Showtime Lingo — an online service for learning a language through short scenes from musicals: you watch the performance, sing in group calls, and learn living language with cultural context—all while having fun and gaining knowledge, without rote memorization or expensive tutors.
Challenges users face while taking a typical foreign language course:
• Rote memorization of vocabulary quickly becomes tedious, yet without engagement, learned vocabulary is easily forgotten. • Most courses ignore the culture and history of the language being studied or fail to present them in an engaging manner. • Limited oral practice and a lack of examples regarding proper pronunciation, accent, and speech tempo.
This problem is characteristic of modern life: the desire for high self-efficacy and the fear of wasting time on a hobby.
