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In general, I think that Amikumu is a great idea for easily connecting like-minded language learners, and once the user base and app functionality expand, I expect it to become one of the essential apps for people seeking language learning partners. For example, in my case I want to find native Korean speakers who are learning English and who would be willing to help me with my Korean while I help them with English but all I see is a long list of users with some level of Korean knowledge, sorted by proximity. In testing out the Amikumu app, I could easily see users who list a language in which they have some level of fluency, but I found it difficult to identify which of those users would be good candidates for language exchange. Similarly the nearest Persian speaker/learner is 500 km away, and there are only 7 German speakers/learners within 100 km of me however, there are 10 Esperanto speakers/learners within 10 km if I should ever decide to learn Esperanto. For example, even though I live in a city, the nearest Amikumu-using Korean speaker/learner to me is 300 km away. Amikumu is brand new, so the user base is still quite small, and it is quite heavily slanted toward Esperanto speakers because it was developed closely with the Esperanto community. Given the list of other app users, you can view user profiles to determine their fluency level in that language, and you can then message any of the users in the list, ostensibly to suggest joint language learning practice or exchange. The Amikumu app requires that you provide your location and will only work if you enable location services on your phone. You can then select any of your languages and view a list of other Amikumu users who list that language, sorted by distance from you.

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(Note that Clozemaster is a sponsor of the Creative Language Learning podcast, and you can use this Clozemaster link to view a special app tour by Kerstin Cable.)Īmikumu is a free app that helps language learners to “Find language learning partners nearby – anytime, anywhere.” When you set up your account in the app, you enter all the languages you know, with your current fluency level (native, high, middle, or basic) for each.

The future can only be changed, not known.” So you can get some philosophy with your language learning. And the sentences themselves can be a bit unusual, quite unlike typical textbook practice sentences for example, two of the Clozemaster Korean-English sentences are “Mathematics is the part of science you could continue to do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered the universe was gone” and “The past can only be known, not changed. Successfully parsing and filling the sentences does require an intermediate reading level, so the app is not appropriate for beginners without a solid core vocabulary and grammar foundation.

Clozemaster is really well-designed and a lot of fun, and I have already added it to my rigorous training regimen for the Couch to Korean Challenge. The Clozemaster “Korean as an English speaker” unit has 1350 sentences to learn from, which is more than the 831 for Korean from French and 153 for Korean from Arabic, but significantly less than more common pairs like German from English (188,408 sentences) and Spanish from English (159,728). For more common languages like French and Spanish, there are more than a dozen options (for example, learning French as a Mandarin speaker, or learning Spanish as a Bulgarian speaker). For Korean learners alone, it supports learning Korean as an English speaker, as a French speaker, and as an Arabic speaker. Clozemaster supports a huge range of languages.

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You can choose either multiple choice or full text input as options for how to fill in the missing word. The app provides a full translation in your known language, which does not have to be English.

The app presents a sentence in the target language, with a missing word that you need to fill in. Clozemaster is language learning through mass exposure to vocabulary in context.” The app does this by allowing a language learner to practice a language using fill-in-the-blank questions. Clozemaster is a free app with the goal of helping users “Learn language in context.

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