I love Spain. I love
many countries, some of which I never had a chance to visit (yet:_),
but there is something magical, inspirational, and mysterious about
Spain that makes me think of it most.
So far I visited
Ordessa, Grenada, and Tenerife, and in short you might label this
triplet: 'from survival to luxury'. Well, almost; the first was a
2-week hike with 13kg backpack of survival kit:_), the last: a pool
at a side and a multi-course breakfast.
Yet, I've always
missed the fact the only proper phrase I could say there was: 'No
hablo espanol'
Therefore, when I
had a chance to enter uTalk world, my first and instant decision was
to try out and learn Spanish from there.
uTalk is an app
available for all iPad and/or iPhone users to help you learn language
in the least stressful way possible – by playing a game. Or two:_)
Like most people, I
am all eyes when absorbing information. And I like to see things in a
nice way - esthetic, you see... The uTalk is 100% for me in that
aspect alone. Clear, concise (not an easy thing to achieve with 120
languages available:_), and carefully designed.
First, let's go the
free way, available, yes, you read it correctly, at NO cost: 'Starter
Words'.
It is not your easy
path to achieve proficiency level in a language – it is a path from
which you can easily spot other possibilities, to learn more, to
strengthen your will to want more.
There is 1 topic
associated, with several options, starting from practice, to various
games (easy, hard, memory), to recall of what you have been able to
learn so far. All that in an easy, non-time consuming way, allowing
you to play 5 mins at at time, fitting in your busy/free/laid
back/super-organised approach. Brilliant!
You learn 15 basic
phrases (including the one I already knew: I don't understand, and a
word for a restroom, which is again genius, and so practical, not
only when you are traveling with kids:_)
If you get hooked
(and probably you will), you are welcome to buy 2 paid options:
Essentials (with 11 topics, pretty decent amount of material to dig
into), and/or Premium (37 topics).
I went the full
Monty route, and for £11.99 I was gone. Actually, it took me a while
to convince myself to switch from 'Vacation' to writing this little
opinion of mine.
To be honest, I am
still building el castillo de arena a la playa. Watching la puesta
del sol. After all day playing with el frisbee.
Not to worry that I
miss a word – the Premium option has a built-in dictionary, 1000+
phrases and words.
You see?:_) I am
hooked...
uTalk is developed by EuroTalk, publishers of language learning software and apps in 135 languages.
http://eurotalk.com/. They recently launched new mobile website. To celebrate that launch, I have THREE PREMIUM CODES of the uTalk application to giveaway. Hurrah! Just in time for your next holiday!!!
COMPETITION CLOSED
AND THE WINNER IS:)))
Darkus,
who will be contacted soon to have the code received, and be able to test uTalk to the full:)))
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You are welcome to like my Facebook page, too.
You may be anywhere in the world :)
Just make sure you make it before the deadline: 12PM BST (that is British Summer Time) on Friday, 29th May.
Winners will be announced here, in this very post, on Monday, 1st June. So keep that date in mind, and come back for an update then, just in case!
So let it be Espanol! :)
ReplyDeleteMay I just say, what a great choice:) and please, do contact me with your email address to have your code sent out :)) you can visit my FB page, link is in the post above, and send a message from there:)
DeleteI use Duolingo to learn spanish and I love that, you should check that out too!
ReplyDeleteAlyssia, thank you, will definitely check that out! ;)
DeleteThe app sounds great! It's always good to learn a new language! :) x
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Yes, it will not make you teach Spanish at a uni;) but I'm pretty amazed at the amount of vocabulary you soak into only by playing around, really:))
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