Learning languages - easy way? No way!

Hello,

Nice to see you again. Today I want to write something about language learning.

For now I'm learning 3 languages: English (because I'm not native), German and Spanish. Frankly speaking I spend a lot of time learning. I sit and practice everyday. It's hard and I have to focus on 3 languages, not only one, so...

Firstly, I decide what languages are the most important for me. The first place get English, second - Spanish and third - German. So when I decide what I want to learn, I fully focus only on one language (in this case English), after that I do some things to learn Spanish (below about this) and I learn German only a little.

So what I do to learn language?
Let's start with English. 
First thing you probably notice is that I have a blog. It's just about what I love and sometimes I try to post some articles. It helps me a lot with written language.
Next, I use twitter to get some fresh news and topics I'm interested in. This is nice way to understand colloquial language and improve your reading skills.
Then, I always have turned on English radio in background. Also I'm watching some youtube channels, it's funny, easy way to improve listening.
I don't have much time to practice my spoken English but I try to speak as often I can. I use skype or I meet someone and talk with.

Next language is Spanish.
I use Duolingo - best language learning tool ever. It fits my understanding of learning languages and it's efficient. For now I don't end Spanish tree but when I'll do this, I'm going to reverse languages and learn English by Spanish. It will check my Spanish skills.
Also I try to write something in Spanish everyday. I use a small notebook and I write about my day, what I learnt or just about my thoughts. It's not diary but my 'ideas notebook'.
In addition, I try to watch Spanish youtube. It's kind of funny, because even if you don't understand everything, you can notice some words or meanings. For me it improves my listening skills.

German.
I don't do much to know this.
I only learn one or two hour per week, but everyday I do two lessons on Duolingo.
Sometimes I watch a youtube channel to maintain this language.
Why I still learn this language but I'm not focused in. At first I just want know English very well and speak Spanish fluently but I don't want to start with nothing, so I just slowly introduce myself with this language.

In sum, I spend a lof of time learning. It's hard but I'm never going to give up!

If you have any question, just ask.
See you.
Bye :)

HTML5 and android - How to deal with it?

Hello everyone,

What's up?
Today I want to talk about using HTML5 to create android application.

To be honest, I love this solution. You code in HTML5 and javascript your application. Then you just make your 'app' more awesome thanks to css. What's next? Just use phonegap (https://build.phonegap.com/) to build your app and that's it.

Wait. What? It's too simple!
Nope. You just create your website and make an application.

How to start?
Create index.html and there put your html code. Add some javascript code to the website. That will make your website alive but ugly, so next add css. Now you have awesome app which is nothing more then website.
Then just log in to phonegap and put there your files.
That's all.

Next I will create simple tutorial on how to create android application in few simple steps.

Bye.

PS: Leave a comment what you think.
PPS: Thanks :)

Changes, beauty changes ...

Hi everyone,
I've spent so much time thinking about this blog. It's hard to maintain when you are doing this for first time. So, frankly speaking I decide to change type of blog. For now, it won't be only programming blog, but also about learning languages, drawing and everything what I'll try to do.

Why I decide for that. It was hard for me to write often posts. I don't know any interesting things, tips or something to share, so the posts won't be able to keep this blog alive. Next, my PC is broken. I can't programm for now and I use android device until my PC doesn't work. By the way it's funny to try programming without using PC. But I'll another post about that :)

For this reasons I make decision about changes. I hope the changes will be good. I'll try write one post everyday. (Or just some per week[ who cares :) ]).

So... For now it's all.
Keep doing everyone.
See you.

Tutorials never, learning always

Hi,

Today I will write about learning.

Games should teach us how to play. Good designed game doesn't need any tutorial.

Good and clear interface makes easy to understand where are functions that we need. When you play strategy game you won't look in building menu for changing taxes. You should have another bar or icon for that. Everything with clear and understable signs. If you know where find most of things you need, we can call this interface good and clear.

Many platformer games teach by the chalanges. The game starts with small hole to jump over. Next level has bigger, the next one shows us how to jump on walls and etc. We see the progress and we have fun when we 'win' the level. This design is very intresting, because we don't see any words. Everything we can learn by tries and fails.

What when we get this two designs make in one. Good interface and learning not by words and instructions, but by chalanges and tries are natural way how people learn. We see readable signs and icons, so it's easy to understand what it can be. We also love chalanges so we want to try and try while we win.

I love this way to learn and I hope more games will use that. Imagine learning programming in this way, will be a little funny :)

Bye,
Patys