Memrise - Water the garden of your memory

Yeah, we know: learning is a life-learning process...but...does it have to be done in the same old way as we did when we were in school? Fortunately, new technologies (I would say amazing web designers and IT engineers) help us learn, discover something new and improve ourselves by creating amazing websites and apps.
Today, I want to talk about Memrise. The motto on its home page says it all: Learning, powered by imagination.

Learning can become fun and become a nice filler in our spare time during the day. We spend hours in front on our laptop or fiddling with our smart phone - why not learn something? Memrise offers you the chance to learn something in a gradual way - bit after bit. You read a word, you learn it, you learn a new one and then you are tested with different exercises and you collect your score! Next level: new words or concepts, other tests and the old words will be refreshed to your memory again at some point. And so on and so forth...you could spend hours learning, listening, repeating and playing, gradually growing the garden of your memory!

BBC languages

BBC seems to me one of the best media companies covering a vast variety of topics in details. One of these is English language and foreign languages. Be it because native English speakers are not that famous for their aptitude to learn a foreign language, be it due to the multicultural environment which characterizes UK...BBC has an amazing section all dedicated to foreign language learning: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
There are few main languages with a complete basic course including grammar tips, vocabulary cards, word games, cultural features, videos, tests, excercises, idiomatic and slang expressions, resources about foreign media which can support your language learning. The privileged languages are:

Chinese for beginners

"Made in China" products have dominated our markets in the last decades and larger and arger Chinese communities are growing in our cities...but what do we know about this country and culture?Majestic and thousand-years old Chinese still keeps its mystery...and the best way to approach it could be picking up some few expressions and words that might come useful.

That's why EU built up a website,  http://www.chinesecom.eu/, in order to provide European businesses with better cultural and language skills to compete on international market.