I was reading the book How I Learn Languages by Dr. Kató Lomb, a great Hungarian polyglot who knew 16 languages, where she offered a very quick way to test your knowledge of the language by testing your vocabulary. I had some hours yesterday so I adapted her way and made it into an online test where you can test your knowledge of French, German, Spanish or Lithuanian in a minute or two. The test gives you an answer in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

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To sustain growth of I Kinda Like Languages, there needs to be a constant influx of content (especially language courses) into the site. My original idea was that people would help me out with that but while that does happen to some extent, that extent of that is not anywhere near what would be sufficient for it to take off on itself. That’s why I have to guarantee that there will be new content so that the site can grow …

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There has been a bunch of changes to IKindaLikeLanguages. Here’s what I have done:

Main page redesign and restructrurization:

centered the text layer
made the top menu narrower
added underlining for current pages in the menu
removed the feedback link from the menu
added an about page
replaced the main page with the courses list
added a new logo
added a favicon
improved the readability

Minor changes in the courses page:

rewritten the broad descriptions
added a course count to every broad description

Labs design and functioning:

made the menu narrower and less crowded
improved the …

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We have some updates on I Kinda Like Languages. What have I done? Here’s the list.
First and foremost, I now have a clear mission for the site: I want I Kinda Like Languages to be the place where you can find a course to learn the basics of any language. That’s where we’ll be heading and I’m excited as hell about it.
Second, I have gotten rid of side projects like wordea or quizzes on the site. While wordea seemed …

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Here in this blog I’m going to talk about things related with “I Kinda Like Languages” (duh!) and  hopefully I will also throw in a quite a bit of other thoughts and ideas.  To make sure you understand what I am talking about, here’s a short summary of what this all means.
I like languages and I want to know many of them. Oftentimes I’d begin learning new languages while still not being perfect in the ones I had previously been …

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