Here’s how to start using Byki Express to learn a foreign language. You’ll notice that after you sign in you’re presented with a dozen topics, called “Byki lists,” that you can open. Available Byki lists usually include:
01 - Quick Start!
02 - Quick Start!
03 - Quick Start!
Animals 1
Colors (Words)
Days of the Week 1 (Words)
Meeting and Greeting [...]
People who own Byki Deluxe can author their own Byki lists. Sometimes they choose to share those lists by uploading them to ListCentral, Byki.com’s language-learning community. When you share a Byki list on ListCentral, anybody in the world can use it in multiple ways, including:
Learning it on ListCentral using Byki Web
Downloading it to Byki Express [...]
Nobody likes getting a wrong answer. When you’re using Byki Express or Byki Deluxe to learn a language, you’re bound to get lots of wrong answers, and that’s okay. Byki will take care of you and make sure you know every word and phrase with 100% Perfect Recall by the time you’re finished.
Still. That “wrong-answer” [...]
Both Byki Express and Byki Deluxe guarantee that you will learn foreign words and phrases with Perfect Recall. That means after you learn a list you’ll be able to remember 100% of the words and phrases you learned, in both English and another language. As you finish Byki lists, you’ll feel your knowledge of foreign [...]
Both Byki Express and Byki Deluxe subscribe to the idea that to master a language you must collect as many words in your memory as possible. Many langauge teaching tools try to have users memorize packaged, finished phrases, like, “Excuse me, could you please point me to the nearest post office?” While that may [...]
Step 3 of Byki’s learning mode, Produce It, requires you to type foreign words and phrases into a text box. Sometimes those words contain special characters not found on a Standard English keyboard. Normally, typing foreign characters is a pain, but Byki gives you a much better way to do this than copying them from [...]
You can slow down the speed of sound in Byki Express and Byki Deluxe. Native speakers talking too fast for you? No problem. While in Learn mode, look for a small Turtle button (next to the Play button, near the bottom of the screen). Clicking that button will toggle SlowSound on and off. While SlowSound [...]
