video that we could use? We have to be sure that posting it won’t violate copyright. Eventually I envision a large community of people posting enough free use material so that even more learners will be attracted and the library will thrive.
That’s it for now; focusing on the Library. I’ll be posting about other parts of the site in the near future. Toodles!
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- leosmith
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ロータス wrote:Textbook on what? Or are you not allowed to say? Also any chance of you commenting in https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 14&t=11121 since B2 languages is your thing? xD Been waiting to see you post there.
Tagalog grammar. I saw that thread; I'll try to think of something useful to write but it's hard to follow so many excellent posts
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- MorkTheFiddle
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I am often just plain thick, but I can't see your library on your site.leosmith wrote:Library for Reading Tool
When my writing started to taper off a while back, I hired a couple people to hunt down material for our library. They’ve done a great job, but we could really use your help. Do you know of any language learning text with audio or text with video that we could use?
First thought of course is librivox.org. Gutenberg generally lacks audio/video, I think.
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MorkTheFiddle wrote:I am often just plain thick, but I can't see your library on your site.
First thought of course is librivox.org. Gutenberg generally lacks audio/video, I think.
You have to be a member to see the library. Thanks for the tip!
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Not so many Mandarin teachers at the moment.
have many mandarin learners signed up?
have many mandarin learners signed up?
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Flickserve wrote:Not so many Mandarin teachers at the moment.
have many mandarin learners signed up?
The reason for the lack of Mandarin teachers is our payment method - Paypal only at the moment. You can see the Chinese learners by going to forum>members, but the number of returns isn't listed. I would guess we have over 1000; Chinese is a language we handle much better than lingQ in the reading tool.
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Leo Smith, thank you for your feedback on my blog.
I have signed for the LT site and I will book a conversation session with one of your Italian teachers.
I will give you feedback on the session, once completed.
I have signed for the LT site and I will book a conversation session with one of your Italian teachers.
I will give you feedback on the session, once completed.
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