Thursday, July 22, 2010

LiveMocha Review—an Elearning Software Solutions for Language Education

After stumbling upon LiveMocha elearning software solutions for language education, I decided to give it a shot. What did I have to lose? I was interested to learn a new language, but did not have the time, or the money to commit to a traditional classroom language class. Fortunately for me, elearning gives me the benefit of learning a language effectively and easily for a whole lot less from the comfort of my own home, at a time that’s favorable to my hectic schedule.

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It was my first time to try out an elearning software solutions, and I was both excited and doubtful. LiveMocha offers you a lot of languages to learn, which I appreciated. There are 35 languages in all to choose from. After much deliberation, I decided to take up Nihonggo because I used to study it back in college, but had to drop the class because I was falling behind in my major subjects. I took this as an opportunity to finish what I started and learn something I’ve always wanted to master ever since I was younger. Another great thing about LiveMocha is the user-friendly interface of the interactive courses. I kind of expected computer versions of my old Nihonggo class modules which are intimidating and teetering on boring. Much to my delight, the course offers a wide array of activities. There are listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities and all of them were extremely engaging. I thought that this elearning innovation is extremely useful, especially since it offers a lot of free online content, and focuses first on the use of informal language as opposed to starting on the lengthy rules of formal sentence construction.

I haven’t completely explored LiveMocha because I’ve only started using it recently, and so far, I’ve noticed only one flaw, which is that it requires you to submit output too soon. It doesn’t give you much time to master a lesson because of the immediate evaluation.