Palabea connects people who share the same interests in learning languages and in discovering different cultures. People from all over the world can communicate via audio chat, video chat and text messages to practice foreign languages, to support others and of course to develop friendships around the world. This website enables students to create a profile and select which languages they speak and which languages they would like to learn. Users can also upload documents, pictures,and videos. Not only are participants pupils but they are teachers as well by teaching each other their native tongue. Palabea also offers learning and training video lessons and podcasts, virtual classrooms, and online teachers. This website would apply mostly to high schoolers and adult students. Also with this website, if participants wanted to further learn their language of choice after high school, Palabea provides a list of some the best language schools in the world.
Suggested by Amanda Maynard
3 comments:
This is a site that has far reaching options! I could see using this as an adult to brush up on my Deutsche. I lived in Germany for three years during high school and gained pretty adequate conversation levels of the language. Been a while, lost a lot. It would be nice to pick it back up. My own three children have expressed great interest in language. My 11 year old daughter picked up quite a bit of Hongul while living in South Korea for two years. She has since regressed, but still tries to use it some. I know she would love to learn more. Both of my sons are interested in Spanish. We could make this a family affair!
Palabea is an excellent place to not only learn a foreign language, but also get your English skills perfected. This would be the main reason for my students to use Palabea. They could also learn a host of other languages, cultures, and ideas. This sharing is what learning is all about!
As a person who has a very long list of languages she'd like to learn, I find this site very exciting. My two children love learning new words in different languages, so we could use this at home for the whole family.
This would also be an excellent site to use in high school or college foreign language classrooms. Languages are learned better through interaction rather than reading books and doing worksheets. We can take language learning to a whole new level!
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