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. [...]
Category Archives: Reference/Usage Tips
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 [...]
Learn languages for free on Byki ListCentral
September 4, 2008 – 5:37 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
Typing foreign characters in Byki
September 1, 2008 – 5:26 pm
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 [...]
SlowSound
September 1, 2008 – 5:24 pm
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 [...]
The Mode That Nobody Loved
August 1, 2008 – 3:34 pm
On our Web site we say that Byki Express and Byki Deluxe use a 3-step process to teach foreign languages:
Preview It
Look through your cards.
Recognize It
See the foreign sides and think of the English.
Produce It
See the English sides and think of the foreign language.
You may find it tempting to skip Step 1. Don’t. We mean it. [...]
