Mondly Languages

@abadesi, I believe AR can radically change the way we learn and MondlyAR is the first step to improving the way we learn languages. You should give MondlyAR a go. Would like to hear about your experience.

@tudori1 @abadesi But what better way to explain than show you a video I made learning French at home.

@tudori1 @abadesi Mondly being smart.

@iliescualex What does Augmented Reality add to this? It seems to me like it adds nothing meaningful at all to the learning process, just an additional step that will grow tiresome for users. Let me know if I'm missing something.

@william_falloon Hi William, great question! What we are seeing with AR is that it's able to create a better feeling of immersion that stimulates better interaction with the learning materials. Nothing compares with the illusion of seeing a 10 ft elephant, moving and trumpeting in your room. A photo or an illustrated image in an app cannot cannot convey that emotion. Or admiring a life-size grand piano with all its details and from any angle, blending perfectly in your environment, with spatial sound that changes its intensity while you move to explore this work of art. While this exploration happens, Mondly, the virtual teacher is aware of you and your environment at any moment. She knows if you’re facing her, if you’re at the right or left of the piano and she can use this information in a dialogue: “If you move to the left you’ll see the strings”. She can move closer to you, looks at you, follows you, gesticulates just like a real teacher would do to reinforce language and make the experience more memorable. She can change from a teacher to a conversational partner just like in a SF movie. Want to practice ordering food at a restaurant? No problem - Mondly will change her outfit to accommodate the situation: “Que desea señor?” She can understand what you are saying and help correct your pronunciation and can even answer some of your random questions. I hope you see how combining the spatial capabilities of AR with the interactivity of chatbots and speech recognition can create a more personal and immersive learning experience, which is recognised by all studies to be the ideal ingredients for fast and effective learning.

@katriketoja, indeed it does. MondlyAR works on 100 million Android devices that are ARCore enabled. Any of these phones will do: Pixel 1, 2, Samsung Galaxy S7, S8, Note 8, LG’s V30, ASUS Zenfone AR and OnePlus 5. Here's the Android download link: https://play.google.com/store/ap...

@katriketoja @sebastian_maraloiu thank you for link

My pleasure, @valongulden!

@rrhoover Hello Ryan, thanks for the thoughtful questions. VR and AR are less accessible than simple mobile apps in the same way that planes are less accessible than cars. While it requires newer hardware, AR is able to create a feeling of immersion that traditional mobile apps are not capable of. Nothing compares with the illusion of seeing a 10 ft elephant, moving and trumpeting in your room. A photo cannot cannot convey that emotion. Or admiring a life-size grand piano with all its details and from any angle, blending perfectly in your environment, with spatial sound that changes its intensity while you move to explore this work of art. While this exploration happens, Mondly, the virtual teacher is aware of you and your environment at any moment. She knows if you’re facing her, if you’re at the right or left of the piano and she can use this information in a dialogue: “If you move to the left you’ll see the strings”. She can move closer to you, looks at you, follows you, gesticulates just like a real teacher would do to reinforce language and make the experience more memorable. She can change from a teacher to a conversational partner just like in a SF movie. Want to practice ordering food at a restaurant? No problem - Mondly will change her outfit to accommodate the situation: “Que desea señor?” She can understand what you are saying and help correct your pronunciation and can even answer some of your random questions. I hope you see how combining the spatial capabilities of AR with the interactivity of chatbots and speech recognition can create a more personal and immersive learning experience, which is recognised by all studies to be the ideal ingredients for fast and effective learning.

@graeme_fulton Hello Graeme, we thought this would be a great idea too. So we have object recognition working in our labs and we'll release it soon with an update.

@graeme_fulton @iliescualex This will be a true game changer. If it can basically recognize things around me and teach me that, my god would that be super useful and a fantastic use of AR

@graeme_fulton @iliescualex @swiftpolar Imagine applying this tech to teach more subjects in schools like chemistry or biology. Or imagine having games where you use speech recognition to make them feel more real than ever

I believe that too, @nleary

Danke, @i_am_ryankelley!