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#LangTweet - Learn Foreign Languages in the Twittershpere

It's been said for sometime that Twitter is one of the greatest tools to learn foreign languages, because every second we breathe, there comes so many new tweets into the twittershphere in every languages at least you can name, and if you want to learn a foreign language, you just follow the people speaking that language on Twitter and see how they do. Or maybe you get up some guts to holla @ some of them and congraturations! you just joined a new community with those people speaking the language you want to learn. You can breathe any language you want almost on a real-time basis if you try to. And this simply wasn't the case without ushering into the new Twitter era.
With that being said, what I can undoubtedly doubt about this whole twitter lerning innovation hype, if such a thing exists, is that
  • Have the most of us really been able to make the most out of Twitter in terms of a language learning tool?
Well, my opinion is that, yeah some learning experts can of course pull that off, but for the rest of us, it's probably not so easy to take advantage of what Twitter can possibly offer to us just because there isn't a well organized place or a well advised way to hundle it right for language learning. Twitter is, as it is, basically a mess, is a mixture of languages, cultures, motives,and purposes, and also is a flood of words which you could never stop from flowing off unless otherwise you have a really good tool to scoop it up and sort it out.

Hello! (or may I say Wussaaaap!) My name is Tomo, and for those of you who have no idea who the hell I am, don't worry I'm nobody but just a guy who considers himself as a hacker / linguist / freestyler / traveller...etc,etc always trying to hack up something out of his arsenal. I have created quite a few web apps related to language learning and, proudly said, won a couple of developer prizes for them in Japan. I currently live in the suburbs of Brisbane, Australia , and recently I have mashed up a little web system to make the twitter language learning experience a bit easier for everybody. It's called
  • #LangTweet
with the hash being silent. I'll explain what it is and how to use it in this article.
(btw, Brisbane is the beautiful city you can see in the background image far down on this page)