A nice website to learn foreign languages on email-enabled mobile phones
People can easily find a lot of websites to learn foreign languages online. But maybe you are just like me, who don’t have enough time to spend in front of a computer to do that. If we can use a mobile phone, which we carried with us everyday, it will be a better idea. So that we can use small fragments of time to learn a new language. But even for most advanced smartphones, visit this kind of website is not a very convenient way of learning.
There are also a plenty of software can keep learning materials on the local memory of the phone. Even though they also put quite high requirements on the hardware of the phone. Fortunately, I find a nice website, or I should say a series of websites, with which you can learn foreign languages on any email-enabled phone.
One of the entry of this series of websites is English-flashcards.com, from which you can find entries of other languages such as French, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, German and so on. There is a clear instruction to explain features they provide on these website. Here I only want to introduce the feature of daily exercise email subscription.
If you register an account on their website and subscribe the “Daily Sentences and Words by Email”, everyday you can receive an email, in our case on your email-enabled mobile phone, as below:
“Hello YourRegisterName!
Sentence of the Day:
En France le plat traditionnel de Noël est la dinde aux marrons.
In France, the traditional Christmas dish is turkey with chestnuts.
To explain all the words in this sentence and listen to it click here
Words of the Day:
Basic
juste
= 1. just, fair 2. right, exact
[Details]
Intermediate
ananas m.
= pineapple
[Details]
Advanced
épouvantail m.
= scarecrow
[Details]
Yesterday’s Words:
appeler
= to call
[Details]
framboise f.
= raspberry
[Details]
hanter
= to haunt
[Details]
Random Words of your Loop:
bon = good
hauteur f. = height
ombre f. = shadow, shade
né = to be born
pendant = during
Words in your Queue: 0
Click here to add more words.
Recently Added Texts:
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So as long as you have a mobile phone that is capable to run Gmail mobile based Java ME, the new learning material will be delivered to the phone and the website will schedule the learning process. It is also possible to follow their twitter link if you are used to tweet with your mobile phone.
