When I first met the Memrise team a few months ago in Boston, the site was just getting started and the dreams were big. Fast forward 8 months and my how things have changed. The site, which aims to ...

Over the past few months we’ve tried out a handful of language learning apps. From Babbel to Busuu to Rosetta Stone, we’ve checked out all different learning styles and methods. One app that’s set ...

You'd be forgiven for being wary of anyone who talks about gamification, with the term having become a buzzword for a lot of people whose main talent is, well, spouting buzzwords. But that doesn't ...

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In my life, I've studied four foreign languages, two of them thoroughly enough to attain near fluency, and the early part of that trajectory was always pure drudgery. A big stack of flashcards, many ...

Learning a foreign language offers both students and professionals a great advantage as it allows them to interact with people from other cultures. However, enrolling in language classes takes effort ...

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Learning a language – particularly when you’re not living in a country that speaks that language – is no easy feat. But if you’re keen to advance from ‘ciao, come stai?’ to holding an actual ...

The app, powered by the language-learning platform Memrise, will support 25 languages. The app, powered by the language-learning platform Memrise, will support 25 languages. I am willing to bet that, ...