Well, they are kinda beta testing it. Right now, you can't sign up until they get a couple of bugs worked out (a couple of pop-up explanations don't work, a couple of explanations need to be put into English, stuff like that).
They have a variety of things in one lesson. Most start out with a picture. It will say "Um casa" and a voice will pronounce it. You'll see a picture of a cat, a house, and a coat (3 pictures). You pick the picture. If you pick the wrong one, the correct one lights up. After a few of those, they have a fill-in-the blank. There are 2 kinds. If they are introducing a word (I'll stick with "casa'") the picture of the house will be there and it will say "Um casa" but the "casa" is in gray. When you start typing over it, it goes away. That's when they introduce the word. There's a group that will show the house and it will only say, "Um _____." You have to type "casa" all on your own. Also, they have a few "drag-and-drop." The picture of the house will be there. In English, the question will by typed, "It is a house." Below you will see: casa É um. Well, they capitalized the first word of the sentence, so you drag it in order to "É um casa." Then there's a group with no picture (they are upping the ante!). It is typed "É um casa." The voice says it (or you click on the speaker icon - always click it.....5 times if needed!!). 4 sentences are below: It is a house, It is a coat, It is a cat, It is a car." You pick one. Then they have the reverse too where the question says "It is a house" and you have to pick from "É um casa," "É um casaco," "É um gato," etc. There is a speaker icon by each. Also, there's the aural part. That's the spoken only. It's really tough, at least for me. It says, "Listen and type in Portuguese." The voice says "É um casa." No pictures, no prompts, no nothing. There are a variety of male and female voices. But sometimes, I swear they are saying, "Éumcasa," just like how the priests sometimes write our records! I found out early that I should have been clicking that speaker button EVERY time, even if I knew the word "casa." I need to get used to the pronunciation. So sometimes I click it 5 times. I clearly have a problem understanding the verb "to want" (querer). I can read it, I can read it after it has been conjugated and I can conjugate it by myself. But when it's the voice only questions, I mess up. I'm also NOT able to distinguish when a word ends in a vowel and the next word starts with a vowel. They just get mushed together. As annoying as it was, I'm slowly getting better at them (and I think the guys slowed the pronunciation down). They don't always go in the order above. And you can retake a unit and get a few different questions. And because the computer generates them, it can put the aural part way too early in the unit. I was in the color unit, the aural part came up and said "O pôr-do-sol é laranja." I heard the "é laranja" but I didn't know what I was hearing for the first part. Later, the computer gave me the pictures and that's when I saw the sunset and realized what I heard. Overall, it's pretty fun. The 2 guys are pretty helpful, but I'm thinking they won't be answering as many of my questions when they roll it out officially (I give them some teacher feedback...such as "If I'm in the possessive unit, why did this question says "A nossa ____" and I typed in "casa" instead of "A ____ casa" and have me type in "nossa," the possessive. And why isn't it ______ casa, forcing me to type "A nossa" since there's that article or whatever in front of "nossa." I asked them if they roll their eyes when they see me in their inbox! LOL Cheri Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Tish M <tish.me...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cheri, > > How is your practice Portuguese going? I'm sure everyone is wondering. > > Tish > > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I signed up for "Practice Portuguese's" announcements. They have opened >> their Learning Studio, with some little activities, such as, click on the >> picture, put the words in order, listen and type in Portuguese. Anyways, >> it's a subscription service, for $12 a month (40 cents a day). If you sign >> up before Tuesday, Lisbon time, it's $9 a month (30 cents a day). And you >> can cancel at any time. Might be a good activity for the winter months! >> >> If the links below do not work, try this: https://www.practiceportuguese >> .com/learning-studio/ >> >> I haven't explored the whole thing yet, but I have emailed one of the >> guys asking him if he would consider a unit on family relationships (mom, >> dad, brother, aunt, godfather,etc), another on the months of the year, and >> another on numbers. Oh, and the pronunciation of common names. I don't ask >> for much, do I? LOL >> >> Here was the email to me. 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