YC-Funded Lingt Uses Games To Turn You Into A Language Learning Addict
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Over the last year, we’ve seen Foursquare and Gowalla tap into this with their colorful badges, and Zynga is making a killing off games like Farmville. That’s the premise behind Lingt, a new startup that’s looking to leverage gameplay elements to help with the mother of all repetitive tasks: learning a new language. The Y Combinator funded company is launching today in public beta, offering a suite of matching games to help English speakers learn Chinese. The site works best when you check in on a near-daily basis, but if you have to you can switch to ‘Cram’ mode, which lets you tailor quizzes to suit your needs. In the longer term, the site plans to offer features like class leaderboards, so a teacher could invite students to face off against each other.
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