I got an email yesterday from someone who is “developing a micro-learning program dedicated to language learning”. This was the first time I’d heard the term micro-learning so I wasn’t entirely sure what it meant.
According to Wikipedia, microlearning “deals with relatively small learning units and short-term learning activities”. This sounds like the technique some people recommend of using whatever spare moments you have to learn a bit more of a language, or whatever you’re studying.
Do you engage in microlearning?
Do you find it a good way to learn?
I’ve tried this, and find it can be quite effective, but prefer to learn in a focused way with as few distractions as possible for a longer time – about 30 minutes seems work best for me.
I did try it for a while, but the progress was so painfully slow that it was discouraging. Definitely did not work for me.
I actually like Duolingo. Although you can’t use it as the *only* resource for learning a language.
Duolingo, Babbel, Busuu, FluentU are good platforms. The thing they miss most is human interaction – live one in particular (speaking is by far the field where they are less useful), but I suppose this has nothing to do with the “micro-learning” idea, and is all related to their web-based implementation.