Goalpost FAQs

What does Goalpost run on?

What's "Immersive" language learning?

They say the best way to learn a language is to live in the country. They call it IMMERSIVE learning.

However, most of us don't have the luxury of travelling abroad for several months a year, so Goalpost gives you an immersive experience in your own home. Because it generates foreign language phrases at random, it's much more like being abroad, where conversation is unpredictable and does not follow the ordered sequence of a typical language course.

What's different about Goalpost language audio?

Standard language courses use PRE-RECORDED audio, which is useful for learning the language and practising pronunciation. However, there is a problem. Once you've heard the audio a few times, you know in advance what it is going to say. Real speech isn't like that. It's unpredictable.

Goalpost uses GENERATED audio. It creates random unpredictable sentences, giving you practice in how a language is spoken in real-life, developing your skill-set to respond easily to real-life conversation.

Is it true the foreign language audio can be spoken more slowly?

Yes. A major problem of learning any language, especially a fast-spoken language, is the difficultly of distinguishing individual words.

Now, through the miracle of modern technology, you can hear sentences spoken from full speed down to extremely slow. Just set the speed you are comfortable with, gradually increasing it as your language recognition skills improve.