PlaySay - A New Way To Learn Languages Through Facebook

With more than 100 million users, facebook the most popular social networking site is gradually becoming the hotspot for new businesses. The specialty of facebook apart from being socially active is that it offers numerous apps and games which can keep you busy all the time.

One such recently added app is the PlaySay. The designers kept the fact in their mind that these days students are most active on facebook and try out every other app and games. So the chance of the app getting noticed is fairly very high. This app is basically meant to teach different languages to the user in an interactive way.

[​IMG]PlaySay has adopted an entirely different way of carrying out their task. They use images to represent the initial fundamentals of the languages. They believe that pictures retain in the mind for a long and it makes the learning easier and more fun.  Founder Ryan Meinzer says that "Your Facebook friends are your classmates. Check ins, status updates and pictures are your course materials", so if one person updates his status or post a comment in other language then it will arouse interest in others which will ultimately ends in PlaySay being used. So when the user clicks on the status he will be redirected to the app where he will be given the option to decode every word in an interactive way making it all the more fun.

Presently it is available in Spanish only but Meinzer is planning to have every language onboard, in this regard it has already signed a deal with McGraw hills publishers.

Meinzer feels that they are making people learn something new, they are trying to teach people to learn new languages but if someone is using something like Google translator then he is not learning anything.

This new and innovative app is going to be a tough competitor to other language apps, but only time will tell the no. of likes that it will get.

Source: PlaySay Uses Facebook To Help You Learn A Language • TechCrunch

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