Caterpillar - a program that will teach you how to speak and understand a foreign language by ear. To do this, it uses the best training material - your favorite movies.
Learning a foreign language - quite a challenge. But to learn the language is even harder if you Bisons boring rules and read long boring texts.
Progress is much better if you are interested in the material under study.
We need a method in which learning a language does not lie on the shoulders a heavy burden, and will be in the life of the working man fun moment. The method, which would suggest to learn the language not as an artificially created training material, as well as the life itself, would give not simplified for the sake of speedy assimilation of the text, and the original linguistic material lying in the field of personal interests student.
Kato Lomb, known Hungarian translator, writer, one of the first interpreters of the world
Caterpillar program for Windows and Mac offers this approach. You load it into your favorite movie,
TED lecture, Music video or any other video, which will be able to find subtitles web. By the way, if a problem with that, the program has a large catalog, where you can pick up something for your taste.Application splits the video into small segments, then start training. It looks as follows.
Caterpillar offers a first listen to the phrase from the movie, and then reproduce it. In this case, your voice recording software, so you can then compare your pronunciation with the voice of actor and correct.
After that, you must write the same phrase in the text. Caterpillar makes sure that you not only mastered the skill of onomatopoeia, but really know all the words to the ear.
For every day the application assigns you a new portion of the dialogues. Yes, the first time such a view will take time and is unlikely to bring pleasure. But gradually you will start to receive great joy from what we can understand the actors without doubles services.
Caterpillar is useful to all users who want to learn the real, rather than a literary language, and apply it in practice. The only drawback - significant limitations on the use of free software. However, it is worth saving in this matter. The price of the full version of a lifetime is comparable with the weekly language courses.
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