French for Travel is now available in Vocabilis
The first official Vocabilis course is now live — French for Travel. 17 chapters, 112 lessons, 1,448 learning cards built around real travel situations.
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French for Travel: At the Pharmacy
In this mini-lesson, you’ll learn useful French phrases for a pharmacy situation: how to ask about opening hours, explain a simple symptom, ask for medicine, inquire about a prescription, and clarify how to take the medication.
Mini-Lesson: Getting by at a Pharmacy in a Foreign Language
A pharmacy is one of the most useful scenarios for travel. In this mini-lesson, we’ll cover phrases to ask about pharmacy hours, describe simple symptoms, request medication, and clarify how to take it.
Vocabilis Becomes a Multilingual Language Learning Platform
We are starting to publish Vocabilis materials in multiple languages. This is an important step to make ready courses, lessons, and explanations accessible to people with different native languages.
Turning Everyday Situations into Language Lessons
A good language lesson doesn’t always start with a grammar rule or a list of words. It can begin with a simple life situation: walking into a pharmacy, buying a ticket, checking into a hotel, or ordering food at a café. Such situations can provide useful phrases, vocabulary, speech patterns, and flashcards for review.
Why Learning a Language Through Situations is Better Than Memorizing Word Lists
Individual words are useful, but in real life, we don’t speak in lists of words. We ask for directions, order food, buy tickets, explain problems, and ask for help. That’s why it’s better to learn a language through situations, phrases, and speech patterns, rather than just isolated words.
How to Effectively Learn Foreign Words with Flashcards
Learning a foreign language is a marathon, not a sprint. The key to success is consistency and the right methodology. One of the most effective… Read More »How to Effectively Learn Foreign Words with Flashcards
Vocabilis Has Grown: What’s New in the Platform
Vocabilis has changed a lot recently. For a long time, Vocabilis was mostly a vocabulary trainer: you could create flashcards, study them, and review them… Read More »Vocabilis Has Grown: What’s New in the Platform
Create Lessons from Any Text in Vocabilis
One of the hardest parts of building your own language-learning system is not reviewing words. It is preparing the material. You may already have a… Read More »Create Lessons from Any Text in Vocabilis
Improved Example Search: Base Form Matching for Italian and French
Starting today, when searching for examples of complete sentences in French and Italian, examples are selected based on the dictionary form of the words in… Read More »Improved Example Search: Base Form Matching for Italian and French