{"id":5279,"date":"2015-05-29T01:52:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T01:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digmandarin.com\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2015-05-28T06:02:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T06:02:31","slug":"reviewing-fluentu-an-interactive-approach-to-learning-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digmandarin.com\/reviewing-fluentu-an-interactive-approach-to-learning-chinese.html","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing FluentU: An interactive approach to learning Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"
Many people recommend foreign language learners to watch songs and movies as a less boring alternative to studying from textbooks. However, oftentimes translating the content can be quite tiresome and using subtitles results in people being lazy and reading subtitles without actually absorbing too much new knowledge.<\/p>\n
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FluentU<\/a> is an innovative way to learn languages through experiencing trending media content in that language. It allows you to access the best foreign language content on the web such as movie trailers, movies, music videos, songs and inspiring talks.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n FluentU works by allowing you to pause the videos and songs and focus on specific words and sentences creating an experience that you don\u2019t get from the regular subtitling of videos. It\u2019s pretty much watching foreign language media content but with tools that enable you to slow it down and learn exactly what is happening in each song lyric, or frame of the video.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Overall, I\u2019m a great supporter of this platform because it is much more appropriate for the modern learner. These days, we have all the equipment to make learning interactive rather than the rote methods of textbooks and standardized testing and FluentU<\/a> capitalizes on this idea. They have also done a complete job by cataloguing all the vocab and dialogue on every video for you to be able to study it line by line. The only problem is that there is a substantial cost to get the best out of this product. If you paid the amounts they require, would you be disciplined enough to use the product without external pressure from teachers and learning programs to consistently use it?<\/p>\nHow does FluentU work?<\/h2>\n
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