u/kotowskaman

A friend of mine who teaches high school history described it to me this way: she runs a lot of source-based discussions as a replacement for essays due to many students using AI, and her biggest frustration was on how to track who spoke, how often, who stayed silent for the whole hour.

The wider problem she described: the same five students tend to dominate, and without data she couldn't tell if the quieter students were disengaged or just couldn't find an opening. That matters if you're actually trying to grade participation fairly, or build a picture of individual students over a semester.

I ended up building a small mobile tool to help her that mirror your seating layout on screen and tap a student whenever they contribute. Simple analytics at the end. It's at speaklog.pro and it's free if anyone would find it useful for their classes.

Hi everyone. I'm learning Lithuanian and ran into a problem a lot of you probably know: there aren't many apps where I can actually practice.

Apps are obviously not the only way to learn a language, but they help build the daily habit, and for Lithuanian the options are thin.

So I started building one for myself, based on a method that's been working for me.

The method:

1. Take the most common verbs and put each one in a short, useful sentence

2. Pair every sentence with a native recording so the sound gets glued to the meaning

3. Study a small group at a time (10 verbs) — see the verb, the sentence, the English translation, and play the audio until it clicks

4. Then test recall: the app shows only the first letter of each word in the sentence and you try to remember it

5. If you get it, mark it learned. If not, it cycles back until you do.

The bet is that drilling verbs in context with native audio builds both recognition and the muscle memory to actually use them, instead of memorizing isolated word lists that fall apart the moment you hear someone speak.

I have 60 verbs recorded so far out of the 2000 most used verbs, enough to see whether the method actually works before I commit to recording more. I'm wondering if anyone here things this might be valuable for their learning path, so I can commit to finish the product

Here's the link: https://amberlingua.com

Ačiū.