3 original ideas for practicing a foreign language

Last updated on 16 November 2018

Thanks to new technologies, language learning has changed significantly in recent years. The web and multimedia are great tools for practicing a foreign language. Every day new tools complete an already long list. In this mass of online solutions I have been looking for three. Three services that offer original ideas for practicing a foreign language.

Practice a foreign language by reading literary works

This is what the Paralletext service, which I have already mentioned on ToolsTice, offers you. A tool that juggles major literary texts in the public domain to enable you toenrich your vocabulary in a foreign language.

Paralleltext display on screen a book by a great writer in the language you are learning and at the same time its version or translation into French. Ideal for a dive into the language through large texts.

Link: Paralleltext

Learn and practice a foreign language by watching TV series

There are several services that make it possible toLearn a foreign language by watching movies or series. Forget about the old VHS tapes. The web and the explosion of video-on-demand have seen the emergence of tools that make it possible to work from multilingual subtitling of videos. This is the case, for example, of Fllex, which has just made Netflix a good tool for practising a foreign language. Fleex adds smart subtitles to movies. You will be able to navigate between the dialogues and make them pronounce more slowly. You can also create custom vocabulary lists.

Link: Fleex

Enrich your vocabulary in a language through the lyrics of the songs

This is another rather pleasant way to practice a foreign language. Among the many services that make this possible is LyricsGap, which I have already mentioned here. Thousands of songs to learn a language. By clicking on a song title, you have access to its sheet and the video clip. Bonuses are displayed next to the video of the song. A simple karaoke with the full text of the song and a game that offers you a text with holes from the lyrics of the song.

Link: LyricsGap