I wanted to try Italian, because I speak it fluently, but it's not on the list.
Well, we don't have any italian guy to help us!
Request for some critique on our startup
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#32with a great program like Rosetta Stone, why would someone use ingolingo? Because it's free sure -- but many people have tried and failed many language learning systems, so what value does ingolingo provide that an established player like Rosetta Stone doesn't?
It's different. Ingolingo concentrates on words, Rosetta teaches you how to use sentences in situations. They complement each other.
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#33Front page is too busy. While base color scheme is nice and consistent, whoever decided on help/blog/login colors must be shot. Do the same to whoever spelled "this is the fastest .." all in lower case and highlighted with lime background. Selecting German and clicking on Start brings me to the page featuring a photo of dude wearing what looks like an Afghani hat. Also bunch of text is in bold - this is really annoyi…
You're right, I do need to do design work. But it's tough to be good at programming and at design too!
I was in the same boat and hired somebody. It wasn't cheap for me, but now that the dollar has fallen it might be cheap for you to hire someone in the U.S.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right, I do need to do design work. But it's tough to be good at programming and at design too!
I was in the same boat and hired somebody. It wasn't cheap for me, but now that the dollar has fallen it might be cheap for you to hire someone in the U.S. http://ourdoings.com/2008-02-12
I remember your site. It looked very plain, now it looks pretty good! Nice choices there!
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#35OK, ruthless criticism ahead! It lists 6 languages, plus "other languages", but won't let me even see what the others are without registering. ("Hi, Joe's Repair Shop." "Hi, can you replace the clutch on a '96 Volvo?" "Let me get your name and number before I answer that." "...") The flowers that overwrite the words on the top-right of the page are kind of annoying. The "help", "about", "staff", etc., links are all 4…
Thanks for the criticism. Well, just try it out. 30 words is just two lessons a day - I think people underestimate the power of repetition in learning. 30 words is easy if you do two lessons a day. Yes, the text stuff is not completely done yet, it still references parts that are not online yet. That's why we have the 404s still.
No problem. I did later try it out, and it looks like those 6 languages are all that's offered; unfortunately, the language I'm learning right now (and the previous one) are not among them. Maybe I'll try back later.
Right now I've got a stack of flash cards I carry with me everywhere. Whenever I'm not being productive at work, I pull them out and flip through them for a few minutes, sometimes many times a day. If I can learn (and remember) 5 new words, it's a good day. So I'm still skeptical if the trick is simply "repetition".
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the criticism. Well, just try it out. 30 words is just two lessons a day - I think people underestimate the power of repetition in learning. 30 words is easy if you do two lessons a day. Yes, the text stuff is not completely done yet, it still references parts that are not online yet. That's why we have the 404s still.
No problem. I did later try it out, and it looks like those 6 languages are all that's offered; unfortunately, the language I'm learning right now (and the previous one) are not among them. Maybe I'll try back later. Right now I've got a stack of flash cards I carry with me everywhere. Whenever I'm not being productive at work, I pull them out and flip through them for a few minutes, sometimes many times a day. If I…
Well, try this. Click on the chinese course and spend 1 hour on it. You should be able to do 2 lessons in that time. Write down all 30 words you learnt on a piece of paper. Sleep on it, wake up the next morning and read the paper and see how many you still remember. It won't be 30, but I think it will be more than 5. Don't forget to click the button to view the pictures for the words.
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#37Are the images coming from flickr? Because I am getting pictures of a baseball and the word is "playing". Since the images are crowdsourced then maybe there should be an array of them to convey the idea. In my opinion there are too many words off the bat to remember if you are new to the language. How about doing a delay of one where you define a Spanish word and its image(s) and then the question after next is the i…
Hit the same button again to get more pictures.
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#38On the Chinese section (using IE), the pictures won't display. Also, the characters don't display. Being able to read pin-yin is useless in a Chinese speaking country. Maybe pin-yin and characters should show.
The characters only display if you have eastern languages enabled on your PC. This is microsofts fault, not mine!
Re: Request for some critique on our startup
#39with a great program like Rosetta Stone, why would someone use ingolingo? Because it's free sure -- but many people have tried and failed many language learning systems, so what value does ingolingo provide that an established player like Rosetta Stone doesn't?
It's different. Ingolingo concentrates on words, Rosetta teaches you how to use sentences in situations. They complement each other.
OK -- as a wanna-be linguist this is definitely a valuable tool.
What library of languages did you use to create your definitions?
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#40be better than mangolanguages.com