Do you know, I wouldn't recommend this site to real learning language. My native language is Russian and "Russian" at that site is quite different from Russian I know. May be you can learn vocabulary, I don't know, but the structure of sentences they propose is unnatural.
I hate to rain on your parade, but some time ago I co-authored an article on learning languages with computers, and in the research reading I did I discovered that whereas games may be fun, they're not much help; there has to be a certain element of BFMI memorising.
BFMI? I'd be interested in that article actually - given how language courses aim to include loads of games from simple 'type this word in language X' to word searches and many others, I'd assumed there was evidence for them being helpful. Certainly all the French I know is thanks to the French Tutor game on tape for the BBC micro - I have a pretty good vocabulary even if my ability to link words is crap.
Basically I'm spending loads of time atm feeding a baby with one arm and using my smartphone with the other, and it would be nice to do something more constructive than Pocket Frogs when I get bored of reading. Typing a novel with one thumb is just too tedious!
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I'd be interested in that article actually - given how language courses aim to include loads of games from simple 'type this word in language X' to word searches and many others, I'd assumed there was evidence for them being helpful.
Certainly all the French I know is thanks to the French Tutor game on tape for the BBC micro - I have a pretty good vocabulary even if my ability to link words is crap.
Basically I'm spending loads of time atm feeding a baby with one arm and using my smartphone with the other, and it would be nice to do something more constructive than Pocket Frogs when I get bored of reading. Typing a novel with one thumb is just too tedious!
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