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This gets into psychology, eh? I suggest reading through alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/ He has excellent tips. For example, to paraphrase, "just open up a le
by miseg 11y ago
This gets into psychology, eh?
I suggest reading through alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/
He has excellent tips. For example, to paraphrase, "just open up a lesson, don't aim to finish one, because that'll feel like too much work, and you won't find the time".
I have a language learning site, and we changed our suggested method to its users because of that better approach.
That comes down to communicating how to use your product to your users. I have to do more of that too.
- steveridout 11y agoTrue, agree completely. I designed Readlang's Activity Monitor with this in mind: http://blog.readlang.com/2015/09/10/new-learning-activity-statistics.html http://blog.readlang.com/2015/09/10/new-learning-activity-st... It's meant to encourage people to translate or recall just 10 words per day, which is a very small amount which should be doable every day. If they do this they'll build up an "X day streak" - similar to what Github or Duolingo do.
- random_rr 11y agoHey Steve, just hopping on a random comment to tell you - this is fucking cool, man. I really enjoy your approach to building this tool. It is apparent that you've put a ton of time into thinking about the structure of learning - and that is much appreciated.