I'm very bad with languages. I speak three (Croatian, Italian, English) and a half (Slovenian). When I say I'm bad at languages I mean that I'm bad at consciously learning languages. I learned Croatian (my native language), Italian and Slovenian by just being part of a culture where those languages are spoken.
But English... That one was hard. It took me 20years (and I'm still far from perfect).
I decided to try to learn a completely new language... Found some grammar books, started adding words and translations in ankidroid. Then, I turned on the radio, found a random station in my target language and... What I heard was noise. Not that this language sounds like noise, but it was informational noise. Just sounds not carrying any information. Not only I was unable to understand a single word, but I wasn't even able to recognise where words and sentences start and end.
When I tried to listen to speakers in (acted) recordings in various courses -- everything sounded a lot clearer and easier.
That's how I decided to create a web application which I'll use in parallel to my language learning.
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