A year abroad might be the best thing that ever happened to you. And I’m not talking only about a gap year before college or a student exchange. I’m talking about any longer stay abroad that you can also make happen later in life. When you spend a longer time abroad, you’ll get a lot deeper into the local culture and language than you would on a week’s holiday trip. You’ll get unique experiences, precious memories, new friends, and who…
We have published five new French courses that include new vocabulary and grammar. On the Adjectives course, you will learn to use the different forms of French adjectives. The course includes both regular and irregular adjectives and will be added to all French course packages. The two health-related courses, Visiting a Doctor and Wellbeing, include useful vocabulary and phrases that you will need if you get sick abroad, visit a pharmacy or want to talk about relaxing in your spare…
It’s finally here: the new version of WordDive’s mobile app has been released! The new app is even more fun, efficient and easy to use than before. You can follow your progress with fish, which develop from novices to juniors and masters as you learn more. Exercising has been completely overhauled as well. Old exercise modes have been combined into one exercise, where the AI automatically selects the best way for you to learn each study item. The new exercise…
The Comprehensive Italian course package has now been expanded with three new courses. In the Home & Living course, you will learn vocabulary related to home and everyday things. The course is best suited for beginners. The new intermediate-level Media course introduces you to topics ranging from the journalist’s work to social media. In the Adjectives course, you will learn three inflectional forms of Italian adjectives: positive, comparative and superlative. This new grammar course is recommended for B1 level. All new courses have been added automatically for existing…
Learning new languages together with children is great: they approach learning a language like it’s a natural thing to do and don’t usually worry too much about it. Learning with them is especially fun when you use games, post-it notes, children’s TV shows and songs. With these, the whole family will learn without even noticing! Nursery rhymes and games Even very young children are able to learn simple children’s songs and nursery rhymes by heart. Many well-known songs, such as…
Grammar is like glue that binds different elements of language together. However, language is much more than grammar. It is also words, phrases and pronunciation, for instance. Without these other elements, there is nothing to glue together, so it’s important to keep your learning balanced. The best way to learn grammar is one piece at a time. The most efficient way to memorise grammar rules is finding answers to questions. For example, when you’re reading a sentence, it might raise a question like “Why is this verb conjugated…
