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1. 598 votes

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   Add 301 and 302 courses

   Now, livemocha has a large amount of languages: English, Spanish, French, etc...Why not add 301 and 302 courses. I am currently studying Spanish and now I've finished Spanish 202. I'm dying for Spanish 301 and 302!!!

   by anonymous | 7 comments

   Status: under review
2. 537 votes

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   Add Forum/Message Board

   by livemocha | 29 comments
3. 445 votes

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   have more exercises available at end of courses

   Have writing and speaking exercises available for people who have finished all the available courses in a language -- ones that aren't just doing over again the exercises in the courses. Something to keep working on beyond the end of 202.

   by twistedchick | 10 comments

   Status: under review
4. 395 votes

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   Don't stick to one-size-fits-all lessons

   I've completed the Spanish 101 course (although it's admittedly way below my level -- I was trying out the system and I still learned some new words or expressions now and then) and played a bit with other courses as well. In so doing, I found it obvious that you created a course for learning Eng... more

   I've completed the Spanish 101 course (although it's admittedly way below my level -- I was trying out the system and I still learned some new words or expressions now and then) and played a bit with other courses as well. In so doing, I found it obvious that you created a course for learning English, then simply swapped in different words (and sometimes grammar structures) to make lessons for other languages. If this is not actually what happened, it still certainly looks that way.

   Now, I understand why you've done this, of course: It's a heck of a lot faster and easier to reuse pictures and sentence patterns for every language than to do every course from scratch. And it's true: a lot of the work you've done is just fine and can be adapted virtually as-is. But you can't do that for the entire course, because no two languages work exactly alike, and a lot of the differences come up from the very beginning.

   For example, the lessons for Romance languages invariably use familiar forms for "you", which I don't think is a good idea: the student should be introduced to the difference between familiar and formal forms from the beginning and be taught to err on the side of being too formal. The lessons also tend to use subject pronouns much more than necessary, which can form bad habits: it's a very common mistake to overuse subject pronouns, and students should be taught to use them only when actually necessary.

   There are other problems, too. For instance, Spanish 101 Unit 3 lesson 5 has the phrase "508 niñas", and somebody going by only the lesson would probably guess "Cincocientos ocho niñas", but in fact it must be "Quientas ocho niñas": the word for 500 is irregular and the numbers 100-900 must change for gender. But this wasn't taken into account, because the course wasn't designed with the Spanish language in mind.

   by furrykef | 16 comments

   Status: under review
5. 370 votes

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   learn about different cultures

   besides learning the language we are practicing it would be interesting if we know about the culture of the the people who speaks the language we are interested in. or some other information about countries like custumes, news, flags, maps etc.

   by anonymous | 17 comments
6. 331 votes

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   a Wikipedia-like solution for users to create lessons

   The lessons by themselves are not sufficient if one wants to learn a language using only Livemocha.
   We need to have an addition to each lesson, that would allow users to create a lesson summing up the content of the course. For instance:
   -vocabulary
   -tenses
   -grammar
   etc.

   As I am learning Hindi, ... more

   The lessons by themselves are not sufficient if one wants to learn a language using only Livemocha.
   We need to have an addition to each lesson, that would allow users to create a lesson summing up the content of the course. For instance:
   -vocabulary
   -tenses
   -grammar
   etc.

   As I am learning Hindi, I can tell that learning the devanagari alphabet is crucial. Yet nowhere on Livemocha can we find a tutorial.

   Users could modify the contents freely or under certain restraints (knowledge of the language, user's points, elections through votes by other members...)

   I think that would be a HUGE addition to LiveMocha.

   Long life!!

   by qdbout | 16 comments
7. 259 votes

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   Additional spoken and written skill builder exercices

   For audio recordings (or written exercices), you're supposed to read out loud (write) a text related to the lesson, but it would be a major improvement if you were able to record (write) any text you wanted to. You could easily add these exercices as Skill Builder Exercises
   
   Why don't you star... more

   For audio recordings (or written exercices), you're supposed to read out loud (write) a text related to the lesson, but it would be a major improvement if you were able to record (write) any text you wanted to. You could easily add these exercices as Skill Builder Exercises
   
   Why don't you start implementing this feature in Mandarin Chinese?

   by chinopinyin | 0 comments
8. 242 votes

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   Livemocha iPhone interface

   Please create an iPhone optimized interface to livemocha. Doesn't matter if it is a webapp or a native iphone application, but it would be very cool if I could use livemocha from my iphone and learn new languages while I am on my way.

   by wouterstomp | 10 comments
9. 234 votes

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   Add language chatrooms

   I suggest adding language chatrooms so that language learners can meet in public to have live discussions about the languages that they are learning (and to practice with native speakers live!). This would be an opportunity for members of the community to really get to know each other on a more p... more

   I suggest adding language chatrooms so that language learners can meet in public to have live discussions about the languages that they are learning (and to practice with native speakers live!). This would be an opportunity for members of the community to really get to know each other on a more personal level and it would be a lot friendlier with a "virtual café" sort of atmosphere:) You could specify chat rooms by language: French, German, Chinese etc.

   by Prisma | 3 comments

   Status: under review
10. 219 votes

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    add a pause function for audio submissions

    Some are rather long. It would make
    writing and listening at the same time possible and it would be much easier to give concrete examples. Also it's not that difficult to implement.

    by anonymous | 12 comments
11. 203 votes

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    Add der/die/das to all German nouns

    When I learned German the first time it was imperative to know the gender of German nouns to form the correct aritcles, prepositions, etc. So, I suggest, whenever a noun is listed by itself that it also be listed with der, die, or das. Learning the gender of the noun up front is crucial; it is ... more

    When I learned German the first time it was imperative to know the gender of German nouns to form the correct aritcles, prepositions, etc. So, I suggest, whenever a noun is listed by itself that it also be listed with der, die, or das. Learning the gender of the noun up front is crucial; it is MUCH harder to learn it later. In fact, to assist in remembering the gender, it might be helpful to have an entire lesson whose nouns had the same gender (for beginner and intermediate), so the gender could be learned and recalled by association.

    by Scotty | 8 comments

    Status: under review
12. 203 votes

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    Add ability to download flashcards

    So that flashcards can be studied when a user does not have the ability to be online, add the capability for users to be able to download their flashcards to their computer so that they can opened and studied from the downloaded file.

    by anonymous | 8 comments

    Status: under review
13. 163 votes

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    Add Chinese Character recognition to Chinese lessons

    We need some Chinese Character recognition before the conversation exercises which are in Chinese Characters in the Chinese lessons. Manual translation to pinyin is a very slow method.

    by anonymous | 10 comments

    Status: started
14. 160 votes

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    Please add FILIPINO Language.

    FILIPINO is spoken in the PHILIPPINES by majority of the filipinos. I hope you add this wonderful language. This Language is very unique because of its flexibility to express ideas. In Filipino there are many ways to express something. Everyone will enjoy this Language. And I can be of help if an... more

    FILIPINO is spoken in the PHILIPPINES by majority of the filipinos. I hope you add this wonderful language. This Language is very unique because of its flexibility to express ideas. In Filipino there are many ways to express something. Everyone will enjoy this Language. And I can be of help if anyone wants to study this Language. Please Vote for FILIPINO.

    by anonymous | 4 comments

    Status: started

    We are improving our Member Translations feature and planning on releasing it for the community to translate, rate and pronounce.

    If you would like to volunteer send an e-mail to mt@livemocha.com and mention which language you want to help with.

    Olga

    livemocha Admin
15. 145 votes

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    Redo Brazilian Portuguese Male Speaker's Voice

    There have been several complaints about the male speaker for Brazilian Portuguese not being a native speaker and often mispronouncing certain words.

    The fidelity of your application is important to the users. This is one of the main features of your application, so please get a native Brazilian... more

    There have been several complaints about the male speaker for Brazilian Portuguese not being a native speaker and often mispronouncing certain words.

    The fidelity of your application is important to the users. This is one of the main features of your application, so please get a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker to redo the audio recordings so that the students aren't being miseducated!

    by cromagnon | 3 comments
16. 132 votes

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    search by "members online looking to practice"

    together with the other search features, this would facilitate finding a compatable chat partner without having to look through many profiles with users offline, busy, or unavailable.

    by anonymous | 4 comments

    Status: planned
17. 125 votes

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    Vocabulary building game.

    This would be similar to the google image tagging game where two anonymous people are teamed up from a queue to identify images. Except for livemocha, the images would already be identified and the people would be competing to see who could give the correct name for the object in the language the... more

    This would be similar to the google image tagging game where two anonymous people are teamed up from a queue to identify images. Except for livemocha, the images would already be identified and the people would be competing to see who could give the correct name for the object in the language they are learning first.

    Regardless of who gets the point, they'll both see the correct answer afterwards before the display of the next object.

    You could pair people up who have similar mocha ratings within the language they're learning. This would be a fun way to do community based vocabulary building outside of things like basic flash cards and would promote quicker memory retrieval of vocab for objects.

    You could use a voting system to get all the images you needed added and identified if you wanted it to be a community effort. This would help prevent fraud or abuse.

    For a similar example see: http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

    by prelegalwonder | 6 comments

    Status: under review
18. 123 votes

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    A link to return to messages from the assignments I review.

    I would like a
    >link to return to messages in the assignments I
    >review.

    by sendtobrad | 5 comments
19. 116 votes

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    Advanced (free) text writing / correction

    A feature to write texts about any topic for exercise: So far it is only possible to write about certain given topics. Once one has reached an advanced level of a language one might want to write more sophisticated texts and have them checked to train one's language skills. This could be done by ... more

    A feature to write texts about any topic for exercise: So far it is only possible to write about certain given topics. Once one has reached an advanced level of a language one might want to write more sophisticated texts and have them checked to train one's language skills. This could be done by a random text section or maybe even a user dairy blog feature.

    by anonymous | 2 comments
20. 113 votes

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    Add an alphabet with pronunciation guide for characters

    Learning a new language with a set of characters or different script is difficult if you don't know what they are. One of the first lessons should have a tab you can click that shows the letter/characters and how to pronounce them.

    by anonymous | 4 comments