BYKI.com: Learn to Speak a Foreign Language for Free

I stumbled upon this site about a year ago. I thought about it again when I started to plan my next vacation to Africa, which will be in about a year. I want to be able to speak to the locals, so I visited my old pals at byki.com. This site is as simple as you can get to learn a
 foreign language. And of course leave it up to your Resource Queen to find you a great free resource online!

To get started is so simple.

1. First start off by visiting BYKI.

2. You than pick a language you would like to start to learn. The options are: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belorussian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch English, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian, Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese and Zulu. Whooo! I know, a mouthful!

3. After you've picked your language, fill out the short form that only includes your email address, if you'd like to receive future emails and if you have HTML email or not.

4. Check your email for the link to download the software to start learning your foreign language.

5. You will be directed to the software download. Everything is very simple to do.

6. Once you have the software downloaded on your computer, you can get started right away. The software is very user-friendly.

About the Software.
The languages are taught by the flashcard method. There are 5 different learning modes. Review, Recognize, Know, Produce and Own.

 
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I've been using BYKI Lite since mid-college, almost a decade now. Although I haven't yet sprung for the full version, I believe it would be well worth the money, given the sample. With 17 lists of vocabulary and an excellent flashcard method, it's the best way I know of to get words and phrases into your head so you'll be reviewing the sounds even when you're not at the computer. One of the best aspects is the way it drills the difficult words. Say where you have to type the English translation of a word. If you don't get it right, it sticks you on that same word until you do type it correctly. Then it brings the card back every other word for a while. It really gives you the review you need. And if you type in the translation for a different word, it makes you do the correct translation for the current word, then pulls up the word you thought it was, so you can compare them. By the time you're through, you won't be confusing "membaca" (read) and "mencuci" (wash) anymore.

Posted on 09/04/2008 at 12:09:25 AM

Wow! This sounds excellent! I will definitely add this to the other instruction I am giving the kids for homeschool in French and Spanish. :-)

Posted on 10/14/2007 at 3:10:00 PM

This is a great idea and article. My son is really ineterested in learning spanish. We will definately give this a try!

Posted on 09/16/2007 at 9:09:00 AM

Interesting article

Posted on 09/14/2007 at 6:09:00 PM

Wonderful! Can't wait to try it, thanks!

Posted on 09/11/2007 at 10:09:00 AM

This is very interesting info!

Posted on 08/28/2007 at 11:08:00 PM

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