VideoTrainear

As you know, the best way to learn to understand a foreign language is to live among the speakers of this language for several months. This method is called "deep immersion". The absence of a familiar environment, the loss of one's own language culture, the constant presence of a number of rightly and naturally speaking people in the language under study - these factors make their own small miracle. But not everyone is able to spend a lot of money and time at a time to use this method. VideoTrainear Offers a special tool that allows you to partially take advantage of the "deep immersion" method. What is this - a partial immersion? Do you remember the feeling when you watch an interesting film? You seem to be there, in the atmosphere of an exciting plot, among interesting characters. And now imagine that this film is in the language you are studying and with subtitles on it. For example, on the screen Merlin Monroe utters some of his sweet phrase. Of course, you do not immediately understand it by ear and look at the subtitles. However, in subtitles all words in this phrase are rearranged. And your task is to listen to Merlin's voice and try to collect the correct word order. For long phrases or indistinctly and quickly said sentences, this is a non-trivial task for a beginner. While you collect this "puzzle", the phrase on the screen with a short interval is played again. As soon as you "decided" (ie you heard it all the same or you guessed right words), the film continues on. What exactly happens during this process? 1. You see the mimicry of the characters, you understand the context situation, you hear the speech, you read the text, you solve the puzzle and you, most likely, still wonder - the maximum number of different channels for getting information to the brain is involved.
2. The phrase is repeated several times - its pronunciation is strongly fixed in memory. If you do not perceive any nuances from the first time, then after a multiple repetition, you will be able to catch their chance much more.
3. You listen to a variety of voices. And you listen to native speakers who speak without wild accents. And, according to point 2, you remember the correct pronunciation.
4. And you watch a new series of your favorite movie.
5. And this does not need to spend a lot of money as a "full immersion". And, if you already watch any movies, it takes not much extra time. In comparison with the "full immersion", TrainEar has drawbacks.
1. There is no feedback. You can not ask anything from Merlin.
2. Do not practice pronunciation (however, in future versions there will be something on this topic).
3. Do not train the ability to build phrases. 3. Do not train the ability to build phrases.