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\”If sprinting uphill with bowling balls in each hand were the most effective way to lose fat, how long would the average person adhere to such a program?\” -Tim Ferriss, \”How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months\”

Learning a new language is like usually a bitter sweet experience. Some want to pick up some basic knowledge of a couple foreign languages for personal interests, school requirements, travel purpose or career development. However, to master a new language, one requires to have the decipline and interest to keep up the momentum. Often in time, you became bored with the program, and not enough of the content you were learning was applicable to your daily thought processes and interests. After all, it is important to begin thinking in your new language as opposed to just translating your native language inside your head.

In order to remain on track with your new language, you must be interested in the content that is presented. Unfortunately, many language learning suites do not offer content applicable to many people\’s unique environments. In order to effectively \”learn\” a language, you must know the words and phrases in the new language that you will use the most often. Consider your current subject matter interests: \”What do I currently spend my time doing and thinking about?\” These are the subjects that will need to be included within the language learning suite that will best suit you and that, in turn, you will be most likely to use extensively.

Some products offer unique experience and content. For example, the content is organized within ten relevant categories, including hundreds of subcategories. Users can easily tailor their learning to include content that most interests them and that they find will be the more useful to their daily lives. If business travel is your primary reason for learning a new language, LangLearner may be a great fit for you. Our \”Business\” category contains the most commonly used words and phrases for business travel, including applicable photos and pronunciations. If you are a doctor volunteering in another country, our \”Body and Health\” section includes everything you will need to know to work closely and effectively with your patients.

Although there are products available in the market now, it\’s hard to find one that provides effective content. We came across one recently called LangLearner and it works quite well. It is a technology that adapts to your own learning style. We find it fun, practical, intuitive to use; it focuses on accelerated learning of vocabulary and pronunciation. Their products include interactive multimedia web platform and mobile applications available on iPhone/iPod Touch, Windows Mobile phones (HTC, Samsung, etc) and more. It breaks down the language and cross cultural communication barriers on-the-spot.

In particular, choose products that offer enough content that you can personalize your language learning to your personal style and interests, instead of being restricted to a cookie cutter program. You should find solution applicable to your unique needs in a cross-platform environment such as LangLearner\’s web-based and mobile mobile language learning products.