Using the app: at a glance

Successful learning goes as follows:

• Open the app
• Choose your learning objective: be able to read a specific target language or all Romance languages
• Now fill in the gaps. You can do this in the following ways:
  • fill in by typing (you may have a Swiftkey that shows you the word you are looking for before you have typed it in completely. Then take the proposed word).
    • At the same time, compare the ‘new’ word with the listed meaning of words from languages you already know: How is the meaning, is it the same, where are similarities, where differences… in meaning, spelling, use?
  • Just tap OK without filling in the gap. Then the searched word appears and a window opens with the inscription “remember”. If you want this, tap “remember” again. The word is now saved.
    • Now comes the crucial thing that determines your learning effectiveness: Write down (preferably in a notebook that you use again and again) the words and forms that you are learning as new or that you are somehow unsure about. From time to time, have a look at the list and cross out the words you are now familiar with.
  • The more associations you can build, the denser your network of associations becomes, the easier and more successful you learn. Learning is like money: the more you have, the easier and more new things are added.

Successful learning begins with the right choice of exercise.

Exercise 1: Choose a target language here and work on the tasks. The gaps will present themselves without exception for this language.

Exercise 2: Select the  learning objective  “Learn to read several Romance languages”. Here the gaps change from language to language.

Exercises 3 and 4: Choose the learning objective: “Only learn to understand the interlingually opaque words”. Example: fr. blague-it. barzelletta-pt. piada-sp. z o.o. chiste-en. wit, joke-dt. Joke, joke. Here you have two options:

• 3: the opaque ones of only one specific target language (e.B. Spanish)
• 4: the opaque of all Romance languages

Exercises 3 and 4 are aimed primarily at learners with good previous knowledge of a Romance language and/or English.