Catching up to Mandarin
English language learning is everywhere these days: books, classrooms, TV, magazines, Starbucks… and of course, online. To all those out there learning English, you are not alone, and there’s strength in numbers. Tell us what you want, when you want it, and if you want fries with it (well, we can’t do the fries… at least not yet, let me ask the tech people).
English is a relatively young language, but is coming along fast. Though Mandarin is still the most spoken language in the world, English is number 2 or 3, depending on the stats used. But the difference in the number of native speakers and those who’s mastered English as a second language is interesting to note. See here for more details.
If you’ve been learning English for many years and are still frustrated that you can’t speak as well as you want, have no fear - many of us at Englishpod share this experience too (learning everything from German to Arabic). We’ve spent many years studying with books, memorizing vocabulary, and having teachers embarrass us with questions that we can’t answer. However, in the past ten years new approaches to language learning have been developed, and the past 2 or 3 years has seen an explosion in technologies able to help people to take advantage of these new methods.
Take advantage of these new tools! Englishpod is just getting started, as is the whole industry of podcasting. However, we’re adding tools that we think will add to your learning experience and improve the results, and as more people use these new methods and technologies, the better we’ll understand how to help those users.
Good luck, and get learning,
Kris Fedorak/Team Englishpod
