Ever read a story and been transported to another place? No, I’m not talking about reading a newspaper on the subway. Consider this tale from the owner of A Traveler’s Library:
When I was in high school, I snitched an adult novel from my mother’s stack of books. The romance/adventure was set on a South Pacific [...]
Author Archives: Evan Quinlan
A Traveler’s Library on Earth Day
April 22, 2009 – 3:31 pm
Learn Languages on Twitter
March 24, 2009 – 2:32 pm
What can’t you do on Twitter these days, right? Everyone’s talking about it. (If you haven’t yet heard of Twitter, try reading Wikipedia’s take or watch this helpful video.) Well, we were playing with this bite-size social networking service before all the hype started and we’ve accumulated an impressive family of Twitter accounts, each dedicated to a different [...]
A World of Byki Videos
January 15, 2009 – 1:34 pm
I remember as a kid wishing I had my own TV channel. Now there’s YouTube and I could have my own TV channel, but it’s too late… the dream is gone. Luckily for all you language-learners, though: Byki has its own YouTube channel now (!) and it’s starting to pick up the pace. [...]
Your iPhone Just Got Bilingual
January 2, 2009 – 8:30 am
I’ve heard through the grapevine that our CEO, Mike Quinlan, has been neglecting his usual favorite iPhone apps and firing up the new Byki Spanish iPhone app instead. What this means to us in the User Experience department is: mission success! Byki is just as addictive on the iPhone as it is on [...]
How to Achieve “The Click” Moment
December 1, 2008 – 1:28 pm
Giving up on a new language is too easy. It’s because starting out is so difficult to do. Now matter how you approach the task, your mind and memory are often ill-prepared for the, well, foreign nature of the language you’re trying to understand. With so many scholars, Web sites, and books [...]
How do I start using Byki Express?
September 4, 2008 – 5:38 pm
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 [...]
How Byki treats incorrect answers
September 1, 2008 – 5:37 pm
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” [...]
Keeping words in your memory forever with Byki
September 1, 2008 – 5:36 pm
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 [...]
