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Das sind die besten Apps, um Sprachen zu lernen
(These are the best apps to learn languages)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 24.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, smartphone, translation
Summary | Babbel, Duolingo, and Busuu are currently among the most popular language learning apps. They are great for starters because all that is needed is a smartphone and some free time here and there, for instance while waiting for the bus. In order to learn a foreign language fluently, however, one needs to practice with native speakers.
Image Description | Hand holding a smartphone and using a language learning app.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Lernen mit Mensch und Maschine
(Learning with human and machine)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 13.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, research/study, smartphone
Summary | The language learning app Duolingo has many happy users. It is free and really effective in teaching a basic knowledge of foreign languages. The app can remember what grammatical formations and words a user struggles with and keeps quizzing them about it. Their statistics say that after 34 hours of using the app, users are on the same level as students who have been learning a language in class for a semester. If one wants to become really competent in a foreign language, it is of course necessary to get a human tutor.
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Soll mein Kind mit dem Handy für die Schule lernen?
(Should my child use a smartphone to study for school?)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 19.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, school, smartphone
Summary | Education is becoming increasingly digitized - even in primary school. There are many learning apps on offer that let students practice lessons from school, for instance from math or a foreign language. Educators agree that digitized education is the future but that learning apps cannot replace a personal tutor if children have perform poorly in school. Parents are worried that by letting children do schoolwork on their smartphones the children will spend too much time using digital devices over all.
Image Description | Illustration of a girl sitting at a school desk holding her arm up. The desk is placed on a huge smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Smartphones werden zu Sprachlehrern
(Smartphones are becoming language teachers)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 9.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, smartphone
Summary | The new language learning app Babbel is becoming more and more successful. The main reason might be that it it geared towards learning via smartphone which means that users get to learn a few words or phrases while waiting for the bus or filling some other empty ten minutes. No substantial time commitment is needed and yet one slowly learns a language.
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Da hilft auch das Internet nicht
(The internet won't help with that)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, politics, smartphone, threat
Summary | The access to internet has been declared a basic human right because it was thought that the internet is the only way to access unbiased information that may be censored elsewhere. While it is true that the internet opens up a flood of information unavailable outside of it, it does not guarantee that people become less biased or more tolerant. This is exemplified by the clash of cultures which happened on New Year's Eve in Cologne where foreign refugees sexually harrassed German women publicly despite all having had smartphones and thus access to the internet which could have taught them that this is inappropriate behavior in Germany.
Image Description | Portrait of the author.
Image Tags | male(s)
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