Rosetta Stone helps you learn patterns instead of memorizing words and rules. The software wants you to not only learn a new language, but to think in it. Play games, speak with other learners in live chat and use the new English skills you just learned to improve even more! Rocket Languages focuses on teaching you conversational English with lots of interactive exercises. Each lesson comes with flashcards. The software even has a special speech recognition program for more than 3, English phrases.
That means it can listen to your speech and help you with pronunciation of those phrases. You can use the Rocket Languages English learning software on your computer or on your mobile device with the app iOS or Android. FluentU takes authentic videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons.
You can try FluentU for free for 2 weeks. Click here to check out the website or download the iOS app or Android app. Transparent Language is a professional language learning software used by kids to federal agents to learn different languages.
They pride themselves on being able to teach a language well and teach it quickly. One of the best things about Transparent Language is that you can choose how fast you learn. The program will suggest a starting point based on your level, but you can choose how quickly or slowly you learn. There are many different things you can do with this software, from taking long courses to completing quicker challenging activities.
Transparent Language is one of the most complete programs for people learning on their own. The method uses minute audio lessons that focus on participation and natural learning learn the way kids learn.
This method was created by a doctor over 50 years ago! Beyond its virtual classroom, ClickMeeting provides a number of other useful tools that could help you manage your online teaching business. It even has ecommerce options including a payment gateway, so you can collect payment from students directly on the virtual classroom! Signup and usability is great and simple.
The user interface is clean and has great user-friendly features. You can even add custom calls to action to generate sales and encourage students to book more lessons. Very simple, aesthetically pleasing, and surprisingly powerful with features.
No breakout rooms however, which can be a deterrent to higher leveled students. Overall Rating : 4. GoToTraining is a spin-off of GoToMeeting, a software which has long been a favorite for virtual business meetings.
A step above Webex for business conference functionality, GoToTraining takes it to another level and gives teachers a powerful set of tools to manage a classroom remotely. If you are a serious teacher focusing on business English and need a robust and powerful virtual classroom that your students will likely be familiar with, GoToTraining might be the best option. The system has a huge amount of options and customizations which makes this an excellent solution one for more advanced users and IT savvy teachers.
The end user experience is good, but can be a little overwhelming for less tech savvy students. Not recommended for use with young learners, but an excellent solution for teaching business professionals.
GoToTraining has a fantastic virtual classroom with a robust set of features, however it is designed for corporate training sessions and not language learning.
It is also designed with the needs of business professionals in mind, so it may be quite complicated for a younger or less technically inept students. Breakout rooms are only available in expensive enterprise plans. Vedamo is an incredibly powerful piece of educational software that combines all the features of both a LMS and virtual classroom though you can choose to use on or the other if you wish. Its interface is incredibly aesthetically pleasing for admins, teachers, and learners alike.
The virtual classroom is specifically designed for language learning and has a lot of tools that come in extremely handy for young learners. If you are a school with mostly very young and young learners, this is a fantastic system!
Whether you are using their standalone virtual classroom or LMS, the user experience with Vedamo is superb. Fresh, modern, and sleek design that can be easily used students of all ages with no technical background at all. It has everything a virtual classroom could ask for, plus specific tools for language learning. Sharable templates meaning you can reuse custom designed lessons and download teacher-created lessons from their online community.
A very similar program to Vedamo both aesthetically and technically, LearnCube is a simple yet powerful platform built for language teaching. Although it lacks breakout rooms and the maximum class size is 8, if these are not a dealbreaker for your classes, LearnCube may be the best option as its other features are superb. Their system is very simple to use and aesthetically pleasing. Signup and registration is very easy as well, and it is entirely browser based so no software downloading is required.
Lots of customization options. Add your avatar, a custom background image, and customize the colour scheme. Very aesthetically pleasing virtual classroom. However, current limitations allow only up to 8 students per session and no breakout rooms.
Though these features are currently in development. ManyCam is an extremely unique, flexible, and highly powerful piece of software. This is a very easy way to turn a simple free program like ZOOM or Skype into something amazingly fun and entertaining, especially for young learners and teenagers.
For a true online freelancer, this should be a must have in your arsenal. This is a well thought out and polished product. However, the amount it can do is absolutely incredible. Virtually unlimited. With annotation, overlay, green screen, video-in-video, plus loads more capabilities, there are truly an unlimited number of options available to customize your virtual classroom if you use ManyCam. Every educational provider has unique needs to fit their students and class types.
Furthermore, every school has a different motivation for launching online classes. For simple, quick-fix solutions, Zoom in combination with ManyCam seems at first glance like the best option. However, when compared to similarly priced solutions like Vedamo and LearnCube that are built for language education, Zoom gets squashed in the competition. When it comes to teaching kids, Vedamo and LearnCube both squash Zoom in the competition.
What features do you need to enhance your online teaching? Best for: Anyone! There is a huge selection of videos for any kind of English at any skill level. Requirements: No need to download or install anything here—all you need is access to the FluentU website. From there, you can use materials online or download materials to go. However, if desired, you and your students can download the FluentU iPhone app or Android app.
FluentU takes authentic videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons. You can try FluentU for free for 2 weeks. Click here to check out the website or download the iOS app or Android app. To take FluentU one step further, you can add a mic and recorder into the mix for a good dose of speaking practice.
Just choose a clip and have students try to match or shadow-read the sentences with the video. You can get a simple and free sound recorder here. Best for: Adult learners; career-centric and professional English learning.
Despite the mild Engrish on the website, this is one of the better-known modern language labs out there. The K-Van Solutions language lab is a straightforward lab that sticks pretty close to the format and style of the original language lab systems but ditches the cassettes, of course. Another true blue language lab, ODLL focuses on collaborative learning.
The lab features ways to pair off students, communicate to some or all the students at once and even host a regular classroom through the lab setting. Best for: Adult English learners in any size group; professional English learners; individual and supplemental learning. Many language labs are meant to be used in K — 12 classrooms though of course they can easily be repurposed for other ages.
Words Worth, on the other hand, is specifically designed with adult English learners in mind.
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