Learn a foreign language using the cloud

We will introduce useful educational applications in a series of several articles of Cloud and education:

Learn a foreign language using the cloud
Helping tools for school
Learning in a playful way

Cloud technologies provide a plenty of useful applications that make our lives easier. Have you ever thought of using a smartphone as a help in learning a foreign language? There are many different applications available from your laptop, tablet or smartphone to enrich your vocabulary, improve pronunciation and access native speakers /a person who speaks a language from birth / anytime, anywhere. Aliter Technologies experts have prepared an overview and evaluation of these applications.

Preply is a platform for searching and managing language courses provided via Skype. In the first step, the user enters his / her preferences, such as reasons (education, career, travel, etc.), current level of language skills, preferred time and price of courses. Subsequently, Preply generates a list of recommended trainers, including profile and student evaluation. The reservation of the course as well as the payment is made via Preply, where each trainer sets the price individually.

Similar functionality is provided by applications such as Verbling, Italki, LOI English, MyLingo TRIP and others.

Advantages:

From the comfort of home, the student can attend an individual language course with a native trainer at the preferred time.
An extensive database of trainers and languages

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