Updates [Update] Glossika Announces "Pronunciation Feedback" Feature for iOS With the January 4th update, Glossika is now able to give you feedback on your pronunciation. Simply record yourself speaking the sentence you’re repping while in a session, then we'll quickly do an analysis and let you know how you did.
Product [Announcement] Beware of fraudulent Glossika retailers It has recently come to our attention that there is a website (and potentially a social media channel) selling what's been labeled as Glossika courses. We would like to take this opportunity to
Linguistics "Language Laddering", or why you might use a foreign language to learn a foreign language This is a bit of a longer post, but it boils down to this simple graphic:A comparison of the same sentence in English, Japanese, and Korean-Your goal here is just to notice
Product What progress will I make if I stick with Glossika? Chances are, Glossika is pretty different than any other language app or textbook you might have used in the past. Our first sentences might be harder than you expected, the sentences you're seeing
Updates [Update] UI Redesign, Weekly Newsletter, and Big Ideas Summer came and went. There's only 3 months left in 2023! With both of our apps now out (iOS and Android), this is the first quarter we've spent in a long time where
Product [Update] Customizable Playlists, Android Offline Mode, and More Big things are on the horizon for Glossika.We've spent a lot of effort working on our apps over the last few years: Glossika came to iOS in 2022 and to Android in
Productivity Enforced Scarcity: What Wordle Teaches Us About Overcoming Procrastination I admit it: I'm a planner, not a doer. I procrastinate. A lot.Now, I love everything about the process of figuring out how I'm going to do something. After unraveling that mystery,
pronunciation Spanish Pronunciation: How I Learned to Roll my R's Can't roll your R's? You're not alone. It took me 8 years of goofing around to figure the sound out, personally, and it's even the last sound that native Spanish speakers acquire while
Listening Listening Comprehension Problems: Why You (Still) Can't Understand Your Target Language Listening comprehension is tough. Many intermediate learners find themselves in an uncomfortable (and disappointing) situation: they've got their language's grammar down, they can read books for fun, and having conversations is no longer
Product The Glossika Method: How We Develop Your Language Abilities Wondering what Glossika is all about or whether it could work for you? Here's a deep dive into our product and methodology. This guide will cover (click a link to jump to that
Learn Chinese Which is Harder: Japanese, Korean, or Mandarin Chinese? Fair warning, this post is massive:I break each of the languages down into several partsIn every one of those parts I talk about what makes each language comparatively easier or harder than
Language Learning Tips Should You Learn Two (or More) Languages at Once? I get it. I really do.If you're learning one language, you've probably thought about learning another. (More realistically, multiple). I'm personally shooting for ten. Currently, I'm at four — Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and
Linguistics How Many Words Do You Need to Know to Speak Another Language? A vocabulary of one-thousand words would allow you to recognize nearly 80% of the words in a given English text (Nation, 2006). Imagine my thrill, a few months into learning Japanese, when I
Learn French Le Subjonctif: The French Subjunctive Made Easy Tenses make sense – we've got those in English. Conjugation can be a bit difficult, but at least that's relatively straightforward. The subjunctive, on the other hand, feels much less concrete. And what is
Culture Classical Guitar Throughout Spanish Culture: An Overview Among musical instruments that can represent the soul of a nation, nothing tops the Spanish guitar. Right up there with the red-dressed flamenco dancers and their castañuelas, the bullfighting of Seville, and the
