I know I owe everyone who is kind enough to post comments and follow this blog a big apology. So... where have I been all this time? Unfortunately I was very sick for many months, but - təşəkkür! - I am on the mend and ready to apply myself once again to improving my knowledge - and yours - of this wonderful language.
I've had many good intentions over the past couple of weeks to get back to posting. What has finally given me a good swift kick in the pants was a recent article on BBC about ways to improve your memory. Read the article if you are interested. This led me to investigate a company called Memrise, which has developed an app to help follow your learning of a subject (generally learning a new language) in such a way that it prompts you to review and test your knowledge as you yourself need to. Thus, it is a kind of dynamically customized learning tool. It's look and feel is a lot like BYKI, which I reviewed previously on this blog. But it is better for having more variety in the modules, so it really feels more like playing a game than studying something that is really just boring old rote learning.
I went to the site and discovered that you can sign up for free. Members of the "community"- boy, I dislike the way online developers use that term - anyway, anyone who signs up is then free to create their own interactive lesson. If memory serves me (; p), there were 154 lessons online and two were for Azerbaijani! Now, that was exciting to discover. I have been going through one and am quite enjoying it. Even though I know the vocabulary, I have already improved my spelling (and consequently am likely to improve my pronunciation). I am sure there is a lot more to discover on this site. I am curious to find out about inserting sound recordings... I'll post an update once I have explored more.
It would be great to see like-minded people develop more content for Azerbaijani. I certainly hope to get around to this myself soon, inshallah!
Go to www.memrise.com to find out for yourself!
I've had many good intentions over the past couple of weeks to get back to posting. What has finally given me a good swift kick in the pants was a recent article on BBC about ways to improve your memory. Read the article if you are interested. This led me to investigate a company called Memrise, which has developed an app to help follow your learning of a subject (generally learning a new language) in such a way that it prompts you to review and test your knowledge as you yourself need to. Thus, it is a kind of dynamically customized learning tool. It's look and feel is a lot like BYKI, which I reviewed previously on this blog. But it is better for having more variety in the modules, so it really feels more like playing a game than studying something that is really just boring old rote learning.
I went to the site and discovered that you can sign up for free. Members of the "community"- boy, I dislike the way online developers use that term - anyway, anyone who signs up is then free to create their own interactive lesson. If memory serves me (; p), there were 154 lessons online and two were for Azerbaijani! Now, that was exciting to discover. I have been going through one and am quite enjoying it. Even though I know the vocabulary, I have already improved my spelling (and consequently am likely to improve my pronunciation). I am sure there is a lot more to discover on this site. I am curious to find out about inserting sound recordings... I'll post an update once I have explored more.
It would be great to see like-minded people develop more content for Azerbaijani. I certainly hope to get around to this myself soon, inshallah!
Go to www.memrise.com to find out for yourself!
2 comments:
You are back :D
I love it too!!
Hi!
It is wonderful to see you back!
And, it is wonderful to be able to read your posts again.
I thought you stopped due to the time limitation.
I hope it was not so serious, everything OK.
Thanks!
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