Jeremy’s English Tips #28: Using technology to learn English

Hello there language learning friend. Welcome back to Culips. In this episode, I am going to talk about technology. Specifically, I’ll talk about what kinds of technology I have used to learn Korean and Spanish in the past. Now I should start off by saying when I started learning Korean about 10 years ago, there were very few language learning apps available at the time. I remember the only applications I could find were akin to phrase books. This meant that they had a certain phrase and the translation next to it. First of all, if you have a smartphone, I highly recommend utilising your smartphone for repetitive listening. If you are unfamiliar with repetitive listening, please refer to episode #2 and episode #16 in the Culips series Jeremy’s English Tips to find out more about it. Key points covered in this episode * You can use a smartphone, MP3 or computer to practice listening. * Good headphones and listening to high quality audio gives your brain more audio information. * Language exchange apps like HelloTalk and Tandem can help you find language exchange partners and conduct language exchanges. * You can use online translators to check if your English sentences make sense or not. * You can check to see if a word or phrase is commonly used by native speakers by putting it in quotations and searching for it on Google. Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com.