Long time no blog! I was a little bit stressed out last month looking for a job in China and I sort of lost motivation to update this blog but since that issue seems to have been sorted out (fingers crossed), I think I'm ready to start blogging again... until I get hit by another lazy spell.
Well today I thought I would write about
LingQ.
LingQ is a website where you can learn Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and a few other languages. You can also learn Korean, but the resources are quite under developed as Korean is a recent addition (by under developed I mean there isn't much variety in the lessons you can study). Since I think
Steve Kaufmann will do a better job at explaining
LingQ than I can, I will only write about the one feature of the site the I specifically like.
The word counter. LingQ has a function where you can count how many words you know in particular language. I believe that the number of words that you can understand (not necessary use actively) is an important measure of your proficiency in the language. Of course understanding the meaning of a word is only half a step, learning how to use it is the other half. Nonetheless it's nice to keep track of what and how many words you know. You can also use this feature to limit how many new words you learn or study in a day. You can see your word counter in your profile page, and you can use it as a badge in your blog!
Check out the website yourself so you can understand how it works. You can sign up for free and you'll be able to access the site with some of the key features disabled. You can also pay $10 a month for a basic subscription, which I think is pretty cheap if you are keen on learning languages.
