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Do u use online educational services to improve your skills? Do they work for you?

I tutor using Khan Academy...

My diplomacy skillzz?

I do. Mostly to improve my knowledge of French (I work for a company that has a subsidiary in France). I’ve been learning French with a tutor at https://eurekly.com/subject/french for a couple of months already and now I feel more confident when I have to speak with my French colleagues or to translate their letters. So in my case it works.

I am learning calculus with Khan Academy. Relearning in some spots, picking up where I haphazardly left off in others.

dargorygel wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 15, 2019 3:42 pm

I tutor using Khan Academy...

Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajsNJtnUb7c

Tyler234 wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 15, 2019 2:51 pm

Do u use online educational services to improve your skills? Do they work for you?

Yes.

I am learning Dutch using Duolingo.

For Continuing Professional Development I use LinkedIn Learning (was Lynda.com) and some online courses that I buy through one of my professional bodies.

diplomat61 wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:35 pm

Yes.

I am learning Dutch using Duolingo.

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Why on earth would you do that? It's such a useless language. We all speak English quite well. In fact: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/best ... countries/

Duolingo for me too - Italian and Hungarian mainly but some other dabbling - love it!

I have in the past studied a Machine Learning course on Coursera - free course from Stanford University.

Yes Coursera is a great platform. I have also taken courses there.

i use duolingo too. i'm learning spanish, esperanto and vietnamese.

Claesar wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:58 pm

Why on earth would you do that? It's such a useless language. We all speak English quite well.

You do, which makes it quite hard to get any practice, and their are occasions when speaking better Dutch would be useful.

diplomat61 wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:55 pm

You do, which makes it quite hard to get any practice, and their are occasions when speaking better Dutch would be useful.

Indeed so, like when you want to say something rude about the French people on the table next to you, but there's too high a probability that they speak English.

Octavious wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:58 am

Indeed so, like when you want to say something rude about the French people on the table next to you, but there's too high a probability that they speak English.

diplomat61 wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 24, 2019 10:18 am

Octavious wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:58 am

Indeed so, like when you want to say something rude about the French people on the table next to you, but there's too high a probability that they speak English.

Since when was that a problem?