Last spring, my friend gave me a tip to try WordDive. I and my wife are retired and we often spend the winter in Spain or the Canary Islands. I’m not linguistically talented, but I still wanted to try WordDive. I started with the introductory course, got excited, and then ordered a six-month course as soon as I was back in Finland. Since then, I’ve been studying Spanish with WordDive almost daily, 20 to 30 minutes a day. We like…
Do you sometimes feel that your results graph curve is not ascending the way you want it to and progressing feels hard? Here are some tips to help you speed up learning and take your language skills to a new level! 1. Proceed fast Good language skills demand automation. If you want to learn to speak a new language fluently, you need to know all the basic words and grammar constructions without thinking. Achieving automation calls for repetition. There is…
“Globalization increases the need to learn languages with people and business moving across borders”, writes journalist Päivi Stenroos in her recent article for Tampere – All Bright! Magazine. “Demand increases supply, and there is a large number of various online language learning services available nowadays.” She asked Timo-Pekka Leinonen, WordDive CEO, how WordDive aims to stand out from the crowd. “We started out by thinking what the computer can do for the student. It can be a personal instructor that individually optimises the learning…
It’s time for a party! We have reached a new, impressive milestone: the total number of study items learned permanently by WordDive users has exceeded 10 million. This is a very impressive achievement that belongs to all of you. You are really persistent and hard-working students! Did you know that the whole WordDive method is developed around permanent learning? With WordDive, you repeat things exactly the amount of times that is necessary for you. When you exercise for a long time, the…
Anne Salomäki, Journalist (Good News from Finland), has tried using WordDive for the first time. In her recent article she shares the experience of brushing up her French and Spanish and starting to learn German with WordDive. She also talked to Timo-Pekka Leinonen, WordDive CEO, about the story behind the program and asked him about different features of the service and future plans. “Will WordDive bring back my lost French? Starting to use the service is effortless. Whilst clicking on…