Please forgive me for not having specific dates - after all our years of taking longer than expected with things, I’m no longer capable of using dates in any context, they just make me start whimpering…
But with that caveat out of the way, I thought you might like a heads-up that we’ve got some fun stuff on the way…
We’re just starting to test a new app, and we’re pretty excited about it. At first, until we can figure out all the headaches of migrating accounts, it’s going to be a showcase for our initial attempts to increase our number of free offerings.
Apart from just being nicer, it’s also got a new approach to listening work, something we’ve been wanting to solve for in the app for a long, long time. This new approach will get us back to the benefits of accelerated listening, but it will also minimise time we have to lose on revisiting old items.
Which is fabulous. But we’ve also got another listening approach under construction as we speak, about which I’m childishly excited. It’s an attempt to solve for a faster widening of non-core vocabulary - in other words, it’s our roll of the dice at trying to get people to C1 (or what most people would call conversational fluency).
And we’ve noticed that (because we have built it around the principles of comprehensible input) we can start to weave it in from the very beginning of the course.
I think this is going to be the most dramatic improvement to SSi courses since we first launched, and I am absolutely DYING to try it out with Irish as soon as possible.
That’s not the last exciting thing, though.
As a direct result of the new app, we’re going to be able to start updating and adding to the Welsh courses for the first time in over a decade. This means the two new listening layers, but it also means replacing the old Level 3 content with our latest work on seed sentences, which I think will be a massive improvement - as well as just being A LOT MORE content.
I know you’d like dates. I’m sorry. I’m not sure I can even remember how to write dates.
No dates.
But the first open testing will be quite soon 