We suddenly had to move from Helsinki to Central Europe last spring when my husband started a long work project in Geneva. We heard about this on May Day, and before the end of May, we were already living here in Divonne-les-Bains, a small spa town in eastern France near the Swiss border. I had no time to think about language issues then. It struck me only when we arrived. My French is horrible, so I started to look for…
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…
I first encountered WordDive when I was searching for an English course for my daughter, who is in high school. When I came across WordDive, I realized I could start using it myself. I have always been more mathematically oriented. I graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology, and nowadays I’m working as a researcher of digital services. I need English at work every day. For example, the reports are all written in English. That’s why it didn’t occur to…
Samu Haber, singer and frontman of the Finnish pop-rock band Sunrise Avenue, has teamed up with WordDive in order to help German high school students succeed in their English final exams. Samu tested and completed the English prep course himself, and now German students have a chance to challenge him and try to complete the courses faster than the famous singer who uses English every day in his work. “I am pleased to be involved in launching a great product with…
When you study with WordDive, you take steps towards mastering a language by learning study items. For example, the word apple is the core of one study item. You learn how to pronounce and spell “apple”, but you also learn its meaning, as well as the context in which it can be used, when you read and listen to the example sentence. The process of learning a study item will take you through different stages. We call these stages the…
After the great success of WordDive’s English, Spanish, Swedish and Finnish grammar pages, we have good news for our Russian language enthusiasts. WordDive’s new free-to-use Russian grammar guide is here. Don’t let the Cyrillic alphabet scare you. Once you master it, you will find that a significant part of the Russian vocabulary is shared with other European languages. WordDive provides you a special course to learn the Cyrillic alphabet: Getting Started with Russian. Additionally, this course teaches you 100 useful words in…
