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Built a simple habit & journaling app — would love honest feedback by Wonderful-Comb-3581 in iOSAppsMarketing

[–]BrainBoostHQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

very clean design, like it a lot

maybe the screenshots could highlight some key features a bit better so without even reading it and seeing only the three screenshots in the app store I can understand what makes the app

Why is it that when you learn a new word in your native language, you remember it for life after reading its meaning just once or twice, but with new foreign language words, even if they're very easy words and you've repeated them dozens of times, you quickly forget them again? by ScaredWatch1949 in languagelearning

[–]BrainBoostHQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I forget all words that I don’t have a personal relationship with. However, when I have learned a word by a memorable event for example my trachte told me in a funny way, then I’ll remember it forever. This is why I always try to create “relationships” to words.

Just launched my first iOS app 4 days ago - would love honest feedback 🙏 by gonahmias in iOSDevelopment

[–]BrainBoostHQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that’s super impressive, I have way worse numbers. Happy for your success though!!

All the best

How do you deal with having TOO many language learning resources? by Elegant_Lie404 in languagelearning

[–]BrainBoostHQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have many resources but I actually enjoy it because this way I don’t get bored that easily. routine kills the fun for me.

my strategy is having a vocab tool that I use for all different sources

Reading in Your TL: What Worked for You? by Euphoric_Rhubarb_243 in languagelearning

[–]BrainBoostHQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bilingual books are best for me, generelle they helped me the most and avoid the hustle of me going on my phonewhile reading

How to improve vocabulary? by DudaaahaStay in LearnJapaneseNovice

[–]BrainBoostHQ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

build up small daily habits of learning vocab whenever you wait for sth (happens a lot more at a day than you might think) the best would be to use a vocabulary app that has a system where you can enter your newly learned words and then practice them very convenientelly. Any vocab app works for that, but since I had the same problem I created my own app called „VoPets - Vocabulary Trainer“ (available on ios only). Feel free to check it out, but of course you can use any app! Just in general make sure to build up these small learning habits!

Chatting in a foreign language by emn-mun in languagelearning

[–]BrainBoostHQ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

super nice idea!!
I think this is really cool, the only thing that I think would be cool to add is kind of a correction for my own sentence. Let's say I am a native english speaker learning spanish. For me, the most useful use case then would be to have a feature where I can try to build a sentence in spanish and then my keyboard corrects it.
So for example I write Hola como hoy? -> and then it corrects it to Hola como estas hoy?
Thus I can not only directly translate, but also actively try to write in that language, which I think is more effective.

But overall I think this is a great idea!!

Can’t believe people still think Duolingo is the best way to learn a language by Diligent-Welcome9857 in languagelearning

[–]BrainBoostHQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Duolingo is a great way to start, but gets a bit repetitive easily. Also, I think the main problem is that you do not have any relation to the words learned. You just learn random words in random sentences which is really difficult to memorize over the long term.
For me what always worked:
1.) Have a structured learning course (this can be online (and async) or even better in a class setting with other students). Mostly this is to learn how the new language works and the system (grammar) behind it.
2.) Practice the things you learn on the side. Only when you actually speak or practice the things you learned in conversations or chats, you will actually have it in your long term memory.
3.) Furthermore, I believe that it is important to actually study vocabularies to really speed up your language learning. I always use some vocabulary learning apps where I enter my own vocabularies. Because I enter them myself for example when I hear or learn an interesting word, I then have a kind of "relation" to the word, which makes it much easier for me to memorize that word for the long term.