PrivateChief Language Learning: A Spoken Tutor, Daily Reading and Your Own Words
Language Learning in PrivateChief: a spoken tutor, a short article written for your level, your own vocabulary on a spaced review schedule, the most common words at each level, and grammar practice. In this walkthrough Laura, from a family invented for the demonstration, is learning Spanish.
Chapters
What Language Learning covers
- Tutor: a spoken lesson at your level that offers to run through your words.
- Reading: a short article written for your level on a topic you choose or a fresh one each time, read aloud at slower or faster speeds; tap any word to see its meaning and keep it.
- My Vocabulary: the words you keep, reviewed on a spaced schedule from 15 minutes to a month.
- Top Words: the most common words at each level, each marked Learned or Reviewed.
- Grammar: points practised on the same ladder, with anything you got wrong in a lesson noted for practice; My Grammar and Top Grammar.
- An optional daily article by email at the time you choose.
What the narrator says
0:00Speaking, reading and remembering
Learning a language takes three things: speaking, reading, and remembering words. Language Learning in PrivateChief does all three, at your level.
0:12The Tutor
Laura Ashford, from a family invented for this demonstration, is learning Spanish at an intermediate level. The Tutor starts a spoken lesson, at her level, and offers to run through her words.
0:26Reading, aloud and at your level
Reading gives her a short article written for her level, on a topic she picks or a fresh one each time. It can be read aloud, slower or faster, and any word she doesn't know is one tap away from its meaning.
0:42My Vocabulary, on a spaced schedule
The words she keeps go into My Vocabulary, and come back for review on a spaced schedule, from fifteen minutes to a month.
0:52Top Words
Top Words lists the most common words at each level. The ones she has marked learned already cover nearly three quarters of everyday speech.
1:03Grammar
Grammar works the same way. Points come due for practice on the same ladder, and the tutor notes any point she got wrong in a lesson, so it can be practised next.
1:15Find out more
Language Learning. Speak, read and remember, at your own level. PrivateChief. Find out more at privatechief.com.
