”I use the saved time for group work and discussions.” The Finnish expat Hannu Arvio from Barcelona has been teaching Finnish to Spaniards for about 12 years. “I have lived in Spain for 20 years. I used to work as a correspondent for a Finnish radio station, but for the last five years I have focused on educational and marketing activities of the private language school that I founded with three partners.” Institut Nórdic, the private school led by Arvio…
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…
WordDive is updating its look and feel. The old design underwent a complete overhaul, and our new look is fresh, spacious and vibrant. The new colors are brighter and the fonts are easier to read. We hope this makes your studying even more pleasant, fast and fun. The improved look is launched first in the English and Russian versions of our site. The rest of the language versions will be ready by the end of the year. The basic functionalities and game mechanics of the…
“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…
Spanish grammar is not the simplest in the world: for example, the verbs are potentially marked for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number, resulting in about fifty conjugated forms per verb. Nevertheless, Spanish is the world’s fourth most spoken language: it is spoken by about 400 million people as their mother tongue. This makes it a useful language especially in the fields of tourism, culture and foreign trade. In the WordDive method, the study items are presented in example sentences, which also include grammatical constructions suitable for the skill…
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From zero to excellent Swedish grades: the story of a Finnish engineering student
September 3, 2015Finnish universities have a mandatory Swedish course that everyone has to pass in order to graduate. While Finns do study Swedish in school, the mandatory Swedish course in the university still causes a lot of headache, especially for the engineering students. Only a fraction of them get through the mandatory course without remedial teaching, and in the worst cases, failing to complete that one course delays their graduation. When the 25-year-old mechanic Mika Lamminen started his studies at the Tampere…