venga!

Have you ever heard the phrase: "to learn from sb's mistakes"? Or "learning a hard way"? 

That's right - you can do it. Of course it seems better to learn from others' mistakes, however what do you gain from that as an observer?

Often I hear my explorers' complaints about their teachers. That they shout at other students, they are rough, or on the other hand - too lazy, don't teach anything, students get bored. So no wonder that my role as the guide would be to "fix" skills of victims' of educational system. But what if I'm not available? How will my explorers "gain motivation" to study? Of course it depends on their own (or their parents') desires to learn and study. But we can agree, that in every case, the main point of learning English As Foreign Language is to acquire skills essential for communication. But how do the explorers use those skills? The problem is that it is a very rare occasion when the explorer tells me that she or he uses the language in everyday situations. Well, there is no point of code switching in an environment when it is not necessary (maybe except for using the language per se in school, but more as the CALP [academic] rather than BISC [non-formal]. 

So Venga! role would be to create such environment, when the "being acquired" language would be used necessarily and freely. 

Visit venga.space for more details!

There are bunch of links to language games from Mercedes (profesora).

So, my idea, a goal is to compile all the most interesting platforms to create a learning pathway for students.

One problem is that all those platforms are created in vague layouts, designs, different fonts, etc. so UX is not easy.

Another problem is that these resources are in general paid, or if some are free, you get overwhelmed by misleading adverts that make your work resembling going through a labyrinth more than actually doing something valuable.

Venga! gathers all those resources in one place, creating a safe space for explorers.

What we need to do:

1)    play with all those links, open them and see what’s going on,

2)    create learning paths (first, only for English language learning),

3)    convert every platform into one coherent design.

Venga! Language Hub is a hub for learning languages and connecting people.

In order to participate in a game, a user should pass a short test to evaluate if she or he can communicate on an appropriate level. 

In the online Venga! Language Hub, an explorer studies basic communicative language skills that later he or she uses in practice during the game. 

In order to facilitate the process of studying as effective as possible, and moreover - make it attractive, in the Hub a user finds a pathway to achieving the final goal of passing the test. 

Place: Madrid (a pub, n/a specifically)

Time:

Entrance price: 

The Venga! Event's main idea is to link people that want to learn new languages. 

People link based on their level of new language they want to speak. 

Example: A1 level of Spanish person matches with A1 level of Spanish. B2 level of German meets B2 level of German.

Each pair plays a game (Guess facts about your match).

Instructions:

So, ask a question (in the target language!) such as "I think you study fine arts". If other person's response is valid, you earn a point. Then you switch roles (you answer a question). The person who earns the most points in 10 minutes, wins. Then, go to another person that speaks the same level in your target language. 

So, some teachers imagine their work must remind of work of a clown during a show. 

Students' attention span worsened so badly that even listening to their teacher in focus for several minutes reveals as a very hard challenge.

Well, there is no surprise. After all, children's main objective in life is to have fun. 

They do not care about their superior who imposes obedience, as far as the teacher is someone who kids admire and respect, because she or he shows respect back to them or - because of other positive reasons, such as reciprocity in trust.