Posted by olga on 31 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Community, Internet learning
On Livemocha , there are many ways to learn from our community. Here are a few tips to help you connect to our network of language learners:
- Create and share flashcard sets
- Practice your conversation skills by using Chat
- Submit writing and speaking exercises to native speakers for review
- Finally, you can check out [...]
Posted by jimmy on 23 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Internet learning
Hi my name is Jimmy and I’m a Product Manager here at Livemocha working on the Flashcards feature.
Since we’ve added Flashcards, some of our international members have been asking what a flashcard is and how can they can use it to help them learn.
Flashcards are widely used as a learning tool to aide memorization. These [...]
Posted by Clint on 22 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Community
Livemocha has a very short survey for our English-speaking members! Please click this link and answer 5 short questions for us. We truly appreciate your feedback. Thanks!
Posted by olga on 22 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Known Issues
Once again, we appologize for all the trouble everyone is dealing with regarding missing progress. We can reassure you that your scores are not lost. You may continue your lessons without any fear and your total score will be updated.
Posted by olga on 21 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Community
Livemocha would just like to take a moment to thank some important community members. These members honorably translate the weekly newsletter and we couldn’t be more thankful. The entire Livemocha team wants to show our appreciation for the hard work you put into our community. The following individuals are some of our brilliant weekly translators:
Becky [...]
Posted by olga on 21 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Known Issues
We wanted to let everyone know that we have a bug on the Lesson Progress. You probably have done lots of exercises in a specific course but your progress may show very low percentage.
We are working on this bug and we will fix it as soon as possible. Don’t worry, your points will not disappear.
Sorry [...]
Posted by Clint on 17 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Company News
This post is strictly fun: one of the superstars at Livemocha possesses some serious musical talent, and I thought it might be fun to share his handiwork. Alireza plays guitar and records vocals in this impressive song, Rays . Enjoy!
Posted by Clint on 17 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Internet learning
In our continual push to create an experientially engaging, effective instructional design, we have looked at several traditional learning theories to support our style of teaching. While these classic theories like constructivism and behaviorism are sound and effective in their own rights, in my opinion they do not quite fit the Internet-based community learning [...]
Posted by olga on 14 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Community
Livemocha users!
We want to hear about your experience on the Livemocha site!
Let us know if you have been inspired to travel, learned a language in a quick amount of time, met somebody special on Livemocha, or simply just have a rant or rave.
We want to hear it all!
Posted by olga on 13 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: New and Fixed
This week, you will see several improvements to our Learn and Practice sections. These changes include simplified audio recordings, better writing and speaking exercises, and a new layout of the “Learn” pages.
If you like the improvements or if you encounter any problems, please let us know! We’re always working to make Livemocha the best place [...]
