It's gamified. I love it.
Like it, you know
it's like,
oh, I achieved a new level
and it makes you feel good about yourself.
It makes you feel like your progress.
Claire the polyglot,
I would love your honest
take on the effectiveness
and usefulness of language apps.
Right.
So, honestly, I think they're great.
Okay
I've used language learning apps a lot
because at this point,
I think I made it clear
that I'm quite lazy
and I have a hard time
keeping routines and you know like, picking up.
I love text books,
but then I have a hard time actually,
you know, picking them up routinely and
bringing them with you around the world.
Right.
That's kind of heavy to ring around.
So, I love, I love language learning apps
because first of all,
you know I'm lazy.
and I don't want to like
structure my learning.
So, I'm like, okay
what am I going to learn today?
How should I approach it?
Whereas if you pick up an app,
it's just going to you know,
you just open the app
and it tells you what to do.
Yeah, I wanted to just go
deeper, take a deeper dive into
phone usage,
your screen time
and maybe adding a productive element
to your daily routine.
And so, a language app which you like
and you're a fan of
it comes with that convenience, right?
Like, what are your thoughts on all of this?
I think we all love our screen time
and, you know, it's
like we all are a bit uncomfortable about it,
but, I think at this point, you know,
we all
just spend a lot of time on our phones
and our computers
and so, I think for me personally,
it makes me feel really good about myself
when I feel like I'm using my time
productively.
To conquer the phone.
Use that shame that comes with it.
Right.
And so for me personally,
I love the idea of like opening a book,
and it makes me feel so smart.
Sure
But, I don't like
I don't do it
like I don't actually love
the actual fact
of opening the book and like,
it just makes me feel kind of tired
and it makes me feel like
it's not so fun.
Like, you know, I feel like it's
something that my ego likes, but
my brain at the end doesn't
really like it because it just like,
I need to flip for the pages
and focus on, like, the long pages
and find everything in the book.
And then
if I want to listen to the audio, like,
sometimes there's a cd
that comes out of the textbook and like,
they have a cd player.
I don't even, I don't even have one.
Like, where do I put this right?
And so, when you open an app,
it's so easy.
It's all in there.
It's very colorful.
You said you open an app.
We're still in the book mode, right?
No, that's great.
So, yeah, okay, it's all there.
it's all there.
The convenience, the app,
it's built in, it's colorful.
It's gamified, I love it.
Like it, you know,
it's like, I'm like let's face it.
Let's be honest.
Like those little dopamine hacks, like,
we all love them, right?
So, if it's a game,
it's like, oh, I achieved a new level
and it makes you feel good about yourself.
It makes you feel like you're progressing.
And also, because there's feedback,
so, you need to actually pass.
But, if you're just self studying
from a book, you know.
Obviously, there's beauty,
there's beauty, to learning through reading.
And there is, there is.
Interactive element,
the audio element,
the visual
and audio element,
the playfulness, the engagement.
I hear you.
I understand
what you're trying to express and I think
sounds like you're
a big fan of language apps in general
and you would support them.
And as a polyglot, your voice is important.
People lean on a lot of your
input and suggestions on how
they should learn a language.
I think there are a lot of people
who have tried certain apps
and felt like they've wasted their time.
They're doing it the wrong way.
But, this kind of support for it leans more towards
how you approach it, right?
So, I would even say, is it important
to make it a part of your daily life?
Every morning you wake up,
you give a little bit of that phone time
towards something productive.
Yeah.
I think so.
I think
I think that's the best way to go around it.
And when you have a routine,
like you can sort of make sure that you stick to it.
But, you know, everybody, everybody is different
and we all have different sort of routines.
And so, I also like it that sometimes, you know,
I am sitting on a bus
or I'm traveling somewhere
or I have to wait for a friend
and I don't like losing time.
So, you know,
I can just take out my phone
and I can,
you know, use an app or,
you know, and just learn something
and be productive.
And I love it
that, you know,
you can just learn as little or as much as you want.
And you can always,
you can always learn basically.
There's no limits.
Right.
It's amazing.
And so, you've enjoyed your time using Glossika.
Yeah.
I think it's a
unique in the way that the dialogs or
like the, that the voice is authentic, right?
So, I've used different apps
and I've enjoyed them all
because you know, essentially as long as I'm learning,
I'm happy with the product more or less.
All of it contributes to this end result of.
Yeah, yeah.
Clinician comfortable approach
to language learning.
Yeah.
But, I think with, with Glossika
especially like I said, like it's,
it's an actual recording
of an actual person with an actual accent.
So, meaning you found a lot of apps
have a computer generated voice saying.
Exactly.
Okay, I see, yeah.
So, I like that you know, it's authentic.
Yeah.
A real voice speaking to you of someone
who is a native speaker can be a huge advantage.
Yeah.
I would just also like to speak
to repetition.
Right
Again
because this was actually a book,
but, it had the recordings
and so, I would listen to the dialogs over and over again.
And I was, I was learning Chinese
and from the languages,
I have learned it's the most difficult one
and the sound and the structure
and everything is just so different
from the languages I knew before.
Right.
And it was only because I listened
to the same sentences over and over
and over and over and over again.
Whenever I was on the subway,
whenever I was
walking, cycling, waiting for somebody doing the dishes,
I would just listen to it passively.
Right.
And at some point,
I not only picked up the accent
and the pronunciation and the tones,
but, also the sentence structure.
I think you're a very motivated
and patient person and language learner.
So, thank you for sharing your thoughts
on language learning apps today.
Thank you.
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