YouGlish: A Great Language Learning Tool

My top recommendation for teaching yourself a foreign language practice is now YouGlish. As babies, we are exposed to people having conversations that we don’t understand on a daily basis. Over the course of a few years, we are able to understand a great deal of our native language spoken by others and we progress from there.

YouGlish covers over 20 languages and you are allowed 20 free searches per day. Enter a word into the search box and it returns a number of videos using that word in many situations. Whatever else you are using to learn a foreign language, when you come across a word that you don’t understand, aren’t sure how to pronounce or whatever, you can look it up on YouGlish and come away with a much better understanding.

The wide variety of videos range from opinions on various topics, TED talks to comedy. Some videos are quite long, but you can just go on to the next one, until you are satisfied. If you find a YouTube you particularly like, you can go to the creator’s channel and subscribe.

I found this video on the early deaths of Rock stars that I thought my son would want to see. I told him how I found it but I didn’t tell him what my search word was.

I didn’t ask him to guess what it was either, but after he watched it, he said he thought my search word was “malbouffe”. Actually, it was “drogues”.

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More resources:

Baba Dum helps your vocabulary in your chosen language with games, as well as pronunciation. They show you a word and a quartet of illustrations. You choose the right one.

Increase your vocabulary on Lexisrex.com

Forvo.com: The pronunciation dictionary

Reverso will translate a word or phrase and show you a couple of sentences. For example, here’s how they translate “pipsqueak” in French.