This is a portfolio
about some
useful but interesting
English & Chinese learning apps.
about some
useful but interesting
English & Chinese learning apps.
Introduction
- Nowadays, most of the people posses their own mobile device not only for contacting but more for studying, working and playing. Since this reason, more and more mobile apps are launched to meet the diverse needs for people. Moreover, mobile learning is trending in the contemporary society, due to its high-efficiency and convenience. If the language learners know how to select and use mobile learning apps properly, these mobile learning apps can definitely help them in a great way.
- This portfolio provides you with the insights from me, a mobile Chinese & English learner who has been keen on using mobile learning to facilitate my Chinese and English Learning. Two apps on iOS are introduced here, which can demonstrate the effectiveness and joy of mobile Language learning experience. Don't get frustrated if you don't have an iPhone, because these apps are available through all platforms.
- This portfolio provides you with the insights from me, a mobile Chinese & English learner who has been keen on using mobile learning to facilitate my Chinese and English Learning. Two apps on iOS are introduced here, which can demonstrate the effectiveness and joy of mobile Language learning experience. Don't get frustrated if you don't have an iPhone, because these apps are available through all platforms.
LEARNING APPS
APP1 - 英語趣配音
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- It is an English Learning app, which aims to help diverse ages of people hoping to learn and practice English in an interesting way.By dubbing a 1 to 2 minutes short video, people can get rid of the traditional book reading mode and have great fun in imitating and performing the English video that they like.
- The videos that app recommended are in a great variety, which covers from English TV dramas, movies, youtube videos, cartoons, songs,to the own videos that users can edit and upload by themselves. |
-Some English teachers and Oral English practice videos can be offered to you to help your speaking quality. You also can find the most popular dubbed videos that are shared in the platform, which you may learn the skills from other people.
-Moreover, you can share your dubbed video in the social group. Other users can listen to your video and give you some comments. By this way, you may have the access to make new friends here, talking about some movies, songs that you all like. |
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APP2 - 西窗燭
- This is a Classical Chinese Poetry Learning app. The background of its opening page is dark red, which gives users a feeling of mystery and elegance. Get into the app, the using page of it is mainly white and concise.
- Besides the color, it is the app that is designed from simple to complicated. This app mainly includes 5 parts, Excerpt, Create, Observe, Library and User-self. The Excerpt page of it shows some Classical Chinese quotes, and when you click into it, the source of which will introduce to you. As for the Create page, it is more like a social circle that displays diverse comments and reflections of people to the poetries that they read. The Observe page are some modern themes offered and classical poetry games, matches. And then, you can find hundreds of poetries in the Library page, which provides you the access to search whatever you want by yourself. |
First Let'sIntroduce
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Now let'sUse
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- First you can choose which kinds of poetries that you want to improve. You can select by books, authors or topics. After finishing it, abundant of poetries that will offer to you. As for me, i usually click one poetry to read everyday. In each poetry, there has annotation, interpretation, experts comments and even other users reflections to it. In this way, you may probably learn this poetry comprehensively. Furthermore, you can take notes in various ways in the poetry to record. - The most interesting function is, this app is also a shopping platform for people to buy some Classical Chinese related products. I have never buy anything through it, maybe someday you may buy one before me, at that time, don't forget to let me know whether it is good or not. |
SELF-REFLECTION
- Through the first app, I regain the pleasure in English Learning. I usually dub 1-2 videos a week, which won't take me long time, and the most important i enjoy in it so much. I will do my best to imitate every words and tones to the video. Thus, It improve my English speaking level in a greta way. Also, I learn much more vocabulary and expressions than usual. Such a wonderful way to enhance your English, DO NOT MISS IT!
- As for the second app, my Classical Chinese Poetry reserve enlarge a lot. Since my major is Chinese Language Education, and the course Classical Chinese Literature were offered for us in the last two semesters. The Classical Poetry section is the most important part in the course. According to it, i started to use the app to enlarge my knowledge about it. Through the app, i learn much more poetries than through the class. Therefore, if you are the person who want to know more about Classical Chinese Poetry, TRY THIS APP!
- As I personally think, Mobile-Learning will become more and more popular from now to the future. Though it can not replace the face-to-face class learning format, the convenience and high-efficiency of it should not be ignored. You can learn various knowledge whenever you want or wherever you are, which i previously mentioned is the trend of contemporary fast-speed learning. For people who want to improve your Oral English and Chinese, download these 2 apps in your phone or laptops, try them and you will discover a new world!
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Below is One of my dubbed video, hope you enjoy~.