Speechling Official Blog (Page 21)

The official blog of Speechling's nonprofit language learning app and website. Tips for learning French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, German, Russian, English, and more.

Spanish

How to Pronounce Jesus, Jose, and Juan in Spanish

I'll never forget it. One day after returning home from my Spanish class in high school, my mother was on the phone, talking to her colleague. "Hey GEE-sus! Remember to fax me the accounting documents by tomorrow", I really need it. Cringe. (Hint: It's not pronounced like that.

Why habits are ??

There are four stages to learning anything. First, there's unconscious incompetence. In this stage, we're unaware or don't know that we don't know something. For example, I wasn't aware that I wasn't speaking a language properly. Eventually, I realized that I wasn't competent, which leads to the second stage, or

Growth and Stagnation

As humans, we tend to view ourselves as having fixed value, which is both a detriment to our progress and the #1 reason why we fail, especially when pursuing intensive learning experiences. We only have this fixed mindset when we do not actively set the intention for embracing failure in

Speechling Spanish has been released!

Speechling is proud to announce the release of Spanish to our collection. We have been working hard with Latin American vocal talent for the release, and are proud to offer the full content collection of our English and French programs. About our vocal talent Our vocal talent and translation staff

Speechling's roadmap: Spanish and Chinese incoming

Launch and first users! Huge thanks to the initial cohort of early adopters. You guys have been influential in helping Speechling improve our product to our full capacity. We're looking to continue to offer free language coaching and personalized feedback. What's next? Speechling is looking to include: More language support:

Speechling White Paper

Why Speechling? Speechling was designed for one purpose: to help anyone learn to speak a language on the Internet. Reason #1: We have a real voice you can imitate. As of May 2017, our release, no site currently provides: High quality audio of real people saying real-life phrases Both female/