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Budgeting your time to work on learning a new language is difficult.  Keeping up-to-date on vocabulary, studying flash cards, and working on your reading comprehension don’t always fit into a busy schedule when you’re trying to balance work and life.  Cool product Lingua.ly aims to make learning a new language a more convenient option by allowing people to work on their language skills as they browse the Internet.   The theory is sound.  Most people spend massive amounts of time web browsing both at work and in downtime they have at home.  Building the process of language learning into something we already do so often could certainly make it easier to add learning Spanish, French, or Italian to the daily routine.  It may not work for people who need computer support just to handle a web browser properly, but it could break down some barriers to learning a language for most of the connected world. 

Lingua.ly is a Google Chrome app that integrates itself into your browser so you can take advantage of it easily whenever you’re surfing the web.  Users access Lingua.ly through an icon in the upper right hand corner of Chrome while browsing a website.  From there, users can select words that they want to learn from any web page that’s in a different language.  Once a user selects a word, the Lingua.ly Chrome app automatically adds it to the “words” tab.  The words tab lets you go over definitions and use learning tools such as associating pictures with words.  It essentially becomes a digital notebook for studying the language you’re trying to learn.  The “practice” tab within the app acts as a digital set of flash cards, which pulls from your words tab to make sure you’re as up to date on your vocabulary as you desire.

Vocabulary isn’t everything in learning a new language.  Lingua.ly also offers a “reading” tab that uses the data from your words tab to find web articles to practice on that are at your reading level.  The reading tab automatically updates as you advance in your chosen language and finds more web articles to help you practice your reading comprehension.

If you think Lingua.ly may be a good option for you when trying to learn a new language, but you feel intimidated somewhat by the technology, find an online tech support service that can assist you.

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