{"id":13110,"date":"2017-04-03T07:20:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/?p=13110"},"modified":"2024-10-26T12:53:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T16:53:24","slug":"bilinguaapp2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/bilinguaapp2017\/","title":{"rendered":"App of the Month for Language Learners: Bilingua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nWelcome to a new series where we feature our\u00a0favorite free web tools and apps for language learners and teachers. This month we are highlighting our first app,\u00a0Bilingua. I got to speak with the developers of\u00a0Bilingua\u00a0in 2016 and I have been excited about the possibilities. Bilingua is a language exchange app that connects learners with native speakers and has many exciting features to support language learners. Below are a list of\u00a0the current features that\u00a0support language learners, but the developers assure me more are planned. Ask your language learners to try\u00a0Bilingua\u00a0for further practice outside your classroom and see how much they improve.\u00a0Bilingua can also be the platform\u00a0for you to work one-to-one with language learners.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced user matching connects users with other who share their interests or personality<\/li>\n<li>Users can chat using text, and soon video or audio call<\/li>\n<li>Corrections can be made directly in the chat so learners can teach each other<\/li>\n<li>Users can translate words and sentences and listen to pronunciation examples<\/li>\n<li>Vocabulary lists allow users to save words and Shiro reminds them to revise newly learned words<\/li>\n<li>Shiro the bot provides guidance on what topics to talk about (coming soon)<\/li>\n<li>Users can earn points, levels and badges as they practice languages to maintain their motivation (coming soon)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new series where we feature our\u00a0favorite free web tools and apps for language learners and teachers. This month we are highlighting our first app,\u00a0Bilingua. I got to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2115],"tags":[2130,1968,2118,811,2119,1962,2116,98],"class_list":["post-13110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tool-of-the-month","tag-bilingua","tag-edtech","tag-edtech-for-esl","tag-listening","tag-mobile-apps-for-language-learners","tag-mobile-language-learning","tag-recommended-tools-for-language-learners","tag-speaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19179,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions\/19179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}