Exempt Your Linguists from Their Goals (Temporarily!) Posted by meaghan on Aug 6, 2024 in For Learners, For Program Managers
You’ve probably heard some interesting excuses from linguists who didn’t meet their weekly or monthly learning goal. But there are some good reasons too! On TDY. Attending a SLTE. Out for parental leave. Until now, those very good reasons looked very bad in your reports. Even if you changed a linguist’s goal to “No Goal”…
Close your rings, learn a language Posted by meaghan on Aug 2, 2024 in For Learners
What are you lookin’ at? Oh, the new learner portal design in the CL-150!? Us too. 😍 Goodbye moody world map background. Hello clean new dashboard. The new look reduces distractions. Color-coded progress rings help learner can focus on what matters most: ✅ Completing your next assignment or Cohort lesson. ✅ Meeting your weekly or…
Review your vocab in all 4 modalities Posted by meaghan on Mar 7, 2024 in For Learners, New in Learned Vocab
3,000-4,000. That’s how many words you’ve mastered by ILR 2-2+. That’s a lot to keep track of. The Learned Vocab refresh system makes it easy. It stores every word/phrase you’ve learned. And prompts you to review at the right time. Now you can refresh your Learned Vocab with listening, speaking, reading, and typing Practice Activities!…
Prep for an Upcoming DLPT or OPI Posted by meaghan on Jan 30, 2024 in For Learners, For Program Managers
New year. New test scores. If you or your linguists need to prep for a DLPT or OPI this year, go into your test with confidence after a virtual Refresher Course. Mix CL-150 materials with a live instructor who will help you work on: Analyzing complex texts (summarizing, inferring, identifying opinion, etc.) Building comfort with…
Beef up your vocab 🐄 Posted by meaghan on Jan 19, 2024 in For Learners, New in Learned Vocab
If your 2024 goal is to improve your proficiency, vocab is the way. Proficiency levels have consistently been shown to increase in tandem with vocabulary size.1, 2, 3 And studies show that of all factors contributing to language proficiency, vocabulary size is by far the single most significant factor.4, 5, 6 In most cases, you’re looking…
CL-150 Platform Year in Review 2023 Posted by meaghan on Dec 19, 2023 in For Learners, New in Mobile, New Learning Materials
According to Oxford dictionary the word of the year is “rizz”. 🤷♂️ For us, the word of the year has been depth. More to learn. More ways to learn it. From more Cohorts and courses to offline learning. Let’s cover some highlights. Learn offline You can now download lessons in the CL-150 mobile app to…
Chinese 30×30 Challenge Posted by meaghan on Oct 13, 2023 in For Learners
You want to learn Chinese, but… ⏳ you don’t have time 🤷♀️ you think it’s too hard 🧠 you’ve learned before but now you’re too rusty All of those problems: not a problem! Join the Chinese 30×30 Challenge The goal of the challenge: make Mandarin manageable. In just 30 minutes per day for 30 days…