What is OUINO?
- OUINO Guide - Extra Language Practice
This module is entirely different than what you have seen so far.
It will allow you to practice your language skills at any time during your journey and
long after you’ve completed the OUINO program.
These exercises are virtually endless.
You’ll be able to practice your pronunciation, listening and writing skills with hundreds
of full sentences.
You'll also be able to practice your reading skills with 60 original short stories.
Let’s take a look at the different activities in this module.
Reading Practice
OUINO now includes 60 short stories written specifically for language learning.
Reading is a powerful tool when learning a new language.
But in order for the reading material to be effective, it also needs to be comprehensible.
If you don’t understand anything at all, you won’t learn much.
The first few stories have very short sentences with simple words, and the complexity slowly
evolves throughout the stories.
The text is split into very small sections to allow you to focus on only a few words
at a time.
All these stories are bilingual.
You can use the English translations to support you whenever you don’t understand something.
The translations were made to be very close in meaning to help you understand, but not
always word-for-word to retain the natural (but different) flow of both languages.
In the very beginning, you will need the support of English a lot.
But as you understand more of the language, the need for the English translation will
fade.
Going back to these stories after a few weeks of learning can also be an excellent way to
see how much you have improved.
This reading section is the perfect way to practice reading from day one.
It will help you reach levels where you are comfortable reading more complex stories and
books.
Speaking & Pronunciation Practice
We talked about this a bit in the pronunciation video.
We don’t always have the opportunity of speaking when learning a new language at home.
You may have a very good understanding of the language, but when you try to speak, it
comes out all wrong.
That’s because your mouth is simply not used to making all these new foreign sounds.
Practice is the only way to improve this.
This section lets you practice your pronunciation with hundreds of full sentences.
You can choose from three different types of exercises, and choose your sentence length.
Simply move up the chain of difficulty as you get better in the language.
Practicing with this can even help improve the pronunciation of advanced students who
have been studying the language for years.
Listening Practice
When learning a new language, it can be difficult to separate the words in your mind.
Sentences can seem like fast blurbs of information.
Ever wondered why native speakers seem to speak so fast?
The main reason is that your brain can’t separate individual words and can’t tell
where one word ends and the other begins.
It just seems like a never-ending mix of strange syllables.
This section allows you to listen to words and place them in the correct order.
A few minutes of practice with this everyday can make a huge difference in your listening
ability.
Writing practice
A lot of people seem a bit reluctant to write and feel like it’s not something they necessarily
need.
Possibly because they feel like writing is a chore or don’t know what to write about,
but the truth is that writing is incredibly helpful in all aspects of language learning.
You don’t need to become a professional writer to become fluent in a language, but
we strongly believe that writing on a regular basis will improve your learning exponentially.
If you know how to write and you have a good pronunciation, speaking should be much easier.
This section should bring massive improvements on your writing, listening and overall language
skills.
It can also be used to practice at a very high level.
The “Extra Language Practice” module is an excellent way to practice the different
aspects of language learning whenever you feel like you need to improve certain skills.
Use it at anytime during your learning journey and you’ll see amazing results.
In the next video, we'll talk about going beyond OUINO and how to continue improving
once you have completed the program.
Stay tuned!