Knowledge of the English language is essential to extensively tap into various resources on the internet and books etc. For someone who isn’t very well versed with the English language, there are a large number of websites that help reach a comfortable position in the use of the language. Chief among them are Yappr and VerbaLearn. If you are a blogger, having English as a 2nd language, these sites can help you hone your skills.
Yappr.com focuses on providing an effective learning atmosphere online by using multimedia for their tutoring purposes. Tutorial videos available on Yappr are sorted into categories based on the most popular videos, highest rated videos etc. Subtitles are included in the videos to ensure that a person learning English understands the exact words being spoken in the video. Such a method of simultaneous listening and reading text, one can easily understand the context in which certain words have to be used.
Yappr also includes videos which have subtitles in Spanish, French and Korean etc. This provides for an inclusive approach towards learning English. A dedicated bulletin board where users can easily log in and chat with fellow learners and share information and also help each other is also provided. Watch the guided tour to learn more about Yappr.
Along the lines of Yappr, VerbaLearn.com too offers help to non native English speakers to learn the English language. The approach however is slightly different. While the former makes use of videos and subtitles, the latter takes an exercise based approach where there are a large number of interesting features such as games, quizzes etc that make learning a new language a lot more fun.
VerbaLearn offers a personalized StudyList wherein people learning English can streamline their efforts by making a record of their shortcomings. The mistakes made while attempting any of the exercises are automatically added to the StudyList and thus the person learning the language can focus a lot more on the mistakes made rather than having to track back manually to analyze the same.
VerbaLearn also offers an option to save the StudyList in an MP3 format. This way, one can easily keep track and pay a lot more attention to the mistakes made. Since all the items on the StudyList are automatically synchronized, one can even view the words on their homepage for a quick revision. Such a facility also helps people in their efforts to crack tests such as SAT or GRE. Check this demo video from VerbaLearn.
Yappr is awful site……They are scammers, liars and they stole my money…. Beware!!!!!
For the most part, I’ve found Verbalearn an excellent resource for studying vocab for the GRE. There are many ways to quiz yourself and review the vocab you’ve yet to master. And the financial incentive – getting your $ back that you spent on the full upgraded version – is fun and motivating. My main criticism is that there’s a part of the process of assessing mastery, a synonym multiple choice question for each word, that’s flawed. Too many of the synonyms art too weak; occasionally there are two or more possible answers; selecting the wrong one is very frustrating because it forces you to study that word again.
Overall, I recommend this resources.
learning english is quite easy, there arem any tutorials on the internet and some audiobooks too .“