these are the 6 tools that helped me along the way

when I discovered audiobooks

I was like

Oh my gosh

where have I lived all this time?

because

I love or enjoy

somebody reading to you

as you commute or do your daily chorus

laundry

or just

I don't know sometimes, when you are at work

the task is sort of repetitive

it's nice

when you are listening to someone reading a story a thriller

in terms of speaking

it could be quite difficult to find opportunities

when you live in a country that doesn't speak the language you practice

so HelloTalk is a genius app that allows you to pair with a partner or a chat buddy

that speaks the language you want to practice

in return, you teach them your native language

you can also use it as a Facebook for status update, pictures

there is also a built-in translation feature which benefits the lazy people

because you can directly translate anything you want to say in the app

if you mainly want to practice your reading and writing

here are a few tools that I use on a daily basis and I mean daily basis

Curiosity app is for people who are curious or just have a lot of time to read random knowledge

it's really cool because there's a lot of different topics

Flipboard

if you are more entwined with the world these days

which you can get news

it serves like a newspaper app

BBC, CNN

you can customize what you want to see instead of letting them tell you what to read

if you haven't seen the Grammarly ad on Youtube

I tried it and I completely fell in love with it

it's basically a private, personal tutor

that corrects your English writing

so you have the extension installed on your Chrome

it helps you with your grammar, writing, conjunctions

your anything

it also teaches you it doesn't only correct what you write

it also gives you the reason why you should change your content

last but not least

I think everybody can guess this it's Netflix

it's basically a movie platform which you pay $10 or $11 to subscribe

to watch movies

I'm sure there are tons of movie platforms out there you can utilize

to immerse yourself into the culture

because, with that, that's how you learn a language faster and with ease

people think communication is the sole reason why you would learn a new language

but for me, the most valuable takeaway is that the resources are available and accessible to me

in both languages

so I can go on Google and search in both English and Mandarin Chinese

and I get information and resources in both the languages

to me, this is something really valuable

I don't know what's your reason for learning a new language?

I will post all the links and resources down below check them out