How could smartphones be helpful for learning any language

  Have you found huge obstacles when you tend study any language from scratch by yourself ? Then have you seriously considered having time for that is one of the biggest issues, because you go out to work at 6 and you won’t come back till 8 o’clock ?

   Or, you felt, most often, hiring a language tutor on weekends is the best solution to fix it all  ? 

  First, I want to share this little story with you on how is Second Language taught inside classroom !

    In Last December; I was walking down the street, i met one of my Secondary school teacher who taught me some different ways to master French Grammar ,which was considered as second language in my country.

   The thing that still stucks in in my mind about her methodology ( The way she teaches her pupils ) ; She was staying at the desk for the whole session and working hardly with her gruff voice to cram our heads with some useless structures that will no longer support us to speak, or rather , express our daily life and respond to the French speaker that our day wasn’t good at all. But WHY it was so ?  

     The classic method, which requires learning in a more democratic way and in which the teacher is the sender of information and the student is the receiver . This so-called implicit method, in which classes are taught entirely either using the second language or the mother tongue for the purpose of teaching a foreign language in a very automatic way. 

     Both methods have drawbacks: education without feedback is not a matter of critical thinking, and the way children and adults are believed to learn the same thing is a lie, because according to the maturity of the brain and the experience of the world , knowledge is acquired differently.

   Here I selected three effective methods on how to use your smartphone to learn any language by yourelf in your spare times away from the traditional method : 

 

   Language Apps 

   language learning apps can transform aspiration in the future into a goal that can be achieved in the present - all languages of the world can be learned easily and free of charge from your smartphone. We have three best recommended apps for you  : 

A – Memrise app 

Memrise relies on Adaptive Learning Technology; to adapt to each 

learner's personal learning style and performance so that you can learn 

quickly without forgetting.  The learner can join millions of learners and learn the language you want. The application contains more than 300 thousand courses in more than 200 languages, among them; English, French, Spanish and German, as well as Japanese and Chinese, as well as Italian and Russian

           B – Duolingo app :

Duolingo is considered one of the best language learning app for smartphones,Because the application is compatible with all smartphones operating systems, as it uses distinctive methods for teaching languages.

     Learning through Duolingo is not without fun and excitement. Now, it’s high time to benefit from wasted hours on transportation and bus stations to learn new words and daily expressions from your favorite language. Each lesson includes a wide variety of speech, listening, reading and translation tests .

           C – Rocket Languages :

    This is one of the most important language learning apps. It is used by more than one million and 200 thousand users. It contains many languages such as Arabic ,Korean and Chinese. 

     The application contains interactive audio lessons dedicated to each level of each language, and each lesson contains many tests that feature a special algorithm designed to promote and improve all what has been learned in order to practice it effectively. The app also features voice recognition; Where the user can record his voice, pronounce different words and phrases, and learn about the correct pronunciation .

  Social Networking

        Using the mobile phone for social networking, like Twitter, Facebook, Skype and WhatsApp are enormously popular. Social networking tools that allow you with groups of your international friends to meet, chat, record their voice, and generally interact online in language you are studying .Thus you will help each other to learn in funny way, correcting your both pronunciation and spelling mistakes in which you create a sense of closeness even if you are away of each other .