Swedish startup wants to be a Nike+ for language learning

Keewords is a new, smart online service ⎯ a faster and more fun way to develop your language skills.
Learning a language requires continuity, motivation and perseverance. "It is in many ways similar to starting jogging or going to the gym," says Sten Ernerot ( ), CEO, Keewords.

Today, there are no good tools to help you set and track your goals when learning a language. "We want to change all that", says Sten Ernerot.

One of the things that have made Nike+, Runkeeper and other services so successful is the ability to challenge yourself and others in various competitions that will help you keep going. These features are included with the Keewords service from the start.

Fastest way to learn a language

As well as keeping you motivated, the Keewords service is geared toward making sure you are learning the most important aspects of a language. Modern linguistic research shows that by learning words and vocabulary rather than grammar, you get much faster results.

10 words a day

If you learn the 1500 most common words in a language you understand about 75% of a normal text. Ten words a day and after only six months you’ll be able to understand the gist of most newspaper articles.

90% of learning a language is about developing a vocabulary

The best way to learn a language is to memorize and repeat the words and their...

Keewords

Keewords is built around the most useful words that are used the most in a language.

Regardless of whether you are a beginner or already speak a language.

90% of learning a language is building a vocabulary.

By focusing on...

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5/24/2012 9:42 AM EST
Here is a tutorial how to set up a language package and get started in just a few clicks. I will take Italian as an example but this works with other languages too. Login and go to: http://www.keewords.com/en/languages/ and you … Continue reading
5/13/2012 3:35 AM EST
At first sight 9.000 keywords may seem like a huge burden of studies. That’s however what it takes to become fluent in a language. Adjusted to study level the actual burden is no more than 1.500 words. The EU and … Continue reading
5/7/2012 8:37 AM EST
The keywords consist of the most used and most useful words. These words are the ones you simply can’t learn without knowing. They are so highly valued that it’s worth the time and effort it takes to learn them. To … Continue reading
4/27/2012 9:03 AM EST
Few updates we want to share with you: Languages: As you all know know we continue to record and add new languages. Languages that you can now hear is: Chinese, Russian and Polish. English, Italian and Greek is almost done. … Continue reading
4/20/2012 7:55 AM EST
All the words in a language is not equal. There is a relatively small number of words that used a lot and a relatively large number of words used very little. From the eighties, with the computer and scanner support, … Continue reading
4/13/2012 10:38 AM EST
To effectively build vocabulary involves learning a set of words that allows you to communicate as much as possible as quickly as possible. However, studies show that a problem with reading the new words is that students will skip words … Continue reading
3/28/2012 1:00 PM EST
We all agree that one can learn words by reading but what the research shows is how few words you actually learn. In fact, reading is slow, unpredictable and inefficient. The explanation is summarized by the so-called beginner’s paradox: how … Continue reading
3/27/2012 2:01 PM EST
As you may have seen on our Facebook-Page yesterday, our friends from Jersey paid us a visit. We had an all-day workshop where we worked on lot of features that you have been asking about. We are glad we can … Continue reading
3/23/2012 10:17 AM EST
We finished our previous post saying that vocabulary learning is something that is unfortunately often forgotten and overlooked. In schools for language teachers and in research, vocabulary learning is something that is not talked about – often not at all. … Continue reading
3/16/2012 8:30 AM EST
To learn a new foreign language is for many of us a big personal goal. Despite the efforts we have been unable to succeed in our learning. How is it that most of people who have studied for example Spanish … Continue reading

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