{"id":8330,"date":"2020-10-19T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2025-02-25T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:06:22","slug":"practice-the-language-skills-you-need-most-with-transparent-language-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2020\/10\/19\/practice-the-language-skills-you-need-most-with-transparent-language-online\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Practice&#8221; the language skills you need most with Transparent Language Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to improve a specific skill, you shouldn&#8217;t have to sit through an entire language course to practice the parts you need most. Make custom listening, speaking, reading, or writing lessons in seconds with the Practice activities in Transparent Language Online.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as easy as this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Pick a skill.<\/strong> There are 30+\u00a0 activities, each focusing on a different skill: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Pick the skill you want to improve, then select the activity you want to complete.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pick the content you want to learn with. <\/strong>Choose vocabulary from <em>any<\/em> lesson in Transparent Language Online, including your own <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2020\/10\/06\/language-learning-10-minutes-per-day\/\">Learned Vocab<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Start practicing<\/strong> <em>that<\/em> skill with the vocabulary from <em>that<\/em> lesson(s)!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9428\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/Practice-Update-GIF-3.gif\" alt=\"Practice 4 language skills in Transparent Language Online\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Practice activities are particularly helpful if you have a certain skill that you need to strengthen. No need to jump around a lesson searching for the speaking activities\u2014you can make your own custom speaking-only lessons with a few clicks.<\/p>\n<p>As with all learning activity, time spent in Practice is tracked, reported, and counts towards your learning goals!<\/p>\n<p><em>Want an added challenge?<\/em> Regular Practice activities will give you feedback in real time, toggle on the &#8220;Quiz mode&#8221; in the top right of the activity selector. Just like a quiz in class, you complete the activity with no interruptions and receive a score at the end. This is a good way to benchmark your progress over time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ready to start improve your listening, speaking, reading, or writing skills? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparent.com\/login\/\">Log in now,<\/a> sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/education.transparent.com\/mylearning\/game\/ng\/\">14-day free trial<\/a> of Transparent Language Online, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparent.com\/libraries\/find-transparent-language-online.html\">get it free<\/a> at a library near you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/Practice-Update-GIF-3-350x197.gif\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Practice 4 language skills in Transparent Language Online\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/Practice-Update-GIF-3-350x197.gif 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/Practice-Update-GIF-3-768x432.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>If you want to improve a specific skill, you shouldn&#8217;t have to sit through an entire language course to practice the parts you need most. Make custom listening, speaking, reading, or writing lessons in seconds with the Practice activities in Transparent Language Online. It\u2019s as easy as this: Pick a skill. There are 30+\u00a0 activities&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2020\/10\/19\/practice-the-language-skills-you-need-most-with-transparent-language-online\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[520016,543990,543685],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8330","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-learners","category-for-libraries","category-learning-usage-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9429,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions\/9429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}